Edith Hannam

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Tennis player

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Olympic Summer Games
gold 1912 Stockholm Single (hall)
gold 1912 Stockholm Double (hall)

Edith Margaret Hannam (* as Edith Boucher November 28, 1878 in Bristol , † January 16, 1951 in Kensington ) was an English tennis player and two-time Olympic champion .

At the Summer Olympics in Stockholm in 1912 , she won the gold medal in the indoor individual competition. In the final, she beat the Danish Thora Castenschiold . She also won the double competition with her partner Charles Dixon . In the double finals they met the British duo Helen Aitchison / Herbert Roper Barrett .

In 1909 she won the singles and mixed competitions in Cincinnati . In 1914 she came with her partner Ethel Thomson Larcombe in the doubles competition to the final of Wimbledon .

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SURNAME Hannam, Edith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hannam, Edith Margaret (full name); Boucher, Edith Margaret (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1951
Place of death Kensington (London)