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María Costa (ski mountaineer)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ81902394 ↗
Source-derived summary

María Costa Díez (born 28 November 2002) is a Spanish ski mountaineer.

Career

Díez represented Spain at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in ski mountaineering, an event making its Youth Olympics debut. She began the Youth Olympics with a gold medal in the sprint race with a time of 3:22.45. She also won a bronze medal in the mixed relay with a time of 37:13.

She will represent Spain at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2020, 2026—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2002-11-28. The account is most persuasive where María, Costa and mountaineer can be independently traced.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q81902394. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002, 2020 and 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “María Costa (ski mountaineer)” 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.