1920 Summer Olympics / Participant (Italy)

ITA

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Italy took part in the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp with a delegation of 174 athletes (173 men and one woman) in 79 competitions in 18 competitions.

The Italian athletes won 13 gold, five silver and five bronze medals. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the fencer Nedo Nadi , who became a five-time Olympic champion . He won two gold medals in individual competitions and three other gold medals in team competitions, making him the second most successful Olympic athlete of the Games after the US marksman Willis A. Lee , who won seven medals, including five gold medals.

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Mariano Barbaresi
• Dario Della Valle
• Vincenzo Dell'Oro
• Edoardo Garzena

  Bronze featherweight

• Leo Giunchi

fencing

• Abelardo Olivier

  Gold Foil Team

  Gold Epee Team

• Baldo Baldi

  Gold Foil Team

  Gold Saber Team

• Aldo bonuses
• Tullio Bozza

  Gold Epee Team

• Giovanni Canova

  Gold Epee Team

• Federico Cesarano

  Gold Saber Team

• Tommaso Costantino

  Gold Foil Team

  Gold Epee Team

• Francesco Gargano

  Gold Saber Team

• Aldo Nadi

  Silver saber

  Gold Foil Team

  Gold Epee Team

  Gold Saber Team

• Nedo Nadi

  Gold foil

  Gold saber

  Gold Foil Team

  Gold Epee Team

  Gold Saber Team

• Oreste Puliti

  Gold Foil Team

  Gold Saber Team

• Giulio Rusconi
• Giorgio Santelli

  Gold Saber Team

• Pietro Speciale

  Gold Foil Team

• Rodolfo Terlizzi

  Gold Foil Team

• Paolo Thaon

  Gold Epee Team

• Dino Urbani

  Gold Epee Team

  Gold Saber Team

• Antonio Allochio

  Gold Epee Team

  Gold Saber Team

• Andrea Marrazzi

  Gold Epee Team

Soccer

• 5th place

  Piero Campelli

  Giovanni Giacone

  Antonio Bruna

  Renzo de Vecchi

  Virginio Rosetta

  Gracco de Nardo

  Ettore Reynaudi

  Mario Meneghetti

  Giuseppe Parodi

  Luigi Burlando

  Rinaldo Roggero

  Giustiniano Marucco

  Pio Ferraris

  Giuseppe Forlivesi

  Cesare Lovati

  Enrico Sardi

  Adolfo Baloncieri

  Emilio Badini

  Guglielmo Brezzi

  Aristodemo Santamaria

  Adevildo De Marchi

Weightlifting

• Pietro Bianchi

  Silver middleweight

• Filippo Bottino

  Gold heavyweight

• Luigi Gatti
• Gino Mattiello
• Giulio Monti

Art competitions

• Raniero Nicolai

  Gold literature

• Oreste Riva

  Silver music

athletics

• Ernesto Ambrosini

  Bronze 3000 m obstacle

• Valerio Arri

  Bronze marathon

• Giuseppe Bernardoni
• Ettore Blasi
• Giuseppe Bonini
• Oprando Bottura
• Carlo Butti
• Daciano Colbacchini
• Giorgio Croci
• Ugo Frigerio

  Gold 3 km walk

  Gold 10 km walk

• Aurelio Lenzi
• Costante Lussana
• Augusto Maccario
• Carlo Martinenghi
• Giovanni Orlandi
• Donato Pavesi
• Antonio Persico
• Arturo Porro
• Mario Riccoboni
• Agide Simonazzi
• Carlo Speroni
• Giovanni Tosi
• Giuseppe Tugnoli
• Vittorio Zucca

Modern pentathlon

• Adriano Lanza

Cycling

• Camillo Arduino
• Pietro Bestetti
• Federico Gay
• Dante Ghindani
• Vittorio Cavalotti
• Ruggero Ferrario

  Gold 4000 m team pursuit

• Luigi Gilardi
• Franco Giorgetti

  Gold 4000 m team pursuit

• Primo Magnani

  Gold 4000 m team pursuit

• Pietro Martinelli
• Armido Rizzetto
• Arnaldo Carli

  Gold 4000 m team pursuit

horse riding

• Carlo Asinari

  Silver Eventing Team

  Bronze show jumping team

• Emilio Benini
• Giulio Cacciandra

  Silver Eventing Team

  Bronze show jumping team

• Ettore Caffaratti

  Bronze Versatility Individual

  Silver Eventing Team

  Bronze show jumping team

• Santorre de Rossi di Santa Rosa
• Tommaso Lequio di Assaba

  Gold show jumping singles

• Garibaldi Spighi

  Silver Eventing Team

• Ruggero Ubertalli
• Alessandro Valerio

  Silver show jumping singles

• Alessandro Alvisi

  Bronze show jumping team

Wrestling

• Giorgio Calza
• Giovanni Cardinale
• Carlo Corsanego
• Giuseppe Gorletti
• Enrico Porro
• Walter Ranghieri
• Bruto Testoni
• Piero Vaglio

rowing

• Nino Castelli
• Pietro Annoni

  Silver double scull

• Erminio Dones

  Silver double scull

• Ercole Olgeni

  Gold twos with helmsman

• Giovanni Scatturin

  Gold twos with helmsman

• Guido De Filip

  Gold twos with helmsman

shoot

• Peppy Campus
• Raffaele Frasca
• Alfredo Galli
• Franco Micheli
• Ricardo Ticchi
• Giancarlo Boriani
• Sem De Ranieri
• Luigi Favretti
• Camillo Isnardi
• Roberto Preda

swim

• Gilio Bisagno
• Agostino Frassinetti
• Mario Massa
• Antonio Quarantotto

Tug of war

• 5th place

  Adriano Arnoldo

  Silvio Calzolari

  Romolo Carpi

  Giovanni Forno

  Rodolfo Rambozzi

  Carlo Schiappapietra

  Giuseppe Tonani

  Amedeo Zotti

tennis

• Mino Balbi
• Alberto Bonacossa
• Cesare Colombo
• Rosetta Gagliardi

do gymnastics

• All-around single

  Luigi Costigliolo

  Vittorio Lucchetti

  Luigi Maiocco

  Giorgio Zampori

  gold

  Angelo Zorzi

• All-around team: gold

  Arnaldo Andreoli

  Ettore Bellotto

  Pietro Bianchi

  Fernando Bonatti

  Luigi Cambiaso

  Luigi Contessi

  Carlo Costigliolo

  Luigi Costigliolo

  Giuseppe Domenichelli

  Roberto Ferrari

  Carlo Fregosi

  Romualdo Ghiglione

  Ambrogio Levati

  Francesco Loi

  Vittorio Lucchetti

  Luigi Maiocco

  Ferdinando Mandrini

  Lorenzo Mangiante

  Antonio Marovelli

  Michele Mastromarino

  Giuseppe Paris

  Manlio Pastorini

  Ezio Roselli

  Paolo Salvi

  Giovanni Tubino

  Giorgio Zampori

  Angelo Zorzi

Water polo

• 11th place

  Salvatore Cabella

  Ercole Boero

  Amilcare Beretta

  Luigi Burlando

  Achille Olivari

  Alberto Lungavia

  Angelo Vassallo

  Mario Boero

Diving

• Guglielmo De Sanctis

Web links

• Italian Olympic team from 1920 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )