1956 Winter Olympics / Participant (Italy)

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Italy took part in the VII Winter Olympics in 1956 in the Italian municipality of Cortina d'Ampezzo with a delegation of 65 athletes in all eight disciplines, including 53 men and 12 women. With one gold medal and two silver medals, the host was the eighth best nation at the Games. The bobsleigh drivers Lamberto Dalla Costa and Giacomo Conti became Olympic champions in the two-man bobsleigh ahead of Eugenio Monti and Renzo Alverà , who won silver. Monti and Alverà also securedanother silver medal in the four-man bobsleighwith Ulrico Girardi and Renato Mocellini .

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the ski jumper Nilo Zandanel .

Participants by sport

bob

Men, twos

• Lamberto Dalla Costa , Giacomo Conti (ITA-1)

  Gold (5: 30.14 min)

• Eugenio Monti , Renzo Alverà (ITA-2)

  Silver (5: 31.45 min)

Men, foursome

• Dino De Martin , Giovanni De Martin , Giovanni Tabacchi , Carlo Da Prà (ITA-1)

  5th place (5: 14.66 min)

• Eugenio Monti , Ulrico Girardi , Renato Mocellini , Renzo Alverà (ITA-2)

  Silver (5: 12.10 min)

ice Hockey

Men

Vittorio Bolla Giuliano Ferraris Carmine Tucci Carlo Montemurro Aldo Federici Mario Bedogni Bernardo Tomei Giovanni Furlani

Giampiero Branduardi Aldo Maniacco Ernesto Crotti Giancarlo Agazzi Gianfranco in it Reno Alberton Giulio Oberhammer Francesco Macchietto

• 7th place

figure skating

Women

• Manuela Angeli

  21st place (133.51)

• Fiorella Negro

  15th place (142.31)

Speed ​​skating

Men

• Guido Caroli

  500 m: 33rd place (43.9 s)

  1500 m: 42nd place (2: 20.0 min)

• Guido Citterio

  500 m: 22nd place (43.1 s)

  1500 m: 27th place (2: 16.5 min)

• Remo Tomasi

  1500 m: 48th place (2: 22.2 min)

  5000 m: 45th place (8: 48.3 min)

• Carlo Calzà

  5000 m: 41st place (8: 41.1 min)

  10,000 m: 32nd place (18: 32.8 min)

• Paolino Dimai

  5000 m: 44th place (8: 48.0 min)

Nordic combination

• Aldo Pedrana

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 31st place (391,400)

• Enzo Perin

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 20th place (418,600)

• Alfred Prucker

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 8th place (431,100)

Alpine skiing

Men

• Bruno Burrini

  Downhill: 9th place (3: 02.4 min)

  Giant Slalom: 25th place (3: 23.1 min)

  Slalom: 27th place (4: 00.4 min)

• Gino Burrini

  Departure: 6th place (3: 00.2 min)

  Giant Slalom: 10th place (3: 12.3 min)

• Paride Milianti

  Departure: disqualified

  Slalom: disqualified

• Lino Zecchini

  Departure: disqualified

• Guido Ghedina

  Giant slalom: 11th place (3: 15.6 min)

  Slalom: 17th place (3: 40.7 min)

• Dino Pompanin

  Giant Slalom: 24th place (3: 22.4 min)

• Italo Pedroncelli

  Slalom: disqualified

Women

• Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo

  Downhill: 4th place (1: 47.3 min)

  Giant Slalom: 13th place (2: 01.5 min)

  Slalom: 4th place (1: 56.8 min)

• Cristina Ebner

  Slalom: disqualified

• Carla Marchelli

  Downhill: 6th place (1: 47.7 min)

• Maria Grazia Marchelli

  Giant Slalom: 28th place (2: 05.2 min)

• Anna Pellissier

  Downhill: 11th place (1: 49.7 min)

  Giant Slalom: 17th place (2: 02.4 min)

  Slalom: 16th place (2: 06.5 min)

• Vera Schenone

  Downhill: 36th place (1: 59.2 min)

  Giant slalom: disqualified

  Slalom: 29th place (2: 37.2 min)

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Innocenzo Chatrian

  15 km: 25th place (53:46 min)

  4 × 10 km relay: 5th place (2:23:28 h)

• Ottavio Compagnoni

  15 km: 11th place (51:42 min)

  30 km: disqualified

  4 × 10 km relay: 5th place (2:23:28 h)

• Pompeo Fattor

  15 km: 24th place (53:45 min)

  4 × 10 km relay: 5th place (2:23:28 h)

• Federico de Florian

  15 km: 17th place (52:48 min)

  30 km: 13th place (1:49:16 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 5th place (2:23:28 h)

• Arrigo Delladio

  30 km: 24th place (1:54:27 h)

• Camillo Zanolli

  30 km: 26th place (1:54:42 h)

• Gioacchino Busin

  50 km: 21st place (3:21:05 h)

• Gianni Carrara

  50 km: 17th place (3:14:39 h)

• Vigilio me

  50 km: 16th place (3:11:59 h)

• Battista Mismetti

  50 km: 23rd place (3:23:15 h)

Women

• Rita Bottero

  10 km: 30th place (44:03 min)

  3 × 5 km relay: 8th place (1:16:11 h)

• Anita Parmesani

  10 km: 37th place (47:37 min)

• Fides Romanin

  10 km: 31st place (44:17 min)

  3 × 5 km relay: 8th place (1:16:11 h)

• Ildegarda Taffra

  10 km: 23rd place (42:51 min)

  3 × 5 km relay: 8th place (1:16:11 h)

Ski jumping

• Luigi Pennacchio

  Normal hill: 37th place (180.5)

• Enzo Perin

  Normal hill: 48th place (164.0)

• Alfred Prucker

  Normal hill: 38th place (179.5)

• Tito Tolin

  Normal hill: 33rd place (184.5)

Web links

• Italy at the 1956 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )