Italy at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Italy competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. 253 competitors, 212 men and 41 women, took part in 140 events in 23 sports.

Medalists

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:90%"

!Medal

!Name

!Sport

!Event

!Date

| || || Wrestling || Men's Greco-Roman 48 kg || 20 September

| || || Fencing || Men's foil || 21 September

| || || Rowing || Men's coxed pair || 25 September

| || || Rowing || Men's quadruple sculls || 25 September

| || || Boxing || Featherweight || 2 October

| || || Athletics || Men's marathon || 2 October

| || || Modern pentathlon || Men's individual || 22 September

| || || Modern pentathlon || Men's team || 22 September

| || || Athletics || Men's 10,000 metres || 26 September

| || || Fencing || Women's team foil || 28 September

| || || Swimming || Men's 400 metre individual medley || 21 September

| || || Fencing || Men's sabre || 23 September

| || || Athletics || Men's 20 kilometres walk || 23 September

| || || Fencing || Men's team sabre || 29 September

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"

! width=180|Sport

! width=55|Men

! width=55|Women

! width=55|Total

| align=left|Archery

| 3 || 0 || 3

| align=left|Athletics

| 27 || 11 || 38

| align=left|Boxing

| 7 || – || 7

| align=left|Canoeing

| 5 || 0 || 5

| align=left|Cycling

| 14 || 4 || 18

| align=left|Diving

| 4 || 0 || 4

| align=left|Equestrian

| 4 || 1 || 5

| align=left|Fencing

| 15 || 5 || 20

| align=left|Football

| 18 || – || 18

| align=left|Gymnastics

| 6 || 5 || 11

| align=left|Judo

| 4 || – || 4

| align=left|Modern pentathlon

| 3 || – || 3

| align=left|Rowing

| 27 || 0 || 27

| align=left|Sailing

| 13 || 2 || 15

| align=left|Shooting

| 11 || 2 || 13

| align=left|Swimming

| 12 || 9 || 21

| align=left|Table tennis

| 1 || 0 || 1

| align=left|Tennis

| 3 || 2 || 5

| align=left|Volleyball

| 12 || 0 || 12

| align=left|Water polo

| 13 || – || 13

| align=left|Weightlifting

| 6 || – || 6

| align=left|Wrestling

| 4 || – || 4

! Total || 212 || 41 || 253

Archery

Giancarlo Ferrari, competing in his fifth Olympic archery contest, dropped to 33rd place in the field. Fellow veteran Ilario Di Buò advanced to the quarterfinal, nearly missing a semifinal berth. The Italians also just missed the cutoff for the final by one ranking in the team round.

Men's Individual Competition:

Ilario Di Buò – Quarterfinal (→ 13th place)
Andrea Parenti – Preliminary Round (→ 28th place)
Giancarlo Ferrari – Preliminary Round (→ 33rd place)

Men's Team Competition:

Di Buo, Parenti, and Ferrari – Semifinal (→ 9th place)

Athletics

Men's 10,000 metres

Salvatore Antibo

:* First Round — 28:09.35

:* Final — 27:23.55 (→ 16px|Silver Silver Medal)

Alberto Cova

:* First Round — 28:43.84 (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

Gelindo Bordin

:* Final — 2"10:32 (→ 16px|Gold Gold Medal)

Orlando Pizzolato

:* Final — 2"15:20 (→ 16th place)

Gianni Poli

:* Final — 2"16:07 (→ 19th place)

Men's 3,000 m Steeplechase

Alessandro Lambruschini

:# Heat — 8:32.59

:# Semi Final — 8:16.92

:# Final — 8:12.17 (→ 4th place)

Francesco Panetta

:* Heat — 8:29.75

:* Semi Final — 8:17.23

:* Final — 8:17.79 (→ 9th place)

Men's Hammer Throw

Lucio Serrani

:* Qualifying Heat — 70.50m (→ did not advance)

Men's Shot Put

Alessandro Andrei

:* Qualifying Heat – 20.18m

:* Final – 20.36m (→ 7th place)

Men's Long Jump

Giovanni Evangelisti

:* Qualification — 7.81m

:* Final — 8.08m (→ 4th place)

Men's 20 km Walk

Maurizio Damilano

:* Final — 1:20:14 (→ 16x16px Bronze Medal)

Giovanni De Benedictis

:* Final — 1:20:14 (→ 6th place)

Carlo Mattioli

:* Final — 1:22:58 (→ 19th place)

Men's 50 km Walk

Raffaello Ducceschi

:* Final — 3'45:43 (→ 8th place)

Giovanni Perricelli

:* Final — 3'47:14 (→ 11th place)

Sandro Bellucci

:* Final — 4'04:56 (→ 32nd place)

Women's Marathon

Laura Fogli

:* Final — 2"27.49 (→ 6th place)

Maria Curatolo

:* Final — 2"30.14 (→ 8th place)

Antonella Bizioli

:* Final — 2"34.38 (→ 23rd place)

Boxing

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

Andrea Mannai

:* First Round — Lost to Arthur Johnson (USA), 0:5

Men's Featherweight

Giovanni Parisi

Men's Lightweight

Giorgio Campanella

Men's Light-Middleweight

Vincenzo Nardiello

Men's Middleweight

Michele Mastrodonato

Men's Light-Heavyweight

Andrea Magi

Men's Heavyweight

Luigi Gaudiano

Canoeing

Cycling

Eighteen cyclists, fourteen men and four women, represented Italy in 1988.

;Men's road race

Roberto Pelliconi
Fabrizio Bontempi
Gianluca Bortolami

;Men's team time trial

Roberto Maggioni
Eros Poli
Mario Scirea
Flavio Vanzella

;Men's sprint

Andrea Faccini

;Men's individual pursuit

Ivan Beltrami

;Men's team pursuit

Ivan Beltrami
Gianpaolo Grisandi
David Solari
Fabrizio Trezzi
Fabio Baldato

;Men's points race

Giovanni Lombardi

;Women's road race

Imelda Chiappa — 2:00:52 (→ 15th place)
Maria Canins — 2:00:52 (→ 32nd place)
Roberta Bonanomi — 2:00:52 (→ 45th place)

;Women's sprint

Elisabetta Fanton

Diving

;Men

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!rowspan="2"|Athlete

!rowspan="2"|Event

!colspan="2"|Preliminary

!colspan="2"|Final

|-style="font-size:95%"

!Points

!Rank

!Points

!Rank

|-align=center

|align=left|Aleksandr Portnov

|align=left rowspan=2|3 m springboard

|553.74

|13

|colspan=2|Did not advance

|-align=center

|align=left|Piero Italiani

|542.67

|16

|colspan=2|Did not advance

|-align=center

|align=left|Domenico Rinaldi

|align=left rowspan=2|10 m platform

|476.01

|16

|colspan=2|Did not advance

|-align=center

|align=left|Oscar Bertone

|471.24

|17

|colspan=2|Did not advance

Equestrian

Fencing

20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented Italy in 1988.

;Men's foil

Stefano Cerioni
Mauro Numa
Andrea Borella

;Men's team foil

Andrea Borella, Stefano Cerioni, Federico Cervi, Andrea Cipressa, Mauro Numa

;Men's épée

Sandro Cuomo
Stefano Pantano
Angelo Mazzoni

;Men's team épée

Stefano Bellone, Andrea Bermond Des Ambrois, Sandro Cuomo, Angelo Mazzoni, Stefano Pantano

;Men's sabre

Giovanni Scalzo
Gianfranco Dalla Barba
Marco Marin

;Men's team sabre

Giovanni Scalzo, Marco Marin, Gianfranco Dalla Barba, Ferdinando Meglio, Massimo Cavaliere

;Women's foil

Margherita Zalaffi
Dorina Vaccaroni
Annapia Gandolfi

;Women's team foil

Dorina Vaccaroni, Margherita Zalaffi, Francesca Bortolozzi-Borella, Lucia Traversa, Annapia Gandolfi

Football

Men's Team Competition

Preliminary round (group B)

:* Defeated Guatemala (5-2)

:* Lost to Zambia (0-4)

:* Defeated Iraq (2-0)

Quarterfinals

:* Defeated Sweden (2-1)

Semifinals

:* Lost to Soviet Union (2-3)

Bronze Medal Match

:* Lost to West Germany (0-3)

Team roster

Stefano Tacconi (gk)
Roberto Cravero
Andrea Carnevale
Luigi De Agostini
Ciro Ferrara
Mauro Tassotti
Angelo Colombo
Luca Pellegrini
Massimo Brambati
Stefano Carobbi
Massimo Crippa
Giuliano Giuliani (gk)
Pietro Paolo Virdis
Ruggiero Rizzitelli
Roberto Galia
Giuseppe Iachini
Stefano Desideri
Massimo Mauro
Alberigo Evani
Gianluca Pagliuca (gk)

Head coach: Francesco Rocca

Gymnastics

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented Italy in 1988. Carlo Massullo won an individual silver and the team won silver too.

Men's Individual Competition:

Carlo Massullo – 5379 pts (→ Silver Silver Medal)
Daniele Masala – 5152 pts (→ 10th place)
Gianluca Tiberti – 5040 pts (→ 17th place)

Men's Team Competition:

Massullo, Masala, and Tiberti – 15571pts (→ Silver Silver Medal)

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Men's 100 m Freestyle

Roberto Gleria

:* Heat – 50.97 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

Roberto Gleria

:* Heat – 1:49.51

:* B-Final – 1:49.28 (→ 9th place)

Giorgio Lamberti

:* Heat – 1:50.47

:* B-Final – scratched (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

Giorgio Lamberti

:* Heat – 3:53.29

:* B-Final – scratched (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Roberto Gleria

:* Heat – 3:56.33 (→ did not advance, 19th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

Luca Pellegrini

:* Heat – 15:18.80 (→ did not advance, 10th place)

Stefano Battistelli

:* Heat – 15:36.54 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

Valerio Giambalvo

:* Heat – 59.48 (→ did not advance, 37th place)

Men's 200 m Backstroke

Stefano Battistelli

:* Heat – 2:03.63

:* B-Final – scratched (→ did not advance, no ranking)

Men's 100 m Breaststroke

Gianni Minervini

:* Heat – 1:02.86

:* Final – 1:02.93 (→ 7th place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

Leonardo Michelotti

:* Heat – 55.83 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Valerio Giambalvo

:* Heat – 56.57 (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

Luca Sacchi

:* Heat – 2:05.45

:* B-Final – 2:05.68 (→ 13th place)

Roberto Cassio

:* Heat – 2:05.88 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley

Stefano Battistelli

:* Heat – 4:20.43

:* Final – 4:18.01 (→ Bronze Bronze Medal)

Luca Sacchi

:* Heat – 4:23.37

:* Final – 4:23.23 (→ 7th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

Fabrizio Rampazzo, Giorgio Lamberti, Andrea Ceccarini, and Roberto Gleria

:* Heat – 3:23.35

Roberto Gleria, Giorgio Lamberti, Fabrizio Rampazzo, and Andrea Ceccarini

:* Final – 3:22.93 (→ 8th place)

Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay

Massimo Trevisan, Fabrizio Rampazzo, Valerio Giambalvo, and Roberto Gleria

:* Heat – 7:21.85

Roberto Gleria, Giorgio Lamberti, Massimo Trevisan, and Valerio Giambalvo

:* Final – 7:16.00 (→ 5th place)

Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

Valerio Giambalvo, Gianni Minervini, Leonardo Michelotti, and Roberto Gleria

:* Heat – 3:52.06 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Women's 100 m Freestyle

Silvia Persi

:* Heat – 58.22 (→ did not advance, 29th place)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

Silvia Persi

:* Heat – 2:04.40 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Women's 400 m Freestyle

Manuela Melchiorri

:* Heat – 4:15.40

:* B-Final – 4:14.90 (→ 14th place)

Women's 800 m Freestyle

Manuela Melchiorri

:* Heat – 8:40.63 (→ did not advance, 12th place)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

Lorenza Vigarani

:* Heat – 1:03.96

:* B-Final – 1:03.88 (→ 13th place)

Manuela Carosi

:* Heat – 1:04.69

:* B-Final – 1:03.80 (→ 11th place)

Women's 200 m Backstroke

Lorenza Vigarani

:* Heat – 2:17.35

:* B-Final – 2:18.69 (→ 13th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

Manuela Dalla Valle

:* Heat – 1:11.25

:* B-Final – 1:10.95 (→ 12th place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

Manuela Dalla Valle

:* Heat – 2:30.60

:* Final – 2:29.86 (→ 8th place)

Annalisa Nisiro

:* Heat – 2:32.77

:* B-Final – 2:31.19 (→ 12th place)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

Ilaria Tocchini

:* Heat – 1:02.07

:* B-Final – 1:02.78 (→ 16th place)

Emanuela Viola

:* Heat – 1:03.91 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

Roberta Felotti

:* Heat – 2:19.62

:* B-Final – 2:19.63 (→ 13th place)

Manuela Dalla Valle

:* Heat – 2:22.85 (→ did not advance, 25th place)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

Roberta Felotti

:* Heat – 4:49.20

:* B-Final – 4:49.53 (→ 9th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

Lorenza Vigarani, Manuela Dalla Valle, Ilara Tocchini, and Silvia Persi

:* Heat – 4:14.68

:* Final – 4:13.85 (→ 8th place)

Table tennis

Tennis

Men's Singles Competition

Paolo Canè

:* First round — Defeated Milan Šrejber (Czechoslovakia) 6-3 7-6 4-6 6-3

:* Second round — Defeated Emilio Sánchez (Spain) 7-5 6-3 6-7 6-4

:* Third round — Defeated Javier Sánchez (Spain) 7-6 4-6 6-1 6-2

:* Quarterfinals — Lost to Stefan Edberg (Sweden) 1-6 5-7 4-6

Diego Nargiso

:* First round — Defeated Francisco Maciel (Mexico) 4-6 2-6 7-6 7-6 8-6

:* Second round — Lost to Tim Mayotte (United States) 6-2 2-6 4-6 0-6

Omar Camporese

:* First round — Lost to Guy Forget (France) 2-6 0-6 3-6

Women's Singles Competition

Sandra Cecchini

:* First Round – Bye

:* Second Round – Lost to Chris Evert (USA) 2-6 2-6

Raffaella Reggi

:* First Round – Defeated Liz Smylie (Australia) 7-6 6-0

:* Second Round – Defeated Claudia Kohde-Kilsch (West Germany) 4-6 7-6 6-3

:* Third Round – Defeated Chris Evert (USA) 2-6 6-4 6-1

:* Quarterfinals – Lost to Manuela Maleeva (Switzerland) 3-6 4-6

Volleyball

Men's team competition

Preliminary round (group A)

:* Lost to Brazil (0-3)

:* Lost to Bulgaria (0-3)

:* Defeated Sweden (3-2)

:* Lost to Soviet Union (1-3)

:* Defeated South Korea (3-0)

Classification Matches

:* 9th/12th place: Defeated Tunisia (3-0)

:* 9th/10th place: Defeated Japan (3-2) → Ninth place

Team roster

:*Andrea Gardini

:*Andrea Giani

:*Pierpaolo Lucchetta

:*Ferdinando De Giorgi

:*Marco Bracci

:*Claudio Galli

:*Lorenzo Bernardi

:*Alessandro Lazzeroni

:*Massimo Castagna

:*Andrea Zorzi

:*Luca Cantagalli

:*Andrea Lucchetta

Head coach: Carmelo Pittera

Water polo

Men's Team Competition

Preliminary round (group A)

:* Drew with Soviet Union (9-9)

:* Defeated South Korea (1-11)

:* Defeated Australia (7-5)

:* Lost to West Germany (7-10)

:* Defeated France (14-8)

Classification Round (Group D)

:* Drew with Hungary (9-9)

:* Lost to Spain (9-11) → 7th place

Team roster

:* Paolo Trapanese

:* Alfio Misaggi

:* Andrea Pisano

:* Antonello Steardo

:* Alessandro Campagna

:* Paolo Caldarella

:* Mario Fiorillo

:* Francesco Porzio

:* Stefano Postiglione

:* Riccardo Tempestini

:* Massimiliano Ferretti

:* Marco d'Altrui

:* Gianni Averaimo

Head coach: Fritz Dennerlein

Italy at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Medalists

Competitors

Archery

Athletics

Boxing

Canoeing

Cycling

Diving

Equestrian

Fencing

Football

Gymnastics

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Table tennis

Tennis

Volleyball

Men's team competition

Water polo

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

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