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Wilma Gatta

Italian alpine skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ8022664 ↗
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Wilma Gatta (born 1 December 1956) is an Italian former alpine skier who competed in two consecutive Winter Olympic Games.

Career

Gatta qualified for the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck in both the slalom and giant slalom events. She failed to finish her first run in the slalom, but went on to finish in 7th place in the giant slalom.

She qualified for the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid completing in the slalom, finishing in 10th place.

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The public source identifies “Wilma Gatta” as italian alpine skier. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wilma, Gatta and Italian.

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—1956, 1976, 1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956-12-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wilma, Gatta and Italian providing the first useful test.
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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 Nov 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q8022664. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1956, 1976 and 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wilma Gatta” 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.