1952 Winter Olympics / Participant (Italy)

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Italy participated in the VI. 1952 Winter Olympics in the Norwegian capital Oslo with a delegation of 33 athletes in six disciplines, including 28 men and 5 women.

The ski racer Zeno Colò became Olympic champion in the alpine downhill. Giuliana Chenal Minuzzo also won the bronze medal in the downhill.

Participants by sport

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Men, twos

• Umberto Gilarduzzi , Luigi Cavalieri (ITA-1)

  12th place (5: 38.36 min)

• Alberto Della Beffa , Dario Colombi (ITA-2)

  10th place (5: 37.22 min)

Men, foursome

• Alberto Della Beffa , Sandro Rasini , Dario Colombi , Dario Poggi (ITA-1)

  10th place (5: 19.92 min)

• Umberto Gilarduzzi , Michele Alverà , Vittorio Folonari , Luigi Cavalieri (ITA-2)

  14th place (5: 25.98 min)

figure skating

Men

• Carlo Fassi

  6th place (169,822)

Speed ​​skating

Men

• Guido Caroli

  10,000 m: 28th place (19: 13.6 min)

• Guido Citterio

  500 m: 38th place (48.2 s)

  1500 m: 32nd place (2: 30.8 min)

• Enrico Musolino

  500 m: 25th place (45.9 s)

  1500 m: 31st place (2: 30.7 min)

Nordic combination

• Alfred Prucker

  Individual (normal hill / 18 km): 12th place (397.970)

Alpine skiing

Men

• Albino Alverà

  Slalom: 23rd place (2: 10.4 min)

• Silvio Alverà

  Downhill: 20th place (2: 43.6 min)

  Giant Slalom: 22nd place (2: 37.7 min)

  Slalom: 19th place (2: 09.8 min)

• Ilio Colli

  Downhill: 18th place (2: 43.2 min)

• Zeno Colò

  Downhill: Gold (2: 30.8 min)

  Giant Slalom: 4th place (2: 29.1 min)

  Slalom: 4th place (2: 01.8 min)

• Carlo Gartner

  Downhill: 8th place (2: 36.5 min)

  Giant Slalom: 18th place (2: 35.7 min)

• Roberto Lacedelli

  Giant Slalom: 24th place (2: 39.5 min)

• Ermanno Nogler

  Slalom: eliminated in the preliminary run

Women

• Giuliana Chenal Minuzzo

  Downhill: bronze (1: 49.0 min)

  Giant Slalom: 20th place (2: 18.2 min)

  Slalom: 8th place (2: 15.9 min)

• Maria Grazia Marchelli

  Departure: disqualified

  Giant slalom: disqualified

• Celina Seghi

  Downhill: 15th place (1: 54.9 min)

  Giant slalom: 7th place (2: 12.5 min)

  Slalom: 4th place (2: 13.8 min)

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Ottavio Compagnoni

  18 km: 36th place (1:10:50 h)

• Arrigo Delladio

  18 km: 24th place (1:09:17 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 6th place (2:35:33 h)

• Federico de Florian

  18 km: 19th place (1:06:54 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 6th place (2:35:33 h)

• Giacomo Mosele

  18 km: 34th place (1:10:36 h)

• Alfred Prucker

  18 km: 38th place (1:10:56 h)

• Severino Compagnoni

  50 km: 18th place (4:16:13 h)

• Antenore Cuel

  50 km: 19th place (4:16:26 h)

• Nino Anderlini

  4 × 10 km relay: 6th place (2:35:33 h)

• Vincenzo Perruchon

  4 × 10 km relay: 6th place (2:35:33 h)

Women

• Fides Romanin

  10 km: 17th place (54:43 min)

• Ildegarda Taffra

  10 km: race not finished

Web links

• Italy at the 1952 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )