Ileana Salvador

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Ileana Salvador
Ileana Salvador.jpg
Salvador in a race walk competition in Biella in 1993.
Personal information
National team
  • Italy: 20 caps (1987-1996) [1]
  • Sweden: 3 caps (2005-2007) [2]
Born (1962-01-16) 16 January 1962 (age 61)
Noale, Italy
Height1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Racewalking
Club
Retired2007
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)
  • 10 km: 41:30 (1993)
  • 20 km: 1:31:53 (1993)
Medal record
Event1st2nd3rd
World Championships 010
European Championships 001
World Indoor Championships 003
European Indoor Championships 030
Summer Universiade 100
World Race Walking Cup 122
Total266

Ileana Salvador (born 16 January 1962) is a former Italian race walker who won eight medals at the World Championships and European Championships [1]

Contents

In 2005 she acquired Swedish citizenship. [2]

Biography

She won ten medals, to senior level, at the International athletics competitions. [3] Specializing in indoor competitions running, boasts six medals (three European silver and three World bronze), just earned indoor. She participated at one edition of the Summer Olympics (1992), she has 29 caps in national team from 1987 to 1996. [4] She was twice World Best Year Performance in Women's Race Walking: 1992 in the 10 km walk and 1993 in the 20 km walk.

Her career and her life, has inspired a book La marcia infinita di Ileana (The neverending racewalking of Ileana), from Valter Esposito (2006, Il Prato publisher). [5]

Personal life

Ileana Salvador is the companion of the Swedish racewalker, Olympic silver medalist and European Championships bronze medalist, Bo Gustafsson, [6] lives in Sweden from 1996. The couple has two daughters, Nicole (born 1995) and Noelle (born 1998) who is a model and in 2019 she participated in the selections for the Miss Italia contest. [7] She is a teacher of italian language [8] and Consular Officer at Embassy of Italy in Sweden.

The bronze medal in Barcelona 1992

At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Ileana Salvador won the bronze medal in the 10 km race walk. [9] Or at least she finished third and for 20 minutes rightly celebrated her triumph, only to discover that she was disqualified for having taken the third red card for irregular racewalking, which entails the disqualification, just when she had entered the Stadium sure of her third position. [10]

Records

She is holder of two world records in not Olympic distance, but recognized by IAAF and former holder of two more records. [11] [12]

World records

European records

National records

Achievements

Salvador with the loing jumper Giovanni Evangelisti photographed on their return to Italy with the two world bronze medals won in Seville 1991. Ileana Salvador and Giovanni Evangelisti.jpg
Salvador with the loing jumper Giovanni Evangelisti photographed on their return to Italy with the two world bronze medals won in Seville 1991.
YearCompetitionVenueRankEventTime
1989 World Indoor Championships Flag of Hungary.svg Budapest 3rd3000 m walk12:11.33
World Race Walking Cup Flag of Spain.svg L'Hospitalet 3rd10 km walk team203 pts
3rd10 km walk43.24
Universiade Flag of Germany.svg Duisburg 1st5000 m walk20.44
European Indoor Championships Flag of the Netherlands.svg The Haugue 2nd3000 m walk12:32.43
1990 European Indoor Championships Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Glasgow 2nd3000 m walk12:18.84
European Championships Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Split 3rd10 km walk44:38]
1991 World Indoor Championships Flag of Spain.svg Seville 3rd3000 m walk12.07.67
World Race Walking Cup Flag of the United States.svg San Jose 6th10 km walk44.52
2nd10 km walk team180 pts
World Championships Flag of Japan.svg Tokyo 7th10 km walk 44.09
1992 European Indoor Championships Flag of Italy.svg Genoa 2nd3000 m walk11:53.23
Olympic Games Flag of Spain.svg Barcelona DSQ10 km walk no time
1993 World Indoor Championships Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Toronto 3rd3000 m walk11:55.35
World Race Walking Cup Flag of Mexico.svg Monterrey 6th10 km walk46.02
1st10 km walk team196 pts
World Championships Flag of Germany.svg Stuttgart 2nd10 km walk 43:08
1994 European Championships Flag of Finland.svg Helsinki 11th10 km walk 44:51
1995 World Race Walking Cup Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Beijing 31st10 km walk45:55
2nd10 km walk team429 pts

National titles

Salvador won 19 national championships at individual senior level, 15 Italian and 4 Swedish. [14] [15] [16] [17]

See also

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