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Karla Tritten

Canadian wheelchair basketball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ16232981
Source-derived summary

Karla Tritten (born April 17, 1978) is a Canadian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player and physical education teacher at the Balwin Junior High School, a department of Victoria School of the Arts. As of 2018, she resides in Sturgeon County.

Career

Tritten is four-time bronze medalist for 2007 Nations Tournament. In 2006, she was awarded with her first gold medal for her participation at Quebec AAA Championships, and the same year got her first silver medal for Junior National Championships. In 2007 she was honoured with a gold medal for her participation at the 2007 Canada Games and the same year got 2 silver medals for a National championship and the 2007 Parapan American Games. In 2008, Tritten was awarded 2 gold medals; one for her participation at the invitational game in Beijing, China the other one was given after she completed the North American Cup. In 2010 she won bronze medal for CWBL Women's Finals and the same year got a silver one for the championship.

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“Karla Tritten” enters the record as canadian wheelchair basketball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Karla, Tritten and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 2018, 2007, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-04-17. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Karla, Tritten and Canadian.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16232981. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1978, 2018, 2007 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from Karla Tritten” 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.