[2] She won ten medals, to senior level, at the International athletics competitions.
[7] She is a teacher of italian language[8] and Consular Officer at Embassy of Italy in Sweden.
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.
[11][12] Salvador won 19 national championships at individual senior level, 15 Italian and 4 Swedish.