Italy is scheduled to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Italian athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympics edition of the modern era, with the disputed exception of St. Louis 1904 in which one Italian may have competed.
Competitors
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
One Italian archer qualified for the women's individual recurve by winning a bronze medal and obtaining the last of two available spots as the highest-ranked eligible nation at the 2023 European Games in Kraków, Poland.[1]
Italy fielded a squad of eight artistic swimmers to compete in the open team and women's duet events by virtue of the results of the five highest rank open teams, not yet qualified, at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar.
Italian track and field athletes achieved the entry standards for Paris 2024, either by passing the direct qualifying mark (or time for track and road races) or by world ranking, in the following events (a maximum of 3 athletes each):[2]
Key
Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
Italy entered eight boxers into the Olympic tournament. Tokyo 2020 Olympian Giordana Sorrentino (women's flyweight) and bronze medalist Irma Testa (women's featherweight), along with two rookies (Cavallaro and Mouhiidine), secured the spots on the Italian squad in their respective weight divisions, either by advancing to the semifinal match or finishing in the top two, at the 2023 European Games in Nowy Targ, Poland.[3] The other four boxers, (Diego, Sirine, Alessia and Angela) qualified themself to the games, following the homecrowd triumph of winning the quota bouts round, at the 2024 World Olympic Qualification Tournament 1 in Busto Arsizio.[4]
Italy entered a team of seven road cyclists (three male and four female). Italy also qualified one female and two male athletes to the time trial competition through the UCI Individual Ranking and 2023 World Championships in Glasgow, Great Britain.[9]
Italy riders obtained a full squads of men's and women's team pursuit events; and two additional individual quotas for women's sprint and keirin, following the release of the final UCI Olympic rankings.
Italian divers secured eight quota places for Paris 2024. One of them successfully won a gold medal in the women's individual springboard at the 2023 European Games in Rzeszów, Poland,[10] with four more spots awarded to the rest of the Italian diving squad, either by scoring a podium placement in the women's synchronized springboard or by advancing to the top twelve final of their respective individual events at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka. The nations also secured two additional spots, through 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Qatar.
Italy fielded a squad of three eventing riders and one jumping rider, into the team eventing and individual jumping competitions, by securing the only available berth for nations that had not yet qualified at the 2023 Eventing Nation's Cup for eventing events in Boekelo, Netherlands, and through the establishments of final olympics ranking for Group B (South Western Europe).[11]
Italy entered full-squad fencers into the Olympic competition. The nations men's and women's foil team, men's and women's épée team, and also women's sabre team, qualified for the games after becoming one the four highest ranked worldwide team; meanwhile, women's sabre team qualified after becoming the highest ranked team, eligible for European zone, through the release of the FIE Official ranking for Paris 2024.
Italy fielded a full-squad male and female gymnasts for Paris after advancing to the final round of team all-around, and obtained one of nine available team spot's for nation's, not yet qualified, at the 2023 World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.
Italy entered one rhythmic gymnast into the individual all-around tournament by winning a gold medal and securing one of the three available berths at the 2022 World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.[12][13]
Italian modern pentathletes confirmed three quota places (one male and two female) for Paris 2024. Tokyo 2020 Olympian Elena Micheli secured an outright berth in the women's event by winning the gold medal at the 2023 UIPM World Cup Final in Antalya, Turkey.[14][15] Meanwhile, Micheli's teammate and two-time Olympian Alice Sotero, with rookie Giorgio Malan joining her on the men's side, topped the overall rankings and the list of those eligible for qualification with a successful gold-medal triumph each in their respective individual races at the 2023 European Games in Kraków, Poland.[16][17]
Athlete
Event
Fencing (épée one touch)
Swimming (200 m freestyle)
Riding (show jumping)
Combined: shooting/running (10 m air pistol)/(3200 m)
Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage
Italian shooters achieved quota places for the following events based on their results at the 2022 and 2023 ISSF World Championships, 2022, 2023, and 2024 European Championships, 2023 European Games, and 2024 ISSF World Olympic Qualification Tournament.[19]
Italian surfers confirmed a single shortboard quota place for Tahiti. Tokyo 2020 Olympian Leonardo Fioravanti finished among the top ten of those eligible for qualification in the 2023 World Surf League rankings.[21]
Italian swimmers achieved the entry standards in the following events for Paris 2024 (a maximum of two swimmers under the Olympic Qualifying Time (OST) and potentially at the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT)):[22]
Italy qualified three athletes to compete at the Olympics. Tokyo 2020 gold medalist, Vito Dell'Aquila and Simone Alessio qualified for Paris 2024 by virtue of finishing in the top five in the Olympic rankings in their respective events. Meanwhile, Ilenia Matonti qualified for Paris 2024 by advancing to the women's under 49 kg final, at the 2024 European Qualification Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Italy confirmed four quota places (two per gender) in the triathlon events for Paris, following the release of final mixed relay olympics qualification ranking.
Italy entered two weightlifters into the Olympic competition. Sergio Massidda (men's 61 kg) and Antonino Pizzolato (men's 89 kg) secured one of the top ten slots in their respective weight divisions based on the IWF Olympic Qualification Rankings.
