1952 Summer Olympics / Participant (Italy)

ITA

8th	9	4th

Italy took part in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki with a delegation of 231 athletes (208 men and 23 women) in 114 competitions in 19 sports. The nation was most successful in fencing, with eight medal wins. Edoardo Mangiarotti won a total of four medals, Irene Camber won gold in foil and at the time was the only woman in her country to win a medal. Many medals could also be won in cycling. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the gymnast Miranda Cicognani .

Participants by sport

basketball

Men

• Preliminary round

• Giorgio Bongiovanni
• Achille Canna
• Carlo Cerioni
• Giordano Damiani
• Sergio Ferriani
• Sergio Marelli
• Federico Marietti
• Enrico Pagani
• Fabio Presca
• Renzo Ranuzzi
• Luigi Rapini
• Sergio Stefanini
• Dino zucchi

Boxing

Men

• Gianbattista Alfonsetti
• Aureliano Bolognesi

  Gold lightweight

• Sergio Caprari

  Silver featherweight

• Vincenzo Dall'Osso
• Giacomo di Segni
• Guido Mazzinghi
• Aristide Pozzali
• Walter Sentimenti
• Franco Vescovi
• Bruno Visintin

  Bronze light welterweight

fencing

Men Roberto Battaglia Gold epee team Giancarlo Bergamini Silver foil team Franco Bertinetti Gold epee team Gastone Darè Silver saber crew Giuseppe Delfino Gold epee team Manlio Di Rosa Bronze foil single Silver foil team Roberto Ferrari Silver saber crew Dario Mangiarotti Silver sword single Gold epee team Edoardo Mangiarotti Silver foil single Silver foil team Gold sword single Gold epee team Renzo Nostini Silver foil team Silver saber crew Carlo Pavesi Gold epee team Giorgio Pellini Silver foil team Silver saber crew Vincenzo Pinton Silver saber crew Mauro Racca Silver saber crew Antonio Spallino Silver foil team

Women Irene Camber-Corno Gold foil single Velleda Cesari Silvia Strukel

Soccer

Men

• Round of 16

• Giovanni Azzini
• Ottavio Bugatti
• Giancarlo Cadè
• Giuseppe Corradi
• Alberto Fontanesi
• Aredio Gimona
• Francesco La Rosa
• Amos Mariani
• Maino Neri
• Egisto Pandolfini
• Battista Rota
• Arcadio Venturi
  • Without any effort:
• Pietro Biagioli
• Giampiero Boniperti
• Amos Cardarelli
• Rino Ferrario
• Anselmo Giorcelli
• Pier Ugo Melandri
• Roberto Lovati
• Corrado Viciani
• Pasquale Vivolo

Weightlifting

Men

• Alfonso Canti
• Giovanni Cocco
• Augusto Fiorentini
• Adelfino Mancinelli
• Ermanno Pignatti
• Luciano Zardi

hockey

Men

• Preliminary round

• Piero Baglia-Bamberghi
• Amedeo Banci
• Egidio Cosentino
• Sergio Formenti
• Luigi Lanfranchi
• Mario Marchiori
• Giampaolo Medda
• Primo Meozzi
• Umberto Micco
• Sergio Morra
• Piervittorio Pampuro
• Luigi Piacentini
• Gastone Puccioni
• Giorgio Ravalli
• Vittorio Stellin Castellani

canoe

Men

• Dante Agostini
• Aldo Albera
• Raffaele Bastoni
• Giorgio Piccinelli
• Eligio Valentino
• Pio Vennettilli

athletics

Men Telemaco Arcangeli Artidoro Berti Asfò Bussotti Salvatore Cascino Adolfo Consolini Silver discus throw Giuseppe Dordoni Gold 50 km walk Bruno Fait Armando Filiput Luigi Grossi Giuseppe Kressevich Franco Leccese Vincenzo Lombardo Aivo Lucioli Egilberto Martufi Amos Matteucci Wolfgango Montanari Baldassare postage Angiolo Profeti Gianni Rocca Lucio Sangermano Antonio Siddi Giorgio Sobrero Teseo Taddia Giuseppe Tosi Carlo Vittori

Women Vittoria Cesarini Edera Cordiale Milena Greppi Giuseppina Leone Vera Martelli Maria Musso Liliana Tagliaferri Ada Turci

Modern pentathlon

Men

• Duilio Brignetti
• Alfonso Marotta
• Giulio Palmonella

Cycling

Men

• Dino Bruni

  Silver road racing team

• Loris Campana

  Gold team pursuit 4000 m

• Mino De Rossi

  Gold team pursuit 4000 m

• Gianni Ghidini

  Silver road racing team

• Antonio Maspes

  Bronze tandem sprint

• Guido Messina

  Gold team pursuit 4000 m

• Bruno Monti

  Silver road racing team

• Marino Morettini

  Silver time trial 1000 m

  Gold team pursuit 4000 m

• Cesare Pinarello

  Bronze tandem sprint

• Enzo Sacchi

  Gold sprint

• Vincenzo Zucconelli

  Silver road racing team

horse riding

• Piero D'Inzeo
• Raimondo D'Inzeo
• Lucio Manzin
• Salvatore Oppes

Wrestling

Men

• Franco Benedetti
• Arvedo Cecchini
• Giordano De Giorgi
• Ignazio Fabra

  Silver flyweight Greco-Roman

• Guido Fantoni
• Ercole Gallegati
• Adalberto Lepri
• Pietro Lombardi
• Garibaldo Nizzola
• Antonio Randi
• Osvaldo Riva
• Umberto Silvestri
• Umberto Trippa
• Natale Vecchi

rowing

Men

• Tarquinio Angiolin
• Pier Nicola Attorese
• Albino Baldan
• Silvio Bergamini
• Alberto Bozzato
• Domenico Cambieri
• Savino Dalla Puppa
• Ottorino Enzo
• Franco Faggi
• Bruno Gamba
• Sergio Ghiatto
• Giovanni Invernizzi
• Luciano Marion
• Giuseppe Moioli
• Elio Morille
• Dino Nardin
• Montanino Nuvoli
• Ugo Pifferi
• Giuseppe Ramani
• Antonio Saverio
• Amadeo Scarpi
• Abbondio Smerghetto
• Ferdinando Smerghetto
• Lodovico Sommaruga
• Aldo Tarlao
• Albino Trevisan

shoot

• Italo Bellini
• Michelangelo Borriello
• Luciano Galesi
• Ladislao Odescalchi
• Giorgio Pennacchietti
• Galliano Rossini
• Luigi Ruspoli
• Renato Sacchi

swim

Men Alfonso Buonocore Giorgio Grilz Egidio Massaria Giovanni Paliaga Carlo Pedersoli Angelo Romani

Women Eva Belaise Fides Benini Romana Calligaris Maria Nardi

sailing

• Giorgio Audizio
• Antonio Carattino
• Giuseppe Carattino
• Antonio Cosentino
• Andrea Ferrari
• Egone Jakin
• Adelchi Pelaschiar
• Enrico Poggi
• Pietro Reggio
• Nicolò Rode

  Gold star

• Dario Salata
• Giusto Spigno
• Carlo Spirito
• Agostino Straulino

  Gold star

do gymnastics

Men Fabio Bonacina Silvio Brivio Arrigo Carnoli Guido Figone Orlando Polmonari Littorio Sampieri Quinto Vadi Luigi Zanetti

Women Renata Bianchi Grazia Bozzo Miranda Cicognani Elisabetta Durelli Licia Macchini Lidia Pitteri Luciana Reali Liliana Scaricabarozzi

Water polo

Men

• bronze

• Ermenegildo Arena
• Lucio Ceccarini
• Renato De Sanzuane
• Raffaello Gambino
• Salvatore Gionta
• Maurizio Mannelli
• Geminio Ognio
• Carlo Peretti
• Vincenzo Polito
• Cesare Rubini
• Renato Traiola

Diving

Men

• Lamberto Mari

Web links

• Italian Olympic team from 1952 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )