Italian national squash team

Italy
Statistics at world championships
First participation	1989
Participations total	7th
best result	7th place (2009)
Eternal balance	24:22
Last update of the infobox: July 2015

The Italian squash national team is the entirety of the squash squash federation Federazione Italiana Giuoco Squash . In it you will find Italian athletes who represent their country in both individual and team competitions nationally and internationally in squash .

history

Men's

Italy took in 1989 for the first time at a World Cup in part and ended the tournament on rank 22.. With an interruption in 1993, further participations followed in 1991 , 1995 and 1997 , with a new record in 1991 with 16th place. In 2003 , 2009 and 2011 , Italy also took part in the World Cup. In both 2009 and 2011 the team reached the quarter-finals, in 2009 they finished the tournament in seventh place. In the last participation in 2011, the disqualification took place after Stéphane Galifi gave a positive doping test during the tournament. Italy originally came in 6th place.

At the European Championships , which have been held annually since 1973, Italy has so far reached the semi-finals. In 2011 the team won bronze after a semi-final defeat against France and a victory in the game for third place against the Netherlands . The 2011 squad included Stéphane Galifi, Davide Bianchetti , Marcus Berrett , Amr Swelim , Andrea Torricini and Mirko Pareccini .

Current squad

When they last played in 2011 , the Italian team consisted of the following players:

rank	Surname	Date of birth
1.	Stéphane Galifi	January 14, 1978
2.	Davide Bianchetti	March 8, 1977
3.	Marcus Berrett	23rd September 1975
4th	Amr Swelim	June 7, 1984

Balance sheet

Men's
year	venue	round	placement	Victories	Defeats
1967	Melbourne	not participated
1969	Birmingham
1971	Palmerston North
1973	Johannesburg
1976	Birmingham
1977	Toronto
1979	Brisbane
1981	Stockholm
1983	Auckland
1985	Cairo
1987	London
1989	Singapore	Group stage	22nd	1	7th
1991	Helsinki	Group stage	16.	2	3
1993	Karachi	not participated
1995	Cairo	Group stage	20th	4th	2
1997	Petaling Jaya	Group stage	22nd	4th	2
1999	Cairo	not participated
2001	Melbourne	not participated
2003	Vienna	Group stage	18th	3	4th
2005	Islamabad	not participated
2007	Chennai	not participated
2009	Odense	Quarter finals	7th	5	2
2011	Paderborn	Quarter finals	DSQ	5	2
2013	Mulhouse	not participated
2015	Cairo	no event
2017	Marseille	not participated
2019	Washington, DC	not participated
total	7/26 participations		0 tracks	24	22nd

Web links

• Homepage of the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Squash (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Italy's squash No 1 Stephane Galifi suspended by federation after positive drugs test , telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
2. ↑ WSF Instant Update, Issue 38 - May / June 2012 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 415 kB), worldsquash.org, page 7. Accessed April 5, 2013.