Ileana Salvador
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Born | Noale, Italy | 16 January 1962|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 52 kg (115 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Racewalking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Retired | 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ileana Salvador (born 16 January 1962) is a former Italian race walker who won eight medals at the World Championships and European Championships[1]
In 2005 she acquired Swedish citizenship.[2]
Biography
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- 25 km walk: 2:08:46 ( Växjö, 28 September 1996) - current holder
- 3000 m walk (track): 11:48:24 ( Padua, 29 August 1993) - current holder
- 2 miles walk indoor: 13:11.88 ( Genoa, 14 February 1990) - until 14 September 1996
- 10,000 m walk (track): 42:39.2 ( Genoa, 17 June 1989) - until 26 May 1990
European records
[edit]- 5000 m walk (track): 20:25.2 ( Barcelona, 5 April 1992) - until 11 July 1995[1]
National records
[edit]- 10,000 m walk (track): 42:23.7 ( Bergen, 8 May 1993) - until 23 April 2017[13]
Achievements
[edit]Year | Competition | Venue | Rank | Event | Time |
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1989 | World Indoor Championships | Budapest | 3rd | 3000 m walk | 12:11.33 |
World Race Walking Cup | L'Hospitalet | 3rd | 10 km walk team | 203 pts | |
3rd | 10 km walk | 43.24 | |||
Universiade | Duisburg | 1st | 5000 m walk | 20.44 | |
European Indoor Championships | The Haugue | 2nd | 3000 m walk | 12:32.43 | |
1990 | European Indoor Championships | Glasgow | 2nd | 3000 m walk | 12:18.84 |
European Championships | Split | 3rd | 10 km walk | 44:38] | |
1991 | World Indoor Championships | Seville | 3rd | 3000 m walk | 12.07.67 |
World Race Walking Cup | San Jose | 6th | 10 km walk | 44.52 | |
2nd | 10 km walk team | 180 pts | |||
World Championships | Tokyo | 7th | 10 km walk | 44.09 | |
1992 | European Indoor Championships | Genoa | 2nd | 3000 m walk | 11:53.23 |
Olympic Games | Barcelona | DSQ | 10 km walk | no time | |
1993 | World Indoor Championships | Toronto | 3rd | 3000 m walk | 11:55.35 |
World Race Walking Cup | Monterrey | 6th | 10 km walk | 46.02 | |
1st | 10 km walk team | 196 pts | |||
World Championships | Stuttgart | 2nd | 10 km walk | 43:08 | |
1994 | European Championships | Helsinki | 11th | 10 km walk | 44:51 |
1995 | World Race Walking Cup | Beijing | 31st | 10 km walk | 45:55 |
2nd | 10 km walk team | 429 pts |
National titles
[edit]Salvador won 19 national championships at individual senior level, 15 Italian and 4 Swedish.[14][15][16][17]
- Italian Athletics Championships
- 5000 metres walk: 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 (5)
- 10 km walk: 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993 (5)
- 20 km walk: 1993 (1)
- Italian Athletics Indoor Championships
- 3000 metres walk: 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993 (4)
- Swedish Athletics Championships
- 5000 metres walk: 1997 (1)
- 10 km walk: 1997 (1)
- Swedish Athletics Indoor Championships
- 3000 metres walk: 1997, 2001 (2)
See also
[edit]- Italian all-time lists - 20 km walk
- List of world records in athletics
- List of European records in athletics
- Italian records in athletics
- Italy at the IAAF World Race Walking Cup
- Italian team at the running events
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "Annuario FIDAL dell'atletica 2010" (PDF) (in Italian). asdpedaggio-castiglionetorinese.com. p. 699. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 August 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
- ^ a b "ILEANA SALVADOR: "LA MARCIA E' CAMBIATA TROPPO" (in Italian). facebook.com. 27 February 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- ^ "PODIO INTERNAZIONALE DAL 1908 AL 2008 - DONNE" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
- ^ Annuario dell'Atletica 2009. FIDAL. 2009.
- ^ "Esposito Valter - La marcia infinita di Ileana". ibs.it. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ^ "SALVADOR «Modello Svezia da seguire»" (in Italian). 27 February 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2021 – via PressReader.
- ^ "NOELLE, DALLA SVEZIA IN VENETO PER DIVENTARE MISS ITALIA" (in Italian). missitalia.it. 20 May 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
- ^ "Ileana Salvador, protagonista di un libro" (in Italian). sterisconet.it. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ^ "Women's 10km walk at the Barcelona 1992 Olympics". youtube.com. 3 August 1992. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
- ^ "Ileana, una marcia davvero infinita" (in Italian). nuovavenezia.gelocal.it. 8 March 2006. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
- ^ "WORLD RECORDS AND BEST PERFORMANCES". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ^ "World records and best performances, women's race walking". athleticsweekly.com. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
- ^ "Palmisano record italiano sui 10.000!". fidal.it. 23 April 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
- ^ "TUTTE LE CAMPIONESSE ITALIANE – 1923/2020" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
- ^ "ITALIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
- ^ "SWEDISH CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
- ^ "SWEDISH INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
External links
[edit]- Ileana Salvador at World Athletics
- Ileana Salvador at Olympics.com
- Ileana Salvador at Olympedia
- Ileana Salvador at La marcia nel mondo (in Italian)
- 1962 births
- Living people
- Italian female racewalkers
- Swedish female racewalkers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Italy
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- World record setters in athletics (track and field)
- World record holders in athletics (track and field)
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Italy
- World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1989 Summer Universiade
- Teachers of Italian
- Sportspeople from the Metropolitan City of Venice
- Italian Athletics Championships winners