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.
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.
She took part in the 1912 Summer Olympics at and won the silver medal in the indoor singles competition.