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Nadia Cortassa

triathlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ186063 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nadia Cortassa (born 5 January 1978 in Turin) is an athlete from Italy. She competes in triathlon.

Cortassa competed at the second Olympic triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She took fifth place with a total time of 2:05:45.35.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Nadia Cortassa” is triathlete. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nadia, Cortassa and triathlete, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-01-05. For this dossier, Nadia, Cortassa and triathlete is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “triathlete” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q186063. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1978 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nadia Cortassa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.