Italy at the 1948 Summer Olympics

Italy at the 1948 Summer Olympics
IOC code	ITA
NOC	Italian National Olympic Committee
Website	www.coni.it (Italian)
in London
Competitors	215 (195 men, 20 women) in 16 sports
Flag bearer	Giovanni Rocca
Medals Ranked 5th	Gold Silver Bronze Total 8 11 8 27
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

Italy competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, England. 215 competitors, 195 men and 20 women, took part in 89 events in 16 sports.^[1]

Medalists

 Gold

• Adolfo Consolini (Athletics)
• Franco Faggi, Giovanni Invernizzi, Giuseppe Moioli, Elio Morille (Rowing)
• Mario Ghella (Cycling)
• Renato Perona, Ferdinando Teruzzi (Cycling)
• Pietro Lombardi (Wrestling)
• Ermenegildo Arena, Emilio Bulgarelli, Pasquale Buonocore, Aldo Ghira, Mario Majoni, Geminio Ognio, Gianfranco Pandolfini, Tullo Pandolfini, Cesare Rubini (Water polo)
• Ernesto Formenti (Boxing)
• Luigi Cantone (Fencing)

 Silver

• Edera Cordiale (Athletics)
• Amelia Piccinini (Athletics)
• Giuseppe Tosi (Athletics)
• Alberto Radi (tim.), Giovanni Steffè, Aldo Tarlao (Rowing)
• Arnaldo Benfenati, Guido Bernardi, Anselmo Citterio, Rino Pucci (Cycling)
• Spartaco Bandinelli (Boxe)
• Giovanni Battista Zuddas (Boxe)
• Manlio Di Rosa, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Giuliano Nostini, Renzo Nostini, Giorgio Pellini, Saverio Ragno (Fencing)
• Carlo Agostoni, Luigi Cantone, Marco Antonio Mandruzzato, Dario Mangiarotti, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Fiorenzo Marini (Fencing)
• Vincenzo Pinton (Fencing)
• Gastone Darè, Aldo Montano, Renzo Nostini, Vincenzo Pinton, Mauro Racca, Carlo Turcato (Fencing)

 Bronze

• Carlo Monti, Enrico Perucconi, Antonio Siddi, Michele Tito (Athletics)
• Bruno Boni, Felice Fanetti (Rowing)
• Romolo Catasta (Rowing)
• Ercole Gallegati (Wrestling)
• Guido Fantoni (Wrestling)
• Alessandro D'Ottavio (Boxe)
• Ivano Fontana (Boxe)
• Edoardo Mangiarotti (Fencing)

Athletics

Basketball

Men's Team Competition

• Team Roster

• Gianfranco Bersani
• Carlo Cerioni
• Federico Marietti
• Giancarlo Marinelli
• Giancarlo Primo
• Renzo Ranuzzi
• Luigi Rapini
• Romeo Romanutti
• Sergio Stefanini
• Vittorio Tracuzzi

Boxing

Cycling

Twelve cyclists, all men, represented Italy in 1948.

Individual road race

• Adolfo Ferrari
• Silvio Pedroni
• Franco Fanti
• Livio Isotti

Team road race

• Adolfo Ferrari
• Silvio Pedroni
• Franco Fanti
• Livio Isotti

Sprint

• Mario Ghella

Time trial

• Gino Guerra

Tandem

• Ferdinando Terruzzi
• Renato Perona

Team pursuit

• Arnaldo Benfenati
• Guido Bernardi
• Anselmo Citterio
• Rino Pucci

Equestrian

Fencing

19 fencers, 16 men and 3 women, represented Italy in 1948.

Men's foil

• Manlio Di Rosa
• Renzo Nostini
• Giuliano Nostini

Men's team foil

• Edoardo Mangiarotti, Manlio Di Rosa, Renzo Nostini, Giuliano Nostini, Giorgio Pellini, Saverio Ragno

Men's épée

• Gino Cantone
• Edoardo Mangiarotti
• Carlo Agostoni

Men's team épée

• Edoardo Mangiarotti, Carlo Agostoni, Dario Mangiarotti, Gino Cantone, Marco Antonio Mandruzzato, Fiorenzo Marini

Men's sabre

• Vincenzo Pinton
• Gastone Darè
• Carlo Turcato

Men's team sabre

• Vincenzo Pinton, Gastone Darè, Carlo Turcato, Mauro Racca, Aldo Montano, Renzo Nostini

Women's foil

• Velleda Cesari
• Irene Camber-Corno
• Elena Libera

Football

Men's Team Competition

• Team Roster

• Giuseppe Casari
• Guglielmo Giovannini
• Adone Stellin
• Tommaso Maestrelli
• Maino Neri
• Giacomo Mari
• Emidio Cavigioli
• Angelo Turconi
• Francesco Pernigo
• Valerio Cassani
• Emilio Caprile
• Glauco Vanz
• Franco Antonazzi
• Romolo Bizzoto
• Renzo Burini
• Egisto Pandolfini
• Cesare Presca
• Enzo Menegotto

Gymnastics

Men's team competition

• Team Roster

• Egidio Armelloni
• Guido Figone
• Danilo Fioravanti
• Domenico Grosso
• Savino Guglielmetti
• Ettore Perego
• Quinto Vadi
• Luigi Zanetti

Women's team competition

• Team Roster

• Renata Bianchi
• Norma Icardi
• Licia Macchini
• Laura Micheli
• Wanda Nuti
• Luciana Pezzoni
• Elena Santoni
• Lilia Torriani

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented Italy in 1948.

• Giulio Palmonella
• Roberto Curcio
• Duilio Brignetti

Rowing

Men's single sculls

• Romolo Catasta

Men's double sculls

• Francesco Dapiran
• Mario Ustolin

Men's coxless pairs

• Bruno Boni
• Felice Fanetti

Men's coxed pairs

• Alberto Radi
• Giovanni Steffè
• Aldo Tarlao

Men's coxless fours

• Francesco Faggi
• Giovanni Invernizzi
• Giuseppe Moioli
• Elio Morille

Men's coxed fours

• Domenico Cambieri
• Riccardo Cerutti
• Francesco Gotti
• Renato Macario
• Reginaldo Polloni

Men's coxed eight

• Ezio Acchini
• Mario Acchini
• Alessandro Bardelli
• Bonifacio De Bortoli
• Angelo Fioretti
• Luigi Gandini
• Fortunato Maninetti
• Ettore Ruberti
• Pietro Sessa

Sailing

Shooting

Six shooters represented Italy in 1948.

25 metre pistol

• Michelangelo Borriello
• Walter Boninsegni
• Ferdinando Bernini

50 metre pistol

• Stefano Margotti

50 metre rifle

• Rinaldo Capuzzi
• Luigi Adami

Water polo

Men's Team Competition

• Team Roster

• Ermenegildo Arena
• Pasquale Buonocore
• Emilio Bulgarelli
• Aldo Ghira
• Mario Maioni
• Germinio Ognio
• Gianfranco Pandolfini
• Tullio Pandolfini
• Cesare Rubini

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Art competitions

References

1. "Italy at the 1948 London Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 31 January 2015.

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Media related to Italy at the 1948 Summer Olympics at Wikimedia Commons