Italy at the 1952 Summer Olympics

IOC code	ITA
NOC	Italian National Olympic Committee
Website	www.coni.it (in Italian)
in Helsinki, Finland July 19–August 3, 1952
Competitors	231 (208 men, 23 women) in 19 sports
Flag bearer	Miranda Cicognani
Medals Ranked 5th	Gold 8 Silver 9 Bronze 4 Total 21
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games

Italy competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. 231 competitors, 208 men and 23 women, took part in 114 events in 19 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Gold

Pino Dordoni — Athletics, Men's 50 km Walk
Aureliano Bolognesi — Boxing, Men's Lightweight
Enzo Sacchi — Cycling, Men's 1.000m Sprint (Scratch)
Loris Campana, Mino de Rossi, Guido Messina, and Marino Morettini — Cycling, Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit
Edoardo Mangiarotti — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
Roberto Battaglia, Franco Bertinetti, Giuseppe Delfino, Dario Mangiarotti, Edoardo Mangiarotti, and Carlo Pavesi — Fencing, Men's Épée Team
Irene Camber — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual
Nicolò Rode and Agostino Straulino — Sailing, Men's Star

Silver

Adolfo Consolini — Athletics, Men's Discus Throw
Sergio Caprari — Boxing, Men's Featherweight
Marino Morettini — Cycling, Men's 1.000m Time Trial
Dino Bruni, Gianni Ghidini, and Vincenzo Zucconelli — Cycling, Men's Team Road Race
Edoardo Mangiarotti — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual
Giancarlo Bergamini, Manlio di Rosa, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Renzo Nostini, Giorgio Pellini, and Antonio Spallino — Fencing, Men's Foil Team
Dario Mangiarotti — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
Gastone Darè, Roberto Ferrari, Renzo Nostini, Giorgio Pellini, Vincenzo Pinton, and Mauro Racca — Fencing, Men's Sabre Team
Ignazio Fabra — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Flyweight

Bronze

Bruno Visintin — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight
Raffaello Gambino, Cesare Rubini, Maurizio Mannelli, Geminio Ognio, Ermenegildo Arena, Renato De Sanzuane, Carlo Peretti, Renato Traiola, Vincenzo Polito, Salvatore Gionta and Lucio Ceccarini — Water Polo, Men's Team Competition
Antonio Maspes and Cesare Pinarello — Cycling, Men's 2.000m Tandem
Manlio di Rosa — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Results

Athlete	Age	Event	Rank	Medal
Men (25)
Carlo Vittori	21	Men's 100 metres	6 h4 r2/4
Franco Leccese	27	Men's 100 metres	3 h8 r1/4
Wolfgango Montanari	21	Men's 100 metres	7 h7 r1/4
Giorgio Sobrero	22	Men's 200 metres	3 h13r1/4
Luigi Grossi	27	Men's 200 metres	4 h12r1/4
Lucio Sangermano	19	Men's 200 metres	4 h18r1/4
Gianni Rocca	23	Men's 400 metres	3 h6 r1/4
Vincenzo Lombardo	20	Men's 400 metres	3 h7 r1/4
Antonio Siddi	29	Men's 400 metres	4 h11r1/4
Armando Filiput	28	Men's 400 metres Hurdles	6
Franco Leccese	27	Men's 4 × 100 metres Relay	2 h1 r1/3
Antonio Siddi	29	Men's 4 × 100 metres Relay	2 h1 r1/3
Giorgio Sobrero	22	Men's 4 × 100 metres Relay	2 h1 r1/3
Carlo Vittori	21	Men's 4 × 100 metres Relay	2 h1 r1/3
Baldassare Porto	29	Men's 4 × 400 metres Relay	4 h2 r1/2
Gianni Rocca	23	Men's 4 × 400 metres Relay	4 h2 r1/2
Luigi Grossi	27	Men's 4 × 400 metres Relay	4 h2 r1/2
Armando Filiput	28	Men's 4 × 400 metres Relay	4 h2 r1/2
Asfò Bussotti	26	Men's Marathon	46
Artidoro Berti	31	Men's Marathon	53
Egilberto Martufi	26	Men's Marathon	AC
Bruno Fait	28	Men's 10 kilometres Walk	8
Telemaco Arcangeli	29	Men's 10 kilometres Walk	7 h2 r1/2
Pino Dordoni	26	Men's 50 kilometres Walk	1	Gold
Giuseppe Kressevich	36	Men's 50 kilometres Walk	10
Salvatore Cascino	34	Men's 50 kilometres Walk1	9
Adolfo Consolini	35	Men's Discus Throw	2	Silver
Giuseppe Tosi	36	Men's Discus Throw	8
Teseo Taddia	32	Men's Hammer Throw	10
Aivo Lucioli	23	Men's Hammer Throw	26 QR
Amos Matteucci	37	Men's Javelin Throw	17
Angiolo Profeti	34	Men's Shot Put	12
Women (8)
Athlete	Age	Event	Rank	Medal
Giuseppina Leone	17	Women's 100 metres	4 h1 r2/4
Liliana Tagliaferri	23	Women's 100 metres	6 h4 r2/4
Vittoria Cesarini	19	Women's 100 metres	3 h3 r1/4
Vera Martelli	21	Women's 200 metres	6 h3 r1/3
Vittoria Cesarini	19	Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay	3 h2 r1/2
Milena Greppi	23	Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay	3 h2 r1/2
Giuseppina Leone	17	Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay	3 h2 r1/2
Liliana Tagliaferri	23	Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay	3 h2 r1/2
Milena Greppi	23	Women's 80 metres Hurdles	6 h1 r2/3
Maria Musso	21	Women's 80 metres Hurdle	s4 h5 r1/3
Edera Cordiale	32	Women's Discus Throw	14
Ada Turci	28	Women's Javelin Throw	11

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Men's Team Competition

Qualification Round (Group C)

Lost to Canada (57-68)
Defeated Turkey (49-37)
Defeated Romania (53-39)
Lost to Egypt (62-66) → did not advance, 17th place

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Road Competition

Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)

Dino Bruni — 5:10:54.0 (→ 5th place)
Vincenzo Zucconelli — 5:11:16.5 (→ 6th place)
Gianni Ghidini — 5:11:16.8 (→ 7th place)
Bruno Monti — 5:11:35.0 (→ 15th place)

Track Competition

Men's 1.000m Time Trial

Marino Morettini

Final — 1:12.7 (→ Silver Medal)

Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race

Enzo Sacchi — Gold Medal

Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit

Guido Messina, Loris Campana, Marino Morettini, and Mino de Rossi

Final — defeated South Africa (→ Gold Medal)

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Men's 3m Springboard

Lamberto Mari

Preliminary Round — 54.42 points (→ 32nd place)

Equestrian

Main article: Equestrian at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

18 fencers, 15 men and 3 women, represented Italy in 1952.

Men's foil

Men's team foil

Edoardo Mangiarotti, Manlio Di Rosa, Giancarlo Bergamini, Antonio Spallino, Giorgio Pellini, Renzo Nostini

Men's épée

Men's team épée

Edoardo Mangiarotti, Dario Mangiarotti, Giuseppe Delfino, Carlo Pavesi, Franco Bertinetti, Roberto Battaglia

Men's sabre

Men's team sabre

Vincenzo Pinton, Renzo Nostini, Gastone Darè, Mauro Racca, Roberto Ferrari, Giorgio Pellini

Women's foil

Football

Main article: Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Men's Team Competition

Team Roster

(1.) Ottavio Bugatti
(2.) Giuseppe Corradi
(3.) Amos Cardarelli
(4.) Maino Neri
(5.) Giovanni Azzini
(6.) Arcadio Venturi
(7.) Giampiero Boniperti
(8.) Egisto Pandolfini
(9.) Pasquale Vivolo
(10.) Aredio Gimona
(11.) Francesco La Rosa
(12.) Anselmo Giorcelli
(13.) Amos Mariani
(14.) Giancarlo Cadé
(15.) Battista Rota
(16.) Giovani Capurro
(17.) Alberto Fontanesi
(18.) Corrado Viciani
(19.) Rino Ferrario
(20.) Roberto Lovati

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Men's team competition

Women's team competition

Hockey

Main article: Field hockey at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Modern pentathlon

Main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Three male pentathletes represented Italy in 1952.

Individual

Team

Alfonso Marotta
Duilio Brignetti
Giulio Palmonella

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Italy had 26 male rowers participate in all seven rowing events in 1952.^[2]

Men's single sculls

Ugo Pifferi

Men's double sculls

Men's coxless pair

Men's coxed pair

Men's coxless four

Men's coxed four

Men's eight

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Eight shooters represented Italy in 1952.

25 m pistol

50 m pistol

100m running deer

Trap

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Men's Team Competition

Team Roster

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1952 Summer Olympics

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics

References

External links

Italy at the Olympics

Summer Olympic Games	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Winter Olympic Games	1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
Intercalated Games	1906

Italy hosted the 1960 Summer Olympics, as well as the 1956 and 2006 Winter Olympics.

Nations at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland

Nations at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland
Africa	Egypt Gold Coast Nigeria South Africa
America	Argentina Bahamas Bermuda Brazil British Guiana Canada Chile Cuba Guatemala Jamaica Mexico Netherlands Antilles Panama Puerto Rico Trinidad United States Uruguay Venezuela
Asia	Burma Ceylon China Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Israel Japan South Korea Lebanon Pakistan Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam
Europe	Austria Belgium Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Denmark Finland France Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Monaco Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Saar Soviet Union Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Yugoslavia
Oceania	Australia New Zealand