Ileana Salvador

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Ileana Salvador
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 62)
Noale, Italy
Height1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
SportAthletics
EventRacewalking
Club
Retired2007
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
  • 10 km: 41:30 (1993)
  • 20 km: 1:31:53 (1993)
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
World Championships 0 1 0
European Championships 0 0 1
World Indoor Championships 0 0 3
European Indoor Championships 0 3 0
Summer Universiade 1 0 0
World Race Walking Cup 1 2 2
Total 2 6 6

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]

European records[edit]

National records[edit]

Achievements[edit]

Salvador with the loing jumper Giovanni Evangelisti photographed on their return to Italy with the two world bronze medals won in Seville 1991.
Year Competition Venue Rank Event Time
1989 World Indoor Championships Hungary Budapest 3rd 3000 m walk 12:11.33
World Race Walking Cup Spain L'Hospitalet 3rd 10 km walk team 203 pts
3rd 10 km walk 43.24
Universiade West Germany Duisburg 1st 5000 m walk 20.44
European Indoor Championships Netherlands The Haugue 2nd 3000 m walk 12:32.43
1990 European Indoor Championships United Kingdom Glasgow 2nd 3000 m walk 12:18.84
European Championships Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Split 3rd 10 km walk 44:38]
1991 World Indoor Championships Spain Seville 3rd 3000 m walk 12.07.67
World Race Walking Cup United States San Jose 6th 10 km walk 44.52
2nd 10 km walk team 180 pts
World Championships Japan Tokyo 7th 10 km walk 44.09
1992 European Indoor Championships Italy Genoa 2nd 3000 m walk 11:53.23
Olympic Games Spain Barcelona DSQ 10 km walk no time
1993 World Indoor Championships Canada Toronto 3rd 3000 m walk 11:55.35
World Race Walking Cup Mexico Monterrey 6th 10 km walk 46.02
1st 10 km walk team 196 pts
World Championships Germany Stuttgart 2nd 10 km walk 43:08
1994 European Championships Finland Helsinki 11th 10 km walk 44:51
1995 World Race Walking Cup China 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]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b "ILEANA SALVADOR: "LA MARCIA E' CAMBIATA TROPPO" (in Italian). facebook.com. 27 February 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  3. ^ "PODIO INTERNAZIONALE DAL 1908 AL 2008 - DONNE" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  4. ^ Annuario dell'Atletica 2009. FIDAL. 2009.
  5. ^ "Esposito Valter - La marcia infinita di Ileana". ibs.it. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
  6. ^ "SALVADOR «Modello Svezia da seguire»" (in Italian). 27 February 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2021 – via PressReader.
  7. ^ "NOELLE, DALLA SVEZIA IN VENETO PER DIVENTARE MISS ITALIA" (in Italian). missitalia.it. 20 May 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  8. ^ "Ileana Salvador, protagonista di un libro" (in Italian). sterisconet.it. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
  9. ^ "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.
  10. ^ "Ileana, una marcia davvero infinita" (in Italian). nuovavenezia.gelocal.it. 8 March 2006. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  11. ^ "WORLD RECORDS AND BEST PERFORMANCES". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
  12. ^ "World records and best performances, women's race walking". athleticsweekly.com. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
  13. ^ "Palmisano record italiano sui 10.000!". fidal.it. 23 April 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  14. ^ "TUTTE LE CAMPIONESSE ITALIANE – 1923/2020" (PDF). sportolimpico.it. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  15. ^ "ITALIAN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  16. ^ "SWEDISH CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
  17. ^ "SWEDISH INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS". gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 2 April 2021.

External links[edit]

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