Dorothea Köring Explained

Dora Köring
Fullname:Dorothea Köring
Country:Germany
Birth Date:11 July 1880
Birth Place:Chemnitz, German Empire
Death Place:Dresden, Nazi Germany
Olympicsresult: Silver Medal (1912)
Othertournamentsmixeddoubles:yes
Olympicmixeddoublesresult: Gold Medal (1912)

Dorothea "Dora" Köring (pronounced as /de/; 11 July 1880  - 13 February 1945) was a female tennis player from Germany.[1]

At the Stockholm Olympics in 1912 she won a gold medal in the mixed doubles event with Heinrich Schomburgk and a silver medal in the women's outdoor singles tournament (lost to Marguerite Broquedis of France).[2]

Köring died in her house in Dresden during the bombing of Dresden in World War II.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dorothea Köring . Olympedia . 9 June 2021.
  2. Web site: Dorothea Köring Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417203835/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ko/dora-koring-1.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 15 May 2013 . sports-reference.com.
  3. Web site: Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 . dead . 17 April 2020 . 24 July 2018 . Sports Reference.