| Noc: | ITA |
| Nocname: | Italian National Olympic Committee |
| Year: | 1997 |
| Games: | Summer Universiade |
| Location: | Sicily |
| Sports: | 10 |
| Gold: | 7 |
| Silver: | 14 |
| Bronze: | 10 |
| Rank: | 6 |
Italy competed at the 1997 Summer Universiade, as host nation, in Catania and won 32 medals.[1]
| Sport | Tot. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | ||
| 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | ||
| 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Total | 7 | 14 | 10 | 31 |
| width=13% | Sport | width=29% | width=29% | width=29% | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fencing | Valentina Vezzali (foil) | Anna Giacometti (foil) | Alessandro Puccini (foil) | ||||
| Men's Team Sabre | Women's Team Foil | Davide Burroni (épée) | |||||
| Luigi Tarantino (sabre) | |||||||
| Swimming | Emanuele Merisi (200 mbackstroke) | Marco Formentini (1500 m freestyle) | Marco Formentini (800 m freestyle) | ||||
| Lorenzo Vismara (50 m freestyle) | Stefano Battistelli (400 m medley) | ||||||
| Lorenzo Vismara (100 m freestyle) | Women's 4×200 m freestyle relay | ||||||
| Men's 4×100 m medley relay | |||||||
| Women's 4×100 m freestyle relay | |||||||
| Athletics | Simone Zanon (5000 metres) | Paolo Dal Soglio (shot put) | Rachid Berradi (10,000 metres) | ||||
| Lucilla Andreucci (10,000 metres) | Arturo Di Mezza (20 km walk) | ||||||
| Agata Balsamo (half marathon) | Annarita Sidoti (10 km walk) | ||||||
| Rossella Giordano (10 km walk) | |||||||
| Gymnastics | Jury Chechi (rings) | Roberto Galli (rings) | Alberto Busnari (pommell horse) | ||||
| Football | Men's National Team | ||||||
| Water polo | Men's National Team | ||||||
| Volleyball | Men's National Team | ||||||
| Tennis | Massimo Calvelli Lorenzo Pennisi (Men's doubles) | ||||||
| Germana Di Natale (Single) | |||||||