1968 Summer Olympics / Participant (Italy)

ITA

3	4th	9

Italy took part in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with a delegation of 167 athletes (152 men and 15 women) in 103 competitions in 17 sports. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the show jumper Raimondo D'Inzeo .

Participants by sport

basketball

Men

• 8th place

• Enrico Bovone
• Sauro Bufalini
• Massimo Cosmelli
• Ottorino Flaborea
• Guido Gatti
• Gianluigi Jessi
• Gianfranco Lombardi
• Massimo Masini
• Giusto Pellanera
• Carlo Recalcati
• Gabriele Vianello
• Paolo Vittori

Boxing

Men

• Giorgio Bambini

  Bronze heavyweight

• Aldo Bentini
• Giambattista Capretti
• Mario Casati
• Elio Cotena
• Walter Facchinetti
• Filippo Grasso
• Giuseppe Mura
• Enzo Petriglia
• Marco Scano
• Franco Udella

fencing

Men Toni Albanese Giovanni Battista Breda Wladimiro Calarese Silver saber crew Pierluigi Chicca Silver saber crew Alfredo Del Francia Claudio Francesconi Nicola Granieri Pasquale La Ragione Michele Maffei Silver saber crew Gianfranco Paolucci Arcangelo Pinelli Rolando Rigoli Silver saber crew Gianluigi Saccaro Bronze sword single Cesare Salvadori Silver saber crew

Women Bruna Colombetti-Peroncini Giulia Lorenzoni Giovanna Masciotta Antonella Ragno-Lonzi Silvana Sconciafurno

Weightlifting

Men

• Gioacchino Caracausi
• Gino Corradini
• Anselmo Silvino

canoe

Men

• Cesare Beltrami
• Cesare Zilioli

athletics

Men Antonio Ambu Francesco Arese Sergio Bello Livio Berruti Pasquale Busca Giovanni Cornacchia Giacomo Crosa Gioacchino De Palma Gianni Del Buono Renzo Finelli Roberto Frinolli Furio Fusi Giuseppe Gentile Bronze triple jump Sergio Liani Sergio Ottolina Eddy Ottoz Bronze 110 m hurdles Abdon Pamich Ennio Preatoni Giacomo Puosi Umberto Risi Angelo Sguazzero Vittorio Visini

Women Donata Govoni Carla Panerai Paola Pigni Magali Vettorazzo

Modern pentathlon

Men

• Nicolo Deligia
• Mario Medda
• Giancarlo Morresi

Cycling

Men

• Luigi Borghetti
• Lorenzo Bosisio

  Bronze team pursuit 4000 m

• Giovanni Bramucci

  Bronze team time trial 100 km

• Cipriano Chemello

  Bronze team pursuit 4000 m

• Tino Conti
• Walter Gorini
• Vittorio Marcelli

  Bronze team time trial 100 km

• Flavio Martini
• Giorgio Morbiato

  Bronze team pursuit 4000 m

• Gino Pancino

  Bronze team pursuit 4000 m

• Luigi Roncaglia

  Bronze team pursuit 4000 m

• Gianni Sartori
• Mauro Simonetti

  Bronze team time trial 100 km

• Giordano Turrini

  Silver sprint

• Dino Verzini
• Pierfranco Vianelli

  Gold road race singles

  Bronze team time trial 100 km

horse riding

• Paolo Angioni
• Alessandro Argenton
• Mauro Checcoli
• Piero D'Inzeo
• Raimondo D'Inzeo
• Graziano Mancinelli
• Giuseppe Ravano

Wrestling

Men

• Piero Bellotti
• Domenico Centurioni
• Osvaldo Ferrari
• Vincenzo Grassi
• Umberto Marcheggiani

rowing

Men

• Abramo Albini

  Bronze foursome without a helmsman

• Tullio Baraglia

  Bronze foursome without a helmsman

• Primo Baran

  Gold twos with helmsman

• Renato Bosatta

  Bronze foursome without a helmsman

• Bruno Cipolla

  Gold twos with helmsman

• Pier Angelo Conti-Manzini

  Bronze foursome without a helmsman

• Ennio Fermo
• Giuseppe Galante
• Mariano Gottifredi
• Renzo Sambo

  Gold twos with helmsman

• Luciano Sgheiz
• Romano Sgheiz
• Marino Specia
• Emilio Trivini

shoot

• Ugo Amicosante
• Giancarlo Chiono
• Giuseppe De Chirico
• Romano Garagnani

  Silver skeet

• Giovanni Liverzani
• Ennio Mattarelli
• Galliano Rossini

swim

Men Antonio Attanasio Pietro Boscaini Franco Chino Michele D'Oppido Franco Del Campo Giampiero Fossati Massimo Sacchi Angelo Tozzi

Women Novella Calligaris Maria Strumolo

sailing

• Fabio Albarelli

  Bronze Finn Dinghy

• Antonio Carattino
• Domenico Carattino
• Franco Cavallo

  Bronze star

• Camillo Gargano

  Bronze star

• Carlo Massone
• Emanuele Ottonello
• Giuseppe Zucchinetti

do gymnastics

Men Giovanni Carminucci Pasquale Carminucci Luigi Cimnaghi Bruno Franceschetti Franco Menichelli Vincenzo Mori

Women Adriana Biagiotti Daniela Maccelli Gabriella Pozzuolo

Water polo

Men

• 4th Place

• Alberto Alberani Samaritani
• Enzo Barlocco
• Mario Cevasco
• Gianni De Magistris
• Paolo Ferrando
• Alessandro Ghibellini
• Giancarlo Guerrini
• Franco Lavoratori
• Gianni Lonzi
• Eugenio Merello
• Eraldo Pizzo

Diving

Men Franco Cagnotto Klaus Dibiasi Silver jumping Gold diving Italo Salice

Women Bruna Rossi

Web links

• Italian Olympic team from 1968 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )