Italy at the 1996 Summer Olympics explained
Italy competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. 340 competitors, 236 men and 104 women, took part in 172 events in 27 sports.[1]
Medalists
Gold
- Antonio Rossi — Canoeing, Men's K1 500 metres Kayak Singles
- Antonio Rossi and Daniele Scarpa — Canoeing, Men's K2 1.000 metres Kayak Pairs
- Andrea Collinelli — Cycling, Men's 4.000 metres Individual Pursuit
- Silvio Martinello — Cycling, Men's Points Race
- Antonella Bellutti — Cycling, Women's Individual Pursuit
- Paola Pezzo — Cycling, Women's Cross-country Mountainbike
- Alessandro Puccini — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual Competition
- Maurizio Randazzo, Sandro Cuomo, and Angelo Mazzoni — Fencing, Men's Épée Team Competition
- Giovanna Trillini, Francesca Bortolozzi-Borella, and Valentina Vezzali — Fencing, Women's Foil Team Competition
- Yuri Chechi — Gymnastics, Men's Rings
- Agostino Abbagnale and Davide Tizzano — Rowing, Men's Double Sculls
- Roberto Di Donna — Shooting, Men's Air Pistol
- Ennio Falco — Shooting, Men's Skeet
Silver
- Fiona May — Athletics, Women's Long Jump
- Elisabetta Perrone — Athletics, Women's 10 km Walk
- Beniamino Bonomi — Canoeing, Men's K1 1.000 metres Kayak Singles
- Beniamino Bonomi and Daniele Scarpa — Canoeing, Men's K2 500 metres Kayak Pairs
- Imelda Chiappa — Cycling, Women's Individual Road Race
- Margherita Zalaffi, Laura Chiesa, and Elisa Uga — Fencing, Women's Épée Team Competition
- Valentina Vezzali — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual Competition
- Girolamo Giovinazzo — Judo, Men's Extra Lightweight (60 kg)
- Albano Pera — Shooting, Men's Double Trap
- Andrea Sartoretti, Paolo Tofoli, Andrea Zorzi, Pasquale Gravina, Marco Meoni, Samuele Papi, Luca Cantagalli, Andrea Gardini, Andrea Giani, Lorenzo Bernardi, Vigor Bovolenta, and Marco Bracci — Volleyball, Men's Team Competition
Bronze
- Michele Frangilli, Matteo Bisiani, and Andrea Parenti — Archery, Men's Team Competition
- Alessandro Lambruschini — Athletics, Men's 3.000 metres Steeplechase
- Roberta Brunet — Athletics, Women's 5.000 metres
- Josefa Idem Guerrini — Canoeing, Women's K1 500 metres Kayak Singles
- Raffaello Caserta, Luigi Tarantino, and Tonhi Terenzi – Fencing, Men's Sabre Team Competition
- Giovanna Trillini — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual Competition
- Ylenia Scapin — Judo, Women's Half Heavyweight (72 kg)
- Roberto Didonna — Shooting, Men's Free Pistol
- Andrea Benelli — Shooting, Men's Skeet
- Emanuele Merisi — Swimming, Men's 200m Backstroke
- Leonardo Sottani, Carlo Silipo, Luca Giustolisi, Amedeo Pomilio, Francesco Postiglione, Roberto Calcaterra, Marco Gerini, Alberto Ghibellini, Alessandro Bovo, Alessandro Calcaterra, Alberto Angelini, Francesco Attolico, and Fabio Bencivenga — Water Polo, Men's Team Competition
- Alessandra Sensini — Sailing, Women's Mistral Individual Competition
Archery
See main article: Archery at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
The Italian men received unfortunate rankings in the open round, and both Andrea Parenti and Matteo Bisiani quickly found themselves losing to eventual silver medallist Magnus Petersson, in the second and third rounds, respectively. Both had the highest score of any archer to lose in their round. Michele Frangilli advanced to the quarterfinal before facing eventual gold medallist Justin Huish. They won the bronze medal in the team round.
Women's Individual Competition:
Men's Individual Competition:
Women's Team Competition:
- Aldegani, Fantato, and di Blasi – round of 16, 9th place (0–1)
Men's Team Competition:
- Frangilli, Bisiani, and Parenti – Bronze Medal Match (3–1) → Bronze Medal
Athletics
See main article: Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Men's 100 metres
Men's 200 metres
Men's 800 metres
Men's 5,000 metres
- Semifinal — 14:06.45 (→ did not advance)
Men's 10,000 metres
- Final — 29:07.77 (→ 18th place)
Men's Marathon
Men's 4 × 100 m Relay
- Heat — did not finish (→ did not advance)
Men's 4 × 400 m Relay
- Semi Final — 3:02.56 (→ did not advance)
Men's 400m Hurdles
- Heat — 49.71s (→ did not advance)
Men's 3,000 metres Steeplechase
- Final — 8:29.67 (→ 9th place)
Men's Long Jump
- Qualification — 7.79m (→ did not advance)
Men's Shot Put
Men's Discus Throw
- Qualification — 60.08m (→ did not advance)
Men's Hammer Throw
- Qualification — 72.82m (→ did not advance)
Men's Decathlon
- Final Result — 7013 points (→ 30th place)
Men's 20 kilometres Walk
Men's 50 kilometres Walk
Women's 400 metres
Women's 5,000 metres
Women's 10,000 metres
- Qualification — 32:59.40 (→ did not advance)
Women's Marathon
Women's 100m Hurdles
Women's 400m Hurdles
- Qualification — 57.12 (→ did not advance)
Women's Discus Throw
- Qualification — 56.54m (→ did not advance)
Women's High Jump
- Final — 1.99m (→ 4th place)
Women's Long Jump
- Final — 7.02m (→ Silver Medal)
Women's Triple Jump
- Qualification — 13.74m (→ did not advance)
Women's Heptathlon
Women's 10 km Walk
Baseball
See main article: Baseball at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
The Italians were one of four teams that made their second appearance in Olympic baseball in 1996. They improved slightly, upon their seventh-place finish of four years earlier by taking the middle place in a three-way tie for fifth through seventh places. They had defeated Korea and Australia in the preliminary round but had lost their other five preliminary games.
Men's Team Competition:
Team roster
- Claudio Liverzani
- Pier Paolo Illuminati
- Roberto De Franceschi
- David Rigoli
- Marco Urbani
- Francesco Casolari
- Andrea Evangelisti
- Enrico Vecchi
- Massimiliano Masin
- Paolo Ceccaroli
- Ruggero Bagialemani
- Paolo Passerini
- Massimo Fochi
- Alberto d'Auria
- Roberto Cabalisti
- Dante Cabrini
- Marco Barboni
- Rolando Cretis
- Luigi Carrozza
- Fabio Betto
Basketball
See main article: Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Women's tournament
See main article: Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament.
- Preliminary round
Quarterfinals
Classification Round 5th−8th place
7th place game
Beach volleyball
See main article: Beach volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Boxing
See main article: Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's Flyweight (51 kg)
Men's Lightweight (60 kg)
Men's Light Middleweight (71 kg)
Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg)
Men's Super Heavyweight (> 91 kg)
- Second Round — Lost to Alexis Rubalcaba (Cuba), referee stopped contest in first round
Canoeing
See main article: Canoeing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Cycling
See main article: Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Road Competition
Men's Individual Time Trial
- Final — 1:09:18 (→ 19th place)
Women's Individual Road Race
- Final — 02:36:38 (→ Silver Medal)
- Final — 02:37:06 (→ 7th place)
- Final — 02:37:06 (→ 32nd place)
Women's Individual Time Trial
- Final – 38:47 (→ 8th place)
Track Competition
Men's Points Race
- Final — 37 points (→ Gold Medal)
Mountain Bike
Men's Cross Country
- Final — 2:26:05 (→ 8th place)
Women's Cross Country
- Final — 1:55.56 (→ 6th place)
Diving
See main article: Diving at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's 3m Springboard
- Preliminary Round — 356.55
- Semi Final — 202.80 (→ 15th place)
Women's 3m Springboard
- Preliminary Heat — 208.77 (→ did not advance, 24th place)
Women's 10m Platform
- Preliminary Heat — 202.86 (→ did not advance, 28th place)
Equestrian
See main article: Equestrian at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Fencing
See main article: Fencing at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Sixteen fencers, nine men and seven women, represented Italy in 1996.
- Men's foil
- Men's team foil
- Men's épée
- Men's team épée
- Men's sabre
- Men's team sabre
- Women's foil
- Women's team foil
- Women's épée
- Women's team épée
Football
See main article: Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Men's team competition
- Preliminary round (group C)
- Defeated (2–1) → Did not advance
- Team roster
Gymnastics
See main article: Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Judo
See main article: Judo at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Modern pentathlon
See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's Individual Competition:
Rowing
See main article: Rowing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Sailing
See main article: Sailing at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Shooting
See main article: Shooting at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Swimming
See main article: Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's 50m Freestyle
- B-Final – 22.96 (→ 14th place)
Men's 200m Freestyle
- B-Final – 1:50.07 (→ 13th place)
Men's 400m Freestyle
- Final – 3:51.04 (→ 6th place)
Men's 1500m Freestyle
- Heat – 15:41.14 (→ did not advance, 18th place)
Men's 100m Backstroke
- Final – 55.53 (→ 6th place)
Men's 200m Backstroke
- Final – 2:01.27 (→ 7th place)
Men's 100m Butterfly
- Heat – 56.04 (→ did not advance, 39th place)
Men's 200m Butterfly
- Heat – 2:00.67 (→ did not advance, 17th place)
Men's 200m Individual Medley
- B-Final – 2:03.49 (→ 11th place)
Men's 400m Individual Medley
- Final – 4:18.31 (→ 6th place)
Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay
- Final – 7:19.92 (→ 6th place)
Women's 100m Freestyle
- Heat – 57.17 (→ did not advance, 24th place)
Women's 200m Backstroke
- Final – 2:14.56 (→ 7th place)
Women's 100m Breaststroke
- B-Final – 1:11.19 (→ 15th place)
Women's 100m Butterfly
- Heat – 1:01.83 (→ did not advance, 17th place)
Women's 200m Butterfly
- Heat – 2:16.10 (→ did not advance, 17th place)
Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay
- Final – 4:10.59 (→ 8th place)
Synchronized swimming
See main article: Synchronized swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Table tennis
See main article: Table tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Tennis
See main article: Tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Men's Singles Competition
- First round — Defeated Jiří Novák (Czech Republic) 4–5 6–4 6–3
- Third round — Defeated Marc Rosset (Switzerland) 6–2 4–2 retired
- Third round — Lost to Andre Agassi (United States) 6–2 4–6 2–6
Women's Singles Competition
- First round — Defeated Clare Wood (Great Britain) 6–2 6–2
Volleyball
See main article: Volleyball at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Men's Indoor Team Competition
- Preliminary round (group B)
- Defeated South Korea (3–0)
- Defeated Netherlands (3–0)
- Defeated Yugoslavia (3–0)
- Quarterfinals
- Defeated Brazil (3–2)
- Semifinals
- Defeated Yugoslavia (3–1)
- Final
- Lost to the Netherlands (2–3) → Silver Medal
- Team roster
Water polo
See main article: Water polo at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Men's team competition
- Preliminary round (group B)
- Defeated United States (10–7)
- Defeated Romania (10–9)
- Quarterfinals
- Defeated Russia (11–9)
- Semifinals
- Lost to Croatia (6–7)
- Bronze Medal Match
- Defeated Hungary (20–18) → Bronze Medal
- Team roster
Weightlifting
See main article: Weightlifting at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Wrestling
See main article: Wrestling at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Notes and References
- Web site: Italy at the 1996 Summer Games . 2012-02-15 . sports-reference.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110914184834/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/ITA/summer/1996/ . 2011-09-14 .