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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
In 2005 she acquired Swedish citizenship.
Biography
She won ten medals, to senior level, at the International athletics competitions. 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. 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).
Personal life
Ileana Salvador is the companion of the Swedish racewalker, Olympic silver medalist and European Championships bronze medalist, Bo Gustafsson, 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. She is a teacher of italian language 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. 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.
Records
She is holder of two world records in not Olympic distance, but recognized by IAAF and former holder of two more records.
= World records
=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
=5000 m walk (track): 20:25.2 ( Barcelona, 5 April 1992) - until 11 July 1995
= National records
=10,000 m walk (track): 42:23.7 ( Bergen, 8 May 1993) - until 23 April 2017
Achievements
National titles
Salvador won 19 national championships at individual senior level, 15 Italian and 4 Swedish.
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
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
External links
Ileana Salvador at World Athletics
Ileana Salvador at Olympics.com
Ileana Salvador at Olympedia
Ileana Salvador at La marcia nel mondo (in Italian)
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Miss Universe 2024
- Front Pembebasan Nasional Farabundo Martí
- Miss World 2023
- Miss International 2022
- Deforestasi
- Miss World 1976
- Daftar negara peserta Miss Universe
- Daftar runner-up Miss Universe
- Renang pada Olimpiade Musim Panas 1972
- Miss Universe 1956
- Ileana Salvador
- Ileana
- List of world records in athletics
- List of European Athletics Indoor Championships medalists (women)
- 1993 World Championships in Athletics
- List of World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists (women)
- 1990 European Athletics Championships
- List of European records in athletics
- 10 kilometres race walk
- Federica Ferraro
