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]