Italy at the 1968 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	ITA
Nocname:	Italian National Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1968
Website:
Location:	Mexico City
Competitors:	167 (152 men, 15 women)
Sports:	17
Flagbearer:	Raimondo D'Inzeo
Rank:	13
Gold:	3
Silver:	4
Bronze:	9
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

Italy (Spanish; Castilian: Italia) competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. 167 competitors, 152 men and 15 women, took part in 103 events in 17 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Gold

• Pierfranco Vianelli - Cycling, Men's Individual Road Race
• Klaus Dibiasi - Diving, Men's Platform
• Primo Baran and Renzo Sambo (Bruno Cipolla coxswain) - Rowing, Men's Coxed Pairs

Silver

• Giordano Turrini - Cycling, Men's 1000m Sprint (Scratch)
• Klaus Dibiasi - Diving, Men's Springboard
• Wladimiro Calarese, Pier-Luigi Chicca, Michele Maffei, Rolando Rigoli, and Cesare Salvadori - Fencing, Men's Sabre Team
• Romano Garagnani - Shooting, Men's Skeet Shooting

Bronze

• Eddy Ottoz - Athletics, Men's 110m Hurdles
• Giuseppe Gentile - Athletics, Men's triple jump
• Giorgio Bambini - Boxing, Men's Heavyweight
• Lorenzo Bosisio, Cipriano Chemello, Giorgio Morbiato, and Luigi Roncaglia - Cycling, Men's 4000m Team Pursuit
• Giovanni Bramucci, Vittorio Marcelli, Mauro Simonetti, and Pierfranco Vianelli - Cycling, Men's Team Road Race
• Gianluigi Saccaro - Fencing, Men's Épée
• Abramo Albini, Tullio Baraglia, Renato Bosatta, and Pier Angelo Conti - Rowing, Men's Coxless Fours
• Fabio Albarelli - Sailing, Men's Finn
• Franco Cavallo and Camillo Gargano - Sailing, Men's Star

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Basketball

See main article: Basketball at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group A)

• Defeated Philippines (91-66)

• Defeated Panama (94-87)

• Defeated Puerto Rico (68-65)

• Defeated Senegal (81-55)

• Lost to Yugoslavia (69-80)

• Lost to United States (61-100)

• Defeated Spain (98-86)
• Classification Matches

• 5th/8th place: Lost to Poland (52-66)

• 7th/8th place: Lost to Spain (72-88)
• Team Roster

• Carlo Recalcati

• Giusto Pellanera

• Gianfranco Lombardi

• Enrico Bovone

• Massimo Masini

• Paolo Vittori

• Gabriele Vianello

• Guido Gatti

• Ottorino Flaborea

• Sauro Bufalini

• Massimo Cosmelli

• Gianluigi Jessi

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Sixteen cyclists represented Italy in 1968.

Individual road race

• Pierfranco Vianelli
• Giovanni Bramucci
• Flavio Martini
• Tino Conti

Team time trial

• Giovanni Bramucci
• Vittorio Marcelli
• Mauro Simonetti
• Pierfranco Vianelli

Sprint

• Giordano Turrini
• Dino Verzini

1000m time trial

• Gianni Sartori

Tandem

• Walter Gorini
• Luigi Borghetti

Individual pursuit

• Cipriano Chemello

Team pursuit

• Lorenzo Bosisio
• Cipriano Chemello
• Luigi Roncaglia
• Giorgio Morbiato
• Gino Pancino

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 1968 Summer Olympics. 19 fencers, 14 men and 5 women, represented Italy in 1968.

Men's foil

• Arcangelo Pinelli
• Pasquale La Ragione
• Nicola Granieri

Men's team foil

• Pasquale La Ragione, Alfredo Del Francia, Nicola Granieri, Arcangelo Pinelli, Michele Maffei

Men's épée

• Gianluigi Saccaro
• Gianfranco Paolucci
• Claudio Francesconi

Men's team épée

• Gianfranco Paolucci, Claudio Francesconi, Giovanni Battista Breda, Gianluigi Saccaro, Antonio Albanese

Men's sabre

• Rolando Rigoli
• Wladimiro Calarese
• Cesare Salvadori

Men's team sabre

• Wladimiro Calarese, Rolando Rigoli, Pierluigi Chicca, Michele Maffei, Cesare Salvadori

Women's foil

• Giovanna Masciotta
• Antonella Ragno-Lonzi
• Bruna Colombetti-Peroncini

Women's team foil

• Antonella Ragno-Lonzi, Giulia Lorenzoni, Giovanna Masciotta, Bruna Colombetti-Peroncini, Silvana Sconciafurno

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Modern pentathlon

See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Three male pentathletes represented Italy in 1968.

Individual

• Mario Medda
• Giancarlo Morresi
• Nicolo Deligia

Team

• Mario Medda
• Giancarlo Morresi
• Nicolo Deligia

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Sailing

See main article: Sailing at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Seven shooters, all men, represented Italy in 1968.

25 m pistol

• Giovanni Liverzani
• Ugo Amicosante

50 m rifle, three positions

• Giuseppe De Chirico

50 m rifle, prone

• Giuseppe De Chirico

Trap

• Galliano Rossini
• Ennio Mattarelli

Skeet

• Romano Garagnani
• Giancarlo Chiono

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Men's Competition

• Pietro Boscaini, Michele D'Oppido, Franco Del Campo, Franco Chino, Antonio Attanasio, Angelo Tozzi, Giampiero Fossati, and Massimo Sacchi.

Women's Competition

• Mietta Strumolo and Novella Calligaris

Water polo

See main article: Water polo at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Men's Team Competition

• Team Roster

• Alberto Alberani

• Eraldo Pizzo

• Mario Cevasco

• Gianni Lonzi

• Enzo Barlocco

• Franco Lavoratori

• Gianni de Magistris

• Alessandro Ghibellini

• Giancarlo Guerrini

• Paolo Ferrando

• Eugenio Merello

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Italy at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games . 7 September 2014 . sports-reference.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141009055031/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/ITA/summer/1968/ . 9 October 2014 .