Cristina López (racewalker)
Salvadoran racewalker
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Full name | Cristina Esmeralda López | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1982-09-19) 19 September 1982 (age 41) Ozatlán, Usulután, El Salvador | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 51 kg (112 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Women's Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Racewalking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 6 January 2015 |
Cristina Esmeralda López (born 19 September 1982) is a Salvadoran race walker. She was born in Ozatlán.[1][2]
She made history by winning the first ever gold medal for El Salvador at the Pan American Games. At the time, Lopez also had the worries of having her 3-year-old daughter Monica Michelle back in El Salvador undergoing treatment for cancer.[1][3] Lopez crossed the finish line in 1:38:59, a full minute and 4 seconds ahead of the runner-up.
Personal bests
Track walk
- 10,000 m: 44:16.21 min –
San Salvador, 13 July 2007
Road walk
- 10 km: 49:02 min –
San Salvador, 30 March 2014
- 20 km: 1:30:08 hrs –
A Coruña, 4 June 2005
Achievements
References
- ^ a b Cristina López, marchando con paso firme (in Spanish), mediotiempo.com, 21 June 2007, retrieved May 23, 2014
- ^ Guillén, Gerardo (31 August 2007), Cristina López ya tiene casa propia (in Spanish), Diario Co Latino, archived from the original on 23 May 2014, retrieved May 23, 2014
- ^ López, Benjamín (25 July 2007), Cristina López se merece eso y mucho más (in Spanish), Diario Co Latino, archived from the original on 23 May 2014, retrieved May 23, 2014
External links
- Cristina López at World Athletics
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- 1987:
María Colín (MEX)
- 1991:
Graciela Mendoza (MEX)
- 1995:
Graciela Mendoza (MEX)
- 1999:
Graciela Mendoza (MEX)
- 2003:
Victoria Palacios (MEX)
- 2007:
Cristina López (ESA)
- 2011:
Jamy Franco (GUA)
- 2015:
Lupita González (MEX)
- 2019:
Sandra Arenas (COL)
- 2023:
Kimberly García (PER)