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Ville Mattila

Finnish cross-country skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ4012915 ↗
Source-derived summary

Herman Vilhelm "Ville" Mattila (March 9, 1903 – July 11, 1987) was a Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics.

He was born and died in Haapavesi.

In 1928 he finished tenth in the 18 kilometre competition.

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“Ville Mattila” enters the record as finnish cross-country skier. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ville, Mattila and Finnish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1903, 1987, 1928—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1903-03-09. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ville, Mattila and Finnish.
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“Ville Mattila” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ville, Mattila and Finnish provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Jan 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4012915. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1903, 1987 and 1928.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ville Mattila” 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.