1960 Summer Olympics / Participant (Italy)

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Italy hosted the 1960 Summer Olympics . In Rome , a delegation of 280 athletes (246 men and 34 women) started in 138 competitions in 19 sports. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was, as four years earlier, the fencer Edoardo Mangiarotti . He could again win two medals, but only in the team competitions. The most successful Olympians for the host nation were fencer Giuseppe Delfino and cyclist Sante Gaiardoni , both of whom won two gold medals. With a total of 36 medals, Italy took third place in the medal table.

Participants by sport

basketball

Men

• 4th Place

• Mario Alesini
• Antonio Calebotta
• Achille Canna
• Sandro Gamba
• Giovanni Gavagnin
• Augusto Giomo
• Gianfranco Lombardi
• Gianfranco Pieri
• Sandro Riminucci
• Gianfranco Sardagna
• Gabriele Vianello
• Paolo Vittori

Boxing

Men

• Nino Benvenuti

  Gold welterweight

• Carmelo Bossi

  Silver light middleweight

• Piero Brandi
• Paolo Curcetti
• Franco De Piccoli

  Gold heavyweight

• Sandro Lopopolo

  Silver lightweight

• Francesco Musso

  Gold featherweight

• Luigi Napoleoni
• Giulio Saraudi

  Bronze light heavyweight

• Primo Zamparini

  Silver bantamweight

fencing

Men Aldo Aureggi Silver foil team Giovanni Battista Breda Giampaolo Calanchini Bronze saber crew Wladimiro Calarese Bronze saber single Bronze saber crew Luigi Carpaneda Silver foil team Pierluigi Chicca Bronze saber crew Mario Curletto Silver foil team Giuseppe Delfino Gold sword single Gold epee team Roberto Ferrari Bronze saber crew Edoardo Mangiarotti Silver foil team Gold epee team Fiorenzo Marini Gold epee team Carlo Pavesi Gold epee team Alberto Pellegrino Silver foil team Gold epee team Mario Ravagnan Bronze saber crew Gianluigi Saccaro Gold epee team

Women Irene Camber-Corno Bronze foil team Velleda Cesari Bronze foil team Bruna Colombetti-Peroncini Bronze foil team Claudia Pasini Bronze foil team Antonella Ragno-Lonzi Bronze foil team

Soccer

Men

• 4th Place

• Luciano Alfieri
• Giandomenico Baldiserri
• Giacomo Bulgarelli
• Tarcisio Burgnich
• Giancarlo Cella
• Giovanni Fanello
• Armando Favalli
• Giorgio Ferrini
• Luciano Magistrelli
• Gilberto Noletti
• Ambrogio Pelagalli
• Orazio Rancati
• Gianni Rivera
• Giorgio Rossano
• Sandro Salvadore
• Ugo Tomeazzi
• Giovanni Trapattoni
• Mario Trebbi
• Paride Tumburus

Weightlifting

Men

• Andrea Borgnis
• Luciano De Genova
• Renzo Grandi
• Sebastiano Mannironi

  Bronze featherweight

• Leonardo Masu
• Alberto Pigaiani
• Rocco Spinola

hockey

Men

• 13th place

• Giovanni Anni
• Sergio Ballesio
• Enrico Bisio
• Claudio Candotti
• Giampaolo Farci
• Luigi Farci
• Bruno Figliola
• Antonio Lenza
• Claudio Libotte
• Tullio Marchiori
• Giovanni Mazzalupi
• Giampaolo Medda
• Quarto Pianesi
• Felice Salis
• Luciano solos
• Alessandro Vannini
• Antonio Vargiu
• Ugo Zorco

canoe

Men Annibale Berton Lorenzo Cantarello Aldo Dezi Silver canoe two-man 1000 m Francesco La Macchia Silver canoe two-man 1000 m Renato Ongari Antonio Rucco Alberto Schiavi Danilo Tognon Cesare Zilioli

Women Gabriella Cotta Ramusino Luciana Guindani Alberta Zanardi

athletics

Men Franco Antonelli Gianfranco Baraldi Livio Berruti Gold 200 m Federico Bisson Giuseppe Bommarito Attilio Bravi Elio Catola Enzo Cavalli Pier Giorgio Cazzola Adolfo Consolini Luigi Conti Giovanni Cornacchia Gianni Corsaro Silvio De Florentis Antonio De Gaetano Luigi De Rosso Vito Di Terlizzi Giuseppe Dordoni Nerio Fossati Mario Fraschini Pier Luigi Gatti Salvatore Giannone Franco Grossi Carlo Lievore Moreno Martini Silvano Meconi Salvatore Morale Luciano Paccagnella Abdon Pamich Bronze 50 km walk Renato Panciera Francesco Perrone Carmelo Rado Alfredo Rizzo Franco Sar Armando Sardi Stefano Serchinich Nereo Svara Luigi Ulivelli Paolo Zamboni

Women Letizia Bertoni Marinella Bortoluzzi Gilda Jannaccone Giuseppina Leone Bronze 100 m Paola Paternoster Elivia Ricci Piera Tizzoni Sandra Valenti

Modern pentathlon

Men

• Adriano Facchini
• Giulio Giunta
• Gaetano Scala

Cycling

Men

• Luigi Arienti

  Gold team pursuit 4000 m

• Antonio Bailetti

  Gold team time trial 100 km

• Vendramino Bariviera
• Giuseppe Beghetto

  Gold tandem sprint

• Sergio Bianchetto

  Gold tandem sprint

• Ottavio Cogliati

  Gold team time trial 100 km

• Giacomo Fornoni

  Gold team time trial 100 km

• Sante Gaiardoni

  Gold sprint

  Gold time trial 1000 m

• Valentino Gasparella

  Bronze sprint

• Franco Testa

  Gold team pursuit 4000 m

• Giuseppe Tonucci
• Livio Trapè

  Silver road race singles

  Gold team time trial 100 km

• Mario Vallotto

  Gold team pursuit 4000 m

• Marino Vigna

  Gold team pursuit 4000 m

horse riding

• Alessandro Argenton
• Raimondo D'Inzeo

  Gold jumping singles

  Bronze jumping team

• Piero D'Inzeo

  Silver jumping individual

  Bronze jumping team

• Giovanni Grignolo
• Lodovico Nava
• Antonio Oppes

  Bronze jumping team

• Lucio Tasca

Wrestling

Men

• Franco Benedetti
• Adelmo Bulgarelli
• Germano Caraffini
• Antonio Cerroni
• Luigi Chinazzo
• Mario De Silva
• Gaetano De Vescovi
• Ignazio Fabra
• Angelo Gelsomini
• Gilberto Gramellini
• Marziano Magnani
• Pietro Marascalchi
• Antonio Marcucci
• Garibaldo Nizzola
• Umberto Trippa
• Carlo Vitrano

rowing

Men

• Paolo Amorini
• Fulvio Balatti

  Bronze foursome with helmsman

• Tullio Baraglia

  Silver foursome without a helmsman

• Renato Bosatta

  Silver foursome without a helmsman

• Vincenzo Bruno
• Vasco Cantarello
• Giancarlo Casalini
• Giancarlo Crosta

  Silver foursome without a helmsman

• Giuseppe Galante

  Silver foursome without a helmsman

• Severino Lucini
• Paolo Mosetti
• Renzo Ostino
• Cesarino Pestuggia
• Mario Petri
• Giuseppe Pira
• Giancarlo Piretta
• Luigi Prato
• Vincenzo Prina
• Savino Rebek
• Romano Sgheiz

  Bronze foursome with helmsman

• Nazzareno Simonato
• Luigi Spozio
• Ivo Stefanoni

  Bronze foursome with helmsman

• Armido Torri
• Franco Trincavelli

  Bronze foursome with helmsman

• Giovanni Zucchi

  Bronze foursome with helmsman

shoot

• Mariano Antonelli
• Piercarlo Beroldi
• Vincenzo Biava
• Edoardo Casciano
• Giorgio Ercolani
• Roberto Mazzoni
• Sergio Rolandi
• Galliano Rossini

  Silver trap

• Sergio Varetto

swim

Men Giuseppe Avellone Bruno Bianchi Ezio Della Savia Fritz Dennerlein Gilberto Elsa Giampiero Fossati Paolo Galletti Roberto Lazzari Giorgio Perondini Angelo Romani Massimo Rosi Pierpaolo Spangaro

Women Anna Beneck Daniela Beneck Anna Maria Cecchi Rosanna Contardo Arletta Faidiga Luciana Marcellini Maria Cristina Pacifici Paola Saini Daniela Serpilli Welleda Veschi Elena Zennaro

sailing

• Mario Capio
• Antonio Ciciliano

  Bronze dragon

• Antonio Cosentino

  Bronze dragon

• Giulio De Stefano

  Bronze dragon

• Marco Novaro
• Tullio Pizzorno
• Pietro Reggio
• Carlo Rolandi
• Agostino Straulino
• Bruno Trani
• Franco Zucchi

do gymnastics

Men Giovanni Carminucci Silver bars Bronze team all- around Pasquale Carminucci Bronze team all- around Gianfranco Marzolla Bronze team all- around Franco Menichelli Bronze bottom Bronze team all- around Orlando Polmonari Bronze team all- around Angelo Vicardi Bronze team all- around

Women Miranda Cicognani Rosella Cicognani Francesca Costa Elena Lagorara Gabriella Santarelli Wanda Soprani

Water polo

Men

• gold

• Amedeo Ambron
• Danio Bardi
• Giuseppe D'Altrui
• Salvatore Gionta
• Giancarlo Guerrini
• Franco Lavoratori
• Gianni Lonzi
• Luigi Mannelli
• Rosario Parmegiani
• Eraldo Pizzo
• Dante Rossi
• Brunello Spinelli

Diving

Men Lamberto Mari Walter Messa Fabio Pajella Antonio Sbordone

Women Laura Conter

Web links

• Italian Olympic team from 1960 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )