Giuliana Salce (born 16 June 1955 in

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) is a retired female

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from

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. Her greatest achievement was the 1985 World Indoor gold medal. In her career she set three

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in the beginning of the women's

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Biography

She won three medal, at senior level, at the

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. She has 17 caps in

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from 1979 to 1987. After her career in athletics, she tried to go

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master, but after some time has been involved in an ugly story of doping, after the inevitable disqualification is taken the complaint to the person who was involved and the publication of a book, ''Dalla vita inn giù'', 2011.

World record

;Outdoor *5 km walk: 21:51:85 (

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, 1 October 1983) *5 km walk: 21:35:25 (

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, 19 June 1986) ;Indoor *3 km walk: 12:31:57 (

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, 6 February 1985)

Achievements

National titles

Salce won 12 national championships at individual senior level. *

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**5000 m walk (track): 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987 (4) **10 km walk: 1984 (1) *

Italian Indoor Athletics Championships The Italian Athletics Indoor Championships ( it, Italian Athletics Indoor Championships) are the national championships in athletics of the indoor events, organised every year by the Federazione Italiana di Atletica Leggera from 1970 (first edition ...

**3000 m walk: 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 (7)

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Giuliana Salce
at La marcia nel mondo {{DEFAULTSORT:Salce, Giuliana 1955 births Living people Italian female racewalkers Athletes from Rome World Athletics Championships athletes for Italy Italian masters athletes World Athletics Indoor Championships winners World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists