Gruppi Sportivi Fiamme Gialle
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The Gruppi Sportivi Fiamme Gialle is the sport department of the Italian financial police force Guardia di Finanza.
The club's activity is carried out in the following twelve sport disciplines: athletics, swimming, judo, karate, shooting, fencing, diving, canoeing, rowing, sailing, alpine skiing, and speed skating. In athletics, the group is called Gruppo Atletico Fiamme Gialle (G.A. Fiamme Gialle).{{cite web|url=http://www.fidal.it/societa/G-A-FIAMME-GIALLE/RM056|title=G.A. Fiamme Gialle|publisher=fidal.it|language=it|access-date=28 July 2013}}
History
The first appearance of the Guardia di Finanza in sporting events date back to 1911. The team participated the gymnastics event organized in Turin, for the 50th anniversary of the Unification of Italy. However, the Scudo Nelli Trophy's first organized team, the Fiamme Gialle (Yellow Flames), was founded in 1921 to compete in a walking race. The trophy was eventually given out following three victories in 1922, 1925, and 1928.{{cite web|url=http://www.fiammegialle.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=category&id=64&Itemid=434|title=Fiamme Gialle - Cronistoria|publisher=fiammegialle.org|language=it|access-date=16 May 2020}}
In the following years, the activity was expanded with the establishment of several sports groups, the first of which was the Skiers Group, founded in 1925 at the Alpine School of the Guardia di Finanza in Predazzo (in the province of Trento), a group that became famous as the Yellow Flames of Predazzo.
Greatest athletes
File:Domenico Fioravanti.jpg, two gold medals at Sydney 2000.]]
File:Martina Caironi Rio2016 cr.jpg, two gold medals at Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.]]
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| Summer sports | Winter sports | Paralympic sports |
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|Athletics
;Canoeing
;Diving
;Rowing
;Shooting
;Swimming
|Alpine skiing
;Cross-country skiing
;Biathlon
|Para-athletics
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Summer Olympic Games medal table
File:Tania Cagnotto.jpg, two medals in diving at Rio de Janeiro 2016.]]
File:Fabrizio Donato Helsinki 2012.jpg, the last Fiamme Gialle athletics Olympic medal in London 2012.]]
In total, the athletes of the Fiamme Gialle won 42 medals at the Summer Olympics.
{{legend|pink|Women medalist}}
Winter Olympic Games medal table
File:Franco Nones.JPG, the first historical gold medal of Fiamme Gialle in cross-country skiing at Grenoble 1968.]]
File:Dorothea Wierer 2018 WCup Oberhof.jpg, two medals in biathlon at Pyeongchang 2018.]]
In total, the athletes of the Fiamme Gialle won 22 (7 gold, 6 silver, and 9 bronze), at the Winter Olympics.{{cite web|url=http://www.fiammegialle.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=481&Itemid=443|title=Sport invernali statistiche Olimpiadi|publisher=fiammegialle.org|language=it|access-date=18 May 2020}}
{{legend|pink|Women medalist}}
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| Edition | Athlete | Event | Medal |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 Grenoble | Franco Nones | {{Gold medal}} | |
| rowspan=3|1972 Sapporo | Gustav Thoeni | {{Gold medal}} | |
| Gustav Thoeni | {{Silver medal}} | ||
| Rolando Thoeni | {{Bronze medal}} | ||
| rowspan=2|1976 Innsbruck | Piero Gros | {{Gold medal}} | |
| Gustav Thoeni | {{Silver medal}} | ||
| 1988 Calgary | Gottlieb Taschler | {{Bronze medal}} | |
| rowspan=5|1992 Albertville | Josef Polig | {{Gold medal}} | |
| Giorgio Vanzetta | {{Silver medal}} | ||
| Giuseppe Puliè | {{Silver medal}} | ||
| Giorgio Vanzetta | {{Bronze medal}} | ||
| Giorgio Vanzetta | {{Bronze medal}} | ||
| 1994 Lillehammer | Giorgio Vanzetta | {{Gold medal}} | |
| rowspan=3|2002 Salt Lake City | Isolde Kostner | {{Silver medal}} | |
| Cristian Zorzi | {{Silver medal}} | ||
| Cristian Zorzi | {{Bronze medal}} | ||
| 2006 Torino | Cristian Zorzi | {{Gold medal}} | |
| 2010 Vancouver | Alessandro Pittin | {{Bronze medal}} | |
| rowspan=3|2014 Sochi | Christof Innerhofer | {{Silver medal}} | |
| Christof Innerhofer | {{Bronze medal}} | ||
| Dorothea Wierer | {{Bronze medal}} | ||
| rowspan=2|2018 Pyeongchang | Sofia Goggia | {{Gold medal}} | |
| Dorothea Wierer | {{Bronze medal}} | ||
| 2022 Beijing | Dorothea Wierer | {{Bronze medal}} |
Medal table by sport
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=Canoeing=
Canoesist of Fiamme Gialle have won a total of eight medals at the Olympic Games.{{cite web|url=http://www.fiammegialle.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=461&Itemid=439|title=Canoeing Palmarès|publisher=fiammegialle.org|language=it|access-date=16 May 2020}}
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!Event |20px | 20px | 20px | Tot. | |
| align=left| Olympic Games | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| align=left| World Championships | 4 | 8 | 3 | 15 |
| align=left| Junior World Championships | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| align=left| Mediterranean Games | 7 | 6 | 6 | 19 |
| align=left| European Championships | 6 | 3 | 4 | 13 |
| align=left| Under 23 European Championships | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| align=left| Junior European Championships | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| align=left| Military World Games | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| align=left| Universiade | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
See also
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.fiammegialle.org}} {{in lang|it}}
{{Italian military sports bodies}}
{{Authority control}}
Category:Athletics clubs in Italy
Category:Sports organizations established in 1881