Italy at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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Italy at the
1996 Summer Olympics
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IOC codeITA
NOCItalian National Olympic Committee
Websitewww.coni.it (in Italian)
in Atlanta
Competitors340 (236 men, 104 women) in 27 sports
Flag bearer Giovanna Trillini
Medals
Ranked 6th
Gold
13
Silver
10
Bronze
12
Total
35
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Italy competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. 340 competitors, 236 men and 104 women, took part in 172 events in 27 sports.[1]

Medalists[]

Gold[]

  • Antonio Rossi — Canoeing, Men's K1 500 metres Kayak Singles
  • Antonio Rossi and Daniele Scarpa — Canoeing, Men's K2 1.000 metres Kayak Pairs
  • Andrea Collinelli — Cycling, Men's 4.000 metres Individual Pursuit
  • Silvio Martinello — Cycling, Men's Points Race
  • Antonella Bellutti — 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
  • Giovanna Trillini, Francesca Bortolozzi-Borella, and Valentina Vezzali — Fencing, Women's Foil Team Competition
  • Yuri Chechi — Gymnastics, Men's Rings
  • Agostino Abbagnale and Davide Tizzano — Rowing, Men's Double Sculls
  • Roberto Di Donna — Shooting, Men's Air Pistol
  • Ennio Falco — Shooting, Men's Skeet

Silver[]

Bronze[]

  • Michele Frangilli, Matteo Bisiani, and Andrea Parenti — Archery, Men's Team Competition
  • Alessandro Lambruschini — Athletics, Men's 3.000 metres Steeplechase
  • Roberta Brunet — Athletics, Women's 5.000 metres
  • Josefa Idem Guerrini — Canoeing, Women's K1 500 metres Kayak Singles
  • Raffaello Caserta, Luigi Tarantino, and Tonhi Terenzi – Fencing, Men's Sabre Team Competition
  • Giovanna Trillini — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual Competition
  • Ylenia Scapin — Judo, Women's Half Heavyweight (72 kg)
  • Roberto Didonna — Shooting, Men's Free Pistol
  • Andrea Benelli — Shooting, Men's Skeet
  • Emanuele Merisi — Swimming, Men's 200m Backstroke
  • Leonardo Sottani, Carlo Silipo, Luca Giustolisi, Amedeo Pomilio, Francesco Postiglione, Roberto Calcaterra, Marco Gerini, Alberto Ghibellini, Alessandro Bovo, Alessandro Calcaterra, Alberto Angelini, Francesco Attolico, and Fabio Bencivenga — Water Polo, Men's Team Competition
  • Alessandra Sensini — Sailing, Women's Mistral Individual Competition

Archery[]

Main article: Archery at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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:

  • Michele Frangilli – quarterfinal, 6th place (3–1)
  • Matteo Bisiani – round of 16, 9th place (2–1)
  • Andrea Parenti – round of 32, 17th place (1–1)

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) → Med 3.png Bronze Medal

Athletics[]

Main article: Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Men's 100 metres

Men's 200 metres

Men's 800 metres

Men's 5,000 metres

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

Men's 10,000 metres

  • Stefano Baldini
  • Qualification — 27:55.79
  • Final — 29:07.77 (→ 18th place)

Men's Marathon

  • Danilo Goffi — 2:15.08 (→ 9th place)
  • Salvatore Bettiol — 2:17.27 (→ 20th place)
  • Davide Milesi — 2:21.45 (→ 50th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Relay

  • Heat — did not finish (→ did not advance)

Men's 4 × 400 m 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)
  • Laurent Ottoz
  • Heat — 48.92s
  • Semi Final — 48.52s (→ did not advance)
  • Ashraf Saber
  • Heat — 49.71s (→ did not advance)

Men's 3,000 metres Steeplechase

  • Alessandro Lambruschini
  • Heat — 8:31.69
  • Semifinals — 8:27.32
  • Final — 8:11.28 (→ Bronze medal.svg Bronze Medal)
  • Heat — 8:30.83
  • Semifinals — 8:21.86
  • Final — 8:29.67 (→ 9th place)

Men's Long Jump

  • Simone Bianchi
  • Qualification — 7.79m (→ did not advance)

Men's Shot Put

Men's Discus Throw

  • Diego Fortuna
  • Qualification — 60.08m (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw

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

Men's Decathlon

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

Men's 20 kilometres Walk

Men's 50 kilometres Walk

  • Arturo Di Mezza — 3'44:52 (→ 4th place)
  • Giovanni Perricelli — 3'52:31 (→ 13th place)
  • Giovanni De Benedictis — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's 400 metres

Women's 5,000 metres

Women's 10,000 metres

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

Women's Marathon

  • Ornella Ferrara — 2:33.09 (→ 13th place)
  • Maria Curatolo — did not finish (→ no ranking)
  • Maura Viceconte — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's 100m Hurdles

  • Carla Tuzzi

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

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

Women's Long Jump

  • Fiona May
  • Qualification — 6.85m
  • Final — 7.02m (→ Silver medal.svg Silver Medal)

Women's Triple Jump

  • Barbara Lah
  • Qualification — 13.74m (→ did not advance)

Women's Heptathlon

  • Giuliana Spada

Women's 10 km Walk

  • Elisabetta Perrone – 42:12 (→ Silver medal.svg Silver Medal)
  • Rossella Giordano – 42:43 (→ 5th place)
  • Annarita Sidoti – 43:57 (→ 11th place)

Baseball[]

Main article: Baseball at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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

Basketball[]

Main article: Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Beach volleyball[]

Main article: Beach volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Boxing[]

Main article: Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Men's Flyweight (51 kg)

Men's Lightweight (60 kg)

Men's Light Middleweight (71 kg)

Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg)

  • Pietro Aurino
  • First Round — Defeated Yusuf Öztürk (Turkey), 15–7
  • Second Round — Lost to Vassili Jirov (Kazakhstan), 13–18

Men's Super Heavyweight (> 91 kg)

  • Paolo Vidoz
  • First Round — Bye
  • Second Round — Lost to Alexis Rubalcaba (Cuba), referee stopped contest in first round

Canoeing[]

Main article: Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Cycling[]

Main article: Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Road Competition[]

Men's Individual Time Trial

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

Women's Individual Road Race

  • Final — 02:36:38 (→ Med 2.png Silver Medal)
  • Final — 02:37:06 (→ 7th place)
  • Final — 02:37:06 (→ 32nd place)

Women's Individual Time Trial

  • Final – 38:47 (→ 8th place)

Track Competition[]

Men's Points Race

  • Silvio Martinello
  • Final — 37 points (→ Med 1.png Gold Medal)

Mountain Bike[]

Men's Cross Country

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

Women's Cross Country

  • Paola Pezzo
  • Final — 1:50.51 (→ Med 1.png Gold Medal)
  • Final — 1:55.56 (→ 6th place)

Diving[]

Main article: Diving at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Men's 3m Springboard

  • Preliminary Round — 356.55
  • Semi Final — 202.80 (→ 15th place)

Women's 3m Springboard

  • Preliminary Heat — 208.77 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Women's 10m Platform

  • Preliminary Heat — 202.86 (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Equestrian[]

Main article: Equestrian at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Fencing[]

Main article: Fencing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Sixteen fencers, nine men and seven women, represented Italy in 1996.

Men's foil
Men's team foil
Men's épée
Men's team épée
Men's sabre
Men's team sabre
Women's foil
Women's team foil
Women's épée
Women's team épée

Football[]

Main article: Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Men's Team Competition[]

  • Preliminary Round (Group C)
  • Lost to  Mexico (0–1)
  • Lost to  Ghana (2–3)
  • Defeated  South Korea (2–1) → Did not advance
  • Team Roster

Gymnastics[]

Main article: Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Judo[]

Main article: Judo at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Modern pentathlon[]

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Men's Individual Competition:

Rhythmic gymnastics[]

Main article: Rhythmic gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Rowing[]

Main article: Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Sailing[]

Main article: Sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Shooting[]

Main article: Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Swimming[]

Main article: Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Men's 50m Freestyle

  • Heat – 22.85
  • B-Final – 22.96 (→ 14th place)

Men's 200m Freestyle

  • Massimiliano Rosolino
  • Heat – 1:48.80
  • Final – 1:48.50 (→ 6th place)
  • Pier Maria Siciliano
  • Heat – 1:49.88
  • B-Final – 1:50.07 (→ 13th place)

Men's 400m Freestyle

  • Emiliano Brembilla
  • Heat – 3:49.35
  • Final – 3:49.87 (→ 4th place)
  • Massimiliano Rosolino
  • Heat – 3:51.05
  • Final – 3:51.04 (→ 6th place)

Men's 1500m Freestyle

  • Emiliano Brembilla
  • Heat – 15:16.72
  • Final – 15:08.58 (→ 4th place)
  • Heat – 15:41.14 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Men's 100m Backstroke

  • Emanuele Merisi
  • Heat – 55.82
  • Final – 55.53 (→ 6th place)

Men's 200m Backstroke

  • Emanuele Merisi
  • Heat – 2:00.01
  • Final – 1:59.18 (→ Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
  • Heat – 1:59.95
  • Final – 2:01.27 (→ 7th place)

Men's 100m Butterfly

  • Heat – 56.04 (→ did not advance, 39th place)

Men's 200m Butterfly

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

Men's 200m Individual Medley

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

Men's 400m Individual Medley

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

Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay

  • Emiliano Brembilla, Emanuele Idini, Pier Maria Siciliano, and Massimiliano Rosolino
  • Heat – 7:22.69
  • Massimiliano Rosolino, Emanuele Idini, Emanuele Merisi, and Pier Maria Siciliano
  • Final – 7:19.92 (→ 6th place)


Women's 100m Freestyle

  • Heat – 57.17 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Women's 200m Backstroke

  • Lorenza Vigarani
  • Heat – 2:13.58
  • Final – 2:14.56 (→ 7th place)

Women's 100m Breaststroke

  • Heat – 1:10.25
  • B-Final – 1:11.19 (→ 15th place)

Women's 100m Butterfly

  • Heat – 1:01.83 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Women's 200m Butterfly

  • Heat – 2:16.10 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

  • Heat – 4:10.57
  • Final – 4:10.59 (→ 8th place)

Synchronized swimming[]

Main article: Synchronized swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Table tennis[]

Main article: Table tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Tennis[]

Main article: Tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Men's Singles Competition

  • Renzo Furlan
  • First round — Defeated Jiří Novák (Czech Republic) 4–5 6–4 6–3
  • Second round — Defeated Luis Morejon (Ecuador) 7–5 6–2
  • Third round — Defeated Marc Rosset (Switzerland) 6–2 4–2 retired
  • Quarter Finals — Lost to Leander Paes (India) 1–6 9–7
  • Andrea Gaudenzi
  • First round — Defeated Carlos Costa (Spain) 6–3 6–2
  • Second round — Defeated Oscar Ortiz (Mexico) 6–1 7–6
  • Third round — Lost to Andre Agassi (United States) 6–2 4–6 2–6


Women's Singles Competition

  • First round — Lost to Patricia Hy-Boulais (Canada) 4–6 4–6
  • Silvia Farina
  • First round — Defeated Clare Wood (Great Britain) 6–2 6–2
  • Second round — Lost to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (Spain) 1–6 3–6

Volleyball[]

Main article: Volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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) → Med 2.png Silver Medal
  • Team Roster
  • Head Coach: Julio Velasco

Water polo[]

Main article: Water polo at the 1996 Summer Olympics

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) → Med 3.png Bronze Medal
  • Team Roster

Weightlifting[]

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Wrestling[]

Main article: Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics

References[]

  1. ^ "Italy at the 1996 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2011-09-14. Retrieved 2012-02-15.

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