Italy at the 1972 Winter Olympics explained

Noc:	ITA
Nocname:	Italian National Olympic Committee
Games:	Winter Olympics
Year:	1972
Website:
Location:	Sapporo
Competitors:	44 (41 men, 3 women)
Sports:	9
Flagbearer:	Luciano de Paolis
Rank:	8
Gold:	2
Silver:	2
Bronze:	1
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

Italy competed at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Men's giant slalom
			Men's doubles
			Men's slalom
			Four-man
			Men's slalom

Alpine skiing

See main article: Italy at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1972.

See also: Alpine skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Gustavo Thoeni	Downhill					1:54.37	13
Stefano Anzi						1:54.15	11
Giuliano Besson						1:54.15	11
Marcello Varallo						1:53.85	10
Rolando Thoeni	Giant Slalom	1:35.83	23	1:44.90	30	3:20.73	27
Helmuth Schmalzl		1:35.72	21	1:39.63	13	3:15.35	16
Eberardo Schmalzl		1:34.22	16	1:40.50	18	3:14.72	13
Gustavo Thoeni		1:32.19	3	1:37.43	2	3:09.62

Men's slalom

Athlete	Classification		Final
	Time	Rank	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Erwin Stricker	DSQ	-	DSQ	-	-	-	DSQ	-
Gustavo Thoeni	bye		56.69	8	53.59	1	1:50.28
Rolando Thoeni	bye		56.14	5	54.16	3	1:50.30
Eberardo Schmalzl	bye		56.11	4	54.72	9	1:50.83	6

Biathlon

See main article: article and Biathlon at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ^1	Rank
20 km	Lino Jordan	1'16:26.09	12	1'28:26.09	40
	Pierantonio Clementi	1'19:28.74	6	1'25:28.74	31
	Giovanni Astegiano	1'16:45.90	6	1'22:45.90	22
	Willy Bertin	1'16:03.04	5	1'21:03.04	16

¹ One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

² A penalty loop of 200 metres had to be skied per missed target.

Bobsleigh

See main article: article and Bobsleigh at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
ITA-1	Gianfranco Gaspari Mario Armano	Two-man	1:15.62	3	1:16.52	7	1:13.71	2	1:14.60	7	5:00.45	4
ITA-2	Enzo Vicario Corrado Dal Fabbro	Two-man	1:17.20	12	1:16.77	9	1:14.23	5	1:15.46	14	5:03.66	10

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
ITA-1	Nevio De Zordo Adriano Frassinelli Corrado Dal Fabbro Gianni Bonichon	Four-man	1:11.39	5	1:11.33	1	1:10.19	2	1:10.92	4	4:43.83
ITA-2	Gianfranco Gaspari Roberto Zandonella Mario Armano Luciano De Paolis	Four-man	1:11.89	10	1:12.49	12	1:11.11	8	1:11.24	6	4:46.73	8

Cross-country skiing

See main article: article and Cross-country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Franco Nones	49:35.43	40
	Gianfranco Stella	48:17.14	28
	Tonio Biondini	48:10.09	27
	Carlo Favre	47:59.07	24
30 km	Attilio Lombard	1'45:03.72	36
	Renzo Chiocchetti	1'44:35.03	32
	Ulrico Kostner	1'42:44.06	24
	Elviro Blanc	1'41:44.32	20
50 km	Ulrico Kostner	DNF	-
	Tonio Biondini	2'54:28.39	25
	Attilio Lombard	2'51:39.65	22
	Elviro Blanc	2'51:25.19	21

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Figure skating

See main article: article and Figure skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Women

Luge

See main article: article and Luge at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Leo Atzwanger	54.41	21	54.32	23	53.38	23	53.22	20	3:35.33	21
Paul Hildgartner	53.66	12	52.76	6	51.94	5	52.19	9	3:30.55	8
Emilio Lechner	53.59	11	53.49	13	52.20	8	52.13	8	3:31.41	11
Karl Brunner	53.14	9	53.26	11	52.28	10	52.19	9	3:30.87	9

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Paul Hildgartner Walter Plaikner	44.21	1	44.14	2	1:28.35
Sigisfredo Mair Ernesto Mair	45.22	8	45.04	8	1:30.26	8

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Erika Lechner	48.76	21	49.39	21	50.51	21	DNF	-	DNF	-
Sarah Felder	45.90	8	45.93	6	45.99	12	45.08	8	3:02.90	8

Nordic combined

See main article: article and Nordic combined at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
		Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Fabio Morandini	Individual	58.5	67.0	141.5	36	50:43.7	199.180	11	340.680	30
Ezio Damolin		70.0	73.5	175.2	21	50:58.1	197.020	13	372.220	16

Ski jumping

See main article: article and Ski jumping at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Speed skating

See main article: article and Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Bruno Toniolli	42.67	25
1500 m	Giancarlo Gloder	2:14.07	27
	Bruno Toniolli	2:10.24	18
5000 m	Bruno Toniolli	7:57.30	17
	Giancarlo Gloder	7:55.77	15
10,000 m	Giancarlo Gloder	16:21.42	17
	Bruno Toniolli	16:14.52	16

See also

• Italy at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1972

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1972, full results by sports-reference.com