Italy at the 1960 Summer Paralympics explained

Npc:	ITA
Npcname:	Comitato Italiano Paralimpico
Games:	Summer Paralympics
Year:	1960
Website:
Location:	Rome
Competitors:	65^[1]
Rank:	1
Gold:	29
Silver:	28
Bronze:	23
Appearances:	auto

Italy was the host country of the inaugural Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome. The country fielded the largest delegation at the Games, with twenty-seven athletes (twenty-three men and four women) competing in athletics, snooker, swimming, table tennis and wheelchair fencing.^[2]

Medals

27 of Italy's competitors won medals, in 6 sports, enabling the country to top the medal chart with 29 gold medals, 28 silver and 23 bronze.^[3]

Medalists

• The information from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) website is based on sources which does not present all information from earlier Paralympic Games (1960-1984), such as relay and team members.Web site: Paralympics Games - Results. 17 April 2011.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Precision javelin throw B
			Precision javelin throw C
			Javelin throw C
			Club throw A
			Club throw B
			Javelin throw A
			Javelin throw B
			Precision javelin throw A
			Precision javelin throw B
			Precision javelin throw C
			Shot put A
			Shot put B
			25 m crawl complete class 2
			25 m breaststroke complete class 2
			25 m backstroke incomplete class 2
			25 m crawl incomplete class 2
			25 m breaststroke incomplete class 2
			50 m breaststroke complete class 5
			50 m backstroke incomplete class 4
			50 m crawl incomplete class 4
			50 m breaststroke complete class 4
			25 m crawl incomplete class 2
			25 m breaststroke incomplete class 2
			Singles C
			Doubles B
			Doubles C
			Men's sabre individual
			Men's sabre team
			Women's foil individual
			Club throw A
	Anna Maria Galimberti	Athletics	Javelin throw A
			Shot put A
			Shot put B
			Precision javelin throw A
			Precision javelin throw B
			Precision javelin throw C
			Javelin throw A
			Shot put A
			Shot put B
			Club throw B
			Javelin throw B
	Carfagna	Swimming	50 m backstroke complete class 5
			25 m backstroke complete class 2
	Di Pasquo	Swimming	50 m breaststroke complete class 4
	Grimaldi	Swimming	25 m breaststroke incomplete class 2
	Girardi	Swimming	25 m crawl incomplete class 1
	Grimaldi	Swimming	25 m crawl incomplete class 2
	Fontana	Swimming	25 m crawl complete class 2
			50 m backstroke complete class 4
			25 m backstroke incomplete class 2
			Singles A
			Singles B
			Doubles C
			Doubles B
			Men's sabre individual
			Men's sabre team
			Women's foil individual
			Club throw A
	Castelli	Athletics	Precision javelin throw B
			Club throw B
	Maria Scutti	Athletics	Club throw C
			Javelin throw B
			Javelin throw B
			Javelin throw C
			Shot put A
			Men's paraplegics
	Pasquarelli	Swimming	25 m backstroke incomplete class 1
	Fontana	Swimming	25 m breaststroke complete class 2
			50 m breaststroke complete class 3
			25 m breaststroke incomplete class 2
	Ottavio Moscone	Swimming	25 m crawl incomplete class 2
			50 m crawl complete class 5
			50 m backstroke complete class 3
	Mazzoni	Swimming	25 m backstroke incomplete class 2
			Singles B
			Singles B
			Singles C
			Men's sabre individual
			Men's sabre team
			Women's foil individual

Multiple medallists

These are official report of International Paralympic Committee.^[4]

	Athlete
1	align=left bgcolor=pink	Maria Scutti	10	3	2
2	align=left bgcolor=pink	Anna Maria Toso	3	5	2
3	Enzo Santini	3	0	0
4	Franco Rossi	2	1	2
	Giovanni Ferraris	2	1	2
6	Carlo Jannucci	2	1	0
7	Renzo Rogo	2	0	0

See also

• Italy at the 1960 Summer Olympics

External links

• Media Guide Tokyo 2020

Notes and References

1. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rz5SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DHkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7385,4722170&dq=wheelchair+basketball+1960+rome&hl=en Paralympic Games Open At Rome Olympics Site
2. Web site: Italy at the 1960 Summer Paralympics. International Paralympic Committee. 17 April 2011.
3. Web site: Italy at the 1960 Summer Paralympics. International Paralympic Committee. 17 April 2011.
4. Web site: Multi-Medallists. paralympic.org. 13 September 2012. 13 September 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120913050620/http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/reports.php?type=multi&sport=all&gender=all. dead.