Italy at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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Italy at the Olympic Games

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IOC code  ITA
NOC Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano
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At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
Competitors 346 (242 men, 104 women)
Flag bearer Giovanna Trillini
Medals Gold
13		 Silver
10		 Bronze
12		 Total
35
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Italy competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.

Contents

[edit] Medals

Italy finished in sixth position in the final medal rankings, with 13 gold medals and 35 medals overall.

[edit] Image:Med_1.png Gold

  • Antonella Belluti — Cycling, Women's Individual Pursuit
  • Paola Pezzo — Cycling, Women's Cross-country Mountainbike
  • Alessandro Puccini — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual Competition
  • Maurizio Randazzo, Sandro Cuomo, and Angelo Mazzoni — Fencing, Men's Épée Team Competition
  • Roberto Didonna — Shooting, Men's Air Pistol

[edit] Image:Med_2.png Silver

  • Imelda Chiappa — Cycling, Women's Individual Road Race
  • Margherita Zalaffi, Laura Chiesa, and Elisa Uga — Fencing, Women's Épée Team Competition

[edit] Image:Med_3.png Bronze

  • Raffaello Caserta, Luigi Tarantino, and Tonhi Terenzi - Fencing, Men's Sabre Team Competition
  • Roberto Didonna — Shooting, Men's Free Pistol

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Archery

The Italian men received unfortunate rankings in the open round, and both Andrea Parenti and Matteo Bisiani quickly found themselves losing to eventual silver medallist Magnus Petersson, in the second and third rounds, respectively. Both had the highest score of any archer to lose in their round. Michele Frangilli advanced to the quarterfinal before facing eventual gold medallist Justin Huish. They won the bronze medal in the team round.

Women's Individual Competition:

  • Giovanna Aldegani - round of 32, 28th place (1-1)
  • Paola Fantato - round of 64, 54th place (0-1)
  • Giuseppina di Blasi - round of 64, 60th place (0-1)

Men's Individual Competition:

Women's Team Competition:

  • Aldegani, Fantato, and di Blasi - round of 16, 9th place (0-1)

Men's Team Competition:

  • Frangilli, Bisiani, and Parenti - Bronze Medal Match (3-1) → Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal

[edit] Athletics

Men's 5.000 metres

  • Qualification — 14:03.56
  • Semifinal — 13:28.80
  • Final — 13:28.36 (→ 12th place)
  • Qualification — 13:55.41
  • Semifinal — 14:06.45 (→ did not advance)

Men's 4x400m Relay

  • Heat — 3:03.60
  • Semi Final — 3:02.56 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400m Hurdles

  • Heat — 48.90s
  • Semi Final — 48.43s
  • Final — 48.41s (→ 6th place)
  • Heat — 48.92s
  • Semi Final — 48.52s (→ did not advance)
  • Heat — 49.71s (→ did not advance)

Men's Long Jump

  • Qualification — 7.79m (→ did not advance)

Men's Decathlon

  • Beniamino Poserina
  • Final Result — 7013 points (→ 30th place)

Men's Discus Throw

  • Qualification — 60.08m (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw

  • Qualification — 77.36m
  • Final — 76.98m (→ 9th place)
  • Qualification — 72.82m (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon


Women's 10.000 metres

  • Qualification — 31:55.35
  • Final — did not start (→ no ranking)
  • Qualification — 32:59.40 (→ did not advance)

Women's 400m Hurdles

  • Virna de Angeli
  • Qualification — 57.12 (→ did not advance)

Women's Discus Throw

  • Qualification — 56.54m (→ did not advance)

Women's High Jump

  • Qualification — 1.93m
  • Final — 1.99m (→ 4th place)

Women's Long Jump

  • Qualification — 6.85m
  • Final — 7.02m (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)

Women's Triple Jump

  • Qualification — 13.74m (→ did not advance)

Women's Marathon

Women's 10km Walk

[edit] Baseball

The Italians were one of four teams that made their second appearance in Olympic baseball in 1996. They improved slightly, upon their seventh-place finish of four years earlier by taking the middle place in a three-way tie for fifth through seventh places. They had defeated Korea and Australia in the preliminary round but had lost their other five preliminary games.

Men's Team Competition:

  • Italy - 6th place (2-5)

Team Roster

  • Claudio Liverzani
  • Pier Paolo Illuminati
  • Roberto De Franceschi
  • David Rigoli
  • Marco Urbani
  • Francesco Casolari
  • Andrea Evangelisti
  • Enrico Vecchi
  • Massimiliano Masin
  • Paolo Ceccaroli
  • Ruggero Bagialemani
  • Paolo Passerini
  • Massimo Fochi
  • Alberto d'Auria
  • Roberto Cabalisti
  • Dante Cabrini
  • Marco Barboni
  • Rolando Cretis
  • Luigi Carrozza
  • Fabio Betto

[edit] Boxing

Men's Flyweight (51 kg)

  • Carmine Molaro
    1. First Round — Lost to Hussein Hussein (Australia), 8-11

Men's Lightweight (60 kg)

Men's Light Middleweight (71 kg)

  • Antonio Perugino
    1. First Round — Defeated José Quinones (Puerto Rico), 10-8
    2. Second Round — Defeated Roger Pettersson (Sweden), 18-4
    3. Quarter Finals — Lost to Alfredo Duvergel (Cuba), 8-15

Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg)

  • Pedro Aurino
    1. First Round — Defeated Yusuf Oztürk (Turkey), 15-7
    2. Second Round — Lost to Vassili Jirov (Kazakhstan), 13-18

Men's Super Heavyweight (> 91 kg)

[edit] Cycling

[edit] Road Competition

Men's Individual Time Trial

  • Final — 1:05:01 (→ 4th place)
  • Final — 1:09:18 (→ 19th place)

Women's Individual Road Race

  • Imelda Chiappa
  • Final — 02:36:38 (→ Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal)
  • Alessandra Cappellotto
  • Final — 02:37:06 (→ 7th place)
  • Roberta Bonanomi
  • Final — 02:37:06 (→ 32nd place)

Women's Individual Time Trial

  • Imelda Chiappa
  • Final — 38:47 (→ 8th place)

[edit] Track Competition

Men's Points Race

  • Final — 37 points (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)

[edit] Mountain Bike

Men's Cross Country

  • Final — 2:25:08 (→ 5th place)
  • Luca Bramati
  • Final — 2:26:05 (→ 8th place)

Women's Cross Country

  • Final — 1:50.51 (→ Image:Med_1.png Gold Medal)
  • Annabella Stropparo
  • Final — 1:55.56 (→ 6th place)

[edit] Football (soccer)

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group C)
  • Team Roster

[edit] Modern Pentathlon

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Cesare Toraldo - 5402 pts (→ 8th place)
  • Fabio Nebuloni - 5285 pts (→ 17th place)
  • Alessandro Conforto - 5128 pts (→ 25th place)

[edit] Swimming

Men's 50m Freestyle

Men's 200m Freestyle

Men's 400m Freestyle

Men's 1500m Freestyle

  • Marco Formentini
    1. Heat – 15:41.14 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Men's 100m Backstroke

Men's 200m Backstroke

  • Mirko Mazzari
    1. Heat – 1:59.95
    2. Final – 2:01.27 (→ 7th place)

Men's 100m Butterfly

  • Andrea Oriana
    1. Heat – 56.04 (→ did not advance, 39th place)

Men's 200m Butterfly

  • Andrea Oriana
    1. Heat – 2:00.67 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Men's 200m Individual Medley

  • Luca Sacchi
    1. Heat – 2:03.24
    2. B-Final – 2:03.49 (→ 11th place)

Men's 400m Individual Medley

  • Luca Sacchi
    1. Heat – 4:19.63
    2. Final – 4:18.31 (→ 6th place)

Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay


Women's 100m Freestyle

Women's 200m Backstroke

Women's 100m Breaststroke

Women's 100m Buttefly

Women's 200m Buttefly

Women's 4x100m Medley Relay

[edit] Tennis

Men's Singles Competition



Women's Singles Competition


[edit] Volleyball

[edit] Men's Indoor Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Defeated South Korea (3-0)
  • Defeated Tunisia (3-0)
  • Defeated Netherlands (3-0)
  • Defeated Russia (3-0)
  • Defeated Yugoslavia (3-0)
  • Quarterfinals
  • Defeated Brazil (3-2)
  • Semifinals
  • Defeated Yugoslavia (3-1)
  • Final
  • Lost to the Netherlands (2-3) → Image:Med_2.png Silver Medal
  • Team Roster

[edit] Men's Beach Competition

  • Andrea Ghiurghi and Nicola Grigolo — 13th place overall

[edit] Water Polo

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group B)
  • Defeated United States (10-7)
  • Defeated Ukraine (8-6)
  • Defeated Croatia (10-8)
  • Defeated Greece (10-8)
  • Defeated Romania (10-9)
  • Quarterfinals
  • Defeated Russia (11-9)
  • Semifinals
  • Lost to Croatia (6-7)
  • Bronze Medal Match
  • Defeated Hungary (20-18) → Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal
  • Team Roster