Italy at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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. As the country hosted the next Olympics in Rome, the flag of Italy was hoisted at the closing ceremony.

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

Results

Boxing

Cycling

Sprint

• Guglielmo Pesenti — Silver Medal

Time trial

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

Tandem

• Cesare Pinarello<br>Giuseppe Ogna &mdash; Bronze Medal

Team pursuit

• Antonio Domenicali<br>Franco Gandini<br>Leandro Faggin<br>Valentino Gasparella<br>Virginio Pizzali &mdash; 4:37.4 (→ Gold Medal)

Team road race

• Ercole Baldini<br>Arnaldo Pambianco<br>Dino Bruni &mdash; 36 points (→ 4th place)

Individual road race

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

Fencing

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

Modern pentathlon

One male pentathlete represented Italy in 1956.

Individual

• Adriano Facchini

Rowing

Italy had 21 male rowers participate in five out of seven rowing events in 1956.

Men's single sculls

• Stefano Martinoli

Men's coxless pair

• Alvaro Banchi
• Maurizio Clerici

Men's coxless four

• Giuseppe Moioli
• Attilio Cantoni
• Giovanni Zucchi
• Abbondio Marcelli

Men's coxed four

• Alberto Winkler
• Romano Sgheiz
• Angelo Vanzin
• Franco Trincavelli
• Ivo Stefanoni (cox)

Men's eight

• Antonio Amato
• Salvatore Nuvoli
• Cosimo Campioto
• Livio Tesconi
• Antonio Casoar
• Gian Carlo Casalini
• Sergio Tagliapietra
• Arrigo Menicocci
• Vincenzo Rubolotta (cox)

Sailing

Shooting

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

Men

Women

Water polo

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

Wrestling

References

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database