| Noc: | ITA |
| Nocname: | Italian National Olympic Committee |
| Year: | 1981 |
| Games: | Summer Universiade |
| Location: | Bucharest |
| Sports: | 10 |
| Gold: | 6 |
| Silver: | 4 |
| Bronze: | 3 |
| Rank: | 5 |
Italy competed at the 1981 Summer Universiade in Bucharest, Romania and won 13 medals.[1]
| Sport | Tot. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | ||
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Total | 6 | 4 | 3 | 13 |
| width=13% | Sport | width=29% | width=29% | width=29% | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athletics | Maurizio Damilano (20 km walk) | Carlo Mattioli (20 km walk) | Mariano Scartezzini (3000 m st) | ||||
| valign=top | Gabriella Dorio (1500 m) | valign=top | Marisa Masullo (200 m) | valign=top rowspan=1 | Patrizia Lombardo Marisa Masullo Carla Mercurio Antonella Capriotti (Women's 4x100 metres relay) | ||
| Sara Simeoni (high jump) | Gabriella Dorio (800 m) | ||||||
| Fencing | Men's Team Foil | valign=top rowspan=3 | Federico Cervi (foil) | ||||
| Giovanni Scalzo (sabre) | |||||||
| Men's Team Sabre | |||||||
| Tennis | Angelo Binaghi Raimondo Ricci Bitti (men's doubles) | ||||||