Arthur Gore
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men's Tennis | |||
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| Gold | 1908 London | Indoor singles | |
| Gold | 1908 London | Indoor doubles | |
Arthur William Charles Wentworth Gore (born January 2, 1868 in Lyndhurst, Hampshire – died December 1, 1928 in Kensington, London) was a male tennis player from Great Britain. He is best known for his two gold medals at the London Olympics in 1908. In both the men's singles as men's indoor doubles (with Herbert Barrett) event he won the final.
He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006.
[edit] Grand Slam record
- Wimbledon
- Singles champion: 1901, 1908, 1909
- Singles runner-up: 1899, 1902, 1907, 1910, 1912
- Men's Doubles champion: 1909
- Men's Doubles runner-up: 1908, 1910
[edit] External links
| 1896: John Pius Boland • 1900: Lawrence Doherty • 1904: Beals Wright • 1908: Josiah Ritchie, Arthur Gore (indoors) • 1912: Charles Winslow, André Gobert (indoors) • 1920: Louis Raymond • 1924: Vincent Richards • 1988: Miloslav Mečíř • 1992: Marc Rosset • 1996: Andre Agassi • 2000: Yevgeny Kafelnikov • 2004: Nicolás Massú |
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