Italy at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Italy
games=1980 Summer
flagcaption=Flag of the Olympic Movement
competitors=173
sports=
flagbearerNone
gold=8
silver=3
bronze=4
total=15
rank=5

Italy competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. In partial support of the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, Italy competed under the Olympic Flag instead of its national flag.

Medalists

Gold

*Pietro Mennea — Athletics, Men's 200 metres
*Maurizio Damilano — Athletics, Men's 20km Walk
*Sara Simeoni — Athletics, Women's High Jump
*Patrizio Oliva — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight
*Federico Roman — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Individual Competition
*Ezio Gamba — Judo, Men's Lightweight (71 kg)
*Luciano Giovannetti — Shooting, Men's Trap
*Claudio Pollio — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light Flyweight

Silver

*Marco Solfrini, Renzo Vecchiato, Renato Villalta, Dino Meneghin, Romeo Sacchetti, Michael Silvester, Pietro Generali, Enrico Gilardi, Pierluigi Marzorati, Marco Bonamico, Roberto Brunamonti, and Fabrizio Della Fiori — Basketball, Men's Team Competition
*Marina Sciocchetti, Anna Casagrande, Federico Roman, and Mauro Roman — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Team Competition
*Giovanni Scalzo, Michele Maffei, Mario Aldo Montano, and Marco Romano — Fencing, Sabre Team Competition

Bronze

*Giancarlo Ferrari — Archery, Men's Individual Competition
*Mauro Zuliani, Stefano Malinverni, Pietro Mennea, and Roberto Tozzi — Athletics, Men's 4x400m Relay
*Giorgio Cagnotto — Diving, Men's Springboard
*Giorgio Gorla and Alfio Peraboni — Sailing, Men's Star Team Competition

Results by event

=Archery=

For the first time, Italy entered a woman in the Olympic archery competition. She placed a respectable tenth place. Giancarlo Ferrari repeated his bronze medal-winning performance of four years earlier.

Women's Individual Competition:
*Franca Capetta — 2342 points (→ 10th place)

Men's Individual Competition:
*Giancarlo Ferrari — 2449 points (→ Bronze Medal)
*Sante Spigarelli — 2405 points (→ 14th place)

=Athletics=

Men's Marathon
* Massimo Magnani:* Final — 2:13:12 (→ 8th place)

* Marco Marchei:* Final — 2:23:21 (→ 35th place)

Men's Decathlon
* Alessandro Brogini:* Final — did not finish (→ no ranking)

=Basketball=

Men's Team Competition

*Preliminary Round (Group C):* Defeated Sweden (92-77):* Lost to Australia (77-84):* Defeated Cuba (79-72)
*Semi Final Round (Group A):* Lost to Yugoslavia (81-102):* Defeated Soviet Union (87-85):* Lost to Brazil (77-90):* Defeated Spain (95-89)
*Final:* Lost to Yugoslavia (77-86) → Silver Medal
*Team Roster::* Romeo Sacchetti:* Roberto Brunamonti:* Michael Silvester:* Enrico Gilardi:* Fabrizio Della Fiori:* Marco Solfrini:* Marco Bonamico:* Dino Meneghin:* Renato Villalta:* Renzo Vecchiato:* Pierluigi Marzorati:* Pietro Generali

=Boxing=

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)
*Carlo Russolillo
*# First Round — Lost to Angel Herrera (Cuba) on points (0-5)
Men's Light-Welterweight (– 63,5 kg)
*Patrizio Oliva → Gold Medal
*# First Round — Defeated Aurelien Agnan (Benin) after referee stopped contest in first round
*# Second Round — Defeated Farez Halabi (Syria) after referee stopped contest in first round
*# Quarter Finals — Defeated Ace Rusevski (Yugoslavia) on points (3-2)
*# Semi Finals — Defeated Anthony Willis (Great Britain) on points (5-0)
*# Final — Defeated Serik Konakbaev (Soviet Union) on points (4-1)
Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg)
*Francesco Damiani
*# First Round — Defeated Teodor Pîrjol (Romania) on points (4-1)
*# Quarter Finals — Lost to Piotr Zaev (Soviet Union) on points (0-5)

=Diving=

Men's Springboard
*Giorgio Cagnotto:* Preliminary Round — 556.32 points (→ 6th place):* Final — 871.500 points (→ Bronze Medal)

=Swimming=

Men's 100m Freestyle
*Paolo Revelli:* Heats — 52.74 (→ did not advance)
*Fabrizio Rampazzo:* Heats — 52.71 (→ did not advance)
*Raffaele Franceschi:* Heats — 52.26:* Semi-Finals — 51,87 :* Final — 51.69 (→ 5th place)

Men's 200m Freestyle
*Paolo Revelli :* Heats — 1:52.56:* Final — 1:52.76 (→ 6th place)
*Fabrizio Rampezzo :* Heats — 1:52.62:* Final — 1:53.25 (→ 8th place)

Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay
*Paolo Revelli, Raffaele Franceschi, Andrea Ceccarini, and Fabrizio Rampazzo:* Final — 7:30.37 (→ 5th place)
Women's 100m Backstroke
*Manuela Carosi :* Final — 1.05.10 (→ 8th place)

Women's 100m Breaststroke
*Monica Bonon :* Heats — 1:12.36:* Final — 1:12.51 (→ 8th place)

* Sabrina Seminatore:* Heats — 1:13.76 (→ did not advance)

Women's 4x100m Medley Relay
*Laura Foralosso, Sabrina Seminatore, Cinzia Savi-Scarponi, and Monica Vallarin :* Final — 4:19.06 (→ 5th place)

=Volleyball=

Men's Team Competition

*Preliminary Round (Group A):* Lost to Cuba (0-3):* Defeated Czechoslovakia (3-2):* Lost to Soviet Union (0-3):* Lost to Bulgaria (1-3)
*Classification Match:* 9th/10th place: Defeated Libya (3-0) → 9th place
*Team Roster:* Antonio Bonini:* Claudio di Coste :* Mauro di Bernardo:* Sebastiano Greco:* Francesco Dall'Olio :* Giulio Belletti :* Fabrizio Nassi :* Giancarlo Dametto :* Stefano Sibani:* Giovanni Lanfranco :* Fabio Innocenti :* Franco Bertoli

=Water Polo=

Men's Team Competition

*Team Roster:*Alberto Alberani:*Roldano Simeoni:*Alfio Misaggi:*Sante Marsili:*Massimo Fondelli:*Gianni de Magistris:*Antonello Steardo:*Paolo Ragosa:*Romeo Collina:*Vincenzo d'Angelo:*Umberto Panerai