1968 Winter Olympics / Participant (Italy)

ITA

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Italy took part in the X. Winter Olympic Games in 1968 in Grenoble, France, with a delegation of 47 athletes in eight disciplines, 39 of them men and 8 women. The Italian athletes won a total of four gold medals. As a pilot,bobsleigh driver Eugenio Monti led both the two-man and the four-man bobsleigh to Olympicvictory, Franco Nones won cross-country skiing over 30 kilometers and Erika Lechner won the luge.

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the alpine ski racer Clotilde Fasolis .

Participants by sport

bob

Men, twos

• Eugenio Monti , Luciano De Paolis (ITA-1)

  Gold (4: 41.54 min)

• Rinaldo Ruatti , Sergio Mocellini (ITA-2)

  12th place (4: 50.31 min)

Men, foursome

• Eugenio Monti , Luciano De Paolis , Roberto Zandonella , Mario Armano (ITA-1)

  Gold (2: 17.39 min)

• Gianfranco Gaspari , Giuseppe Rescigno , Andrea Clemente , Leonardo Cavallini (ITA-2)

  6th place (2: 18.36 min)

figure skating

Men

• Giordano Abbondati

  14th place (1690.9)

Women

• Rita Trapanese

  25th place (1549.2)

Speed ​​skating

Men

• Elio Locatelli

  500 m: 26th place (42.1 s)

  1500 m: 33rd place (2: 13.3 min)

• Renato De Riva

  1500 m: 34th place (2: 13.6 min)

  5000 m: 26th place (7: 58.2 min)

  10,000 m: 19th place (16: 39.5 min)

• Guido Gillarduzzi

  1500 m: 38th place (2: 14.1 min)

  5000 m: 23rd place (7: 57.4 min)

• Giancarlo Gloder

  1500 m: 32nd place (2: 13.2 min)

  5000 m: 18th place (7: 54.5 min)

  10,000 m: 24th place (17: 03.2 min)

Nordic combination

• Ezio Damolin

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 5th place (429.54)

• Fabio Morandini

  Individual (normal hill / 15 km): 17th place (398.26)

Luge

Men, single-seaters

• Giovanni Graber

  12th place (2: 55.56 min)

• Emilio Lechner

  10th place (2: 55.10 min)

• Siegfried Mair

  16th place (2: 56.18 min)

• Raimondo Prinoth

  18th place (2: 56.85 min)

Men, two-seaters

• Giovanni Graber , Enrico Graber

  8th place (1: 38.15 min)

• Ernesto Mair , Siegfried Mair

  10th place (1: 38.67 min)

Women

• Erika Lechner

  Gold (2: 27.66 min)

• Cristina Pabst

  disqualified

• Erika Prugger

  21st place (2: 44.21 min)

Alpine skiing

Men

• Ivo Mahlknecht

  Departure: 6th place (2: 02.00 min)

  Giant Slalom: 26th place (3: 40.08 min)

  Slalom: 19th place (1: 45.25 min)

• Gerardo Mussner

  Departure: 11th place (2: 02.50 min)

  Giant slalom: 17th place (3: 37.20 min)

  Slalom: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Teresio Vachet

  Departure: 22nd place (2: 04.90 min)

• Renato Valentini

  Downhill: 28th place (2: 05.61 min)

  Giant slalom: race not finished

• Bruno Piazzalunga

  Giant Slalom: 11th place (3: 34.52 min)

  Slalom: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Carlo Senoner

  Slalom: Race not finished in the final

Women

• Glorianda Cipolla

  Downhill: 31st place (1: 49.02 min)

  Giant Slalom: 23rd place (2: 00.07 min)

  Slalom: 7th place (1: 29.74 min)

• Giustina Demetz

  Downhill: 13th place (1: 44.22 min)

  Giant Slalom: 14th place (1: 57.86 min)

  Slalom: race not finished

• Clotilde Fasolis

  Departure: 30th place (1: 48.90 min)

  Giant Slalom: 32nd place (2: 05.20 min)

  Slalom: 22nd place (1: 40.72 min)

• Lotte Nogler

  Departure: race not finished

  Giant Slalom: 31st place (2: 04.87 min)

  Slalom: 20th place (1: 38.33 min)

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Mario Bacher

  50 km: 12th place (2: 31: 33.8 h)

• Elviro Blanc

  50 km: 27th place (2: 38: 12.4 h)

• Giulio Deflorian

  15 km: 15th place (50: 19.4 min)

  30 km: 5th place (1: 37: 12.9 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 6th place (2: 16: 32.2 h)

• Franco Manfroi

  15 km: 32nd place (51: 47.7 min)

  30 km: 25th place (1: 41: 11.8 h)

• Franco Nones

  15 km: 36th place (52: 06.8 min)

  30 km: Gold (1: 35: 39.2 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 6th place (2: 16: 32.2 h)

• Palmiro Serafini

  4 × 10 km relay: 6th place (2: 16: 32.2 h)

• Aldo Stella

  50 km: 17th place (2: 33: 17.9 h)

  4 × 10 km relay: 6th place (2: 16: 32.2 h)

• Gianfranco Stella

  15 km: 13th place (49: 59.8 min)

  30 km: 23rd place (1: 40: 42.0 h)

• Livio Stuffer

  50 km: 26th place (2: 37: 46.6 h)

Ski jumping

• Giacomo Aimoni

  Normal hill: 25th place (195.0)

  Large hill: 16th place (195.3)

Web links

• Italy at the 1968 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )