Hedwig Rosenbaum

✶July 3, 1864

†July 31, 1939

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Hedwig Rosenbaum, née Hedwig Austerlitz, from 1909 on Hedwig Raabe, in Czech from 1945 on referred as Hedwiga Rosenbaumová, was a tennis player who was attributed to represent Bohemia. She won two bronze medals in tennis at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, in the women's singles and the mixed doubles with Great Britain's Archibald Warden. She was the first woman to represent Bohemia at the Olympics.

Bohemian tennis player

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Biography from the article Hedwig Rosenbaum on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.