Olympic Winter Games 1924 / Participant (Italy)

ITA

Italy took part in the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix with a delegation of 19 athletes in 2 sports. The Italian NOK had registered 30 athletes for the games, 19 of whom took part in competitions. The members of the military patrol do not count as official Olympic participants.

Result: The Italian Olympic team traveled to Chamonix as a blatant outsider and without a chance for a medal. The brothers Enrico and Vincenzo Colli as well as Giuseppe Ghedina , Benigno Ferrera and Antonio Herin ensured with places between 9 and 13 that the Italians were among the best non-Scandinavian skiers in Chamonix, but their performance remained largely unnoticed by the spectators. The sixth place of the bobsleigh of pilot Lodovico Obexer was more of a coincidence, especially since only six bobsleighs finished the races.

Participants by sport

Ski Sports (9)

• Achille Bacher

  18 km cross-country skiing (21st place)

• Mario Cavalla

  Ski jumping (19th place)

• Enrico Colli

  18 km cross-country skiing (12th place), 50 km cross-country skiing (9th place)

• Vincenzo Colli

  50 km cross-country skiing (11th place)

• I. Demenego

  Ski jumping (dns)

• Luigi Faure

  Ski jumping (17th place)

• Benigno Ferrera

  50 km cross-country skiing (13th place)

• Giuseppe Ghedina

  50 km cross-country skiing (10th place)

• Antonio Herin

  18 km cross-country skiing (13th place)

• Pio Imboden

  Nordic combined (dns), ski jumping (dns)

• Daniele Pellissier

  18 km cross-country skiing (15th place)

Military patrol

30 km military patrol (dnf)

• Albino Bich
• Pietro Dente captain
• Paolo Francia
• Goffredo Lagger

Speed ​​skating

• G. Locatelli

  500 m (dns), 1,500 m (dns), 5,000 m (dns), 10,000 m (dns), all-around (dns)

Bobsleigh (10)

Five-man bobsleigh I (6th place)

• Massimo Fink
• Paolo Herbert
• Lodovico Obexer (pilot)
• Giuseppe Steiner
• Aloise Trenker

Five- man bobsleigh II (dnf)

• Adolfo Bocchi
• Leonardo Bonzi
• Alfredo Spasciani
• Luigi Tornielli (pilot)
• Alberto Visconti

Reserve: P. Guiglione, A. Muggiani, P. San Martino, F. Silbernagel

Web links

• Official report of the 1924 Olympic Games (PDF file; 86.30 MB)