1928 Summer Olympics / Participant (Italy)

ITA

7th	5	7th

Italy participated in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam , Netherlands , with a delegation of 163 athletes (145 men and 18 women).

Medalist

gold

Name (s)	sport	competition
Vittorio Tamagnini	Boxing	Bantamweight
Carlo Orlandi	Boxing	lightweight
Piero Toscani	Boxing	medium weight
Giorgio Chiavacci , Giulio Gaudini , Giocchino Guaragna , Giorgio Pessina , Ugo Pignotti & Oreste Puliti	fencing	Foil, team
Carlo Agostoni , Marcello Bertinetti , Giulio Basletta , Giancarlo Cornaggia Medici , Renzo Minoli & Franco Riccardi	fencing	Sword, team
Marco Cattaneo , Cesare Facciani , Mario Lusiani & Luigi Tasselli	Cycling	4,000 meters team pursuit
Valerio Perentin , Giliante D'Este , Nicolò Vittori , Giovanni Delise & Renato Petronio	rowing	Foursome with a helmsman

silver

Name (s)	sport	competition
Renato Anselmi , Bino Bini , Gustavo Marzi , Oreste Puliti , Emilio Salafia & Giulio Sarracchi	fencing	Saber, crew
Pierino Gabetti	Weightlifting	Featherweight
Carlo Galimberti	Weightlifting	medium weight
Romeo Neri	do gymnastics	Horizontal bar
Bianca Ambrosetti , Lavinia Gianoni , Luigina Giavotti , Virginia Giorgi , Germana Malabarba , Clara Marangoni , Luigina Perversi , Diana Pizzavini , Luisa Tanzini , Carolina Tronconi , Ines Vercesi & Rita Vittadini	do gymnastics	Women, team all-around

bronze

Name (s)	sport	competition
Carlo Cavagnoli	Boxing	Flyweight
Giulio Gaudini	fencing	Foil, single
Bino Bini	fencing	Saber, single
Adolfo Baloncieri , Elvio Banchero , Delfo Bellini , Fulvio Bernardini , Umberto Caligaris , Giampiero Combi , Valentino Degani , Giovanni De Pra , Attilio Ferraris , Felice Gasperi , Pietro Genovesi , Antonio Janni , Virgilio Felice LEVRATTO , Mario Magnozzi , Piero Pastore , Silvio Pietro bonuses , Alfredo Pitto , Enrico Rivolta , Virginio Rosetta , Gino Rossetti , Angelo Schiavio	Soccer	Men's competition
Giovanni Gozzi	Wrestling	Bantamweight, Greco-Roman
Gerolamo Quaglia	Wrestling	Featherweight, Greco-Roman
Cesare Rossi , Pietro Freschi , Umberto Bonadè & Paolo Gennari	rowing	Foursome without a helmsman

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Carlo Cavagnoli

  Flyweight: bronze

• Vittorio Tamagnini

  Bantamweight: gold

• Fausto Montefiori

  Featherweight: 9th place

• Carlo Orlandi

  Lightweight: gold

• Romano Caneva

  Welterweight: 5th place

• Piero Toscani

  Middleweight: gold

• Domenico Ceccarelli

  Light heavyweight: 9th place

fencing

• Giulio Gaudini

  Foil, single: bronze

  Foil, team: gold

• Oreste Puliti

  Foil, singles: 4th place

  Foil, team: gold

  Saber, team: silver

• Ugo Pignotti

  Foil, singles: 7th place

  Foil, team: gold

• Giorgio Pessina

  Foil, team: gold

• Gioacchino Guaragna

  Foil, team: gold

• Giorgio Chiavacci

  Foil, team: gold

• Giulio Basletta

  Epee, team: gold

• Marcello Bertinetti

  Epee, team: gold

• Giancarlo Cornaggia Medici

  Epee, team: gold

• Carlo Agostoni

  Epee, team: gold

• Renzo Minoli

  Epee, team: gold

• Franco Riccardi

  Epee, team: gold

• Bino Bini

  Saber, single: bronze

  Saber, team: silver

• Gustavo Marzi

  Saber, singles: 4th place

  Saber, team: silver

• Arturo De Vecchi

  Saber, singles: 7th place

• Giulio Sarrocchi

  Saber, team: silver

• Renato Anselmi

  Saber, team: silver

• Emilio Salafia

  Saber, team: silver

Soccer

• Men's team

  bronze

• Squad

  Adolfo Baloncieri

  Elvio Banchero

  Delfo Bellini

  Fulvio Bernardini

  Umberto Caligaris

  Giampiero Combi

  Giovanni De Prà

  Pietro Genovesi

  Antonio Janni

  Virgilio Felice Levratto

  Mario Magnozzi

  Silvio Pietroboni

  Alfredo Pitto

  Enrico Rivolta

  Virginio Rosetta

  Gino Rossetti

  Angelo Schiavio

  Valentino Degani

  Piero Pastore

  Attilio Ferraris

  Felice Gasperi

  Coach : Augusto Rangone

Weightlifting

• Pierino Gabetti

  Featherweight: silver

• Giuseppe Conca

  Featherweight: 4th place

• Gastone Pierini

  Lightweight: 8th place

• Carlo Galimberti

  Middleweight: silver

• Giuseppe Tonani

  Heavyweight: 7th place

• Francesco Mercoli

  Heavyweight: 10th place

athletics

• Edgardo Toetti

  100 meters: heats

  200 meters: heats

  4 × 100 meters: prelims

• Franco Reyser

  100 meters: heats

  4 × 100 meters: prelims

• Giuseppe Castelli

  200 meters: quarter-finals

  4 × 100 meters: prelims

• Guido Cominotto

  800 meters: semi-finals

  4 × 400 meters: prelims

• Ettore Tavernari

  800 meters: heats

  4 × 400 meters: prelims

• Luigi Beccali

  1,500 meters: heats

• Giuseppe Ferrera

  Marathon: 34th place

• Romeo Bertini

  Marathon: DNF

• Attilio Conton

  Marathon: DNF

• Stefano Natale

  Marathon: DNF

• Giacomo Carlini

  110 meter hurdles: prelims

  4 × 400 meters: prelims

• Luigi Facelli

  400 meter hurdles: 6th place

  4 × 400 meters: prelims

• Nello Bartolini

  3,000 meter obstacle: prelims

• Enrico Torre

  4 × 100 meters: prelims

  Long jump: 25th place in qualification

• Virgilio Tommasi

  Long jump: 25th place in qualification

• Albino Pighi

  Discus throwing: 19th place in qualification

• Camillo Zemi

  Discus throwing: 23rd place in qualification

  Hammer throw: 13th place in qualification

• Armando Poggioli

  Hammer throw: 4th place

• Derna Polazzo

  Women, 100 meters: heats

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: 6th place

• Luigia Bonfanti

  Women, 100 meters: heats

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: 6th place

• Matilde Moraschi

  Women, 100 meters: heats

• Giannina Marchini

  Women, 800 meters: heats

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: 6th place

• Vittorina Vivenza

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: 6th place

• Piera Borsani

  Women, discus throwing: 13th place

Modern pentathlon

• Eugenio Pagnini

  Singles: 11th place

• Luigi Petrillo

  Individual: 15th place

• Carlo Simonetti

  Individual: 18th place

Cycling

• Allegro Grandi

  Road race, individual: 4th place

  Road race, team: 4th place

• Michele Orecchia

  Road race, individual: 16th place

  Road race, team: 4th place

• Ambrogio Beretta

  Road race, individual: 29th place

  Road race, team: 4th place

• Marcello Neri

  Road race, individual: 30th place

  Road race, team: 4th place

• Edoardo Severgnini

  Sprint: 2nd round

• Angelo Cattaneo

  1,000 meter time trial: 9th place

• Francesco Malatesta

  Tandem: 4th place

• Adolfo Corsi

  Tandem: 4th place

• Luigi Tasselli

  4,000 meters team pursuit: gold

• Giacomo Gaioni

  4,000 meters team pursuit: gold

• Cesare Facciani

  4,000 meters team pursuit: gold

• Mario Lusiani

  4,000 meters team pursuit: gold

horse riding

• Francesco Fourquet

  Show jumping, singles: 7th place

  Show jumping, team: 4th place

• Alessandro Bettoni Cazzago

  Show jumping, singles: 21st place

  Show jumping, team: 4th place

• Tommaso Lequio di Assaba

  Show jumping, singles: 24th place

  Show jumping, team: 4th place

  Versatility, Individual: DNF

  Versatility, team: no result

• Giuseppe Valenzano

  Versatility, singles: 14th place

  Versatility, team: no result

• Eugenio Cerboneschi

  Versatility, singles: 23rd place

  Versatility, team: no result

Wrestling

• Giovanni Gozzi

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: bronze

• Gerolamo Quaglia

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: bronze

• Piero Postini

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: 13th place

• Enrico Bonassin

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: 7th place

• Aleardo Donati

  Heavyweight, Greco-Roman: 7th place

rowing

• Michelangelo Bernasconi

  One: Round of 16

• Adriano Tuzi

  Double sculls: 2nd round

• Mario Melchiori

  Double sculls: 2nd round

• Romeo Sisti

  Two without a helmsman: 4th place

• Nino Bolzoni

  Two without a helmsman: 4th place

• Pier Luigi Vestrini

  Two with a helmsman: quarter-finals

• Renzo Vestrini

  Two with a helmsman: quarter-finals

• Cesare Milani

  Two with a helmsman: quarter-finals

• Cesare Rossi

  Four without a helmsman: bronze

• Pietro Freschi

  Four without a helmsman: bronze

• Umberto Bonadè

  Four without a helmsman: bronze

• Paolo Gennari

  Four without a helmsman: bronze

• Valerio Perentin

  Four with helmsman: gold

• Giliante D'Este

  Four with helmsman: gold

• Nicolò Vittori

  Four with helmsman: gold

• Giovanni Delise

  Four with helmsman: gold

• Renato Petronio

  Four with helmsman: gold

• Medardo Lamberti

  Eighth: quarter-finals

• Arturo Moroni

  Eighth: quarter-finals

• Vittore Stocchi

  Eighth: quarter-finals

• Guglielmo Carubbi

  Eighth: quarter-finals

• Amilcare Canevari

  Eighth: quarter-finals

• Medardo Galli

  Eighth: quarter-finals

• Giulio Lamberti

  Eighth: quarter-finals

• Benedetto Borella

  Eighth: quarter-finals

• Angelo Polledri

  Eighth: quarter-finals

swim

• Antonio Conelli

  100 meters freestyle: semi-finals

  4 × 200 meter freestyle: prelims

• Emilio Polli

  100 meters freestyle: semi-finals

  4 × 200 meter freestyle: prelims

• Paolo Costoli

  400 meters freestyle: prelims

  4 × 200 meter freestyle: prelims

• Giuseppe Perentin

  1,500 meters freestyle: semi-finals

  4 × 200 meter freestyle: prelims

• Giovanni Gambi

  1,500 meters freestyle: prelims

sailing

• Tito Nordio

  12-foot dinghy: 6th place

• Francesco Cameli

  6-meter class: 10th place

• Giacomo Tarsis Di Brolo

  6-meter class: 10th place

• Giovanni Reggio

  6-meter class: 10th place

• Giuliano Oberti

  6-meter class: 10th place

• Massimo Oberti

  6-meter class: 10th place

• Carlo Alberto D'Albertis

  8 meter class: 4th place

• Edoardo Moscatelli

  8 meter class: 4th place

• Francesco Giovanelli

  8 meter class: 4th place

• Guido Giovanelli

  8 meter class: 4th place

• Marcantonio De Beaumont-Bonelli

  8 meter class: 4th place

• Mario Bruzzone

  8 meter class: 4th place

do gymnastics

• Romeo Neri

  Individual all-around: 4th place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

  Bars: 12th place

  Horse jump: 16th place

  Horizontal bar: silver

  Rings: 4th place

  Pommel horse: 19th place

• Mario Lertora

  Individual all-around: 20th place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

  Bars: 7th place

  Horse jump: 46th place

  Horizontal bar: 21st place

  Rings: 24th place

  Pommel horse: 31st place

• Vittorio Lucchetti

  Individual all-around: 26th place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

  Bars: 30th place

  Horse jump: 81st place

  Horizontal bar: 4th place

  Rings: 14th place

  Pommel horse: 24th place

• Ferdinando Mandrini

  Individual all-around: 30th place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

  Bars: 45th place

  Horse jump: 49th place

  Horizontal bar: 11th place

  Rings: 33rd place

  Pommel horse: 28th place

• Giuseppe Lupi

  Individual all-around: 32nd place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

  Bars: 34th place

  Horse jump: 76th place

  Horizontal bar: 16th place

  Rings: 28th place

  Pommel horse: 26th place

• Mario Tambini

  Individual all-around: 41st place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

  Bars: 58th place

  Horse jump: 64th place

  Horizontal bar: 28th place

  Rings: 44th place

  Pommel horse: 46th place

• Giuseppe Paris

  Individual all-around: 53rd place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

  Bars: 76th place

  Horse jump: 61st place

  Horizontal bar: 44th place

  Rings: 30th place

  Pommel horse: 37th place

• Ezio Roselli

  Individual all-around: 58th place

  Team all-around competition: 6th place

  Bars: 75th place

  Horse jump: 80th place

  Horizontal bar: 61st place

  Rings: 28th place

  Pommel horse: 50th place

• Bianca Ambrosetti

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Lavinia Gianoni

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Luigina Perversi

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Diana Pizzavini

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Luigina Giavotti

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Anna Luisa Tanzini

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Carolina Tronconi

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Ines Vercesi

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Rita Vittadini

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Virginia Giorgi

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Germana Malabarba

  Women, team all-around: silver

• Clara Marangoni

  Women, team all-around: silver

Diving

• Luciano Cozzi

  Art jumping: prelims

• Ezio Selva

  High diving: prelims

• Luigi Cangiullo

  High diving: prelims

Web links

• Italian Olympic team from 1928 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )