Italy at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Italy competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. 304 competitors, 228 men and 76 women, took part in 169 events in 26 sports.

Medalists

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

!Medal

!Name

!Sport

!Event

!Date

| || || Fencing || Women's foil || 30 July

| || || Cycling || Men's points race || 31 July

| || || Canoeing || Men's slalom K-1 || 2 August

| || || Cycling || Men's individual road race || 2 August

| || || Fencing || Women's team foil || 4 August

| || Italy men's national water polo team || Water polo || Men's tournament || 9 August

| || || Cycling || Men's team time trial || 26 July

| || || Wrestling || Men's Greco-Roman 48 kg || 29 July

| || || Judo || Women's 66 kg || 29 July

| || || Rowing || Men's coxed pair || 2 August

| || || Fencing || Men's sabre || 2 August

| || || Swimming || Men's 400 metre individual medley || 27 July

| || || Shooting || Skeet || 28 July

| || || Swimming || Men's 200 metre backstroke || 28 July

| || || Modern pentathlon || Men's team || 29 July

| || || Athletics || Men's 20 kilometres walk || 31 July

| || || Rowing || Men's quadruple sculls || 2 August

| || || Shooting || Trap || 2 August

| || || Canoeing || Men's K-2 500 metres || 7 August

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 || 1 || 4

| align=left|Athletics

| 25 || 14 || 39

| align=left|Baseball

| 20 || – || 20

| align=left|Basketball

| 0 || 12 || 12

| align=left|Boxing

| 5 || – || 5

| align=left|Canoeing

| 12 || 6 || 18

| align=left|Cycling

| 14 || 4 || 18

| align=left|Diving

| 2 || 1 || 3

| align=left|Equestrian

| 8 || 4 || 12

| align=left|Fencing

| 15 || 5 || 20

| align=left|Football

| 16 || – || 16

| align=left|Gymnastics

| 6 || 4 || 10

| align=left|Judo

| 5 || 4 || 9

| align=left|Modern pentathlon

| 3 || – || 3

| align=left|Rowing

| 21 || 0 || 21

| align=left|Sailing

| 10 || 4 || 14

| align=left|Shooting

| 12 || 1 || 13

| align=left|Swimming

| 15 || 9 || 24

| align=left|Synchronized swimming

| – || 2 || 2

| align=left|Table tennis

| 0 || 1 || 1

| align=left|Tennis

| 4 || 4 || 8

| align=left|Volleyball

| 12 || 0 || 12

| align=left|Water polo

| 12 || – || 12

| align=left|Weightlifting

| 3 || – || 3

| align=left|Wrestling

| 5 || – || 5

! Total || 228 || 76 || 304

Archery

In Italy's first archery competition without Giancarlo Ferrari, the four Italians went a combined 0-3 in the elimination round with Ilario Di Buò not even qualifying for the eliminations. The men's team also lost in the first round.

Women's Individual Competition:

Maria Testa — Round of 32, 21st place (0-1)

Men's Individual Competition:

Andrea Parenti — Round of 32, 19th place (0-1)
Alessandro Rivolta — Round of 32, 22nd place (0-1)
Ilario Di Buò — Ranking round, 39th place (0-0)

Men's Team Competition:

Parenti, Rivolta, and di Buo — Round of 16, 14th place (0-1)

Athletics

Men's 4 × 400 m Relay

Alessandro Aimar, Marco Vaccari, Fabio Grossi, and Andrea Nuti

:* Heat — 3:02.09

:* Final — 3:02.18 (→ 6th place)

Men's 800 metres

Andrea Benvenuti — 1:45.23 (→ 5th place)

Men's 5.000 metres

Salvatore Antibo

:* Heat — 13:33.71

:* Final — 14:02.47 (→ 16th place)

Men's 10.000 metres

Salvatore Antibo

:* Heat — 28:18.48

:* Final — 28:11.39 (→ 4th place)

Francesco Bennici

:* Heat — 28:45.62 (→ did not advance)

Men's Marathon

Salvatore Bettiol — 2:14.15 (→ 5th place)
Alessio Faustini — 2:21.37 (→ 44th place)
Gelindo Bordin — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's 400m Hurdles

Fabrizio Mori

:* Heat — 49.16 (→ did not advance)

Men's 20 km Walk

Giovanni De Benedictis — 1:23:11 (→ Image:Med 3.png Bronze Medal)
Maurizio Damilano — 1:23:39 (→ 4th place)
Walter Arena — 1:29:34 (→ 18th place)

Men's 50 km Walk

Giuseppe de Gaetano — 3:59:13 (→ 12th place)
Massimo Quiriconi — 4:00:28 (→ 13th place)
Giovanni Perricelli — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's Long Jump

Giovanni Evangelisti

:* Qualification — NM (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw

Enrico Sgrulletti

:* Qualification — 75.40 m

:* Final — 72.98 m (→ 11th place)

Men's Pole Vault

Andrea Pegoraro

:* Qualification — 5.40 m (→ did not advance)

Men's Discus Throw

Luciano Zerbini

:* Qualification — NM (→ did not advance)

Men's Shot Put

Luciano Zerbini

:* Qualification — 20.25 m

:* Final — 19.88 m (→ 9th place)

Alessandro Andrei

:* Qualification — 20.14 m

:* Final — 19.62 m (→ 11th place)

Women's 800 metres

Fabia Trabaldo

:* Heat — 2:01.44 (→ did not advance)

Women's 10.000 metres

Rosanna Munerotto

:* Heat — 32:17.01

:* Final — 32:37.91 (→ 16th place)

Women's 400m Hurdles

Irmgard Trojer

:* Heat — 55.49

:* Semifinal — 56.34 (→ did not advance)

Women's Marathon

Emma Scaunich — 2:46.14 (→ 18th place)
Anna Villani — 2:46.44 (→ 20th place)
Bettina Sabatini — 2:50.09 (→ 23rd place)

Women's Long Jump

Valentina Uccheddu

:* Heat — 6.40 m (→ did not advance)

Antonella Capriotti

:* Heat — 6.43 m (→ did not advance)

Women's 10 km Walk

Annarita Sidoti

:* Final — 45:23 (→ 7th place)

Elisabetta Perrone

:* Final — 46:43 (→ 19th place)

Ileana Salvador

:* Final — DSQ (→ no ranking)

Women's Discus Throw

Agnese Maffeis

:* Heat — 60.80m

:* Final — 61.22m (→ 10th place)

Women's High Jump

Antonella Bevilacqua

:* Qualification — 1.90 m (→ did not advance)

Baseball

Italy was not very successful at the premiere of Olympic baseball. The Italians lost six of their seven preliminary round games, beating only the host nation Spain. Their 1-6 record tied with that of Spain for seventh and eighth places, the Italians received the advantage in the tie-breaker because of the head-to-head result, barely avoiding last place.

Men's Team Competition:

Italy - 7th place (1-6)

Team roster

Massimo Ciaramella
Guglielmo Trinci
Claudio Cecconi
Elio Gambuti
Marco Urbani
Maurizio De Sanctis
Francesco Petruzzelli
Fulvio Valle
Massimiliano Masin
Andrea Succi
Claudio Taglienti
Paolo Ceccaroli
Ruggero Bagialemani
Rolando Cretis
Alberto d'Auria
Roberto Bianchi
Leonardo Scianchi
Luigi Carrozza
Massimo Fochi
Massimo Melassi

Basketball

Women's team competition

Preliminary round (group A)

:*Lost to Brazil (70-85)

:*Lost to Unified Team (67-79)

:*Lost to Cuba (53-60)

Classification Matches

:*5th/8th place: Lost to Spain (80-92)

:*7th/8th place: Lost to Brazil (83-86) → 8th place

Team roster

:*Elena Paparazzo

:*Monica Bastiani

:*Mara Fullin

:*Stefania Salvemini

:*Anna Costalunga

:*Francesca Rossi

:*Angela Arcangeli

:*Catarina Pollini

:*Susanna Stanzani

:*Silvia Todeschini

:*Giuseppina Tufano

:*Stefania Passaro

Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

Luigi Castiglione

:* First Round – Lost to Dong-Bum Cho (ITA), 2:8

Canoeing

Cycling

Eighteen cyclists, fourteen men and four women, represented Italy in 1992.

;Men's road race

Fabio Casartelli
Davide Rebellin
Mirco Gualdi

;Men's team time trial

Flavio Anastasia
Luca Colombo
Gianfranco Contri
Andrea Peron

;Men's sprint

Roberto Chiappa

;Men's 1 km time trial

Adler Capelli

;Men's individual pursuit

Ivan Beltrami

;Men's team pursuit

Ivan Beltrami
Rossano Brasi
Ivan Cerioli
Fabrizio Trezzi
Giovanni Lombardi

;Men's points race

Giovanni Lombardi

;Women's road race

Valeria Cappellotto — 2:05:03 (→ 17th place)
Maria Turcutto — 2:05:03 (→ 32nd place)
Roberta Bonanomi — 2:05:58 (→ 39th place)

;Women's individual pursuit

Gabriella Pregnolato

Diving

Men's 3m Springboard

Davide Lorenzini

:*Preliminary Round — 375.57 points

:*Final — 527.73 points (→ 12th place)

Alessandro de Botton

:* Preliminary Round — 312.69 points (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Men's 10m Platform

Alessandro de Botton

:* Preliminary Round — 334.98 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Women's 3m Springboard

Luisella Bisello

:* Preliminary Round — 249.36 points (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Women's 10m Platform

Luisella Bisello

:*Preliminary Round — 272.19 points (→ 19th place)

Equestrianism

Fencing

20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women represented Italy in 1992.

;Men's foil

Andrea Borella
Mauro Numa
Stefano Cerioni

;Men's team foil

Marco Arpino, Andrea Borella, Stefano Cerioni, Mauro Numa, Alessandro Puccini

;Men's épée

Angelo Mazzoni
Maurizio Randazzo
Sandro Cuomo

;Men's team épée

Sandro Cuomo, Angelo Mazzoni, Stefano Pantano, Maurizio Randazzo, Sandro Resegotti

;Men's sabre

Marco Marin
Giovanni Scalzo
Ferdinando Meglio

;Men's team sabre

Marco Marin, Ferdinando Meglio, Giovanni Scalzo, Giovanni Sirovich, Tonhi Terenzi

;Women's foil

Giovanna Trillini
Margherita Zalaffi
Francesca Bortolozzi-Borella

;Women's team foil

Giovanna Trillini, Margherita Zalaffi, Francesca Bortolozzi-Borella, Diana Bianchedi, Dorina Vaccaroni

Football

Men's team competition

Preliminary round (group A)

:* Defeated United States (2-1)

:* Lost to Poland (0-3)

:* Defeated Kuwait (1-0)

Quarterfinals

:* Lost to Spain (0-1) → Did not advance

Team roster

:* ( 1) Francesco Antonioli

:* ( 2) Mauro Bonomi

:* ( 3) Giuseppe Favalli

:* ( 4) Luca Luzardi

:* ( 5) Salvatore Matrecano

:* ( 6) Alessandro Orlando

:* ( 7) Stefano Rossini

:* ( 8) Mirko Taccola

:* ( 9) Rufo Verga

:* (10) Demetrio Albertini

:* (11) Dino Baggio

:* (12) Angelo Peruzzi

:* (13) Eugenio Corini

:* (14) Dario Marcolin

:* (15) Gianluca Sordo

:* (16) Renato Buso

:* (17) Pasquale Rocco

:* (18) Marco Ferrante

:* (19) Alessandro Melli

:* (20) Roberto Muzzi

Head coach: Cesare Maldini

Gymnastics

Judo

Massimo Sulli

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented Italy in 1992. They won a bronze medal in the team event.

;Individual

Roberto Bomprezzi
Carlo Massullo
Gianluca Tiberti

;Team

Roberto Bomprezzi
Carlo Massullo
Gianluca Tiberti

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Sailing

Men's Sailboard (Lechner A-390)

Riccardo Giordano

:* Final Ranking — 182.1 points (→ 16th place)

Women's Sailboard (Lechner A-390)

Alessandra Sensini

:* Final Ranking — 101.4 points (→ 7th place)

Women's 470 Class

Maria Quarra and Anna Maria Barabino

:* Final Ranking — 68.7 points (→ 7th place)

Shooting

Swimming

Men's Competition

René Gusperti, Giorgio Lamberti, Roberto Gleria, Massimo Trevisan, Piermaria Siciliano, Emanuele Merisi, Stefano Battistelli, Luca Bianchin, Gianni Minervini, Andrea Cecchi, Francesco Postiglione, Leonardo Michelotti, Marco Braida, Luca Sacchi, and Emanuele Idini

Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

Giorgio Lamberti, Emanuele Idini, Roberto Gleria, and Massimo Trevisan
Heat – 3:23.43 (→ did not advance, 10th place)

Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle

Roberto Gleria, Emanuele Idini, Pier Maria Siciliano, and Stefano Battistelli
Heat – 7:25.53
Giorgio Lamberti, Massimo Trevisan, Roberto Gleria, and Stefano Battistelli
Final – 7:18.10 (→ 5th place)

Women's Competition

Cristina Chiuso, Ilaria Sciorelli, Manuela Melchiorri, Lorenza Vigarani, Lara Bianconi, Francesca Salvalajo, Manuela Dalla Valle, Elena Donati, and Ilaria Tocchini

Synchronized swimming

Two synchronized swimmers represented Italy in 1992.

;Women's solo

Paola Celli
Giovanna Burlando

;Women's duet

Paola Celli
Giovanna Burlando

Table tennis

Tennis

Men's Singles Competition

Cristiano Caratti
First round — Lost to Guy Forget (France) 3-6, 4-6, 2-6
Omar Camporese
First round — Defeated Juan Rios (Puerto Rico) 6-2, 6-2, 6-0
Second round — Lost to Emilio Sánchez (Spain) 4-6, 2-6, 1-6
Renzo Furlan
First round — Defeated Shuzo Matsuoka (Japan) 6-4, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
Second round — Defeated Andrei Chesnokov (Unified Team) 7-6, 6-4, 6-4
Third round — Lost to Jordi Arrese (Spain) 4-6, 3-6, 2-6

Men's Doubles Competition

Omar Camporese and Diego Nargiso
First round — Defeated Miguel Nido and Juan Rios (Puerto Rico) 6-1, 6-2, 6-3
Second round — Lost to George Cosac and Dinu Pescariu (Romania) 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 2-6

Women's Singles Competition

Katia Piccolini
First Round – Lost to Nicole Provis (Australia) 1-6 0-6
Raffaella Reggi-Concato
First Round – Defeated Jenny Byrne (Australia) 6-4 7-6
Second Round – Lost to Manuela Maleeva (Switzerland) 2-6 4-6
Sandra Cecchini
First Round – Defeated Paulina Sepúlveda (Chile) 6-2 6-3
Second Round – Lost to Conchita Martínez (Spain) 4-6 3-6

Volleyball

Men's team competition

Team roster

:*Lorenzo Bernardi

:*Marco Bracci

:*Luca Cantagalli

:*Claudio Marco Galli

:*Andrea Gardini

:*Andrea Giani

:*Andrea Lucchetta

:*Roberto Masciarelli

:*Michele Pasinato

:*Paolo Tofoli

:*Fabio Vullo

:*Andrea Zorzi

Water polo

Men's team competition

Preliminary round (group B)

:* Italy – Hungary 7-7

:* Italy – Netherlands 6-4

:* Italy – Cuba 11-8

:* Italy – Spain 9-9

:* Italy – Greece 8-6

Semi Finals

:* Italy – Commonwealth of Independent States 9-8

Final

:* Italy – Spain 9-8 (→ Image:Med 1.png Gold Medal)

Team roster

:* Carlo Silipo

:* Amedeo Pomilio

:* Franco Porzio

:* Pino Porzio

:* Mario Fiorillo

:* Ferdinando Gandolfi

:* Alessandro Campagna

:* Marco D'Altrui

:* Massimiliano Ferretti

:* Francesco Attolico

:* Alessandro Bovo

:* Paolo Caldarella

Italy at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Medalists

Competitors

Archery

Athletics

Baseball

Basketball

Women's team competition

Boxing

Canoeing

Cycling

Diving

Equestrianism

Fencing

Football

Men's team competition

Gymnastics

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Synchronized swimming

Table tennis

Tennis

Volleyball

Men's team competition

Water polo

Men's team competition

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

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