Italy at the 1960 Summer Olympics
IOC code	ITA
NOC	Italian National Olympic Committee
Website	www.coni.it (in Italian)
in Rome
Competitors	280 (246 men, 34 women) in 19 sports
Flag bearer	Edoardo Mangiarotti
Medals Ranked 3rd	Gold 13 Silver 10 Bronze 13 Total 36
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Italy was the host nation for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. It was the first time that the nation had hosted the Summer Games, and the second time overall (after the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo). It also hosted the 1960 Summer Paralympics in Rome – the inaugural Paralympic Games.

280 competitors, 246 men and 34 women, took part in 138 events in 19 sports.^[1]

Medals

Gold

• Livio Berruti – Athletics, 200m, men
• Luigi Arienti, Franco Testa, Mario Vallotto, Marino Vigna – Track Cycling, team pursuit, 4000m, men
• Sante Gaiardoni – Track Cycling, sprint, men
• Sergio Bianchetto, Giuseppe Beghetto – Track Cycling, tandem, 2,000 men
• Sante Gaiardoni – Track Cycling, time trial, 1.000m, men
• Francesco Musso – Boxing, Featherweight (54–57 kg), men
• Giovanni Benvenuti – Boxing, welterweight (63.5 to 67 kg), men
• Francesco De Piccoli – Boxing, Heavyweight (+81 kg), men
• Raimondo D'Inzeo – Equestrian, jumping, individual
• Giuseppe Delfino – Screens, épée, men
• Giuseppe Delfino, Alberto Pellegrino, Carlo Pavesi, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Fiorenzo Marini, Gianluigi Saccaro – Fencing, sword, team, men
• Danio Bardi, Giuseppe D'Altrui, Franco Lavoratori, Gianni Lonzi, Rosario Parmegiani, Eraldo Pizzo, Dante Rossi, Amedeo Ambron, Salvatore Gionta, Luigi Mannelli, Brunello Spinelli, Giancarlo Guerrini – Waterpolo, men
• Antonio Bailetti, Ottavio Cogliati, Giacomo Fornoni, Livio Trapè – Cycling, TTT, men

Silver

• Primo Zamparini – Boxing, Bantamweight (51–54 kg), men
• Carmelo Bossi – Boxing, half-middleweight (67–71 kg), men
• Alessandro Lopopolo – Boxing, lightweight (57–60 kg), men
• Aldo Dezi, Francesco La Macchia – Canoeing, C-2 1000m, men
• Piero D'Inzeo – Equestrian, jumping, individual
• Tullio Baraglia, Renato Bosatta, Giancarlo Crosta, Giuseppe Galante – Rowing, four-without-mate, men
• Alberto Pellegrino, Luigi Arturo Carpaneda, Mario Curletto, Aldo Aureggi, Edoardo Mangiarotti – Screens, Foil, team, men
• Galliano Rossini – Shooting, stairway, 125 targets, men
• Giovanni Carminucci – Gymnastics, bridge, men
• Livio Trapè – Cycling, road race, men

Bronze

• Giuseppina Leone – Athletics, 100m, women
• Abdon Pamich – Athletics, 50 km walk, men
• Valentino Gasparella – Track Cycling, sprint, men
• Giulio Saraudi – Boxing, light heavyweight (75–81 kg), men
• Sebastiano Mannironi – Weightlifting, Featherweight (56–60 kg), men
• Raimondo D'Inzeo, Piero D'Inzeo, Antonio Oppes – Equestrian, jumping, team
• Fulvio Balatti, Romano Sgheiz, Franco Trincavelli, Giovanni Zucchi, Ivo Stefanoni – Rowing, four -with-mate
• Bruna Colombetti, Velleda Cesari, Claudia Pasini, Irene Camber, Antonella Ragno-Lonzi – Fencing, Foil, team, women
• Wladimiro Calarese – Fencing, saber, individual, men
• Wladimiro Calarese, Giampaolo Calanchini, Pierluigi Chicca, Roberto Ferrari, Mario Ravagnan – Fencing, saber, team, men
• Giovanni Carminucci, Pasquale Carminucci, Gianfranco Marzolla, Franco Menichelli, Orlando Polmonari, Angelo Vicardi – Gymnastics, men's team
• Franco Menichelli – Gymnastics, floor, men
• Antonio Cosentino, Antonio Ciciliano, Giulio De Stefano – Sailing, Dragon class

Athletics

Results

Basketball

Men's Team Competition

• Team Roster

• Mario Alesini
• Antonio Calebotta
• Achille Canna
• Alessandro Gamba
• Giovanni Gavagnin
• Augusto Giomo
• Gianfranco Lombardi
• Gianfranco Pieri
• Alessandro Riminucci
• Gianfranco Sardagna
• Gabriele Vianello
• Paolo Vittori

Boxing

Canoeing

Cycling

14 cyclists, all men, represented Italy in 1960.

Individual road race

• Livio Trapè
• Antonio Bailetti
• Giuseppe Tonucci
• Vendramino Bariviera

Team time trial

• Antonio Bailetti
• Ottavio Cogliati
• Giacomo Fornoni
• Livio Trapè

Sprint

• Sante Gaiardoni
• Valentino Gasparella

1000m time trial

• Sante Gaiardoni

Tandem

• Giuseppe Beghetto
• Sergio Bianchetto

Team pursuit

• Luigi Arienti
• Franco Testa
• Mario Vallotto
• Marino Vigna

Diving

Equestrian

Fencing

20 fencers, 15 men and 5 women, represented Italy in 1960.

Men's foil

• Luigi Carpaneda
• Alberto Pellegrino
• Mario Curletto

Men's team foil

• Edoardo Mangiarotti, Luigi Carpaneda, Alberto Pellegrino, Mario Curletto, Aldo Aureggi

Men's épée

• Giuseppe Delfino
• Giovanni Battista Breda
• Alberto Pellegrino

Men's team épée

• Edoardo Mangiarotti, Giuseppe Delfino, Carlo Pavesi, Alberto Pellegrino, Fiorenzo Marini, Gianluigi Saccaro

Men's sabre

• Wladimiro Calarese
• Roberto Ferrari
• Pierluigi Chicca

Men's team sabre

• Wladimiro Calarese, Giampaolo Calanchini, Pierluigi Chicca, Mario Ravagnan, Roberto Ferrari

Women's foil

• Antonella Ragno-Lonzi
• Irene Camber-Corno
• Bruna Colombetti-Peroncini

Women's team foil

• Antonella Ragno-Lonzi, Irene Camber-Corno, Velleda Cesari, Bruna Colombetti-Peroncini, Claudia Pasini

Football

Men's Team Competition

• Team Roster

• Luciano Alfieri
• Tarcisio Burgnich
• Mario Trebbi
• Paride Tumburus
• Sandro Salvadore
• Giovanni Trapattoni
• Giancarlo Cella
• Giovanni Rivera
• Ugo Tomeazzi
• Giacomo Bulgarelli
• Giorgio Rossano
• Orazio Rancati
• Giorgio Ferrini
• Giovanni Fanello
• Gilberto Noletti
• Luciano Magistrelli
• Giandomenico Baldiserri
• Armando Favali
• Ambrogio Pelagalli

Gymnastics

Hockey

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented Italy in 1960.

Individual

• Adriano Facchini
• Gaetano Scala
• Giulio Giunta

Team

• Adriano Facchini
• Gaetano Scala
• Giulio Giunta

Rowing

Italy had 26 male rowers participate in all seven rowing events in 1960.^[2]

Men's single sculls

• Savino Rebek

Men's double sculls

• Severino Lucini
• Cesarino Pestuggia

Men's coxless pair

• Paolo Mosetti
• Mario Petri

Men's coxed pair

• Giancarlo Piretta
• Renzo Ostino
• Vincenzo Bruno (cox)

Men's coxless four

• Tullio Baraglia
• Renato Bosatta
• Giancarlo Crosta
• Giuseppe Galante

Men's coxed four

• Fulvio Balatti
• Romano Sgheiz
• Franco Trincavelli
• Giovanni Zucchi
• Ivo Stefanoni (cox)

Men's eight

• Paolo Amorini
• Vasco Cantarello
• Gian Carlo Casalini
• Luigi Prato
• Vincenzo Prina
• Nazzareno Simonato
• Luigi Spozio
• Armido Torri
• Giuseppe Pira (cox)

Sailing

Shooting

Nine shooters represented Italy in 1960.

25 m pistol

• Roberto Mazzoni
• Sergio Varetto

50 m pistol

• Piercarlo Beroldi
• Giorgio Ercolani

50 m rifle, three positions

• Vincenzo Biava
• Sergio Rolandi

50 m rifle, prone

• Mariano Antonelli

Trap

• Galliano Rossini
• Edoardo Casciano

Swimming

Men's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

• Giuseppe Avellone, Roberto Lazzari, Federico Dennerlein, and Bruno Bianchi

• Final — 4:17.2 (→ 6th place)

Water polo

Men's Team Competition

• Team Roster

• Amedeo Ambron
• Danio Bardi
• Giuseppe d'Altrui
• Salvatore Gionta
• Giancarlo Guerrini
• Franco Lavoratori
• Gianni Lonzi
• Luigi Mannelli
• Rosario Parmegiani
• Eraldo Pizzo
• Dante Rossi
• Brunella Spinelli

Weightlifting

Wrestling