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Mialitiana Clerc

Malagasy-French alpine skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ46258329
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Mialitiana Clerc (born 16 November 2001 in Ambohitrimanjaka, Madagascar) is French-Malagasy alpine skier who represents Madagascar at international events.

Clerc competed for Madagascar at the 2018 Winter Olympics in the alpine skiing events. She also competed at the 2022 Winter Olympics and at the 2026 Games, becoming the first African woman to compete at three Winter Olympics. Clerc became the first female to compete for Madagascar at the Winter Olympics.

Clerc was born in Madagascar and was adopted by a French family at the age of one and grew up in the Haute-Savoie region of the French Alps.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mialitiana Clerc” is malagasy-French alpine skier. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mialitiana, Clerc and Malagasy-French, 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—2001, 2018, 2022, 2026—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001-11-16. For this dossier, Mialitiana, Clerc and Malagasy-French is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Mialitiana Clerc” 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.