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Italy at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Italy competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. 340 competitors, 236 men and 104 women, took part in 172 events in 27 sports.

Medalists

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Archery

The Italian men received unfortunate rankings in the open round, and both Andrea Parenti and Matteo Bisiani quickly found themselves losing to eventual silver medallist Magnus Petersson, in the second and third rounds, respectively. Both had the highest score of any archer to lose in their round. Michele Frangilli advanced to the quarterfinal before facing eventual gold medallist Justin Huish. They won the bronze medal in the team round.

Women's Individual Competition:

Men's Individual Competition:

Women's Team Competition:

  • Aldegani, Fantato, and di Blasi – round of 16, 9th place (0–1)

Men's Team Competition:

  • Frangilli, Bisiani, and Parenti – Bronze Medal Match (3–1) → Bronze Medal

Athletics

Men's 100 metres

Men's 200 metres

Men's 800 metres

Men's 5,000 metres

* Qualification — 14:03.56
* Semifinal — 13:28.80
* Final — 13:28.36 (→ 12th place)
* Qualification — 13:55.41
* Semifinal — 14:06.45 (→ did not advance)

Men's 10,000 metres

* Qualification — 27:55.79
* Final — 29:07.77 (→ 18th place)

Men's Marathon

Men's 4 × 100 m Relay

* Heat — did not finish (→ did not advance)

Men's 4 × 400 m Relay

* Heat — 3:03.60
* Semi Final — 3:02.56 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400m Hurdles

* Heat — 48.90s
* Semi Final — 48.43s
* Final — 48.41s (→ 6th place)
* Heat — 48.92s
* Semi Final — 48.52s (→ did not advance)
* Heat — 49.71s (→ did not advance)

Men's 3,000 metres Steeplechase

* Heat — 8:31.69
* Semifinals — 8:27.32
* Final — 8:11.28 (→ Bronze Medal)
* Heat — 8:30.83
* Semifinals — 8:21.86
* Final — 8:29.67 (→ 9th place)

Men's Long Jump

* Qualification — 7.79m (→ did not advance)

Men's Shot Put

Men's Discus Throw

* Qualification — 60.08m (→ did not advance)

Men's Hammer Throw

* Qualification — 77.36m
* Final — 76.98m (→ 9th place)
* Qualification — 72.82m (→ did not advance)

Men's Decathlon

* Final Result — 7013 points (→ 30th place)

Men's 20 kilometres Walk

Men's 50 kilometres Walk

Women's 400 metres

Women's 5,000 metres

Women's 10,000 metres

* Qualification — 31:55.35
* Final — did not start (→ no ranking)
* Qualification — 32:59.40 (→ did not advance)

Women's Marathon

Women's 100m Hurdles

Women's 400m Hurdles

* Qualification — 57.12 (→ did not advance)

Women's Discus Throw

* Qualification — 56.54m (→ did not advance)

Women's High Jump

* Qualification — 1.93m
* Final — 1.99m (→ 4th place)

Women's Long Jump

* Qualification — 6.85m
* Final — 7.02m (→ Silver Medal)

Women's Triple Jump

* Qualification — 13.74m (→ did not advance)

Women's Heptathlon

Women's 10 km Walk

Baseball

The Italians were one of four teams that made their second appearance in Olympic baseball in 1996. They improved slightly, upon their seventh-place finish of four years earlier by taking the middle place in a three-way tie for fifth through seventh places. They had defeated Korea and Australia in the preliminary round but had lost their other five preliminary games.

Men's Team Competition:

  • Italy – 6th place (2–5)

Team roster

Basketball

Women's tournament

Preliminary round
Quarterfinals
Classification Round 5th−8th place
7th place game

Beach volleyball

Boxing

Men's Flyweight (51 kg)

* First Round — Lost to Hussein Hussein (Australia), 8–11

Men's Lightweight (60 kg)

* First Round — Lost to Sergey Kopenkin (Kyrgyzstan), 11–12

Men's Light Middleweight (71 kg)

* First Round — Defeated José Quinones (Puerto Rico), 10–8
* Second Round — Defeated Roger Pettersson (Sweden), 18–4
* Quarter Finals — Lost to Alfredo Duvergel (Cuba), 8–15

Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg)

* First Round — Defeated Yusuf Öztürk (Turkey), 15–7
* Second Round — Lost to Vassili Jirov (Kazakhstan), 13–18

Men's Super Heavyweight (> 91 kg)

* First Round — Bye
* Second Round — Lost to Alexis Rubalcaba (Cuba), referee stopped contest in first round

Canoeing

Cycling

Road Competition

Men's Individual Time Trial

* Final — 1:05:01 (→ 4th place)
* Final — 1:09:18 (→ 19th place)

Women's Individual Road Race

* Final — 02:36:38 (→ Silver Medal)
* Final — 02:37:06 (→ 7th place)
* Final — 02:37:06 (→ 32nd place)

Women's Individual Time Trial

* Final – 38:47 (→ 8th place)

Track Competition

Men's Points Race

* Final — 37 points (→ Gold Medal)

Mountain Bike

Men's Cross Country

* Final — 2:25:08 (→ 5th place)
* Final — 2:26:05 (→ 8th place)

Women's Cross Country

* Final — 1:50.51 (→ Gold Medal)
* Final — 1:55.56 (→ 6th place)

Diving

Men's 3m Springboard

*Preliminary Round — 356.55
*Semi Final — 202.80 (→ 15th place)

Women's 3m Springboard

* Preliminary Heat — 208.77 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Women's 10m Platform

* Preliminary Heat — 202.86 (→ did not advance, 28th place)

Equestrian

Fencing

Sixteen fencers, nine men and seven women, represented Italy in 1996.

Men's foil
Men's team foil
Men's épée
Men's team épée
Men's sabre
Men's team sabre
Women's foil
Women's team foil
Women's épée
Women's team épée

Football

Men's team competition

  • Preliminary round (group C)
* Lost to (0–1)
* Lost to (2–3)
* Defeated (2–1) → Did not advance
  • Team roster
* Gianluca Pagliuca
* Christian Panucci
* Alessandro Nesta
* Fabio Cannavaro
* Fabio Galante
* Salvatore Fresi
* Raffaele Ametrano
* Massimo Crippa
* Marco Branca
* Massimo Brambilla
* Marco Delvecchio
* Gianluigi Buffon
* Alessandro Pistone
* Damiano Tommasi
* Fabio Pecchia
* Domenico Morfeo
* Cristiano Lucarelli
* Antonino Bernardini
* Luigi Sartor

Gymnastics

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Men's Individual Competition:

Rhythmic gymnastics

Rowing

Sailing

Shooting

Swimming

Men's 50m Freestyle

* Heat – 22.85
* B-Final – 22.96 (→ 14th place)

Men's 200m Freestyle

* Heat – 1:48.80
* Final – 1:48.50 (→ 6th place)
* Heat – 1:49.88
* B-Final – 1:50.07 (→ 13th place)

Men's 400m Freestyle

* Heat – 3:49.35
* Final – 3:49.87 (→ 4th place)
* Heat – 3:51.05
* Final – 3:51.04 (→ 6th place)

Men's 1500m Freestyle

* Heat – 15:16.72
* Final – 15:08.58 (→ 4th place)
* Heat – 15:41.14 (→ did not advance, 18th place)

Men's 100m Backstroke

* Heat – 55.82
* Final – 55.53 (→ 6th place)

Men's 200m Backstroke

* Heat – 2:00.01
* Final – 1:59.18 (→ Bronze Medal)
* Heat – 1:59.95
* Final – 2:01.27 (→ 7th place)

Men's 100m Butterfly

* Heat – 56.04 (→ did not advance, 39th place)

Men's 200m Butterfly

* Heat – 2:00.67 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Men's 200m Individual Medley

* Heat – 2:03.24
* B-Final – 2:03.49 (→ 11th place)

Men's 400m Individual Medley

* Heat – 4:19.63
* Final – 4:18.31 (→ 6th place)

Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay

* Heat – 7:22.69
* Final – 7:19.92 (→ 6th place)

<br> Women's 100m Freestyle

* Heat – 57.17 (→ did not advance, 24th place)

Women's 200m Backstroke

* Heat – 2:13.58
* Final – 2:14.56 (→ 7th place)

Women's 100m Breaststroke

* Heat – 1:10.25
* B-Final – 1:11.19 (→ 15th place)

Women's 100m Butterfly

* Heat – 1:01.83 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Women's 200m Butterfly

* Heat – 2:16.10 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

* Heat – 4:10.57
* Final – 4:10.59 (→ 8th place)

Synchronized swimming

Table tennis

Tennis

Men's Singles Competition

* First round — Defeated Jiří Novák (Czech Republic) 4–5 6–4 6–3
* Second round — Defeated Luis Morejon (Ecuador) 7–5 6–2
* Third round — Defeated Marc Rosset (Switzerland) 6–2 4–2 retired
* Quarter Finals — Lost to Leander Paes (India) 1–6 9–7
* First round — Defeated Carlos Costa (Spain) 6–3 6–2
* Second round — Defeated Oscar Ortiz (Mexico) 6–1 7–6
* Third round — Lost to Andre Agassi (United States) 6–2 4–6 2–6

<br> Women's Singles Competition

* First round — Lost to Patricia Hy-Boulais (Canada) 4–6 4–6
* First round — Defeated Clare Wood (Great Britain) 6–2 6–2
* Second round — Lost to Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (Spain) 1–6 3–6

Volleyball

Men's Indoor Team Competition

  • Preliminary round (group B)
*Defeated South Korea (3–0)
*Defeated Tunisia (3–0)
*Defeated Netherlands (3–0)
*Defeated Russia (3–0)
*Defeated Yugoslavia (3–0)
  • Quarterfinals
*Defeated Brazil (3–2)
  • Semifinals
*Defeated Yugoslavia (3–1)
  • Final
*Lost to the Netherlands (2–3) → Silver Medal
  • Team roster
*Lorenzo Bernardi
*Vigor Bovolenta
*Marco Bracci
*Luca Cantagalli
*Andrea Gardini
*Andrea Giani
*Pasquale Gravina
*Marco Meoni
*Samuele Papi
*Andrea Sartoretti
*Paolo Tofoli
*Andrea Zorzi

Water polo

Men's team competition

  • Preliminary round (group B)
* Defeated United States (10–7)
* Defeated Ukraine (8–6)
* Defeated Croatia (10–8)
* Defeated Greece (10–8)
* Defeated Romania (10–9)
  • Quarterfinals
* Defeated Russia (11–9)
  • Semifinals
* Lost to Croatia (6–7)
  • Bronze Medal Match
* Defeated Hungary (20–18) → Bronze Medal
  • Team roster
*Francesco Attolico
*Francesco Postiglione
*Alessandro Bovo
*Fabio Bencivenga
*Alessandro Calcaterra
*Roberto Calcaterra
*Luca Giustolisi
*Alberto Angelini
*Amedeo Pomilio
*Marco Gerini
*Leonardo Sottani
*Carlo Silipo
*Alberto Ghibellini

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

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