Italy at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Italy
games=1956 Summer
competitors=134 (119 men, 15 women)
sports=
flagbearer=Edoardo Mangiarotti
gold=8
silver=8
bronze=9
total=25
rank=5

Italy competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia and Stockholm, Sweden (equestrian events).

Medalists

Gold

*Leandro Faggin — Cycling, Men's 1.000m Time Trial
*Antonio Domenicali, Leandro Faggin, Valentino Gasparella, and Franco Gandini — Cycling, Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit
*Ercole Baldini — Cycling, Men's Individual Road Race
*Luigi Carpaneda, Manlio di Rosa, Giancarlo Bergamini, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Antonio Spallino, and Vittorio Lucarelli — Fencing, Men's Foil Team
*Carlo Pavesi — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
*Giorgio Anglesio, Franco Bertinetti, Giuseppe Delfino, Edoardo Mangiarotti, Carlo Pavesi, and Alberto Pellegrino — Fencing, Men's Épée Team
*Alberto Winkler, Romano Sgheiz, Angelo Vanzin, Franco Trincavelli, and Ivo Stefanoni — Rowing, Men's Coxed Fours
*Galliano Rossini — Shooting, Men's Trap Shooting

Silver

*Franco Nenci — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight
*Guglielmo Pesenti — Cycling, Men's 1.000m Sprint (Scratch)
*Raimondo d'Inzeo — Equestrian, Jumping Individual
*Piero d'Inzeo, Raimondo d'Inzeo, and Salvatore Oppes — Equestrian, Jumping Team
*Giancarlo Bergamini — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual
*Giuseppe Delfino — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
*Ignazio Fabra — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Flyweight
*Agostino Straulino and Nicolò Rode — Sailing, Men's Star Competition

Bronze

*Giacomo Bozzano — Boxing, Men's Heavyweight
*Giuseppe Ogna and Cesare Pinarello — Cycling, Men's 2.000m Tandem
*Piero d'Inzeo — Equestrian, Jumping Individual
*Antonio Spallino — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual
*Edoardo Mangiarotti — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
*Alessandro Ciceri — Shooting, Men's Trap Shooting
*Ermanno Pignatti — Weightlifting, Men's Middleweight
*Alberto Pigaiani — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight
*Adelmo Bulgarelli — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Heavyweight

Results by event

=Athletics=

Men's Marathon
*Giuseppe Lavelli — did not finish (→ no ranking)

=Cycling=

Men's 1.000m Scratch Sprint
*Guglielmo Pesenti — Silver Medal

Men's 1.000m Time Trial
* Gold Medal)

Men's 2.000m Tandem
*Cesare Pinarello
Giuseppe Ogna — Bronze Medal

Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit
*Antonio Domenicali
Franco Gandini
Leandro Faggin
Gold Medal)

Men's Team Time Trial
*Ercole Baldini
Arnaldo Pambianco
Dino Bruni — 36 points (→ 4th place)

Men's Individual Road Race
* Gold Medal)
*Arnaldo Pambianco — 5:23:40 (→ 7th place)
*Dino Bruni — 5:27:28 (→ 28th place)
*Aurelio Cestari — 5:34:20 (→ 34th place)

=Swimming=

Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay
*Federico Dennerlein, Paolo Galletti, Guido Elmi, and Anthony Romani:* Final — 8:46.2 (→ 7th place)

=Water Polo=

Men's Team Competition

*Team Roster:*Cosimo Antonelli:*Alfonso Buonocore:*Enzo Cavazzoni:*Maurizio d'Achille:*Giuseppe d'Altrui:*Federico Dennerlein:*Luigi Mannelli:*Angelo Marciani:*Paolo Pucci:*Cesare Rubini

References

* [http://www.aafla.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm Official Olympic Reports]
* [http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp International Olympic Committee results database]