Salma Paralluelo

Salma Celeste Paralluelo Ayingono (born 13 November 2003) is a Spanish sprinter and footballer who plays as a winger for Primera División club Villarreal CF.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Paralluelo and the second or maternal family name is Ayingono.
Salma Paralluelo
Paralluelo in 2019
Personal information
Full name Salma Celeste Paralluelo Ayingono
Date of birth (2003-11-13) 13 November 2003[1]
Place of birth Zaragoza, Spain[1]
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Position(s) Winger[2]
Club information
Current team
 Villarreal
Number 11
Youth career
San José
Zaragoza CFF
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Zaragoza CFF B
Zaragoza CFF
2019– Villarreal 30 (20)
National team‡
2018–2019 Spain U17 18 (9)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 March 2022
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 14 May 2019

Early life

Paralluelo was born in Zaragoza to a Spanish father and an Equatorial Guinean Fang mother.

Club career

Paralluelo is a UD San José product. She has played for Zaragoza CFF and Villarreal in Spain.

International career

Paralluelo won the 2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship and the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup representing Spain. She is also eligible to play for Equatorial Guinea.

Athletics

As an athlete, she began her career at the San José Athletics club in Zaragoza and shortly after joined the Scorpio-71 club in Zaragoza. In late 2019 she went to Playas de Castellón. She won her first medal at the 2019 Spanish Indoor Athletics Championships, winning bronze in the 400-meter test with a mark of 53.83s, a Spanish national record in the sub-18 and sub-20 categories. Her result also allowed her to participate in the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships, being the second youngest athlete in history to do so, after the Norwegian walker Kjersti Tysse.

In the outdoor season, in the third race of her entire life over the 400 meter hurdles, during the Ibero-American Athletics Meeting in Huelva, she ran atime of 57.43, beating the all-time best Spanish sub-18 record and also breaking that years sub-18 world best time. With this result she was also qualified for the 2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival, where she won two gold medals in the 400m hurdles event with a time of 57.95.

References
  1. "Salma Paralluelo Women's First Division". La Liga. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  2. "PARALLUELO – 11". Villarreal CF. Retrieved 20 March 2022.


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