Summer Paralympics 2008 / Participant (Italy)

ITA

4th	7th	7th

Italy took the 86 athletes 2008 Summer Paralympics in China's Beijing in part.

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the athlete Francesca Porcellato . The most successful was the cyclist Fabio Triboli . He won one gold and two bronze medals.

Participants by sport

Archery

Women

• Elisabetta Mijno

Men

• Fabio Luca Azzolini
• Oscar De Pellegrin
• Mario Esposito *
• Antonino Lisotta
• Alberto Simonelli , 1 × (Compound, Open) *
• Marco Vitale , 1 × (recurve, class W1 / W2) *

| * Team competitions

Men Recurve Open (Bronze )
Oscar De Pellegrin Mario Esposito Marco Vitale

Judo

Men

• Matteo Ardit

athletics

Women

• Giuseppina Gargano
• Francesca Porcellato

Men

• Germano Bernardi
• Leonardo Bordoni
• Andrea Cionna
• Fabrizio Cocchi
• Walter Endrizzi , 1 × (marathon, class T46)
• Samuele Gobbi
• Roberto La Barbera
• Stefano Lippi
• Heros Marai
• Paolo Sorichetti

Cycling

Women

• Cinzia Coluzzi
• Melissa Merloni
• Silvana Vinci

Men

• Pierpaolo Addesi
• Giorgio Farroni , 1 × (mixed single road race, class CP1 / CP2)
• Fabrizio Macchi
• Vittorio Podesta , 1 × (individual time trial road, class HC B)
• Fabio Triboli , 1 × (individual road race, class LC1 / LC2 / CP4), 2 × (individual time trial road, individual pursuit track; class LC1)
• Paolo Vigano , 1 × (single track track, class LC4)

horse riding

Women

• Silvia Veratti

Men

• Mauro Caredda
• Andrea Vigon

Wheelchair fencing

Women

• Loredana Trigilia
• Rosalba Vettraino

Men

• Matteo Betti
• Gerardo Mari
• Alberto Pellegrini , 1 × (single saber, category A)
• Alessio Sarri
• Alberto Serafini

Wheelchair tennis

Women

• Silvia De Maria
• Marianna Lauro

Men

• Mario Gatelli
• Fabian Mazzei
• Giuseppe Polidori
• Antonio Raffaele

rowing

Women

• Agnese Moro
• Paola Protopapa *
• Graziana Saccocci *
• Stefania Elisabetta Toscano

Men

• Luca Agoletto *
• Alessandro Franzetti *
• Simone Luigi Miramonti
• Daniele Signore *
• Daniele Stefanoni

| * Team competitions

Mixed foursome with helmsman (gold )
Luca Agoletto Alessandro Franzetti Paola Protopapa Graziana Saccocci Daniele Signore

shoot

Women

• Azzurra Ciani

Men

• Ivano Borgato
• Giancarlo Iori
• Antonio Martella
• Oliviero Tiso

swim

Women

• Cecilia Camellini , 2 × (50 meters + 100 meters freestyle, class S11)
• Immacolata Cerasuolo
• Maria Poiani Panigati , 1 × (50 meters freestyle, class S11)
• Francesca Secci

Men

• Filippo Bonacini
• Luca Mazzone
• Efrem Morelli
• Andrea Palantrani
• Calo Piccoli
• Alessandro Serpico

sailing

Men

• Marco Collinetti
• Fabrizio Olmi
• Antonio Squizzato
• Massimo Venturini

Table tennis

Women

• Michela Brunelli *
• Federica Cudia *
• Maria Nardelli
• Pamela Pezzutto , 1 × (single, grade 1/2) *
• Christina Ploner
• Clara Podda , 1 × (single, grade 1/2) *
• Patrizia Sacca
• Valeria Zorzetto

Men

• Manfredi Paolo Baroncelli
• Salvatore Caci
• Andrea Furlan
• Nicola Molitierno
• Giuseppe Vella

| * Team competitions

Women classes 1–3 (silver )
Michela Brunelli Federica Cudia Pamela Pezzutto Clara Podda

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Summer Paralympic Participant List ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Query at paralympic.org (as of September 28, 2008)
2. ↑ Paralympic.org, September 28, 2008, list of standard bearers ( memento of March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )