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Edith Hannam
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Women's tennis | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 1912 Stockholm | Indoor singles | |
| Gold | 1912 Stockholm | Indoor mixed doubles | |
Edith Hannam (November 28, 1878 – January 16, 1951), was a female tennis player from Great Britain. She played at the 1912 Summer Olympics and won two gold medals.
In 1909 at the historic tennis tournament in Cincinnati, Hannam won the singles and mixed doubles titles and was a doubles finalist. She beat Martha Kinsey in the final for the singles title, paired with Julius Frieberg to reach the doubles final, and teammed with Lincoln Mitchell to win the mixed doubles title.
| 1900: Charlotte Cooper • 1908: Dorothea Chambers, Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith (indoors) • 1912: Marguerite Broquedis, Edith Hannam (indoors) • 1920: Suzanne Lenglen • 1924: Helen Wills • 1988: Steffi Graf • 1992: Jennifer Capriati • 1996: Lindsay Davenport • 2000: Venus Williams • 2004: Justine Henin |
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