Italy at the Olympics in athletics

Italy at the Summer Olympics in athletics
WA code	ITA
National federation	FIDAL
Website	www.fidal.it
Medals Ranked 9th	Gold 24 Silver 15 Bronze 26 Total 65
Summer appearances
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

Italy at the Olympics in athletics competed in all editions of the Summer Olympic Games with the exception of the 1904 Summer Olympics. The Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) is the National Olympic Committee for the Italy.^[1]

Placing table

World Athletics placing table assigns points to the top eight athletes in the final, with eight points to first place, seven to second place, and so on until one point for eighth place. Teams or athletes that do not finish or are disqualified do not receive points.^[2]

Edition				4	5	6	7	8
1906	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-
1908	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
1912	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	-
1920	2	-	2	1	1	-	2	-
1924	1	1	-	1	-	1	3	1
1928	-	-	-	1	-	2	-	-
1932	1	-	2	-	2	1	1	1
1936	1	2	2	2+1=	-	1=	1	-
1948	1	3	1	-	-	1	1	1
1952	1	1	-	-	-	1	-	2
1956	-	-	-	2	2	2	-	-
1960	1	-	2	1	1	2	2	-
1964	1	-	1	1	1	1	2	2
1968	-	-	2	-	-	2	2	1
1972	-	-	2	-	-	1	1	2
1976	-	1	-	1	-	4	-	4
1980	3	-	1	1	1	1	1	2
1984	3	1	3	4	4	2	2	1
1988	1	1	1	2	1	1	3	2
1992	-	-	1	3	2	1	1	-
1996	-	2	2	2	1	1	-	-
2000	-	2	-	1	1	1	2	1
2004	2	-	1	-	-	1	1	-
2008	1	-	1	-	2	-	1=	-
2012	-	-	1	1	1	-	2	-
2016	-	-	-	1	2	-	1	1
2020	5	0	0	0	1	0	2	2
	24	15	26	26	25	27	31	23

Medals

21 of the 65 medals come from race walk.^[3][4]

Edition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
London 1908		800 metres Emilio Lunghi		1
Stockholm 1912			10 km walk Fernando Altimani	1
Antwerp 1920	3 km walk Ugo Frigerio			4
	10 km walk Ugo Frigerio
			3000 metres steeplechase Ernesto Ambrosini
			Marathon Valerio Arri
Paris 1924	3 km walk Ugo Frigerio			2
		Marathon Romeo Bertini
Los Angeles 1932	1500 metres Luigi Beccali			3
			4X100 metres relay Giuseppe Castelli Gabriele Salviati Ruggero Maregatti Edgardo Toetti
			50 km walk Ugo Frigerio
Berlin 1936		800 metres Mario Lanzi		5
			1500 metres Luigi Beccali
		4X100 metres relay Orazio Mariani Gianni Caldana Elio Ragni Tullio Gonnelli
			Discus throw Giorgio Oberweger
	100 metres hurdles Ondina Valla
London 1948			4X100 metres relay Michele Tito Enrico Perucconi Carlo Monti Antonio Siddi	5
	Discus throw Adolfo Consolini	Discus throw Giuseppe Tosi
		Shot put Amelia Piccinini
		Discus throw Edera Cordiale
Helsinki 1952	50 km walk Pino Dordoni			2
		Discus throw Adolfo Consolini
Rome 1960	200 metres Livio Berruti			3
			50 km walk Abdon Pamich
			100 metres Giuseppina Leone
Tokyo 1964			400 metres hurdles Salvatore Morale	2
	50 km walk Abdon Pamich
Mexico City 1968			110 metres hurdles Eddy Ottoz	2
			Triple jump Giuseppe Gentile
Munich 1972			200 metres Pietro Mennea	2
			1500 metres Paola Pigni
Montreal 1976		High jump Sara Simeoni		1
Moscow 1980	200 metres Pietro Mennea			4
			4x400 metres relay Roberto Tozzi Mauro Zuliani Stefano Malinverni Pietro Mennea
	20 km walk Maurizio Damilano
	High jump Sara Simeoni
Los Angeles 1984	10000 metres Alberto Cova			7
			20 km walk Maurizio Damilano
			50 km walk Sandro Bellucci
			Long jump Giovanni Evangelisti
	Shot put Alessandro Andrei
	1500 metres Gabriella Dorio
		High jump Sara Simeoni
Seul 1988		10000 metres Salvatore Antibo		3
	Marathon Gelindo Bordin
			20 km walk Maurizio Damilano
Barcelona 1992			20 km walk Giovanni De Benedictis	1
Atlanta 1996			3000 metres steeplechase Alessandro Lambruschini	4
			5000 metres Roberta Brunet
		10 km walk Elisabetta Perrone
		Long jump Fiona May
Sydney 2000		Hammer throw Nicola Vizzoni		2
		Long jump Fiona May
Athens 2004	Marathon Stefano Baldini			3
	20 km walk Ivano Brugnetti
			Pole vault Giuseppe Gibilisco
Beijing 2008	50 km walk Alex Schwazer			2
			20 km walk Elisa Rigaudo
London 2012			Triple jump Fabrizio Donato	1
Rio de Janeiro 2016				0
Tokyo 2020	100 m Marcell Jacobs			5
	High jump Gianmarco Tamberi
	20 km walk Massimo Stano
	20 km walk Antonella Palmisano
	4×100 m relay Lorenzo Patta Marcell Jacobs Fausto Desalu Filippo Tortu
	24	15	26	65

Results by event

Event	No. of appearances	First appearance	First medal	First gold medal	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Best finish
Men's 100 metres	19/29	1900	2020	2020	1	0	0	1	(2020)
Men's 400 metres	17/28	1900	—	—	0	0	0	0	8th (1912, 1936)

See also

• Athletics at the Summer Olympics
• Athletics in Italy
• Italy national athletics team
• Italy at the Summer Olympics

References

External links

• Official website (CONI)
• Official website (FIDAL)

This page was last edited on 12 December 2023, at 10:19