Cristina López

Personal information
Full name	Cristina Esmeralda López
Born	(1982-09-19) 19 September 1982 (age 42) Ozatlán, Usulután, El Salvador
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	51 kg (112 lb)
Sport
Country	El Salvador
Sport	Women's Athletics
Event	Racewalking
Medal record Women's Athletics Representing  El Salvador Pan American Games 2007 Rio de Janeiro 20 km NACAC Championships 2007 San Salvador 10 km Central American and Caribbean Games 2006 Cartagena 20 km Central American and Caribbean Championships 2005 Nassau 10 km 2009 Havana 10 km Central American Games 2013 San José 20 km 2001 Ciudad de Guatemala 20 km Central American Championships 2009 Ciudad de Guatemala 10 km 2011 San José 10 km
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.

• 10,000 m: 44:16.21 min – San Salvador, 13 July 2007

• 10 km: 49:02 min – San Salvador, 30 March 2014
• 20 km: 1:30:08 hrs – A Coruña, 4 June 2005

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing  El Salvador
2000	World Junior Championships	Santiago, Chile	20th	10,000 m	53:12.90
2001	Central American Junior Championships	San Salvador, El Salvador	1st	5000 m track walk	23:19.27
	Pan American Junior Championships	Santa Fe, Argentina	1st	10,000 m track walk	51:41.9
	Central American Games	Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala	3rd	20 km	1:49:01 A
2002	Ibero-American Championships	Guatemala, Guatemala	6th	20 km walk	DNF
2005	Pan American Race Walking Cup	Lima, Peru	1st	20 km walk	1:30:35
	Central American and Caribbean Championships	Nassau, Bahamas	1st	10,000 m	45:52.32
	World Championships	Helsinki, Finland	—	20 km	DSQ
2006	World Race Walking Cup	A Coruña, Spain	31st	20 km road walk	1:35:36
	Central American and Caribbean Games	Cartagena, Colombia	1st	20 km walk	1:38:26
2007	Pan American Race Walking Cup	Balneário Camboriú, Brazil	1st	20 km walk	1:39:21
	NACAC Championships	San Salvador, El Salvador	1st	10,000 m	44:16.21
	Pan American Games	Rio, Brazil	1st	20 km	1:38:59
2009	Central American Championships	Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala	1st	10 km	47:35.35 CR
	Central American and Caribbean Championships	Havana, Cuba	3rd	10 km	49:30
	Pan American Race Walking Cup	San Salvador, El Salvador	—	20 km road walk	DNF
	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	37th	20 km	1:47:33
2010	World Race Walking Cup	Chihuahua, México	40th	20 km road walk	1:45:43
2011	Central American Race Walking Cup	San Salvador, El Salvador	3rd	20 km road walk	1:49:46
	Central American Championships	San José, Costa Rica	1st	10,000 m	49:48.36
2013	Central American Race Walking Cup	Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala	1st	10 km road walk	55:48
	Central American Games	San José, Costa Rica	1st	20 km road walk	1:48:12
	Pan American Race Walking Cup	Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala	12th	20 km road walk	1:42:33
	Central American Championships	Managua, Nicaragua	1st	10,000 m track walk	47:47.62
	Central American and Caribbean Championships	Morelia, Mexico	4th	10,000 m	52:23.40
2014	Central American Race Walking Championships	San Salvador, El Salvador	1st	10 km road walk	49:02
	Central American Championships	Tegucigalpa, Honduras	1st	10,000m track walk	49:18.36
	Ibero-American Championships	São Paulo, Brazil	9th	10,000m track walk	47:54.88
	Central American and Caribbean Games	Xalapa, México	7th	20 km road walk	1:57:00 A

• Cristina López at World Athletics