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Vilma Nugis

Estonian para swimmer, para skier and para biathlete (1958-2024)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ93062767 ↗
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Vilma Nugis (8 October 1958 – 7 December 2024) was an Estonian para skier.

At the 1994 Winter Paralympics in Lillehammer, she won a bronze medal in the Women's 5km free technique B3 (see Cross-country skiing at the 1994 Winter Paralympics).

Nugis died on 7 December 2024, at the age of 66.

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“Vilma Nugis” enters the record as estonian para swimmer, para skier and para biathlete (1958-2024). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vilma, Nugis and Estonian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 2024, 1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1958-10-08. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Vilma, Nugis and Estonian.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q93062767. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1958, 2024 and 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vilma Nugis” 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.