Full name | Thora Gerda Sofie Castenschiold | ||||||||||||||
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Country (sports) | Denmark | ||||||||||||||
Born | Copenhagen, Denmark | 1 February 1882||||||||||||||
Died | 30 January 1979 Helsingborg, Sweden | (aged 96)||||||||||||||
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Thora Gerda Sofie Castenschiold (1 February 1882 – 30 January 1979) was a Danish tennis player at the beginning of the 20th century. [1] She was the first woman to represent Denmark at the Olympics. [2]
Castenschiold, a member of Copenhagen's KB, won the title at the first Danish women's tennis championships in 1906. She could defend it four times in a row until 1910. [3]
She took part in the 1912 Summer Olympics at Stockholm and won the silver medal in the indoor singles competition. [4]