Italy at the 1960 Summer Olympics
sporting event delegation
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.
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 – Fencing, 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
Men
Women
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.
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.
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