Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke, freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Teia Isabella Salvino is a Filipino–American swimmer who secured a gold medal in the Women's 100m backstroke, becoming the country's second gold medal in swimming at the 32nd Southeast Asian Games. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Salvino father immigrated to the United States from the Philippines. She is currently a high school student at Santa Margarita Catholic High School [5] and swims year-round with the Mission Viejo Nadadores in California. [6]
Salvino started swimming at seven and joined the Paseo Aquatics Club. She broke the Southern California Swimming record in the 11–12 girls age group for the 50-yard freestyle at the Kevin Perry Meet in La Mirada. Clocked in with a time of 23.71, Salvino broke the previous record set by Claire McClean from Westside Aquatics by 0.15 seconds. [7]
In May 2023, Salvino won a gold medal in the Women's 100m backstroke at the 2023 SEA Games held at the Morodok Aquatic Centre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. [8] [9] Her win secured the country's second gold medal in swimming [2] after Xiandi Chua's performance in the 200m backstroke. [1] [10] With a finishing at 1:01:64, [11] Salvino broke the national and SEA Games records [12] [13] in swimming set by Anh Vien since 2017,[ citation needed] and reset the national women's 50-meter backstroke record with her 28.95-second swim. [14]
Salvino also won the silver medal in the women's 4×100-meter with fellow SEA Games gold medalist Xiandi Chua, Miranda Renner, and Jasmine Alkhaldi, and a bronze medal in the women's 50m backstroke. [5]
Salvino has led the Philippine campaign at the 2023 World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships in Netanya, Israel. [15] She qualified in the 50m and 100m backstroke, 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle, and 100m butterfly. [16] [17]
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke, freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Teia Isabella Salvino is a Filipino–American swimmer who secured a gold medal in the Women's 100m backstroke, becoming the country's second gold medal in swimming at the 32nd Southeast Asian Games. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Salvino father immigrated to the United States from the Philippines. She is currently a high school student at Santa Margarita Catholic High School [5] and swims year-round with the Mission Viejo Nadadores in California. [6]
Salvino started swimming at seven and joined the Paseo Aquatics Club. She broke the Southern California Swimming record in the 11–12 girls age group for the 50-yard freestyle at the Kevin Perry Meet in La Mirada. Clocked in with a time of 23.71, Salvino broke the previous record set by Claire McClean from Westside Aquatics by 0.15 seconds. [7]
In May 2023, Salvino won a gold medal in the Women's 100m backstroke at the 2023 SEA Games held at the Morodok Aquatic Centre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. [8] [9] Her win secured the country's second gold medal in swimming [2] after Xiandi Chua's performance in the 200m backstroke. [1] [10] With a finishing at 1:01:64, [11] Salvino broke the national and SEA Games records [12] [13] in swimming set by Anh Vien since 2017,[ citation needed] and reset the national women's 50-meter backstroke record with her 28.95-second swim. [14]
Salvino also won the silver medal in the women's 4×100-meter with fellow SEA Games gold medalist Xiandi Chua, Miranda Renner, and Jasmine Alkhaldi, and a bronze medal in the women's 50m backstroke. [5]
Salvino has led the Philippine campaign at the 2023 World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships in Netanya, Israel. [15] She qualified in the 50m and 100m backstroke, 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle, and 100m butterfly. [16] [17]