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And on his social media platform, Mr. Trump wrote of her, “She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life.” He added, “Rest In Peace, Ivana!”

Ivana Marie Zelnickova was born on Feb. 20, 1949, in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia, now known as Zlin and located in the Czech Republic. Her father, Milos Zelnícek, was an electrical engineer, and her mother, Marie (Francova) Zelnickova, was a telephone operator.

Athletically gifted as a child, Ivana was particularly adept at skiing and competed with the Czech junior national team, an experience that allowed her to see at least some of the world beyond her small town. (Although Mr. Trump liked to say that she was an alternate on the Czech Olympic ski team, there is no proof that this was the case.)

She attended Charles University in Prague and received a master’s degree in physical education in 1972.

She was briefly married to Alfred Winklmayr, an Austrian ski instructor, in what she later termed a “Cold War marriage,” which allowed her to receive an Austrian passport and move to Canada. She said that they never lived together and that the marriage was “dissolved” in 1973.

In Canada, she worked as a ski instructor and as a model promoting the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. It was while working at a reception in New York that she met Mr. Trump, who at 29 was just beginning to plot his rise to the top of the Manhattan real estate world.