Italy at the 1908 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	ITA
Nocname:	Italian National Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1908
Website:
Location:	London
Competitors:	68 (all men)
Flagbearer:	Pietro Bragaglia
Rank:	9
Gold:	2
Silver:	2
Bronze:	0
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

Italy competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, England. It was the third appearance of the European nation, which had not competed at the 1904 Summer Olympics. It was originally going to host the Games, but the eruption of Mount Vesuvius meant the UK hosted them.^[1]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			All-around
			Greco-Roman lightweight
			800 metres
			Team Sabre

Results by event

Athletics

See main article: article and Athletics at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Italy's best athletics result was Emilio Lunghi's silver medal in the 800 metres. Dorando Pietri's first-place finish in the marathon was erased by disqualification as a pair of race officials had helped him across the finish line.

Event	Place	Athlete	Heats	Semifinals	Final

	Heats		12.0 seconds 2nd, heat 16	Did not advance
	Heats	Unknown 4th, heat 7

	Heats	Umberto Barrozzi	Unknown 2nd, heat 8	Did not advance
	Heats	Unknown 5th, heat 11

	Heats		Unknown 2nd, heat 4	Did not advance
		Unknown 2nd, heat 10
		Unknown 3rd, heat 11

	bgcolor=silver	2nd		bgcolor=lightgray	None held	1:57.2 1st, semifinal 4	1:54.2

	Semi- finalist	Emilio Lunghi	None held	Unknown 2nd, semifinal 3	Did not advance
—	Massimo Cartasegna	Did not finish —, semifinal 3

	Semi- finalist	Massimo Cartasegna	bgcolor=lightgray	None held	Unknown 2nd, semifinal 1	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance

	—		None held	15:22.6 5 points, team=X	Did not advance
Massimo Cartasegna		16:26.0 6 points, team=X
		Did not finish No score, team=X
		Did not finish No score, team=X
Emilio Lunghi		Did not finish No score, team=X

	Semi- finalist	Pericle Pagliani	bgcolor=lightgray	None held	Unknown 3rd, semifinal 2	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance

	—	Dorando Pietri	None held	Disqualified
		Did not finish
		Did not start

Event	Place	Athlete	Distance

	12-42		Unknown

	10th	Umberto Avattaneo	29.15 metres

	10-33	Emilio Brambilla	Unknown

Cycling

See main article: article and Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

No Italian cyclist advanced to the finals in any event. Morisetti's second-place finish in the fourth semifinal of the sprint was the best performance by an Italian cyclist.

Event	Place	Cyclist	Heats	Semifinals	Final

	Semi- finalist		None held	Unknown 3rd, semifinal 1	Did not advance
		Unknown 3rd, semifinal 5
		Unknown 3rd, semifinal 6

	Semi- finalist	Guglielmo Morisetti	bgcolor=lightgray	None held	Unknown 4th, semifinal 6	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance

	—	Cesare Zanzottera	None held	Did not finish —, semifinal 2	Did not advance
Guglielmo Malatesta		Did not finish —, semifinal 2
		Did not finish —, semifinal 2

	Semi- finalist	Guglielmo Morisetti	1:21.4 1st, heat 11	Unknown 2nd, semifinal 4	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance
Heats	Guglielmo Malatesta	Unknown 3rd, heat 1	Did not advance

Diving

See main article: article and Diving at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Event	Place	Diver	Preliminary groups	Semi- finals	Final

	19th		65.80 points 4th, group 4	Did not advance

Fencing

See main article: article and Fencing at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Event	Place	Fencer	First round	Second round	Semi- final	Final

	Second round		3-2 (3rd in L)	2-3 (3rd in 6)	Did not advance
		4-2 (2nd in F)	1-2 (3rd in 8)
		3-3 (3rd in B)	1-3 (4th in 3)
		3-1 (1st in K)	1-3 (4th in 5)
First round		4-4 (4th in D)	Did not advance
		4-4 (4th in E)
		5-3 (4th in I)
		2-4 (4th in J)
		3-4 (5th in H)

	Semi- finalist	Marcelo Bertinetti	4-1 (1st in H)	4-0 (1st in 7)	3-4 (5th in 1)	Did not advance
Sante Ceccherini	Semi- finalist	4-1 (2nd in G)	3-1 (2nd in 5)	0-7 (8th in 2)
Second round	Riccardo Nowak	4-2 (2nd in M)	1-3 (4th in 3)	Did not advance
Second round	Alessandro Pirzio Biroli	2-1 (1st in E)	1-3 (4th in 7)
First round	Dino Diana	2-3 (5th in C)	Did not advance
		2-3 (5th in K)
	Pietro Sarzano	2-4 (6th in J)

Event	Place	Fencers	Play-in match	First round	Semi- finals	Final	Repechage	Silver medal match

	4th		Bye	Defeated Bohemia 12-7 Advanced to semifinals	Lost to Belgium 9-8 Out 4th place	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance	Not relegated

	bgcolor=silver	2nd	Marcello Bertinetti (all) Riccardo Nowak (rep) Abelardo Olivier (all) Alessandro Pirzio-Biroli (all) Sante Ceccherini (1st, sf) ^[2]	bgcolor=lightgray	Not held	Defeated Great Britain 11-5 Advanced to semifinals	Lost to Hungary 11-5 Relegated to repechage	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance	Defeated Germany 10-4 Advanced to silver medal match	Defeated Bohemia Walkover Won silver medal

Gymnastics

See main article: article and Gymnastics at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Gymnast	Event	Score	Rank
Alberto Braglia		317
	230	19
	226.75	21

Event	Place	Gymnast	Score

	6th		316

Rowing

See main article: article and Rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Event	Place	Rowers	First round	Quarter- finals	Semi- finals	Final

	5th		Bye	Unknown 2nd, quarterfinal 2	Did not advance

Swimming

See main article: article and Swimming at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Event	Place	Swimmer	Heats	Semifinals	Final

	Heats		Unknown 3–6, heat 1	Did not advance

	Heats		Unknown 3rd, heat 6	Did not advance
—	Davide Baiardo	Did not finish —, heat 4

	Heats		28:52.6 3rd, heat 1	Did not advance

	Heats		Unknown 3rd, heat 4	Did not advance

	Heats	Amilcare Beretta	Unknown 4th, heat 4	Did not advance

Wrestling

See main article: article and Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Italy's lone wrestler in 1908 was undefeated in his four bouts, winning each match to win the gold medal in the Greco-Roman lightweight class.

Event	Place	Wrestler	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter- finals	Semi- finals	Final

	bgcolor=gold	1st		Bye				Defeated Orlov

Opponent nation	Wins	Losses	Percent
	1	0	1.000
	1	0	1.000
	2	0	1.000

Total	4	0	1.000

Bibliography

Book: Cook, Theodore Andrea . 1908 . The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report . British Olympic Association . London.
Web site: De Wael . Herman . 2001 . Top London 1908 Olympians . Herman's Full Olympians . 9 June 2006 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060712020925/http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/toplon08.html . 12 July 2006 .

External links

Italy at the 1908 London Summer Games

Notes and References

Web site: Londra 1908: le prime Olimpiadi inglesi e Dorando Pietri. it. Siamo nel 1901 quando il CIO si riunisce per decidere chi sarà la città ad ospitare la quarta edizione Olimpica. A contendersi questo onore ci furono Roma e Berlino, e ne uscì vincitrice la prima. Purtroppo, però, la nostra città italiana dovette ritirarsi qualche anno prima dei Giochi a causa dell’eruzione del Vesuvio. giochiolimpiciparalimpici.wordpress.com. 22 March 2018.
This fencer competed in the team event, but is not listed in the IOC medallist database.