Italy at the 1964 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 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo
Competitors	168 (157 men, 11 women) in 18 sports
Flag bearer	Giuseppe Delfino
Medals Rank: 5	Gold 10	Silver 10	Bronze 7	Total 27
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Italy competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. 168 competitors, 157 men and 11 women, took part in 91 events in 18 sports.^[1]

Medalists

01 ! Gold

• Abdon Pamich — Athletics, Men's 50 km Walk
• Fernando Atzori — Boxing, Men's Flyweight
• Cosimo Pinto — Boxing, Men's Light Heavyweight
• Giovanni Pettenella — Cycling, Men's 1000m Sprint (Scratch)
• Mario Zanin — Cycling, Men's Individual Road Race
• Sergio Bianchetto and Angelo Damiano — Cycling, Men's 2000m Tandem
• Mauro Checcoli — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Individual
• Paolo Angioni, Mauro Checcoli, and Giuseppe Ravano — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Team
• Franco Menichelli — Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercises
• Ennio Mattarelli — Shooting, Men's Trap Shooting

02 ! Silver

• Sergio Bianchetto — Cycling, Men's 1000m Sprint (Scratch)
• Giovanni Pettenella — Cycling, Men's 1000m Time Trial
• Giorgio Ursi — Cycling, Men's 4000m Individual Pursuit
• Cencio Mantovani, Carlo Rancati, Luigi Roncaglia, and Franco Testa — Cycling, Men's 4000m Team Pursuit
• Severino Andreoli, Luciano Dalla Bona, Pietro Guerra, and Ferruccio Manza — Cycling, Men's Team Road Race
• Klaus Dibiasi — Diving, Men's Platform
• Giovan Battista Breda, Giuseppe Delfino, Gianfranco Paolucci, Alberto Pellegrino, and Gianluigi Saccaro — Fencing, Men's Épée Team
• Giampaolo Calanchini, Wladimiro Calarese, Pier-Luigi Chicca, Mario Ravagnan, and Cesare Salvadori — Fencing, Men's Sabre Team
• Franco Menichelli — Gymnastics, Men's Rings
• Renato Bosatta, Franco De Pedrina, Giuseppe Galante, Giovanni Spinola, and Emilio Trivini — Rowing, Men's Coxed Fours

03 ! Bronze

• Salvatore Morale — Athletics, Men's 400m Hurdles
• Silvano Bertini — Boxing, Men's Welterweight
• Franco Valle — Boxing, Men's Middleweight
• Giuseppe Ros — Boxing, Men's Heavyweight
• Piero D'Inzeo, Raimondo D'Inzeo, and Graziano Mancinelli — Equestrian, Jumping Team
• Antonella Ragno-Lonzi — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual
• Franco Menichelli — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars

Athletics

Basketball

Men's Team Competition

• Team Roster

• Gianfranco Bertini
• Sauro Bufalini
• Ottorino Flaborea
• Giovanni Gavagnin
• Augusto Giomo
• Gianfranco Lombardi
• Massimo Masini
• Giusto Pellanera
• Gianfranco Pieri
• Gianfranco Sardagna
• Gabriele Vianello
• Paolo Vittori

Boxing

Canoeing

Cycling

14 cyclists represented Italy in 1964.

Individual road race

• Mario Zanin
• Severino Andreoli
• Felice Gimondi
• Ferruccio Manza

Team time trial

• Severino Andreoli
• Luciano Dalla Bona
• Pietro Guerra
• Ferruccio Manza

Sprint

• Giovanni Pettenella
• Sergio Bianchetto

1000m time trial

• Giovanni Pettenella

Tandem

• Angelo Damiano
• Sergio Bianchetto

Individual pursuit

• Giorgio Ursi

Team pursuit

• Luigi Roncaglia
• Cencio Mantovani
• Carlo Rancati
• Franco Testa

Diving

Fencing

20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented Italy in 1964.

Men's foil

• Mario Curletto
• Nicola Granieri
• Pasquale La Ragione

Men's team foil

• Gianguido Milanesi, Pasquale La Ragione, Arcangelo Pinelli, Nicola Granieri, Mario Curletto

Men's épée

• Gianluigi Saccaro
• Alberto Pellegrino
• Giuseppe Delfino

Men's team épée

• Giuseppe Delfino, Alberto Pellegrino, Gianluigi Saccaro, Gianfranco Paolucci, Giovanni Battista Breda

Men's sabre

• Pierluigi Chicca
• Cesare Salvadori
• Wladimiro Calarese

Men's team sabre

• Wladimiro Calarese, Giampaolo Calanchini, Pierluigi Chicca, Mario Ravagnan, Cesare Salvadori

Women's foil

• Antonella Ragno-Lonzi
• Giovanna Masciotta
• Bruna Colombetti-Peroncini

Women's team foil

• Antonella Ragno-Lonzi, Giovanna Masciotta, Irene Camber-Corno, Natalina Sanguinetti, Bruna Colombetti-Peroncini

Gymnastics

Judo

Modern pentathlon

One male pentathlete represented Italy in 1964.

Individual

• Alfonso Ottaviani

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

• Sergio De Gregorio, Bruno Bianchi, Giovanni Orlando, and Pietro Boscaini

• Final — 8:18.1 (→ 8th place)

Men's 4x100m Medley Relay

• Chiaffredo Rora, Gian Corrado Gross, Giampiero Fossati, and Pietro Boscaini

• Final — 4:10.3 (→ 7th place)

Water polo

Men's Team Competition

• Team Roster

• Danio Bardi
• Mario Cevasco
• Giuseppe d'Altrui
• Federico Dennerlein
• Giancarlo Guerrini
• Franco Lavoratori
• Gianni Lonzi
• Eugenio Merello
• Rosario Parmegiani
• Eraldo Pizzo
• Dante Rossi
• Alberto Spinola

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

External links

• Media related to Italy at the 1964 Summer Olympics at Wikimedia Commons

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