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Joelle Cortis

Maltese long-distance runner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ101242247 ↗
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Joelle Cortis (born 28 March 1987) is a Maltese long-distance runner. In 2020, she competed in the women's half marathon at the 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships held in Gdynia, Poland.

She also competed in the inaugural World Athletics Road Running Championships 2023 held in Riga, Latvia where she achieved the fastest Maltese time in the Women's Half Marathon.

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The public source identifies “Joelle Cortis” as maltese long-distance runner. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Joelle, Cortis and Maltese.

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—1987, 2020, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-03-28. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Joelle, Cortis and Maltese providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Joelle Cortis” 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.