Italy competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (equestrian events). 129 competitors, 114 men and 15 women, took part in 76 events in 13 sports. As the country hosted the next Olympics in Rome, the flag of Italy was hoisted at the closing ceremony.
Medalists
Gold
- Leandro Faggin — Cycling, Men's 1.000m Time Trial
- Antonio Domenicali, Leandro Faggin, Valentino Gasparella, Franco Gandini and Virginio Pizzali — Cycling, Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit
- Ercole Baldini — Cycling, Men's Individual Road Race
- Luigi Carpaneda, Manlio di Rosa, Giancarlo Bergamini, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Antonio Spallino, and Vittorio Lucarelli — Fencing, Men's Foil Team
- Carlo Pavesi — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
- Giorgio Anglesio, Franco Bertinetti, Giuseppe Delfino, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Carlo Pavesi, and Alberto Pellegrino — Fencing, Men's Épée Team
- Alberto Winkler, Romano Sgheiz, Angelo Vanzin, Franco Trincavelli, and Ivo Stefanoni — Rowing, Men's Coxed Fours
- Galliano Rossini — Shooting, Men's Trap Shooting
Silver
- Franco Nenci — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight
- Guglielmo Pesenti — Cycling, Men's 1.000m Sprint (Scratch)
- Raimondo d'Inzeo — Equestrian, Jumping Individual
- Piero d'Inzeo, Raimondo d'Inzeo, and Salvatore Oppes — Equestrian, Jumping Team
- Giancarlo Bergamini — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual
- Giuseppe Delfino — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
- Ignazio Fabra — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Flyweight
- Agostino Straulino and Nicolò Rode — Sailing, Men's Star Competition
Bronze
- Giacomo Bozzano — Boxing, Men's Heavyweight
- Giuseppe Ogna and Cesare Pinarello — Cycling, Men's 2.000m Tandem
- Piero d'Inzeo — Equestrian, Jumping Individual
- Antonio Spallino — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual
- Edoardo Mangiarotti — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
- Alessandro Ciceri — Shooting, Men's Trap Shooting
- Ermanno Pignatti — Weightlifting, Men's Middleweight
- Alberto Pigaiani — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight
- Adelmo Bulgarelli — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Heavyweight
Athletics
Results
Boxing
Cycling
- Sprint
- Guglielmo Pesenti — Silver Medal
- Time trial
- Leandro Faggin — 1:09.8 (→ Gold Medal)
- Tandem
- Cesare Pinarello
Giuseppe Ogna — Bronze Medal
- Team pursuit
- Antonio Domenicali
Franco Gandini
Leandro Faggin
Valentino Gasparella
Virginio Pizzali — 4:37.4 (→ Gold Medal)
- Team road race
- Ercole Baldini
Arnaldo Pambianco
Dino Bruni — 36 points (→ 4th place)
- Individual road race
- Ercole Baldini — 5:21:17 (→ Gold Medal)
- Arnaldo Pambianco — 5:23:40 (→ 7th place)
- Dino Bruni — 5:27:28 (→ 28th place)
- Aurelio Cestari — 5:34:20 (→ 34th place)
Fencing
19 fencers, 17 men and 2 women, represented Italy in 1956.
- Men's foil
- Giancarlo Bergamini
- Antonio Spallino
- Edoardo Mangiarotti
- Men's team foil
- Edoardo Mangiarotti, Manlio Di Rosa, Giancarlo Bergamini, Antonio Spallino, Luigi Carpaneda, Vittorio Lucarelli
- Men's épée
- Carlo Pavesi
- Giuseppe Delfino
- Edoardo Mangiarotti
- Men's team épée
- Edoardo Mangiarotti, Giuseppe Delfino, Carlo Pavesi, Franco Bertinetti, Giorgio Anglesio, Alberto Pellegrino
- Men's sabre
- Luigi Narduzzi
- Roberto Ferrari
- Gastone Darè
- Men's team sabre
- Roberto Ferrari, Domenico Pace, Mario Ravagnan, Giuseppe Comini, Luigi Narduzzi, Gastone Darè
- Women's foil
- Bruna Colombetti-Peroncini
- Velleda Cesari
Gymnastics
Modern pentathlon
One male pentathlete represented Italy in 1956.
- Individual
- Adriano Facchini
Rowing
Italy had 21 male rowers participate in five out of seven rowing events in 1956.
- Men's single sculls
- Stefano Martinoli
- Men's coxless pair
- Alvaro Banchi
- Maurizio Clerici
- Men's coxless four
- Giuseppe Moioli
- Attilio Cantoni
- Giovanni Zucchi
- Abbondio Marcelli
- Men's coxed four
- Alberto Winkler
- Romano Sgheiz
- Angelo Vanzin
- Franco Trincavelli
- Ivo Stefanoni (cox)
- Men's eight
- Antonio Amato
- Salvatore Nuvoli
- Cosimo Campioto
- Livio Tesconi
- Antonio Casoar
- Gian Carlo Casalini
- Sergio Tagliapietra
- Arrigo Menicocci
- Vincenzo Rubolotta (cox)
Sailing
Shooting
Five shooters represented Italy in 1956. In the trap event, Galliano Rossini won gold and Alessandro Ciceri won bronze.
- 25 m pistol
- Michelangelo Borriello
- 50 m pistol
- Claudio Fiorentini
- 50 m rifle, three positions
- Carlo Varetto
- Trap
- Galliano Rossini
- Alessandro Ciceri
Swimming
Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay
- Federico Dennerlein, Paolo Galletti, Guido Elmi, and Anthony Romani
- Final — 8:46.2 (→ 7th place)
Water polo
- Men's Team Competition
- Team Roster
- Cosimo Antonelli
- Alfonso Buonocore
- Enzo Cavazzoni
- Maurizio d'Achille
- Giuseppe d'Altrui
- Federico Dennerlein
- Luigi Mannelli
- Angelo Marciani
- Paolo Pucci
- Cesare Rubini
Weightlifting
Wrestling
References
External links
- Official Olympic Reports
- International Olympic Committee results database
- Media related to Italy at the 1956 Summer Olympics at Wikimedia Commons
