Italy at the 1992 Summer Olympics

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NOC Italian National Olympic Committee Competitors 304 (228 men, 76 women) in 26 sports MedalsRanked 12th GoldSilverBronzeTotal65819

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.

Gold

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

Silver

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

Bronze

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

Archery

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)

Athletics

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)

Baseball

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

Women's Team Competition

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

Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

Luigi Castiglione

First Round – Lost to Dong-Bum Cho (ITA), 2:8

Cycling

Eighteen cyclists, fourteen men and four women, represented Italy in 1992.

Men's team time trial

Men's 1 km time trial

Adler Capelli

Men's individual pursuit

Giovanni Lombardi

Giovanni Lombardi

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

Diving

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)

Fencing

20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women represented Italy in 1992.

Marco Arpino, Andrea Borella, Stefano Cerioni, Mauro Numa, Alessandro Puccini

Sandro Cuomo, Angelo Mazzoni, Stefano Pantano, Maurizio Randazzo, Sandro Resegotti

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

Men's Team Competition

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

Judo

Massimo Sulli

Modern pentathlon

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

Sailing

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)

Swimming

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

Synchronized swimming

Two synchronized swimmers represented Italy in 1992.

Tennis

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