1956 Summer Olympics / Participant (Italy)

ITA

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Italy took part in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne with a delegation of 129 athletes (114 men and 15 women) in 76 competitions in 13 sports. As four years before, the nation was most successful in cycling and fencing. The sword and foil fencer Edoardo Mangiarotti , who also served as the standard bearer at the opening ceremony, won three medals.

Italy also took part in the equestrian games in Stockholm , where six male riders competed.

Participants by sport

Boxing

Men

• Giacomo Bozzano

  Bronze heavyweight

• Salvatore Burruni
• Agostino Cossia
• Franco Nenci

  Silver light welterweight

• Ottavio Panunzi
• Giulio Rinaldi
• Franco Scisciani
• Mario Sitri

fencing

Men Giorgio Anglesio Gold epee team Giancarlo Bergamini Silver foil single Gold Foil Team Franco Bertinetti Gold epee team Luigi Carpaneda Gold Foil Team Giuseppe Comini Gastone Darè Giuseppe Delfino Silver sword single Gold epee team Manlio Di Rosa Gold Foil Team Roberto Ferrari Vittorio Lucarelli Gold Foil Team Edoardo Mangiarotti Gold Foil Team Bronze sword single Gold epee team Luigi Narduzzi Domenico Pace Carlo Pavesi Gold sword single Gold epee team Alberto Pellegrino Gold epee team Mario Ravagnan Antonio Spallino Bronze foil single Gold Foil Team

Women Velleda Cesari Bruna Colombetti-Peroncini

Weightlifting

Men

• Luciano De Genova
• Sebastiano Mannironi
• Alberto Pigaiani

  Bronze heavyweight

• Ermanno Pignatti

  Bronze middleweight

athletics

Men Gianfranco Baraldi Giulio Chiesa Mario Colarossi Adolfo Consolini Sergio D'Asnasch Giuseppe Dordoni Franco Galbiati Giovanni Ghiselli Luigi Gnocchi Giuseppe Lavelli Giovanni Lievore Vincenzo Lombardo Silvano Meconi Abdon Pamich Gianmario Roveraro

Women Letizia Bertoni Milena Greppi Giuseppina Leone Maria Musso Paola Paternoster Franca Peggion

Modern pentathlon

Men

• Adriano Facchini

Cycling

Men

• Ercole Baldini

  Gold road race singles

• Dino Bruni
• Aurelio Cestari
• Antonio Domenicali

  Gold team pursuit 4000 m

• Leandro Faggin

  Gold time trial 1000 m

  Gold team pursuit 4000 m

• Franco Gandini

  Gold team pursuit 4000 m

• Valentino Gasparella

  Gold team pursuit 4000 m

• Giuseppe Ogna

  Bronze tandem sprint

• Arnaldo Pambianco
• Guglielmo Pesenti

  Silver sprint

• Cesare Pinarello

  Bronze tandem sprint

• Virginio Pizzali

  Gold team pursuit 4000 m

horse riding

• Adriano Capuzzo
• Raimondo D'Inzeo

  Silver jumping individual

  Silver jumping team

• Piero D'Inzeo

  Bronze individual jumping

  Silver jumping team

• Giancarlo Gutierrez
• Giuseppe Molinari
• Salvatore Oppes

  Silver jumping team

Wrestling

Men

• Adelmo Bulgarelli

  Bronze heavyweight Greco-Roman

• Luigi Chinazzo
• Ignazio Fabra

  Silver flyweight Greco-Roman

• Garibaldo Nizzola
• Umberto Trippa

rowing

Men

• Antonio Amato
• Alvaro Bianchi
• Cosimo Campioto
• Attilio Cantoni
• Giancarlo Casalini
• Antonio Casuar
• Maurizio Clerici
• Abbondio Marcelli
• Stefano Martinoli
• Arrigo Menicocci
• Giuseppe Moioli
• Salvatore Nuvoli
• Vincenzo Rubolotta
• Romano Sgheiz

  Gold foursome with helmsman

• Ivo Stefanoni

  Gold foursome with helmsman

• Sergio Tagliapietra
• Livio Tesconi
• Franco Trincavelli

  Gold foursome with helmsman

• Angelo Vanzin

  Gold foursome with helmsman

• Alberto Winkler

  Gold foursome with helmsman

• Giovanni Zucchi

shoot

• Michelangelo Borriello
• Alessandro Ciceri

  Bronze trap

• Claudio Fiorentini
• Galliano Rossini

  Gold trap

• Carlo Varetto

swim

Men Fritz Dennerlein Guido Elmi Paolo Galletti Carlo Pedersoli Paolo Pucci Angelo Romani

Women Elena Zennaro

sailing

• Mario Capio
• Antonio Carattino
• Antonio Cosentino
• Piero Gorgatto
• Emilio Massino
• Massimo Oberti
• Adelchi Pelaschiar
• Annibale Pelaschiar
• Nicolò Rode

  Silver star

• Sergio Sorrentino
• Carlo Spirito
• Agostino Straulino

  Silver star

do gymnastics

Women

• Elisa Calsi
• Miranda Cicognani
• Rosella Cicognani
• Elena Lagorara
• Luciana Lagorara
• Luciana Reali

Water polo

Men

• 4th Place

• Nino Antonelli
• Alfonso Buonocore
• Enzo Cavazzoni
• Maurizio D'Achille
• Giuseppe D'Altrui
• Fritz Dennerlein
• Luigi Mannelli
• Angelo Marciani
• Paolo Pucci
• Cesare Rubini

Web links

• Italian Olympic team from 1956 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Italian Olympic team (equestrian games) from 1956 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )