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.
Medalists
MedalNameSportEventDate Fencing Women's foil 30 July Cycling Men's points race 31 July Canoeing Men's slalom K-1 2 August Cycling Men's individual road race 2 August Fencing Women's team foil 4 August Italy men's national water polo team Water polo Men's tournament 9 August Cycling Men's team time trial 26 July Wrestling Men's Greco-Roman 48 kg 29 July Judo Women's 66 kg 29 July Rowing Men's coxed pair 2 August Fencing Men's sabre 2 August Swimming Men's 400 metre individual medley 27 July Shooting Skeet 28 July Swimming Men's 200 metre backstroke 28 July Modern pentathlon Men's team 29 July Athletics Men's 20 kilometres walk 31 July Rowing Men's quadruple sculls 2 August Shooting Trap 2 August Canoeing Men's K-2 500 metres 7 August
Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.Italy at the 1992 Summer Olympics SportMenWomenTotalArchery 3 1 4Athletics 25 14 39Baseball 20 – 20Basketball 0 12 12Boxing 5 – 5Canoeing 12 6 18Cycling 14 4 18Diving 2 1 3Equestrian 8 4 12Fencing 15 5 20Football 16 – 16Gymnastics 6 4 10Judo 5 4 9Modern pentathlon 3 – 3Rowing 21 0 21Sailing 10 4 14Shooting 12 1 13Swimming 15 9 24Synchronized swimming – 2 2Table tennis 0 1 1Tennis 4 4 8Volleyball 12 0 12Water polo 12 – 12Weightlifting 3 – 3Wrestling 5 – 5 Total 228 76 304
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 premiere 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
Basketball
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
Canoeing
Cycling
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
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)
Equestrianism
Fencing
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
Football
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
Gymnastics
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
Rhythmic gymnastics
Rowing
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)
Shooting
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.
Women's solo Paola Celli Giovanna Burlando
Women's duet Paola Celli Giovanna Burlando
Table tennis
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 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
Volleyball
Men's team competition 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
Water polo
Men's team competition 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
Weightlifting
Wrestling
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