Caroline Lucia Maria (Caro) Dahl (née Peter; 17 October 1890 – 21 January 1979) was a Norwegian

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player, born in

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Career

Dahl competed in women's singles at the

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, where she tied 9th. At the

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, she competed in both women's singles and

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(with

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). She won national titles in tennis (outdoor single) in 1919, 1920, 1923, 1924 and 1925. These five titles each earned her a

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(King’s Cup).

Personal life

Dahl was born in

, the daughter of Silvie Pessi (1863–1939) and businessman Joachim Peter (died 1891). As her father died the year after her birth, the family eventually left Istanbul and Dahl grew up in

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. In 1913 she married Knud Dahl, who graduated as engineer in Zürich the same year. From 1915 to 1917 she lived with her husband in the United States, and thereafter in Oslo. She died in

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on 21 January 1979.

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* 1890 births 1979 deaths Tennis players from Istanbul Norwegian female tennis players Olympic tennis players for Norway Tennis players at the 1920 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1924 Summer Olympics 20th-century Norwegian sportswomen {{Norway-tennis-bio-stub