Italy at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Italy at the Olympic Games
Flag of Italy IOC code  ITA NOC Italian National Olympic Committee Website www.coni.it (Italian)
At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne/Stockholm
Competitors	129 (114 men, 15 women) in 13 sports
Flag bearer	Edoardo Mangiarotti
Medals Rank: 5	Gold 8	Silver 8	Bronze 9	Total 25
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Italy competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (equestrian events). 129 competitors, 114 men and 15 women, took part in 76 events in 13 sports.

Medalists

 Gold

• Leandro Faggin — Cycling, Men's 1.000m Time Trial
• Antonio Domenicali, Leandro Faggin, Valentino Gasparella, Franco Gandini and Virginio Pizzali — Cycling, Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit
• Ercole Baldini — Cycling, Men's Individual Road Race
• Luigi Carpaneda, Manlio di Rosa, Giancarlo Bergamini, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Antonio Spallino, and Vittorio Lucarelli — Fencing, Men's Foil Team
• Carlo Pavesi — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
• Giorgio Anglesio, Franco Bertinetti, Giuseppe Delfino, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Carlo Pavesi, and Alberto Pellegrino — Fencing, Men's Épée Team
• Alberto Winkler, Romano Sgheiz, Angelo Vanzin, Franco Trincavelli, and Ivo Stefanoni — Rowing, Men's Coxed Fours
• Galliano Rossini — Shooting, Men's Trap Shooting

 Silver

• Franco Nenci — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight
• Guglielmo Pesenti — Cycling, Men's 1.000m Sprint (Scratch)
• Raimondo d'Inzeo — Equestrian, Jumping Individual
• Piero d'Inzeo, Raimondo d'Inzeo, and Salvatore Oppes — Equestrian, Jumping Team
• Giancarlo Bergamini — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual
• Giuseppe Delfino — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
• Ignazio Fabra — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Flyweight
• Agostino Straulino and Nicolò Rode — Sailing, Men's Star Competition

 Bronze

• Giacomo Bozzano — Boxing, Men's Heavyweight
• Giuseppe Ogna and Cesare Pinarello — Cycling, Men's 2.000m Tandem
• Piero d'Inzeo — Equestrian, Jumping Individual
• Antonio Spallino — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual
• Edoardo Mangiarotti — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
• Alessandro Ciceri — Shooting, Men's Trap Shooting
• Ermanno Pignatti — Weightlifting, Men's Middleweight
• Alberto Pigaiani — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight
• Adelmo Bulgarelli — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Heavyweight

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Men's Marathon

• Giuseppe Lavelli — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Sprint

• Guglielmo Pesenti — Silver Medal

Time trial

• Leandro Faggin — 1:09.8 (→ Gold Medal)

Tandem

• Cesare Pinarello
  Giuseppe Ogna — Bronze Medal

Team pursuit

• Antonio Domenicali
  Franco Gandini
  Leandro Faggin
  Valentino Gasparella
  Virginio Pizzali — 4:37.4 (→ Gold Medal)

Team road race

• Ercole Baldini
  Arnaldo Pambianco
  Dino Bruni — 36 points (→ 4th place)

Individual road race

• Ercole Baldini — 5:21:17 (→ Gold Medal)
• Arnaldo Pambianco — 5:23:40 (→ 7th place)
• Dino Bruni — 5:27:28 (→ 28th place)
• Aurelio Cestari — 5:34:20 (→ 34th place)

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

19 fencers, 17 men and 2 women, represented Italy in 1956.

Men's foil

• Giancarlo Bergamini
• Antonio Spallino
• Edoardo Mangiarotti

Men's team foil

• Edoardo Mangiarotti, Manlio Di Rosa, Giancarlo Bergamini, Antonio Spallino, Luigi Carpaneda, Vittorio Lucarelli

Men's épée

• Carlo Pavesi
• Giuseppe Delfino
• Edoardo Mangiarotti

Men's team épée

• Edoardo Mangiarotti, Giuseppe Delfino, Carlo Pavesi, Franco Bertinetti, Giorgio Anglesio, Alberto Pellegrino

Men's sabre

• Luigi Narduzzi
• Roberto Ferrari
• Gastone Darè

Men's team sabre

• Roberto Ferrari, Domenico Pace, Mario Ravagnan, Giuseppe Comini, Luigi Narduzzi, Gastone Darè

Women's foil

• Bruna Colombetti-Peroncini
• Velleda Cesari

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1956 Summer Olympics

One male pentathlete represented Italy in 1956.

Individual

• Adriano Facchini

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Five shooters represented Italy in 1956. In the trap event, Galliano Rossini won gold and Alessandro Ciceri won bronze.

25 m pistol

• Michelangelo Borriello

50 m pistol

• Claudio Fiorentini

50 m rifle, three positions

• Carlo Varetto

Trap

• Galliano Rossini
• Alessandro Ciceri

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay

• Federico Dennerlein, Paolo Galletti, Guido Elmi, and Anthony Romani

• Final — 8:46.2 (→ 7th place)

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Men's Team Competition

• Team Roster

• Cosimo Antonelli
• Alfonso Buonocore
• Enzo Cavazzoni
• Maurizio d'Achille
• Giuseppe d'Altrui
• Federico Dennerlein
• Luigi Mannelli
• Angelo Marciani
• Paolo Pucci
• Cesare Rubini

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 1956 Summer Olympics

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons