Roles | Competed in Olympic Games |
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Sex | Female |
Full name | Amory Ide Agnes•Hansen (Scheel-) |
Used name | Amory•Hansen |
Born | 24 February 1887 in København (Copenhagen), Hovedstaden (DEN) |
Died | 6 October 1961 in København (Copenhagen), Hovedstaden (DEN) |
Affiliations | KB, København (DEN) |
NOC | Denmark |
Amory Hansen played all three events at the 1920 Olympics. In mixed doubles she lost the bronze medal match with Erik Tegner, also making the quarter-finals of the ladies’ doubles. Hansen won several local Danish tournaments but had no other international results. She married Folmer Hansen, a Danish aviation pioneer, doctor, and top-level tennis player. Folmer was Danish champion in singles tennis from 1889-93, 1896, and 1901. He was later a Danish consul and ambassador in Rīga, Latvia, and Stockholm.
Games | Discipline (Sport) / Event | NOC / Team | Pos | Medal | As | |
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1920 Summer Olympics | Tennis | DEN | Amory Hansen | |||
Singles, Women (Olympic) | =9 | |||||
Doubles, Mixed (Olympic) | Erik Tegner | 4 | ||||
Doubles, Women (Olympic) | Elsebeth Brehm | =5 |