Italy national swimming team

Novella Calligaris in 1972, first Italian to win an Olympic medal in swimming.

The Italy national swimming team represents Italy in International swimming competitions such as Olympic Games or World swimming Championships.

History[]

The national Italian swimming team participated to all the Summer Olympics editions, from London 1908, 22 times on 26.^[1]

Medal tables[]

Swimming

(not included open water swimming) Y update to last edition

Event	Editions	1st edition	last edition	Men	Women	Total	Ranking
Event	Editions	1st edition	last edition				Ranking	Tot.				Tot.				Tot.
Olympic Games Y	24	1912	2016	4	1	9	14	1	3	2	6	5	4	11	20	16th
World Championships (LC) Y	16	1973	2019	9	13	18	40	9	6	7	22	18	19	25	62	9th
European Championships (LC) Y	32	1926	2018	43.5	50	61.5	155	14.5	19	23.5	57	58	69	85	212	6th
World Championships (SC)	10	1993		2	11	6	19	0	3	4	7	2	14	10	26	25th
European Championships (SC)	15	1996		37	34	31	102	7	9	16	32	44	43	47	134	5th

Olympic Games[]

Swimming[]

The Italian national swimming team won its first medal at 1972 Summer Olympics with Novella Calligaris.^[1]

Edition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Munich 1972		400 metre freestyle Novella Calligaris		3
			800 metre freestyle Novella Calligaris
			400 metre medley Novella Calligaris

Seoul 1988			400 metre medley Stefano Battistelli	1

Barcelona 1992			400 metre medley Luca Sacchi	2
Barcelona 1992			200 metre backstroke Stefano Battistelli	2

Atlanta 1996			200 metre backstrokee Emanuele Merisi	1

Sydney 2000	100 metre breaststroke Domenico Fioravanti			6
	200 metre breaststroke Domenico Fioravanti		200 metre breaststroke Davide Rummolo
	200 metre medley Massimiliano Rosolino
			200 metre freestyle Massimiliano Rosolino
		400 metre freestyle Massimiliano Rosolino

Athens 2004			4 × 200 metre freestyle relay Emiliano Brembilla Massimiliano Rosolino Simone Cercato Filippo Magnini Federico Cappellazzo Matteo Pelliciari	2
Athens 2004		200 metre freestyle Federica Pellegrini		2

Beijing 2008	200 metre freestyle Federica Pellegrini			2
Beijing 2008		800 metre freestyle Alessia Filippi		2

Rio de Janeiro 2016	1500 metre freestyle Gregorio Paltrinieri		1500 metre freestyle Gabriele Detti	3
Rio de Janeiro 2016			400 metre freestyle Gabriele Detti	3
	5	4	11	20

Open water[]

Open water swimming was introduced at Beijing 2008.

Edition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
London 2012			10 km Martina Grimaldi	1
Rio de Janeiro 2016		10 km Rachele Bruni		1
	0	1	1	2

World Championships[]

All Italian medals till Gwangju 2019.^[2]

Edition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Belgrade 1973	800 metre freestyle Novella Calligaris			3
			400 metre freestyle Novella Calligaris
			400 metre medley Novella Calligaris

Cali 1975			4 × 100 m freestyle relay Roberto Pangaro Paolo Barelli Claudio Zei Marcello Guarducci	1

Guayaquil 1982			200 metre medley Giovanni Franceschi	1

Madrid 1986		1500 m freestyle Stefano Battistelli		2
Madrid 1986		100 m breaststroke Gianni Minervini		2

Perth 1991			100 m freestyle Giorgio Lamberti	6
	200 m freestyle Giorgio Lamberti
		200 m backstroke Stefano Battistelli
			100 m breaststroke Gianni Minervini
			400 m individual medley Stefano Battistelli
			4 × 200 m freestyle relay Emanuele Idini Roberto Gleria Stefano Battistelli Giorgio Lamberti

Rome 1994			200 backstroke Lorenza Vigarani	1

Perth 1998		200 m freestyle Massimiliano Rosolino		2
Perth 1998		1500 m freestyle Emiliano Brembilla		2

Fukuoka 2001			400 m freestyle Emiliano Brembilla	6
			50m breaststroke Domenico Fioravanti
		100m breaststroke Domenico Fioravanti
	200 m individual medley Massimiliano Rosolino
	400 m individual medley Alessio Boggiatto
		4x200 metre freestyle relay Emiliano Brembilla Matteo Pelliciari Andrea Beccari Massimiliano Rosolino

Barcelona 2003			200 m individual medley Massimiliano Rosolino	1

Montreal 2005	100 m freestyle Filippo Magnini			3
		400 m individual medley Luca Marin
		200 m freestyle Federica Pellegrini

Melbourne 2007	100 m freestyle Filippo Magnini			6
			800 m freestyle Federico Colbertaldo
			200 m breaststroke Loris Facci
			400 m individual medley Luca Marin
		4x100 metre freestyle relay Massimiliano Rosolino Alessandro Calvi Christian Galenda Filippo Magnini
			200 m freestyle Federica Pellegrini

Rome 2009	200 m freestyle Federica Pellegrini			4
	400 m freestyle Federica Pellegrini
			800 m freestyle Alessia Filippi
	1500 m freestyle Alessia Filippi

Shanghai 2011		50 m freestyle Luca Dotto		5
		50 m breaststroke Fabio Scozzoli
		100 m breaststroke Fabio Scozzoli
	200 m freestyle Federica Pellegrini
	400 m freestyle Federica Pellegrini

Barcelona 2013		200 m freestyle Federica Pellegrini		2
Barcelona 2013			1500 m freestyle Gregorio Paltrinieri	2

Kazan 2015	1500 m freestyle Gregorio Paltrinieri			5
		800 m freestyle Gregorio Paltrinieri
			4x100 metre freestyle relay Luca Dotto Marco Orsi Michele Santucci Filippo Magnini
		200 m freestyle Federica Pellegrini
		4x200 metre freestyle relay Alice Mizzau Erica Musso Chiara Masini Luccetti Federica Pellegrini

Budapest 2017	200 m freestyle Federica Pellegrini			6
			1500 m freestyle Simona Quadarella
	800 m freestyle Gabriele Detti
	1500 m freestyle Gregorio Paltrinieri
			400 m freestyle Gabriele Detti
			800 m freestyle Gregorio Paltrinieri

Gwangju 2019	200 m freestyle Federica Pellegrini			8
	1500 m freestyle Simona Quadarella
		800 m freestyle Simona Quadarella
		50 m breaststroke Benedetta Pilato
			100 m breaststroke Martina Carraro
	800 m freestyle Gregorio Paltrinieri
			400 m freestyle Gabriele Detti
			1500 m freestyle Gregorio Paltrinieri
	18	19	25	62

European Championships[]

Legend

Where it is reported half medal refers to those assigned in mixed relays from 2014 for the first time. This table is of swimming pool events, it excludes open water events.

Edition	Men			Women			Total
Edition
Budapest 1926	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bologna 1927	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Paris 1931	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	3	4
Magdeburg 1934	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	2	4
London 1938	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Monte Carlo 1947	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vienna 1950	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turin 1954	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Budapest 1958	1	2	2	0	0	0	1	2	2	5
Liepzig 1962	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Utrecht 1966	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Barcelona 1970	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1
Vienna 1974	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	2
Jönköping 1977	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	2	4
Split 1981	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	2
Rome 1983	2	0	2	0	0	1	2	0	3	5
Sofia 1985	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Strasbourg 1987	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	3	1	4
Bonn 1989	4	0	2	0	1	3	4	1	5	10
Athens 1991	1	2	5	0	0	2	1	2	7	10
Sheffield 1993	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	2
Vienna 1995	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	2	3
Sevilla 1997	2	3	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	5
Istanbul 1999	1	3	2	0	0	0	1	3	2	6
Helsinki 2000	5	3	1	0	2	0	5	5	1	11
Berlin 2002	4	5	2	0	0	0	4	5	2	11
Madrid 2004	5	1	6	0	1	1	5	2	7	14
Budapest 2006	4	5	2	1	1	2	5	6	4	15
Eindhoven 2008	1	4	3	3	1	1	4	5	4	13
Budapest 2010	1	0	3	1	0	1	2	0	4	6
Debrecen 2012	4	5	3	2	3	1	6	8	4	18
Berlin 2014^[3] Y	2.5	1	5	2.5	0	4	5	1	9	15
London 2016^[4] Y	4	4	4	1	3	1	5	7	5	17
Glasgow 2018^[5] Y	2	3	6.5	4	2	4.5	6	5	11	22
Total	43.5	50	61.5	14.5	19	23.5	58	69	85	212

Multiple medalists[]

Federica Pellegrini, 33 individual medals.

Still active

Medals only in relay

Update to 2020 European Aquatics Championships (LC).^[6]

Men[]

#	Swimmer	Olympics			World Ch. (LC)			World Ch. (SC)			European Ch. (LC)			European Ch. (SC)			Total
#	Swimmer
1	Filippo Magnini	0	0	1	2	1	1	2	5	2	9	5	5	8	7	5	21	18	14	53
2	Massimiliano Rosolino	1	1	2	1	3	1	1	2	7	7	8	6	7	8	5	17	22	21	60
3	Gregorio Paltrinieri	1	0	0	3	2	3	1	3	0	8	4	1	3	1	0	16	10	4	30
4	Emiliano Brembilla	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	0	1	10	3	0	5	0	1	15	5	4	24
5	Fabio Scozzoli	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	1	2	3	2	3	8	3	5	12	8	10	30
6	Marco Orsi	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	1	0	0	1	8	9	5	8	14	8	30
7	Domenico Fioravanti	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	1	0	2	3	0	6	6	1	13
9	Luca Dotto	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	2	3	3	3	5	4	5	10	9	24
10	Christian Galenda	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	4	1	2	0	2	2	5	4	5	14
11	Alessio Boggiatto	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	3	0	3	5	2	5	12
12	Matteo Pelliciari	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	1	5	1	2	8
13	Giorgio Lamberti	0	0	0	1	0	2	-	-	-	3	3	3	-	-	-	4	3	5	13
14	Piero Codia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	2	2	0	4	3	1	8
15	Lorenzo Vismara	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	3	1	2	1	3	5	4	12
16	Simone Sabbioni	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	3	3	1	3	4	4	11
17	Alessandro Calvi	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	3	3	1	7
18	Federico Bocchia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	2	3	2	0	5
19	Mirco Di Tora	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	1	0	3	2	0	5
20	Matteo Rivolta	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	1	0	3	1	1	5
21	Nicola Cassio	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	4
22		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	3
23	Alessandro Terrin	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	4	2	2	5	3	10
24	Gabriele Detti	0	0	2	1	0	2	0	0	1	1	2	4	0	2	3	2	4	12	18
25	Stefano Battistelli	0	0	2	0	2	2	-	-	-	2	1	2	-	-	-	2	3	6	11

Women[]

#	Swimmer	Olympics			World Ch. (LC)			World Ch. (SC)			European Ch. (LC)			European Ch. (SC)			Total
#	Swimmer
1	Federica Pellegrini	1	1	0	6	4	1	1	2	5	7	6	7	7	4	6	22	17	19	58
2	Simona Quadarella	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	6	0	1	2	0	1	9	2	3	14
3	Erika Ferraioli	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	1	4	2	3	1	4	4	7	9	20
4	Alessia Filippi	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	3	0	2	3	1	2	4	3	5	12
5	Margherita Panziera	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	2	3	1	0	1	3	2	5	10
6	Ilaria Bianchi	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	2	1	3	2	2	5	5	12
7	Alice Mizzau	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	1	2	0	0	0	2	2	3	7
8	Benedetta Pilato	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	2	0	4
	Novella Calligaris	0	1	2	1	0	2	-	-	-	0	1	2	-	-	-	1	2	6	9

Olympic Games[]

The list refers to individual and team events and include men and women (in pink color), sorted by number of individual titles.^[1]

#	Swimmer	Individual			Team			Total
#	Swimmer
1	Domenico Fioravanti	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
2	Massimiliano Rosolino	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	2
3	Federica Pellegrini	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
4	Gregorio Paltrinieri	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
5	Novella Calligaris	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	2
6	Stefano Battistelli	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Italy Swimming". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 August 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
^ "Medagliere Gwangju 2019".
^ One gold medal by mixed relay
^ Two silver medals by mixed relays
^ One bronze medal by mixed relay
^ "ALBO D'ORO DELLA NAZIONALE ITALIANA DI NUOTO" (in Italian). nuotounostiledivita.it. Retrieved 25 May 2021.

External links[]

Italy swimming at Summer Olympics
Official site of the Italian Swimming Federation (in Italian)

[SR-1] "Italy Swimming". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 August 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2012.

[2] "Medagliere Gwangju 2019".

[3] One gold medal by mixed relay

[4] Two silver medals by mixed relays

[5] One bronze medal by mixed relay

[6] "ALBO D'ORO DELLA NAZIONALE ITALIANA DI NUOTO" (in Italian). nuotounostiledivita.it. Retrieved 25 May 2021.

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Contents

History[]

Medal tables[]

Olympic Games[]

Swimming[]

Open water[]

World Championships[]

European Championships[]

Multiple medalists[]

Men[]

Women[]

Olympic Games[]

See also[]

References[]

External links[]