Italy at the Olympics in athletics

Italy at the
Summer Olympics in athletics
Italy at the; Summer Olympics in athletics
WA code	ITA
National federation	FIDAL
Website	www.fidal.it
Medals; Ranked 9th	Gold 24 Silver 15 Bronze 26 Total 65
Summer appearances
	1896; 1900; 1904; 1908; 1912; 1920; 1924; 1928; 1932; 1936; 1948; 1952; 1956; 1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020;

Marcell Jacobs and Filippo Tortu, gold with the 4×100 m relay team at Tokyo 2020.

Italy at the Olympics in athletics competed in all editions of the Summer Olympic Games with the exception of the 1904 Summer Olympics. The Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) is the National Olympic Committee for the Italy.^[1]

Placing table[]

World Athletics placing table assigns points to the top eight athletes in the final, with eight points to first place, seven to second place, and so on until one point for eighth place. Teams or athletes that do not finish or are disqualified do not receive points.^[2]

Edition				4	5	6	7	8
1906	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-
1908	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
1912	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	-
1920	2	-	2	1	1	-	2	-
1924	1	1	-	1	-	1	3	1
1928	-	-	-	1	-	2	-	-
1932	1	-	2	-	2	1	1	1
1936	1	2	2	2+1=	-	1=	1	-
1948	1	3	1	-	-	1	1	1
1952	1	1	-	-	-	1	-	2
1956	-	-	-	2	2	2	-	-
1960	1	-	2	1	1	2	2	-
1964	1	-	1	1	1	1	2	2
1968	-	-	2	-	-	2	2	1
1972	-	-	2	-	-	1	1	2
1976	-	1	-	1	-	4	-	4
1980	3	-	1	1	1	1	1	2
1984	3	1	3	4	4	2	2	1
1988	1	1	1	2	1	1	3	2
1992	-	-	1	3	2	1	1	-
1996	-	2	2	2	1	1	-	-
2000	-	2	-	1	1	1	2	1
2004	2	-	1	-	-	1	1	-
2008	1	-	1	-	2	-	1=	-
2012	-	-	1	1	1	-	2	-
2016	-	-	-	1	2	-	1	1
Tokyo 2020	5	0	0	0	1	0	2	2
	24	15	26	26	25	27	31	23

Medals[]

Women's medals

19 of the 60 medals come from race walk.^[3]^[4]

Edition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
London 1908		800 metres Emilio Lunghi		1

Stockholm 1912			10 km walk Fernando Altimani	1

Antwerp 1920	3 km walk Ugo Frigerio			4
	10 km walk Ugo Frigerio
			3000 metres steeplechase Ernesto Ambrosini
			Marathon Valerio Arri

Paris 1924	3 km walk Ugo Frigerio			2
Paris 1924		Marathon Romeo Bertini		2

Los Angeles 1932	1500 metres Luigi Beccali			3
			4X100 metres relay Giuseppe Castelli Gabriele Salviati Ruggero Maregatti Edgardo Toetti
			50 km walk Ugo Frigerio

Berlin 1936		800 metres Mario Lanzi		5
			1500 metres Luigi Beccali
		4X100 metres relay Orazio Mariani Gianni Caldana Elio Ragni Tullio Gonnelli
			Discus throw Giorgio Oberweger
	100 metres hurdles Ondina Valla

London 1948			4X100 metres relay Michele Tito Enrico Perucconi Carlo Monti Antonio Siddi	5
	Discus throw Adolfo Consolini	Discus throw Giuseppe Tosi
		Shot put Amelia Piccinini
		Discus throw Edera Cordiale

Helsinki 1952	50 km walk Pino Dordoni			2
Helsinki 1952		Discus throw Adolfo Consolini		2

Rome 1960	200 metres Livio Berruti			3
			50 km walk Abdon Pamich
			100 metres Giuseppina Leone

Tokyo 1964			400 metres hurdles Salvatore Morale	2
Tokyo 1964	50 km walk Abdon Pamich			2

Mexico City 1968			110 metres hurdles Eddy Ottoz	2
Mexico City 1968			Triple jump Giuseppe Gentile	2

Munich 1972			200 metres Pietro Mennea	2
Munich 1972			1500 metres Paola Pigni	2

Montreal 1976		High jump Sara Simeoni		1

Moscow 1980	200 metres Pietro Mennea			4
			4x400 metres relay Roberto Tozzi Mauro Zuliani Stefano Malinverni Pietro Mennea
	20 km walk Maurizio Damilano
	High jump Sara Simeoni

Los Angeles 1984	10000 metres Alberto Cova			7
			20 km walk Maurizio Damilano
			50 km walk Sandro Bellucci
			Long jump Giovanni Evangelisti
	Shot put Alessandro Andrei
	1500 metres Gabriella Dorio
		High jump Sara Simeoni

Seul 1988		10000 metres Salvatore Antibo		3
	Marathon Gelindo Bordin
			20 km walk Maurizio Damilano

Barcelona 1992			20 km walk Giovanni De Benedictis	1

Atlanta 1996			3000 metres steeplechase Alessandro Lambruschini	4
			5000 metres Roberta Brunet
		10 km walk Elisabetta Perrone
		Long jump Fiona May

Sydney 2000		Hammer throw Nicola Vizzoni		2
Sydney 2000		Long jump Fiona May		2

Athens 2004	Marathon Stefano Baldini			3
	20 km walk Ivano Brugnetti
			Pole vault Giuseppe Gibilisco

Beijing 2008	50 km walk Alex Schwazer			2
Beijing 2008			20 km walk Elisa Rigaudo	2

London 2012			Triple jump Fabrizio Donato	1

Rio de Janeiro 2016				0

Tokyo 2021	100 m Marcell Jacobs			5
	High jump Gianmarco Tamberi
	20 km walk Massimo Stano
	20 km walk Antonella Palmisano
	4×100 m relay Lorenzo Patta Marcell Jacobs Fausto Desalu Filippo Tortu


	24	15	26	65

Results by event[]

Event	No. of appearances	First appearance	First medal	First gold medal	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Best finish
Men's 100 metres	19/29	1900	2020	2020	1	0	0	1	(2020)
Men's 400 metres	17/28	1900	N/A	N/A	0	0	0	0	8th (1912, 1936)

References[]

^ "Italy - Overview". olympedia.org. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
^ "2021 Olympic Games - Placing Table". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
^ "Team Italy Italy Profile - Medals per year". olympics.com. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
^ "Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Statistics Handbook published - Country index Italy". worldathletics.org. p. 432. Retrieved 8 August 2021.

External links[]

Official website (CONI)
Official website (FIDAL)

[1] "Italy - Overview". olympedia.org. Retrieved 8 August 2021.

[2] "2021 Olympic Games - Placing Table". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 7 August 2021.

[OLYMPICS-3] "Team Italy Italy Profile - Medals per year". olympics.com. Retrieved 8 August 2021.

[HANDBOOK-4] "Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Statistics Handbook published - Country index Italy". worldathletics.org. p. 432. Retrieved 8 August 2021.

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v t Italy at the athletics competitions
Main events	Olympic Games World Championships World Indoor Championships European Championships European Indoor Championships
Other events	World Athletics Relays World Athletics Continental Cup (defunct) World Race Walking Team Championships European Cup (defunct) European Athletics Team Championships European Race Walking Team Championships European Cross Country Championships European Throwing Cup Universiade Mediterranean Games Military World Games
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