Camilla Pagani

Spanish-Based Quarter-Miler | Club d’Atletisme Safor Teika

Camilla Pagani is a 400-metre specialist who, still just 20 years old, has quietly become one of the more reliable short-sprint performers in Spanish club athletics. Born on 17 September 2005 and competing under Spanish federation registration while holding Italian nationality, she is a central figure for the Club d’Atletisme Safor Teika — a club based in Gandia, in the Valencia region of southeastern Spain — and has developed across several competitive seasons from a promising junior presence into a consistent contributor at both regional and national level. Her personal best of 56.41 seconds in the 400 metres, set in July 2025 at Badajoz, and her indoor best of 56.79 seconds, recorded at the national Sub-23 championships in Sabadell in February of the same year, place her within a competitive band of young Spanish-based athletes pushing toward the sub-56-second threshold. She is registered with World Athletics under athlete code 14985767 and currently holds the #1381 global ranking in the women’s 400 metres.

Background: An Italian Athlete Who Found Her Home in Spain

Pagani’s story has an international flavour that sets her apart from many of her club teammates. Her name is unmistakably Italian, and the Italian athletics federation’s database lists her as a former registrant under Geas Atletica — a prominent Milanese athletics club based in the municipality of Sesto San Giovanni, north of Milan, in the Lombardy region. Geas Atletica has a long history in Italian women’s athletics and has been a training ground for sprinters and multi-event athletes across generations. That Pagani was affiliated with such a club at some point in her development suggests she received her early athletic formation in northern Italy’s competitive and well-resourced track environment before making the move to Spain.

The circumstances and timeline of her relocation to the Valencia region are not documented in public sources, but her appearance in Spanish competition and her licensing with the Comunitat Valenciana athletics federation — confirmed by RFEA (Real Federación Española de Atletismo) entry documents that list her national code as “ITA” while registering her under a Valencia regional licence — indicate she established sporting residency in the Gandia area and affiliated with CA Safor Teika in a natural progression. The fact that she is listed in the RFEA system as Italian by nationality but competes fully within Spanish domestic competition is a common arrangement for athletes who reside and train in Spain while retaining their country-of-birth citizenship. For Pagani, it means her competitive career to date has unfolded almost entirely on Spanish soil, within the dense regional circuit of the Valencian federation and the national club championship structure.

Gandia itself is a coastal city of roughly 75,000 people in the comarca of La Safor, situated about 65 kilometres south of Valencia. It is better known to tourists for its beaches than for its athletics pedigree, but the Club d’Atletisme Safor Teika has been quietly building a programme that punches well above the city’s size. The club — nicknamed “groguets,” the yellow-and-greens — competes in Primera División, the second tier of Spanish club athletics (one division below the División de Honor), and has in recent seasons built a women’s team capable of contending for promotion.

The Club Context: CA Safor Teika and the Liga Iberdrola

Understanding Pagani’s career requires understanding the ecosystem she competes in. The Liga Iberdrola is the national women’s club athletics league in Spain, structured into División de Honor at the top, Primera División in the second tier, and lower regional divisions below. CA Safor Teika has been competing in Primera División for several seasons, and its technical director David Melo has consistently described the team’s objective as maintaining their tier status while, when possible, pushing for promotion. Through 2023, 2024, and 2025, the women’s team has produced finishes that have kept them well clear of relegation and, in 2025, achieved the best national club ranking in the club’s history — a fifth place in the final of the Primera División season.

Within this team structure, Pagani has functioned primarily as the club’s second or third 400-metre option individually, with Lucía Gramage serving as the club’s principal 400m competitor, but she has been a regular and valuable leg of the 4×400 metre relay — a relay that, by May 2025, had broken the club’s own absolute record with a time of 3:48.81. That relay performance, logged at the Estadio de Larrabide in Pamplona on 25 May 2025, earned a World Athletics score of 985 points and stands as the highest-scoring single performance in Pagani’s World Athletics profile. The squad for that relay consisted of Candela de Ana, Camilla Pagani, Begoña Gramage, and Lucía Gramage — a quartet that exemplifies the multi-athlete depth Melo’s programme has developed.

Her individual versatility is also an asset to the team. Club coverage confirms she has been deployed in the 200 metres in club competition formats, running alongside and in support of the team’s primary 200m athlete Laura Castillo. In the 2025 Liga Iberdrola season opener in Huesca, she was listed in the team squad for both 200m and as a relay reserve, illustrating the dual role she fills. This flexibility is a hallmark of competitive club athletics in Spain, where team formats reward depth and the ability of athletes to fill multiple slots.

Junior and Sub-23 Development: Building the Foundation

The earliest documented appearances for Pagani in Spanish competition come from 2023, when she was competing in the Sub-20 (Junior) age category. In June 2023, she claimed a bronze medal in the 400 metres at the Campeonato Autonómico Absoluto al Aire Libre — the Valencian Community’s regional absolute outdoor championships — held in La Nucia, with a time of 56.86 seconds. That result, her first documented regional championship medal, came in the absolute division rather than the junior category, meaning she was competing against athletes of all ages and still took home bronze at just 17. It was a significant early marker of her ceiling.

That same season, in July 2023, she was part of the 4×100 metre relay team that ran 48.40 seconds at Soria during the Liga Iberdrola national club championship final — a time that stands as her personal best in the 4×100 relay and earns a World Athletics score of 958. The combination of individual 400 metre ability and relay speed — the 4×100 requires genuine 100-metre sprinting capacity, not just quarter-mile endurance — confirms she is a genuine all-around sprinter rather than a pure quarter-miler.

In 2024, still competing in the Sub-20 (Junior) age band, Pagani earned a silver medal in the 200 metres at the Campeonato Autonómico Sub-20 Individual al Aire Libre, the Valencia region’s junior outdoor championships, held in Torrent. Her time of 25.35 seconds for the half-lap placed her second among all junior women in the region. It was in many respects the clearest signal yet of her dual-event range — fast enough at 200 metres to medal at the top of junior regional competition while also competitive over 400 metres at the absolute level.

Through the 2024-25 indoor season — Pagani’s first as a Sub-23 (Promesa) competitor, having aged out of the Sub-20 category in September 2024 — she continued her development with notable sharpness. In the regional Sub-23 indoor championships in Valencia (the Campeonato Autonómico Sub-23 Individual Short Track, held at the Estadio Luis Puig), she took gold in the 400 metres, part of a strong Safor Teika haul of 11 medals at that competition in January 2025. Days later, she was among the 15 Safor Teika athletes travelling to Sabadell for the national Sub-23 indoor championships.

2025 Indoors: The National Sub-23 Stage

The 40th Campeonato de España Individual Sub-23 de Pista Cubierta, held at the Pista Coberta de Catalunya Carme Valero in Sabadell on 8–9 February 2025, was Pagani’s first appearance at a national Sub-23 championship as a competitor in that age group. She had been entered with a recent mark of 56.70 seconds in the indoor 400 metres — established at a meet in Valencia just weeks earlier — which placed her in the mid-field of the competitive entry list for the Sub-23 national 400 metres. The RFEA pre-entry documents showed her positioned behind the faster entry marks but within range of the final.

At Sabadell, she ran 56.79 seconds — a new personal best at that point in the indoor 400 metres, worth a World Athletics score of 982, and a time that demonstrated she had arrived at the national Sub-23 level as a genuine competitor rather than merely a participant. It stands as her personal best in the indoor 400 metres to date. The meet was a strong one for Safor Teika as a club, with 15 athletes making the qualification standard, and Pagani’s performance was one of the squad’s individual highlights.

Around the same time, in January 2025, she had also contributed to a strong Safor Teika performance at the Campeonato Autonómico Absoluto de Clubes Short Track at the Estadio Luis Puig — the regional indoor club championships — where she won the 200 metres and ran a relay leg as the women’s team finished second overall behind Valencia CA. The relay unit she ran with that day — Mari Ángeles Robles, Camilla Pagani, Candela de Ana, and Lucía Gramage — set a club record of 3:53.18.

Outdoor 2025: A Season of Personal Bests

The summer of 2025 was when Pagani’s individual profile sharpened most clearly. The period from late May through mid-July produced three of her five listed World Athletics personal bests across multiple events.

On 25 May 2025, she was part of the 4×400 metre relay squad that broke the club record in Pamplona with 3:48.81. She also won the individual 400 metres at that Liga Iberdrola match — described in club coverage as one of the standout individual results in a meet where Safor Teika finished second and qualified for the promotion final. That individual victory, running alone to win her heat in a national club championship context, was a notable personal moment: it marked the first confirmed individual first-place result in a national club league format for Pagani.

On 5 July 2025, at the Pista de Atletismo La Granadilla in Badajoz, she ran 56.41 seconds in the 400 metres — a new outdoor personal best and her current all-conditions personal best. The World Athletics score for that performance is 962 points. On 12 July 2025, she ran 25.15 seconds for 200 metres (wind-assisted, and therefore marked “not legal” by World Athletics for record purposes), a performance that nonetheless reflects continued short-sprint development alongside her primary event.

By the end of the 2025 season, Safor Teika’s women’s team had achieved the fifth place in the Liga Iberdrola Primera División final in Soria — described in club communications as the best national finish in the club’s history — and Pagani had been a meaningful contributor to that result across relay legs and individual appearances throughout the season.

Personal Bests at a Glance

Major Results Summary

Performance Context and World Athletics Standing

A 400 metres personal best of 56.41 seconds, earned at 19 years old, places Pagani within a well-defined competitive tier in European women’s quarter-miling. The current world record stands at 47.60 seconds (Marita Koch, 1985); Spain’s national record, held by Nuria Fernández-era sprinters, has traditionally been measured in the low-to-mid 50s at senior elite level. Among active Spanish women’s 400-metre runners, the top tier competes in the 51–53 second range, with a mid-level of national talent clustered around 54–56 seconds. Pagani’s 56.41 puts her solidly in that mid-range at still only 19, with clear room to improve toward the threshold that separates regional competitors from national title contenders.

Her World Athletics score of 982 for the 56.79 indoor performance is actually higher than the 962 for her outdoor 56.41 — a function of the relative depth of women’s 400-metre competition outdoors versus indoors, where times tend to be slightly slower. Both scores are solidly in the upper-900s, indicating a meaningful level of competitive performance. Her current global ranking of approximately #1381 in the women’s 400 metres reflects the depth of the global event — a ranking in the 1,300s represents active international competition, not the broader universe of all registered athletes — and does not diminish the genuine quality of her performances within Spanish and Valencian athletics.

The RFEA Sub-23 indoor entry lists from early 2025 gave a clear snapshot of where she stood in the national hierarchy: with her entry mark of 56.70, she was outside the top five in the national Sub-23 rankings but well within the competitive field. In the context of her age and the rate of improvement she has shown across the 2024–25 period, the next three Sub-23 seasons represent the key window for her to close the gap to Spain’s national Sub-23 podium contenders.

Club Loyalty and Environment

Throughout her time in Spain, Pagani has trained and competed exclusively with CA Safor Teika — or under its umbrella through affiliated clubs when required by team formats. The club, based in Gandia and competing primarily at the Luis Puig stadium in Valencia for indoor championships and the Toni Herreros track in Gandia for home events, operates with a philosophy of combining a competitive first-division team with an inclusive community athletics culture. Technical director David Melo has spoken publicly about the importance of maintaining both competitive quality and club unity, and the coverage of the team across local media — particularly through the Onda Naranja Cope (COPE Radio Gandia) and the Saforguia digital news platform — reflects a tight-knit sporting community in which Pagani is a well-integrated member.

The 2025 season in particular illustrated how much the women’s team has grown as a collective. Alongside Pagani, the squad includes Spanish national-level athletes such as Laura Castillo (200m), Mónica Pascual (800m), Pilar Vázquez (3,000m steeplechase), and Lucía Gramage (400m), as well as a broad supporting cast across field events. The “groguets” women have won their cuadrangular meetings, pushed deep into promotion playoffs, and set multiple club records — with Pagani’s relay legs contributing directly to that record-breaking.

Social Media and Public Profile

No confirmed personal social media account for Camilla Pagani the athlete has been publicly identified at the time of writing. Several Instagram accounts bearing the name exist but correspond to individuals with no athletics affiliation. Club coverage and regional media provide the primary window into her competitive career. The Club d’Atletisme Safor Teika and its affiliated local media outlets — particularly Onda Naranja Cope and Saforguia — document her competition results and team appearances across the season. No commercial sponsorships beyond her club affiliation have been publicly announced.

Looking Ahead

Having turned 20 in September 2025, Camilla Pagani now sits in the heart of the Sub-23 age window — she retains Sub-23 eligibility through the 2026 season (her year of birth determines eligibility through the calendar year in which she turns 23, which is 2028). That means the national Sub-23 championships, held annually in Sabadell during the indoor season, will be her primary individual target at the championship level for the foreseeable future. The gap between her current 56.41 and the marks that earn Sub-23 national podiums — typically in the 53–55 second range — is real but not insurmountable for a young athlete who has already shown a measurable improvement arc.

The relay context is equally important. The Safor Teika 4×400 squad that broke the club record at 3:48.81 is young and improving, and if the club pushes again for Division of Honor promotion in 2026, relay consistency will be essential. Pagani has been one of the mainstays of that relay unit and is well-positioned to remain so.

At the individual level, the most meaningful near-term benchmark is the sub-56 second mark — a threshold that would move her from the competitive mid-range of Spanish club athletics into a category of athlete who can legitimately contend for Valencian regional titles at the absolute level and push toward the final rounds of the national Sub-23 individual championships. The building blocks — a 56.41 outdoor mark at 19, an 56.79 indoor mark in her first Sub-23 season, consistent relay performances at national level — are solidly in place.

Gandia’s “grogueta” is still building her story.

Full name: Camilla Pagani
Date of birth: 17 September 2005
Nationality: Italian (competing in Spain)
Club: Club d’Atletisme Safor Teika, Gandia, Valencia, Spain
Primary event: 400 metres
Secondary events: 200 metres, 4x400m relay, 4x100m relay
Outdoor 400m PB: 56.41 (5 July 2025, Badajoz)
Indoor 400m PB: 56.79 (8 February 2025, Sabadell)
World Athletics code: 14985767
Current World Ranking: approximately #1381 (women’s 400m)