Italy at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Italy at the Olympic Games
Flag of Italy IOC code  ITA NOC Italian National Olympic Committee Website www.coni.it (Italian)
At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin
Competitors	244 (228 men and 16 women) in 17 sports
Flag bearer	Giulio Gaudini
Medals Rank: 4	Gold 8	Silver 9	Bronze 5	Total 22
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1906

Italy competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. 244 competitors, 228 men and 16 women, took part in 99 events in 17 sports.^[1]

Medals

01 ! Gold

• Ondina Valla - Track and field, women's 80 m Hurdles
• Ulderico Sergo - Boxing, a series of 53.5 kg
• Giulio Gaudini - Fencing, men's foil
• Franco Riccardi - Fencing – Men's épée
• Giulio Gaudini, Gioacchino Guaragna, Gustavo Marzi, Giorgio Bocchino, Manlio Di Rosa and Ciro Verratti - Fencing, men's foil team competition
• Saverio Ragno, Alfredo Pezzana, Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Franco Riccardi and Giancarlo Brusati - Fencing, men's kalvan team competition
• Bruno Venturini, Alfredo Foni, Pietro Rava, Giuseppe Baldo, Achille Piccini, Ugo Locatelli, Annibale Frossi, Libero Marchini, Sergio Bertoni, Carlo Biagi, Francesco Gabriotti, Giulio Cappelli, Alfonso Negro and Luigi Scarabello - Football, men
• Giovanni Reggio, Bruno Bianchi, Luigi De Manincor, Domenico Mordini, Luigi Poggi and Enrico Poggi - Sailing, 8MR

02 ! Silver

• Mario Lanzi - Track and field, men's 800 m
• Orazio Mariani, Gianni Caldana, Elio Ragni and Tullio Gonnelli - Track and field, men's 4x100 m relay
• Almiro Bergamo, Guido Santin and Luciano Negrini - Rowing, Men pair cox
• Guglielmo Del Bimbo, Dino Barsotti, Oreste Grossi, Enzo Bartolini, Mario Checcacci, Dante Secchi, Ottorino Quaglierini, Enrico Garzelli and Cesare Milani - Rowing, men's eight
• Gavino Matta - Boxing, a series of 50.8 kg
• Severino Rigoni, Bianco Bianchi, Mario Gentili and Armando Latini - Cycling, Men's Team Pursuit
• Saverio Ragno - Fencing, men épée
• Gustavo Marzi - Fencing, men's sabre
• Vincenzo Pinton, Giulio Gaudini, Aldo Masciotta, Gustavo Marzi, Aldo Montano and Athos Tanzini - Fencing, men's sabre team competition

03 ! Bronze

• Luigi Beccali - Track and field, men's 1 500 m
• Giorgio Oberweger - Track and field, men's discus throw
• Giorgio Bocchino - Fencing, men's foil
• Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici - Fencing, men épée
• Silvano Abba - Modern Pentathlon, men's individual competition

Athletics

Basketball

Men's Team Competition

• Team Roster

• Enrico Cestelli
• Galeazzo Dondi
• Livio Franceschini
• Emilio Giosetti
• Giancarlo Marinelli
• Sergio Paganella
• Egidio Premiani
• Gino Basso

Boxing

Canoeing

Cycling

Eleven cyclists, all men, represented Italy in 1936.

Individual road race

• Pierino Favalli
• Glauco Servadei
• Corrado Ardizzoni
• Elio Bavutti

Team road race

• Pierino Favalli
• Glauco Servadei
• Corrado Ardizzoni
• Elio Bavutti

Sprint

• Benedetto Pola

Time trial

• Benedetto Pola

Tandem

• Carlo Legutti
• Bruno Loatti

Team pursuit

• Bianco Bianchi
• Mario Gentili
• Armando Latini
• Severino Rigoni

Diving

Equestrian

Fencing

16 fencers, all men, represented Italy in 1936.

Men's foil

• Giulio Gaudini
• Giorgio Bocchino
• Gioacchino Guaragna

Men's team foil

• Manlio Di Rosa, Giulio Gaudini, Gioacchino Guaragna, Gustavo Marzi, Giorgio Bocchino, Ciro Verratti

Men's épée

• Franco Riccardi
• Saverio Ragno
• Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici

Men's team épée

• Edoardo Mangiarotti, Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici, Saverio Ragno, Franco Riccardi, Giancarlo Brusati, Alfredo Pezzana

Men's sabre

• Gustavo Marzi
• Vincenzo Pinton
• Giulio Gaudini

Men's team sabre

• Giulio Gaudini, Gustavo Marzi, Aldo Masciotta, Vincenzo Pinton, Aldo Montano, Athos Tanzini

Football

Men's Team Competition

• Bruno Venturini
• Gianni Ferrero
• Alfredo Foni
• Pietro Rava
• Giuseppe Baldo
• Achille Piccini
• Ugo Locatelli
• Annibale Frossi
• Libero Marchini
• Luigi Scarabello
• Carlo Biagi
• Giulio Cappelli
• Sergio Bertoni
• Alfonso Negro
• Francesco Gabriotti
• Adolfo Giuntoli
• Mario Nicolini
• Carlo Girometta
• Sandro Puppo
• Corrado Tamietti
• Paolo Vannucci
• Lamberto Petri

Gymnastics

16 gymnasts, 8 men and 8 women, represented Italy in 1936.

Men's team

• Egidio Armelloni
• Oreste Capuzzo
• Danilo Fioravanti
• Savino Guglielmetti
• Romeo Neri
• Otello Ternelli
• Franco Tognini
• Nicolò Tronci

Women's team

• Anna Avanzini
• Vittoria Avanzini
• Clara Bimbocci
• Ebore Canella
• Pina Cipriotto
• Elda Cividino
• Gianna Guaita
• Carmela Toso

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathlete represented Italy in 1936.

• Silvano Abbà
• Ugo Ceccarelli
• Franco Orgera

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Nine shooters represented Italy in 1936.

25 m rapid fire pistol

• Walter Boninsegni
• Bruno Giacconi
• Michelangelo Borriello

50 m pistol

• Stefano Margotti
• Giancarlo Boriani
• Ugo Pistolesi

50 m rifle, prone

• Mario Zorzi
• Carlo Varetto
• Lodovico Nulli

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Art competitions

References

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Media related to Italy at the 1936 Summer Olympics at Wikimedia Commons

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