Italy competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. 200 competitors, 196 men and 4 women, took part in 93 events in 18 sports.
Medalists
MedalNameSportEventDate Athletics Men's 10 km walk , Alfredo Dinale,Aurelio Menegazzi, Francesco Zucchetti Cycling Men's team pursuit , Guido Balzarini, Marcello Bertinetti, Bino Bini,Vincenzo Cuccia, Oreste Moricca, Oreste Puliti, Giulio Sarrocchi Fencing Men's team sabre , Mario Lertora, Vittorio Lucchetti, Luigi Maiocco,Ferdinando Mandrini, Francesco Martino, Giuseppe Paris, Giorgio Zampori Gymnastics Men's team Gymnastics Men's rings Weightlifting Men's 60 kg Weightlifting Men's 75 kg Weightlifting Men's +82.5 kg Athletics Men's marathon Equestrian Individual jumping , Giovanni Scatturin, Gino Sopracordevole Rowing Men's coxed pair , Emanuele Beraudo di Pralormo,Tommaso Lequio di Assaba, Alberto Lombardi Equestrian Team eventing , Marcello Bertinetti, Giovanni Canova,Vincenzo Cuccia, Virgilio Mantegazza, Oreste Moricca Fencing Men's team épée Gymnastics Men's parallel bars , Frane Katalinić, Šimun Katalinić, Giuseppe Crivelli,Latino Galasso, Petar Ivanov, Vittorio Gliubich, Bruno Sorić, Carlo Toniatti Rowing Men's eight Tennis Men's singles
Athletics
Thirty-six athletes represented Italy in 1924. It was the nation's fifth appearance in the sport. Frigerio successfully defended his title in the 10 kilometre walk. Bertini took Italy's only other athletics medal in 1924, finishing second in the marathon.
Ranks given are within the heat.
AthleteEventHeatsQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalResultRankResultRankResultRankResultRank Ernesto Alciati Marathon N/A did not finish Ernesto Ambrosini 3000 m steeplechase N/A Unknown 4 did not advance Romeo Bertini Marathon N/A 2:47:19.6 Tullio Biscuola Marathon N/A 3:19:05.0 22 Ettore Blasi Marathon N/A did not finish Ernesto Bonacina 100 m 11.2 2 Q Unknown 5 did not advance Mario-Giuseppe Bonini 800 m N/A Unknown 5 did not advance Luigi Bosatra 10 km walk N/A Unknown 4 Q 50:09.0 8 Ferruccio Bruni 800 m N/A Unknown 4 did not advance 1500 m N/A Unknown 6 did not advance Alberto Cavallero Marathon N/A did not finish Carlo Clemente Javelin throw N/A 52.75 7 did not advance Adolfo Contoli Pentathlon N/A Elim-3 Decathlon N/A 6406.8825 11 Angelo Davoli 1500 m N/A Unknown 6 did not advance Luigi Facelli 400 m 51.0 1 Q 50.5 4 did not advance 400 m hurdles N/A 56.4 2 Q 55.6 4 did not advance Disma Ferrario 1500 m N/A 4:18.5 3 did not advance Giovanni Frangipane 100 m 11.1 2 Q 11.0 2 Q 11.2 6 did not advance Ugo Frigerio 10 km walk N/A 49:15.6 1 Q 47:49.0 Giovanni Garaventa 1500 m N/A Unknown 6 did not advance Alfredo Gargiullo 400 m 50.4 2 Q Unknown 5 did not advance Ennio Maffiolini 400 m Unknown 4 did not advance Angelo Malvicini Marathon N/A did not finish Carlo Martinenghi Cross country N/A 37:01.0 7 Antenore Negri 3000 m steeplechase N/A Unknown 7 did not advance Giuseppe Palmieri High jump N/A 1.70 7 did not advance Pietro Pastorino 200 m 22.1 3 did not advance Donato Pavesi 10 km walk N/A 49:09.0 2 Q 49:17.0 4 Albino Pighi Discus throw N/A 34.985 8 did not advance Pentathlon N/A Elim-3 Armando Poggioli Discus throw N/A 35.29 8 did not advance Puccio Pucci 800 m N/A Unknown 4 did not advance Carlo Speroni 10000 m N/A did not finish Cross country N/A did not finish Virgilio Tommasi Long jump N/A 6.88 2 Q 6.89 7 Enrico Torre 100 m 11.2 2 Q Unknown 6 did not advance Armando Valente 10 km walk N/A Unknown 4 50:07.0 7 Camillo Zemi Discus throw N/A 37.465 7 did not advance Hammer throw N/A 35.00 13 did not advance Vittorio Zucca 100 m 11.5 3 did not advance Ernesto Ambrosini Ferruccio Bruni Angelo Davoli Giovanni Garaventa 3000 m team N/A 31 4 did not advance Ernesto Bonacina Giovanni Frangipane Pietro Pastorino Enrico Torre 4 × 100 m relay N/A 42.8 2 Q 42.9 3 did not advance Guido Cominotto Luigi Facelli Alfredo Gargiullo Ennio Maffiolini 4 × 400 m relay N/A 3:30.0 2 Q 3:28.0 6
Boxing
Sixteen boxers represented Italy at the 1924 Games. It was the nation's second appearance in the sport. Italy was one of four nations (along with France, Great Britain, and the United States) to have two boxers in each of the eight weight classes; Italy was the only one of those four to not win any boxing medals. Castellenghi and Saraudi advanced to the semifinals in their weight classes, but both were beaten there and neither contested the bronze medal match.
BoxerWeight classRound of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / Bronze matchOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRank Domenico Bernasconi Bantamweight L did not advance 17 Riccardo Bertazzolo Heavyweight N/A W L did not advance 5 Emilio Bonfigli Middleweight L did not advance 17 Rinaldo Castellenghi Flyweight Bye W W L L 4 Giuseppe Colacicco Welterweight L did not advance 17 Ferdinando De Petrillo Lightweight L did not advance 17 Livio Francecchini Featherweight W L did not advance 9 Amedeo Grillo Light heavyweight Bye L did not advance 9 Gaetano Lanzi Flyweight W L did not advance 9 Orlando Leopardi Middleweight L did not advance 17 Luigi Marfut Lightweight W L did not advance 9 Giuseppe Oldani Welterweight W L did not advance 9 Bruno Petrarca Featherweight Bye W L did not advance 5 Armando Ricciardi Bantamweight L did not advance 17 Carlo Saraudi Light heavyweight Bye W W L L 4 Carlo Scotti Heavyweight N/A L did not advance 9
Opponent nation Wins Losses Percent 0 2 .000 0 1 .000 1 2 .333 2 1 .667 1 0 1.000 1 4 .200 2 1 .667 0 3 .000 1 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 0 4 .000 1 0 1.000 Total 10 18 .357
Round Wins Losses Percent Round of 32 4 6 .400 Round of 16 4 6 .400 Quarterfinals 2 2 .500 Semifinals 0 2 .000 Final 0 0 – Bronze match 0 2 .000 Total 10 18 .357
Cycling
Ten cyclists represented Italy in 1924. It was the nation's fourth appearance in the sport. Italy took a single cycling medal in 1924, successfully defending the nation's championship in the team pursuit competition (though none of the winning 1920 cyclists were on the 1924 team).
Road cycling
Ranks given are within the heat.
CyclistEventFinalResultRank Ardito Bresciani Time trial 6:41:39.4 12 Nello Ciaccheri Time trial 6:50:10.0 18 Luigi Magnotti Time trial 6:53:25.0 20 Antonio Negrini Time trial 6:48:09.8 15 Ardito Bresciani Nello Ciaccheri Luigi Magnotti Antonio Negrini Team time trial 20:19:59.2 5
Track cycling
Ranks given are within the heat.
CyclistEventFirst roundFirst repechageQuarterfinalsSecond repechageSemifinalsFinalResultRankResultRankResultRankResultRankResultRankResultRank Guglielmo Bossi Sprint 13.6 1 Q Advanced directly Unknown 2 r Unknown 1 Q Unknown 3 did not advance Angelo de Martino 50 km N/A Unknown 4 Francesco del Grosso 50 km N/A Unknown 8–36 Sprint 12.8 1 Q Advanced directly 13.6 1 Q Advanced directly Unknown 3 did not advance Alfredo Dinale 50 km N/A Unknown 6 Angelo de Martini Alfredo Dinale Aleardo Menegazzi Francesco Zucchetti Team pursuit 5:23.2 1 Q N/A 5:13.8 1 Q N/A 5:12.0 1 Q 5:15.0
Diving
A single diver represented Italy in 1924. It was the nation's fourth appearance in the sport. 1924 was the fourth consecutive Games in which Italy had sent a single man in diving; Cangiullo continued the nation's lack of finals advancement.
Ranks given are within the heat.
Men
DiverEventSemifinalsFinalPointsScoreRankPointsScoreRank Luigi Cangiullo 10 m platform 20 398.8 4 did not advance
Equestrian
Five equestrians represented Italy in 1924. It was the nation's third appearance in the sport. Tommaso Lequio di Assaba, the defending gold medalist in the individual jumping, took silver this time. The eventing team also took bronze. It was the first time Italy finished without an equestrian gold medal.
EquestrianEventFinal Score Time Rank Alessandro Alvisi Eventing 1536.0 N/A 12 Jumping 28.75 2:42.4 26 Emanuele Beraudo Di Pralormo Eventing 1404.5 N/A 17 Jumping did not finish Tommaso Lequio di Assaba Eventing did not finish Jumping 8.75 2:42.0 Alberto Lombardi Eventing 1572.0 N/A 11 Leone Valle Jumping 20.00 2:36.6 15 Alessandro Alvisi Emanuele Beraudo Di Pralormo Tommaso Lequio di Assaba Alberto Lombardi Team eventing 4512.5 N/A Alessandro Alvisi Emanuele Beraudo Di Pralormo Tommaso Lequio di Assaba Leone Valle Team jumping 57.50 N/A 5
Fencing
19 fencers, all men, represented Italy in 1924. It was the nation's fifth appearance in the sport. The absence of Nedo Nadi (by then a professional) and the heightened performance of France's Roger Ducret resulted in a relative down year for the Italian team, which defended only one of its five titles from 1920.
All six of the country's individual event competitors reached the finals; none won a medal. All three of the country's team event squads reached the finals; they won a gold medal in the sabre and a bronze in the épée. The team sabre competition pitted the defending champion Italian squad against a powerhouse Hungary team which had been excluded from competition in 1920. The four-team final pool was dominated by the two teams, and the match between them decided gold. That match was one of the closest of the 1924 Games, with the teams splitting the bouts 8 to 8 and Italy winning via tie-breaker: 50 touches to 46.
Men
Ranks given are within the pool.
FencerEventRound 1Round 2QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalResultRankResultRankResultRankResultRankResultRank Marcello Bertinetti Sabre N/A 4–1 2 Q 6–2 2 Q did not start Bino Bini Sabre N/A 3–3 4 Q 7–1 1 Q did not start Renzo Compagna Épée 7–2 2 Q N/A 7–3 2 Q 6–5 2 Q 2–9 11 Virgilio Mantegazza Épée 6–3 2 Q N/A 6–3 1 Q 9–2 1 Q 6–5 6 Oreste Puliti Sabre N/A 5–0 1 Q 7–1 1 Q Disqualified Giulio Sarrocchi Sabre N/A 6–1 1 Q 5–3 4 Q did not start Giulio Basletta Marcello Bertinetti Giovanni Canova Vincenzo Cuccia Virgilio Mantegazza Oreste Moricca Team épée 1–1 2 Q N/A 1–0 2 Q 1–0 1 Q 1–2 Renato Anselmi Guido Balzarini Marcello Bertinetti Bino Bini Vincenzo Cuccia Oreste Moricca Oreste Puliti Giulio Sarrocchi Team sabre 2–0 1 Q N/A 2–0 2 Q 1–0 1 Q 3–0 Valentino Argento Aldo Boni Dante Carniel Giorgio Chiavacci Luigi Cuomo Giulio Guadini Giorgio Pessina Oreste Puliti Team foil Bye N/A 3–0 1 Q 1–0 1 Q did not finish
Football
Italy competed in the Olympic football tournament for the third time in 1924.
Round 1
Round 2
Quarterfinals
Final rank 5th place
Roster
Giovanni De Prà Giampiero Combi Gastone Baldi Giuseppe Aliberti Adolfo Baloncieri Ottavio Barbieri Luigi Burlando Umberto Caligaris Leopoldo Conti Giuseppe Della Valle Virgilio Levratto Mario Magnozzi Virginio Rosetta Renzo De Vecchi Severino Rosso Antonio Fayenz Antonio Janni Antonio Bruna Mario Ardissone Feliciano Monti Giuseppe Calvi Cesare Martin
Gymnastics
Eight gymnasts represented Italy in 1924. It was the nation's fifth appearance in the sport. The Italian team won its third consecutive gold medal in the team event (in part at least due to Czechoslovakia's failure to finish), though were kept out of the individual all-around medals after having had an individual all-around gold medalist the previous two Games.
Mandrini had the best all-around result of the Italians, placing fourth despite earning no better than seventh in any single apparatus. Francesco Martino took the gold medal in the rings, while Zampori earned bronze in the parallel bars.
Artistic