Italy competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. 304 competitors, 228 men and 76 women, took part in 169 events in 26 sports.
Pierpaolo Ferrazzi — Canoeing, Men's K1 Kayak Slalom Singles
Fabio Casartelli — Cycling, Men's Individual Road Race
Giovanni Lombardi — Cycling, Men's Points Race
Giovanna Trillini — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual Competition
Giovanna Trillini, Francesca Bortolozzi-Borella, Diana Bianchedi, Margherita Zalaffi, and Dorina Vaccaroni — Fencing, Women's Foil Team Competition
Carlo Silipo, Amedeo Pomilio, Francesco Porzio, Giuseppe Porzio, Mario Fiorillo, Ferdinando Gandolfi, Alessandro Campagna, Marco D'Altrui, Massimiliano Ferretti, Francesco Attolico, Alessandro Bovo, and Paolo Caldarella — Water Polo, Men's Team Competition
Andrea Peron, Flavio Anastasia, Luca Colombo, and Gianfranco Contri — Cycling, Men's Team Road Race
Marco Marin — Fencing, Men's Sabre Individual Competition
Emanuela Pierantozzi — Judo, Women's Middleweight (66 kg)
Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Abbagnale, and Giuseppe Di Capua — Rowing, Men's Coxed Pairs
Vincenzo Maenza — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Flyweight
Giovanni de Benedictis — Athletics, Men's 20 km Walk
Bruno Dreossi and Antonio Rossi — Canoeing, Men's K2 500 metres Kayak Pairs
Carlo Massullo, Roberto Bomprezzi, and Gianluca Tiberti — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Team Competition
Filippo Soffici, Alessandro Corona, Gianluca Farina and Rossano Galtarossa — Rowing, Men's Quadruple Sculls
Marco Venturini — Shooting, Men's Trap Individual Competition
Bruno Rossetti — Shooting, Men's Skeet Individual Competition
Stefano Battistelli — Swimming, Men's 200m Backstroke
Luca Sacchi — Swimming, Men's 400m Individual Medley
In Italy's first archery competition without Giancarlo Ferrari, the four Italians went a combined 0-3 in the elimination round with Ilario Di Buò not even qualifying for the eliminations. The men's team also lost in the first round.
Women's Individual Competition:
Maria Testa — Round of 32, 21st place (0-1)
Men's Individual Competition:
Andrea Parenti — Round of 32, 19th place (0-1)
Alessandro Rivolta — Round of 32, 22nd place (0-1)
Ilario Di Buò — Ranking round, 39th place (0-0)
Men's Team Competition:
Parenti, Rivolta, and di Buo — Round of 16, 14th place (0-1)
Men's 4 × 400 m Relay
Alessandro Aimar, Marco Vaccari, Fabio Grossi, and Andrea Nuti
Heat — 3:02.09
Final — 3:02.18 (→ 6th place)
Men's 800 metres
Andrea Benvenuti — 1:45.23 (→ 5th place)
Men's 5.000 metres
Salvatore Antibo
Heat — 13:33.71
Final — 14:02.47 (→ 16th place)
Men's 10.000 metres
Salvatore Antibo
Heat — 28:18.48
Final — 28:11.39 (→ 4th place)
Francesco Bennici
Heat — 28:45.62 (→ did not advance)
Men's Marathon
Salvatore Bettiol — 2:14.15 (→ 5th place)
Alessio Faustini — 2:21.37 (→ 44th place)
Gelindo Bordin — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Men's 400m Hurdles
Fabrizio Mori
Heat — 49.16 (→ did not advance)
Men's 20 km Walk
Giovanni De Benedictis — 1:23:11 (→ Bronze Medal)
Maurizio Damilano — 1:23:39 (→ 4th place)
Walter Arena — 1:29:34 (→ 18th place)
Men's 50 km Walk
Giuseppe de Gaetano — 3:59:13 (→ 12th place)
Massimo Quiriconi — 4:00:28 (→ 13th place)
Giovanni Perricelli — did not finish (→ no ranking)
Men's Long Jump
Giovanni Evangelisti
Qualification — NM (→ did not advance)
Men's Hammer Throw
Enrico Sgrulletti
Qualification — 75.40 m
Final — 72.98 m (→ 11th place)
Men's Pole Vault
Andrea Pegoraro
Qualification — 5.40 m (→ did not advance)
Men's Discus Throw
Luciano Zerbini
Qualification — NM (→ did not advance)
Men's Shot Put
Luciano Zerbini
Qualification — 20.25 m
Final — 19.88 m (→ 9th place)
Alessandro Andrei
Qualification — 20.14 m
Final — 19.62 m (→ 11th place)
Women's 800 metres
Fabia Trabaldo
Heat — 2:01.44 (→ did not advance)
Women's 10.000 metres
Rosanna Munerotto
Heat — 32:17.01
Final — 32:37.91 (→ 16th place)
Women's 400m Hurdles
Irmgard Trojer
Heat — 55.49
Semifinal — 56.34 (→ did not advance)
Women's Marathon
Emma Scaunich — 2:46.14 (→ 18th place)
Anna Villani — 2:46.44 (→ 20th place)
Bettina Sabatini — 2:50.09 (→ 23rd place)
Women's Long Jump
Valentina Uccheddu
Heat — 6.40 m (→ did not advance)
Antonella Capriotti
Heat — 6.43 m (→ did not advance)
Women's 10 km Walk
Annarita Sidoti
Final — 45:23 (→ 7th place)
Elisabetta Perrone
Final — 46:43 (→ 19th place)
Ileana Salvador
Final — DSQ (→ no ranking)
Women's Discus Throw
Agnese Maffeis
Heat — 60.80m
Final — 61.22m (→ 10th place)
Women's High Jump
Antonella Bevilacqua
Qualification — 1.90 m (→ did not advance)
Italy was not very successful at the premier of Olympic baseball. The Italians lost six of their seven preliminary round games, beating only the host nation Spain. Their 1-6 record tied with that of Spain for seventh and eighth places, the Italians received the advantage in the tie-breaker because of the head-to-head result, barely avoiding last place.
Men's Team Competition:
Italy - 7th place (1-6)
Team Roster
Massimo Ciaramella
Guglielmo Trinci
Claudio Cecconi
Elio Gambuti
Marco Urbani
Maurizio De Sanctis
Francesco Petruzzelli
Fulvio Valle
Massimiliano Masin
Andrea Succi
Claudio Taglienti
Paolo Ceccaroli
Ruggero Bagialemani
Rolando Cretis
Alberto d'Auria
Roberto Bianchi
Leonardo Scianchi
Luigi Carrozza
Massimo Fochi
Massimo Melassi
Preliminary Round (Group A)
Lost to Brazil (70-85)
Lost to Unified Team (67-79)
Lost to Cuba (53-60)
Classification Matches
5th/8th place: Lost to Spain (80-92)
7th/8th place: Lost to Brazil (83-86) → 8th place
Team Roster
Elena Paparazzo
Monica Bastiani
Mara Fullin
Stefania Salvemini
Anna Costalunga
Francesca Rossi
Angela Arcangeli
Catarina Pollini
Susanna Stanzani
Silvia Todeschini
Giuseppina Tufano
Stefania Passaro
Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)
Luigi Castiglione
First Round – Lost to Dong-Bum Cho (ITA), 2:8
Eighteen cyclists, fourteen men and four women, represented Italy in 1992.
Men's road race
Fabio Casartelli
Davide Rebellin
Mirco Gualdi
Men's team time trial
Flavio Anastasia
Luca Colombo
Gianfranco Contri
Andrea Peron
Men's sprint
Roberto Chiappa
Men's 1 km time trial
Adler Capelli
Men's individual pursuit
Ivan Beltrami
Men's team pursuit
Ivan Beltrami
Rossano Brasi
Ivan Cerioli
Fabrizio Trezzi
Giovanni Lombardi
Men's points race
Giovanni Lombardi
Women's road race
Valeria Cappellotto — 2:05:03 (→ 17th place)
Maria Turcutto — 2:05:03 (→ 32nd place)
Roberta Bonanomi — 2:05:58 (→ 39th place)
Women's individual pursuit
Gabriella Pregnolato
Men's 3m Springboard
Davide Lorenzini
Preliminary Round — 375.57 points
Final — 527.73 points (→ 12th place)
Alessandro de Botton
Preliminary Round — 312.69 points (→ did not advance, 28th place)
Men's 10m Platform
Alessandro de Botton
Preliminary Round — 334.98 (→ did not advance, 17th place)
Women's 3m Springboard
Luisella Bisello
Preliminary Round — 249.36 points (→ did not advance, 24th place)
Women's 10m Platform
Luisella Bisello
Preliminary Round — 272.19 points (→ 19th place)
20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women represented Italy in 1992.
Men's foil
Andrea Borella
Mauro Numa
Stefano Cerioni
Men's team foil
Marco Arpino, Andrea Borella, Stefano Cerioni, Mauro Numa, Alessandro Puccini
Men's épée
Angelo Mazzoni
Maurizio Randazzo
Sandro Cuomo
Men's team épée
Sandro Cuomo, Angelo Mazzoni, Stefano Pantano, Maurizio Randazzo, Sandro Resegotti
Men's sabre
Marco Marin
Giovanni Scalzo
Ferdinando Meglio
Men's team sabre
Marco Marin, Ferdinando Meglio, Giovanni Scalzo, Giovanni Sirovich, Tonhi Terenzi
Women's foil
Giovanna Trillini
Margherita Zalaffi
Francesca Bortolozzi-Borella
Women's team foil
Giovanna Trillini, Margherita Zalaffi, Francesca Bortolozzi-Borella, Diana Bianchedi, Dorina Vaccaroni
Preliminary Round (Group A)
Defeated United States (2-1)
Lost to Poland (0-3)
Defeated Kuwait (1-0)
Quarterfinals
Lost to Spain (0-1) → Did not advance
Team Roster
( 1) Francesco Antonioli
( 2) Mauro Bonomi
( 3) Giuseppe Favalli
( 4) Luca Luzardi
( 5) Salvatore Matrecano
( 6) Alessandro Orlando
( 7) Stefano Rossini
( 8) Mirko Taccola
( 9) Rufo Verga
(10) Demetrio Albertini
(11) Dino Baggio
(12) Angelo Peruzzi
(13) Eugenio Corini
(14) Dario Marcolin
(15) Gianluca Sordo
(16) Renato Buso
(17) Pasquale Rocco
(18) Marco Ferrante
(19) Alessandro Melli
(20) Roberto Muzzi
Head Coach: Cesare Maldini
Massimo Sulli
Three male pentathletes represented Italy in 1992. They won a bronze medal in the team event.
Individual
Roberto Bomprezzi
Carlo Massullo
Gianluca Tiberti
Team
Roberto Bomprezzi
Carlo Massullo
Gianluca Tiberti
Men's Sailboard (Lechner A-390)
Riccardo Giordano
Final Ranking — 182.1 points (→ 16th place)
Women's Sailboard (Lechner A-390)
Alessandra Sensini
Final Ranking — 101.4 points (→ 7th place)
Women's 470 Class
Maria Quarra and Anna Maria Barabino
Final Ranking — 68.7 points (→ 7th place)
Men's Competition
René Gusperti, Giorgio Lamberti, Roberto Gleria, Massimo Trevisan, Piermaria Siciliano, Emanuele Merisi, Stefano Battistelli, Luca Bianchin, Gianni Minervini, Andrea Cecchi, Francesco Postiglione, Leonardo Michelotti, Marco Braida, Luca Sacchi, and Emanuele Idini
Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay
Giorgio Lamberti, Emanuele Idini, Roberto Gleria, and Massimo Trevisan
- Heat – 3:23.43 (→ did not advance, 10th place)
Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle
Roberto Gleria, Emanuele Idini, Pier Maria Siciliano, and Stefano Battistelli
- Heat – 7:25.53
Giorgio Lamberti, Massimo Trevisan, Roberto Gleria, and Stefano Battistelli
- Final – 7:18.10 (→ 5th place)
Women's Competition
Cristina Chiuso, Ilaria Sciorelli, Manuela Melchiorri, Lorenza Vigarani, Lara Bianconi, Francesca Salvalajo, Manuela Dalla Valle, Elena Donati, and Ilaria Tocchini
Two synchronized swimmers represented Italy in 1992.
Women's solo
Paola Celli
Giovanna Burlando
Women's duet
Paola Celli
Giovanna Burlando
Men's Singles Competition
Cristiano Caratti
- First round — Lost to Guy Forget (France) 3-6, 4-6, 2-6
Omar Camporese
- First round — Defeated Juan Rios (Puerto Rico) 6-2, 6-2, 6-0
- Second round — Lost to Emilio Sánchez (Spain) 4-6, 2-6, 1-6
Renzo Furlan
- First round — Defeated Shuzo Matsuoka (Japan) 6-4, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
- Second round — Defeated Andrei Chesnokov (Unified Team) 7-6, 6-4, 6-4
- Third round — Lost to Jordi Arrese (Spain) 4-6, 3-6, 2-6
Men's Doubles Competition
Omar Camporese and Diego Nargiso
- First round — Defeated Miguel Nido and Juan Rios (Puerto Rico) 6-1, 6-2, 6-3
- Second round — Lost to George Cosac and Dinu Pescariu (Romania) 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 2-6
Women's Singles Competition
Katia Piccolini
- First Round – Lost to Nicole Provis (Australia) 1-6 0-6
Raffaella Reggi-Concato
- First Round – Defeated Jenny Byrne (Australia) 6-4 7-6
- Second Round – Lost to Manuela Maleeva (Switzerland) 2-6 4-6
Sandra Cecchini
- First Round – Defeated Paulina Sepúlveda (Chile) 6-2 6-3
- Second Round – Lost to Conchita Martínez (Spain) 4-6 3-6
Team Roster
Lorenzo Bernardi
Marco Bracci
Luca Cantagalli
Claudio Marco Galli
Andrea Gardini
Andrea Giani
Andrea Lucchetta
Roberto Masciarelli
Michele Pasinato
Paolo Tofoli
Fabio Vullo
Andrea Zorzi
Preliminary Round (Group B)
Italy – Hungary 7-7
Italy – Netherlands 6-4
Italy – Cuba 11-8
Italy – Spain 9-9
Italy – Greece 8-6
Semi Finals
Italy – Commonwealth of Independent States 9-8
Final
Italy – Spain 9-8 (→ Gold Medal)
Team Roster
Carlo Silipo
Amedeo Pomilio
Franco Porzio
Pino Porzio
Mario Fiorillo
Ferdinando Gandolfi
Alessandro Campagna
Marco D'Altrui
Massimiliano Ferretti
Francesco Attolico
Alessandro Bovo
Paolo Caldarella
