Italy at the 1936 Summer Olympics

{{infobox country at games

| NOC = ITA

| NOCname = Italian National Olympic Committee

| games = Summer Olympics

| year = 1936

| flagcaption =

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| website = {{url|www.coni.it }} {{in lang|it}}

| location = Berlin

| competitors = 244 (228 men and 16 women)

| sports = 17

| flagbearer = Giulio Gaudini

| rank = 4

| gold = 8

| silver = 9

| bronze = 5

| officials =

| appearances = auto

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| app_end_year =

| summerappearances =

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| seealso = 1906 Intercalated Games

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Italy competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. 244 competitors, 228 men and 16 women, took part in 99 events in 17 sports.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/ITA/summer/1936/ |title=Italy at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games |access-date=15 January 2015 |work=sports-reference.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009043757/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/ITA/summer/1936/ |archive-date= 9 October 2014 }}

Medals

= Gold =

Ondina Valla - Track and field, women's 80 m Hurdles
Ulderico Sergo - Boxing, a series of 53.5 kg
Giulio Gaudini - Fencing, men's foil
Franco Riccardi - Fencing – Men's épée
Giulio Gaudini, Gioacchino Guaragna, Gustavo Marzi, Giorgio Bocchino, Manlio Di Rosa and Ciro Verratti - Fencing, men's foil team competition
Saverio Ragno, Alfredo Pezzana, Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Franco Riccardi and Giancarlo Brusati - Fencing, men's kalvan team competition
Bruno Venturini, Alfredo Foni, Pietro Rava, Giuseppe Baldo, Achille Piccini, Ugo Locatelli, Annibale Frossi, Libero Marchini, Sergio Bertoni, Carlo Biagi, Francesco Gabriotti, Giulio Cappelli, Alfonso Negro and Luigi Scarabello - Football, men
Giovanni Reggio, Bruno Bianchi, Luigi De Manincor, Domenico Mordini, Luigi Poggi and Enrico Poggi - Sailing, 8MR

=Silver =

Mario Lanzi - Track and field, men's 800 m
Orazio Mariani, Gianni Caldana, Elio Ragni and Tullio Gonnelli - Track and field, men's 4 × 100 m relay
Almiro Bergamo, Guido Santin and Luciano Negrini - Rowing, Men pair cox
Guglielmo Del Bimbo, Dino Barsotti, Oreste Grossi, Enzo Bartolini, Mario Checcacci, Dante Secchi, Ottorino Quaglierini, Enrico Garzelli and Cesare Milani - Rowing, men's eight
Gavino Matta - Boxing, a series of 50.8 kg
Severino Rigoni, Bianco Bianchi, Mario Gentili and Armando Latini - Cycling, Men's Team Pursuit
Saverio Ragno - Fencing, men épée
Gustavo Marzi - Fencing, men's sabre
Vincenzo Pinton, Giulio Gaudini, Aldo Masciotta, Gustavo Marzi, Aldo Montano and Athos Tanzini - Fencing, men's sabre team competition

=Bronze =

Luigi Beccali - Track and field, men's 1500 m
Giorgio Oberweger - Track and field, men's discus throw
Giorgio Bocchino - Fencing, men's foil
Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici - Fencing, men épée
Silvano Abba - Modern Pentathlon, men's individual competition

Athletics

=Results=

Athlete	Age	Event	Rank	Medal
class="wikitable" width=55% style="font-size:90%; text-align:center;"
colspan=5 bgcolor=lightblue\|Men (27)
align=left rowspan=2\|Mario Lanzi	21	Men's 400 metres	4 h1 r3/4
21	Men's 800 metres	2	bgcolor=silver\| Silver
align=left\|Luigi Beccali	28	Men's 1,500 metres	3	bgcolor=cc9966\| Bronze
align=left\|Umberto Cerati	25	rowspan=2\| Men's 5,000 metres	7
align=left\|Salvatore Mastroieni	22	6 h3 r1/2
align=left\|Giuseppe Beviacqua	21	Men's 10,000 metres	11
align=left\|Giannino Bulzone	25	rowspan=2\|Men's Marathon	AC
align=left\|Aurelio Genghini	28	AC
align=left\|Gianni Caldana	22	Men's 110 metres Hurdles	3 h6 r1/3
align=left\|Luigi Facelli	38	rowspan=3\|Men's 400 metres Hurdles	3 h2 r1/3
align=left\|Umberto Ridi	22	4 h4 r1/3
align=left\|Emilio Mori	28	6 h3 r1/3
align=left\|Bruno Betti	25	rowspan=2\|Men's 3,000 metres Steeplechase	7 h3 r1/2
align=left\|Giuseppe Lippi	32	8 h1 r1/2
align=left\|Orazio Mariani	21	rowspan=4\|Men's 4 × 100 metres Relay	rowspan=4\|2	bgcolor=silver rowspan=4\| Silver
align=left\|Gianni Caldana	22
align=left\|Elio Ragni	25
align=left\|Tullio Gonnelli	23
align=left\|Angelo Ferrario	28	rowspan=4\|Men's 4 × 100 metres Relay	rowspan=4\|3 h3 r1/2	rowspan=4\|
align=left\|Marsilio Rossi	19
align=left\|Otello Spampani	18
align=left\|Mario Lanzi	21
align=left\|Ettore Rivolta	31	rowspan=3\|Men's 50 kilometres Walk	12
align=left\|Giuseppe Gobbato	32	14
align=left\|Mario Brignoli	34	18
align=left\|Danilo Innocenti	32	Men's Pole Vault	6T
align=left\|Arturo Maffei	26	rowspan=2\|Men's Long Jump	4T
align=left\|Gianni Caldana	22	12
align=left\|Giorgio Oberweger	22	rowspan=2\|Men's Discus Throw	3	bgcolor=cc9966\| Bronze
align=left\|Ruggero Biancani	21	AC QR
align=left\|Giovanni Cantagalli	22	Men's Hammer Throw	15
colspan=5 bgcolor=pink\|Women (5)
Athlete	Age	Event	Rank	Medal
align=left\|Claudia Testoni	20	Women's 100 metres	5 h5 r1/3
align=left\|Ondina Valla	20	rowspan=2\|Women's 80 metres Hurdles	1	bgcolor=gold\| Gold
align=left\|Claudia Testoni	20	4
align=left\|Lidia Bongiovanni	21	rowspan=4\|Women's 4 × 100 metres Relay	rowspan=4\| 4	rowspan=4\|
align=left\|Ondina Valla	20
align=left\|Fernanda Bullano	21
align=left\|Claudia Testoni	20
align=left\|Gabre Gabric-Calvesi	18	Women's Discus Throw	10

Basketball

;First Round

{{basketballbox

| id = First Round

| date = 7 August 1936

| time = 17:00

| report = [http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1936/1936spart6.pdf Report], p. 1078

| team1 = {{Bk|ITA|1861}}

| score1 = 44

| team2 = {{Bk|POL|1928}}

| score2 = 28

| H1 = 25–12

| H2 = 19–16

| place = Tennis Courts, Court 1

| attendance =

| referee = A. Selenoi (Estonia), J. Christensen (Germany), H. Kalshaus (Germany)

}}

;Second Round

{{basketballbox

| id = Second Round

| date = 9 August 1936

| time = 17:00

| report = [http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1936/1936spart6.pdf Report], p. 1080

| team1 = {{Bk|ITA|1861}}

| score1 = 58

| team2 = {{Bk|GER|1935}}

| score2 = 16

| H1 = 38–11

| H2 = 20–5

| place = Tennis Courts, Court 3

| attendance =

| referee = Sohaku Ri (Japan), K. Falk (Germany), H. Kascher (Germany)

}}

;Third Round

{{basketballbox

| id = Third Round

| date = 11 August 1936

| time = 16:00

| report = [http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1936/1936spart6.pdf Report], p. 1080

| team1 = {{Bk|ITA|1861}}

| score1 = 27

| team2 = {{Bk|CHI}}

| score2 = 19

| H1 = 16–12

| H2 = 11–7

| place = Tennis Courts, Court 2

| attendance =

| referee = A. Selenoi (Estonia), Ch. Perschon (Germany), W. Balzereit (Germany)

}}

;Fourth Round

{{basketballbox

| id = Fourth Round

| date = 12 August 1936

| time = 17:00

| report = [http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1936/1936spart6.pdf Report], p. 1082

| team1 = {{Bk|MEX|1934}}

| score1 = 34

| team2 = {{Bk|ITA|1861}}

| score2 = 17

| H1 = 20–7

| H2 = 14–10

| place = Tennis Courts, Court 5

| attendance =

| referee = E. Powers (Canada), F. Becker (Germany), H. Hammes (Germany)

}}

;5th–8th place semifinals

{{basketballbox

| id = 5th–8th place semifinals

| date = 13 August 1936

| time = 17:00

| report = [http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1936/1936spart6.pdf Report], p. 1082

| team1 = {{Bk|PHI|1936}}

| score1 = 32

| team2 = {{Bk|ITA|1861}}

| score2 = 14

| H1 = 18–6

| H2 = 14–8

| place = Tennis Courts, Court 5

| attendance =

| referee = R. Semerciyan (Turkey), H. Emschermann (Germany), H. Hammes (Germany)

}}

;7th place game

{{basketballbox

| id = 7th place game

| date = 14 August 1936

| time = 16:00

| report = [http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1936/1936spart6.pdf Report], p. 1082

| team1 = {{Bk|ITA|1861}}

| team2 = {{Bk|PER|1825}}

| series = Match suspended after the entire peruvian delegation forfeited the Games.

}}

=Men's Team Competition=

Team Roster

:*Giancarlo Marinelli

:*Sergio Paganella

:*Egidio Premiani

:*Gino Basso

Boxing

Canoeing

;K-1 1000 metres

Elio Sasso Sant

;K-1 10000 metres

Elio Sasso Sant

Cycling

Eleven cyclists, all men, represented Italy in 1936.

;Individual road race

;Team road race

;Sprint

Benedetto Pola

;Time trial

Benedetto Pola

;Tandem

;Team pursuit

Diving

;Men

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style="font-size:95%" !Points !Rank
align=center \|align=left\|Carlo Dibiasi \|align=left rowspan=3\|10 m platform \|90.66 \|10
align=center \|align=left\|Franco Ferraris \|77.60 \|22
align=center \|align=left\|Ferrero Marianetti \|82.78 \|17

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!rowspan=2|Event

!colspan=2|Final

style="font-size:95%"

!Points

!Rank

align=center

|align=left|Carlo Dibiasi

|align=left rowspan=3|10 m platform

|90.66

|10

align=center

|align=left|Franco Ferraris

|77.60

|22

align=center

|align=left|Ferrero Marianetti

|82.78

|17

Equestrian

Fencing

16 fencers, all men, represented Italy in 1936.

;Men's foil

;Men's team foil

Manlio Di Rosa, Giulio Gaudini, Gioacchino Guaragna, Gustavo Marzi, Giorgio Bocchino, Ciro Verratti

;Men's épée

;Men's team épée

Edoardo Mangiarotti, Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici, Saverio Ragno, Franco Riccardi, Giancarlo Brusati, Alfredo Pezzana

;Men's sabre

;Men's team sabre

Giulio Gaudini, Gustavo Marzi, Aldo Masciotta, Vincenzo Pinton, Aldo Montano, Athos Tanzini

Football

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|date = {{Start date|1936|8|3|df=y}}

|time = 17:30

|round = Round of 16

|team1 = {{fb-rt|ITA|1861}}

|score = 1–0

|report = https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/berlin1936/matches/round=197043/match=32337/index.html

|team2 = {{fb|USA|1912}}

|goals1 = Frossi {{goal|58}}

|stadium = Poststadion

|location = Berlin

|attendance = 9,000

|referee = Karl Weingartner (Germany)

|result = W

}}

{{Football box collapsible

|date = {{Start date|1936|8|7|df=y}}

|time = 17:30

|round = Quarter-finals

|team1 = {{fb-rt|ITA|1861}}

|score = 8–0

|report = https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/berlin1936/matches/round=197044/match=32345/index.html

|team2 = {{fb|JPN}}

|goals1 = Frossi {{goal|14||75||80}}
Biagi {{goal|32||57||81||82}}
Cappelli {{goal|89}}

|stadium = Mommsenstadion

|location = Berlin

|attendance = 8,000

|referee = Otto Olsson (Sweden)

|result = W

}}

{{Football box collapsible

|date = {{Start date|1936|8|10|df=y}}

|time = 17:00

|round = Semi-finals

|team1 = {{fb-rt|ITA|1861}}

|score = 2–1

|aet = yes

|report = https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/berlin1936/matches/round=197046/match=32349/index.html

|team2 = {{fb|NOR}}

|goals1 = Negro {{goal|15}}
Frossi {{goal|96}}

|goals2 = Brustad {{goal|58}}

|stadium = Olympiastadion

|location = Berlin

|attendance = 95,000

|referee = Pal von Hertzka (Hungary)

|result = W

}}

{{Football box collapsible

|date = {{Start date|1936|8|15|df=y}}

|time = 16:00

|round = Gold medal match

|team1 = {{fb-rt|ITA|1861}}

|score = 2–1

|aet = yes

|report = https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/mensolympic/berlin1936/matches/round=197048/match=32352/index.html

|team2 = {{fb|AUT}}

|goals1 = Frossi {{goal|70||92}}

|goals2 = Kainberger {{goal|79}}

|stadium = Olympiastadion

|location = Berlin

|attendance = 85,000

|referee = Peco Bauwens (Germany)

|bg = FFD700

}}

=Men's Team Squad=

:*Francesco Gabriotti

Gymnastics

16 gymnasts, 8 men and 8 women, represented Italy in 1936.

;Men's team

;Women's team

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathlete represented Italy in 1936.

Rowing

Italy had 22 rowers participate in five out of seven rowing events in 1936.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/ITA/summer/1936/ROW/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417091718/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/ITA/summer/1936/ROW/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Italy Rowing at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games |access-date= 9 May 2018}}

; Men's single sculls

Riccardo Steinleitner

Sailing

Shooting

Nine shooters represented Italy in 1936.

;25 m rapid fire pistol

;50 m pistol

;50 m rifle, prone

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Art competitions

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20060622162855/http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm Official Olympic Reports]
[http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp International Olympic Committee results database]
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