Italy at the 1992 Summer Olympics

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Italy at the Olympic Games
Flag of Italy
IOC code: ITA
1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona
Competitors	318 (240 men, 78 women)
Flag Bearer	Giuseppe Abbagnale
Medals	Gold 6	Silver 5	Bronze 8	Total 19
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Italy competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

1 Medals
2 Results by event

[edit] Medals

[edit] 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 Francesca Vaccaroni — Fencing, Women's Foil Team Competition

Carlo Silipo, Amedeo Pomilio, Franco Porzio, Pino 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

[edit] 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

Vicenzo Maenza — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Flyweight

[edit] Bronze

Giovanni de Benedictis — Athletics, Men's 20km Walk

Bruno Dreossi and Antonio Rossi — Canoeing, Men's K2 500 metres Kayak Pairs

Carlo Massulo, 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 Mario Rossetti — Shooting, Men's Skeet Individual Competition

Stefano Battistelli — Swimming, Men's 200m Backstroke

Luca Sacchi — Swimming, Men's 400m Individual Medley

[edit] Results by event

[edit] 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 Buo 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 Buo — Ranking round, 39th place (0-0)

Men's Team Competition:

Parenti, Rivolta, and di Buo — Round of 16, 14th place (0-1)

[edit] Athletics

Men's Marathon

Salvatore Bettiol — 2:14.15 (→ 5th place)
Alessio Faustini — 2:21.37 (→ 44th place)
Gelindo Bordin — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's Marathon

Emma Scaunich — 2:46.14 (→ 18th place)
Ana Villani — 2:46.44 (→ 20th place)
Bettina Sabatini — 2:50.09 (→ 23th place)

[edit] Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

Luigi Castiglione

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] Football

[edit] 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

[edit] 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 4x100m Freestyle Relay

Giorgio Lamberti, Emanuele Idini, Roberto Gleria, and Massimo Trevisan
1. Heat – 3:23.43 (→ did not advance, 10th place)

Men's 4x200m Freestyle

Roberto Gleria, Emanuele Idini, Pier Maria Siciliano, and Stefano Battistelli
1. Heat – 7:25.53
Giorgio Lamberti, Massimo Trevisan, Roberto Gleria, and Stefano Battistelli
1. 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

[edit] Tennis

Men's Singles Competition

Cristiano Caratti
1. First round — Lost to Guy Forget (France) 3-6, 4-6, 2-6

Omar Camporese
1. First round — Defeated Juan Rios (Puerto Rico) 6-2, 6-2, 6-0
2. Second round — Lost to Emilio Sanchez (Spain) 4-6, 2-6, 1-6

Renzo Furlan
1. First round — Defeated Shuzo Matsuoka (Japan) 6-4, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4
2. Second round — Defeated Andrei Chesnokov (Unified Team) 7-6, 6-4, 6-4
3. Third round — Lost to Jordi Arrese (Spain) 4-6, 3-6, 2-6

Men's Doubles Competition

Omar Camporese and Diego Nargiso
1. First round — Defeated Miguel Nido and Juan Rios (Puerto Rico) 6-1, 6-2, 6-3
2. Second round — Lost to George Cosac and Dinu Pescariu (Romania) 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 2-6