Italy at the 1924 Summer Olympics

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.

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
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

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.

Boxer	Weight class	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / Bronze match
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Domenico Bernasconi	Bantamweight	Ces (FRA) L	Did not advance				17
Riccardo Bertazzolo	Heavyweight	N/A	O'Kelly (GBR) W	von Porat (NOR) L	Did not advance		5
Emilio Bonfigli	Middleweight	Daney (FRA) L	Did not advance				17
Rinaldo Castellenghi	Flyweight	Bye	Gourdy (FRA) W	Biete (ESP) W	LaBarba (USA) L	Fee (USA) L	4
Giuseppe Colacicco	Welterweight	Christensen (NOR) L	Did not advance				17
Ferdinando De Petrillo	Lightweight	Savignac (FRA) L	Did not advance				17
Livio Francecchini	Featherweight	MacGowan (CAN) W	Devergnies (BEL) L	Did not advance			9
Amedeo Grillo	Light heavyweight	Bye	Rossignon (FRA) L	Did not advance			9
Gaetano Lanzi	Flyweight	Recalde (URU) W	LaBarba (USA) L	Did not advance			9
Orlando Leopardi	Middleweight	Henning (CAN) L	Did not advance				17
Luigi Marfut	Lightweight	Haddad (EGY) W	Copello (ARG) L	Did not advance			9
Giuseppe Oldani	Welterweight	Nielsen (DEN) W	Lewis (CAN) L	Did not advance			9
Bruno Petrarca	Featherweight	Bye	Sauthier (SUI) W	Salas (USA) L	Did not advance		5
Armando Ricciardi	Bantamweight	Pertuzzo (ARG) L	Did not advance				17
Carlo Saraudi	Light heavyweight	Bye	Lindberg (DEN) W	Courtis (GBR) W	Mitchell (GBR) L	Sørsdal (NOR) L	4
Carlo Scotti	Heavyweight	N/A	Petersen (DEN) L	Did not advance			9

Opponent nation Wins Losses Percent  Argentina 0 2 .000  Belgium 0 1 .000  Canada 1 2 .333  Denmark 2 1 .667  Egypt 1 0 1.000  France 1 4 .200  Great Britain 2 1 .667  Norway 0 3 .000  Spain 1 0 1.000  Switzerland 1 0 1.000  United States 0 4 .000  Uruguay 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

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).

Track cycling

Ranks given are within the heat.

Cyclist	Event	First round		First repechage		Quarterfinals		Second repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
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

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

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.

Equestrian	Event	Final
		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

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.

Fencer	Event	Round 1		Round 2		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
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

Italy competed in the Olympic football tournament for the third time in 1924.

Round 1

May 25, 1924

Italy	1–0	Spain
Vallana  84' (o.g.)	Report

Stade Olympique, Colombes

Attendance: 20,000

Referee: Marcel Slawik (FRA)

Round 2

May 29, 1924
14:15

Italy	2–0	Luxembourg
Baloncieri  20' Della Valle  38'	Report

Stade Pershing

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Jean Richard (FRA)

Quarterfinals

June 2, 1924
17:00

Switzerland	2–1	Italy
Sturzenegger  47' Abegglen  60'	Report	Della Valle  52'

Stade Bergeyre

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Johannes Mutters (NED)

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

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

Gymnast	Event	Final
		Score	Rank
Luigi Cambiaso	All-around	101.320	17
	Horizontal bar	17.180	21
	Parallel bars	20.90	14
	Pommel horse	14.740	44
	Rings	19.980	17
	Rope climbing	10 (9.0 s)	18
	Sidehorse vault	9.15	30
	Vault	9.37	14
Mario Lertora	All-around	103.619	10
	Horizontal bar	18.366	12
	Parallel bars	21.33	5
	Pommel horse	17.160	29
	Rings	20.333	15
	Rope climbing	10 (8.6 s)	10
	Sidehorse vault	9.11	32
	Vault	7.32	34
Vittorio Lucchetti	All-around	102.803	12
	Horizontal bar	17.270	20
	Parallel bars	20.33	22
	Pommel horse	18.190	19
	Rings	20.913	9
	Rope climbing	10 (9.0 s)	18
	Sidehorse vault	9.20	28
	Vault	6.90	45
Luigi Maiocco	All-around	92.486	33
	Horizontal bar	14.663	40
	Parallel bars	18.28	47
	Pommel horse	18.130	20
	Rings	19.333	22
	Rope climbing	5 (10.0 s)	39
	Sidehorse vault	8.33	50
	Vault	8.75	21
Ferdinando Mandrini	All-around	105.583	4
	Horizontal bar	18.120	14
	Parallel bars	20.21	24
	Pommel horse	17.060	30
	Rings	20.943	8
	Rope climbing	10 (9.0 s)	18
	Sidehorse vault	9.50	21
	Vault	9.75	7
Francesco Martino	All-around	101.529	16
	Horizontal bar	18.386	11
	Parallel bars	20.89	15
	Pommel horse	17.290	28
	Rings	21.553
	Rope climbing	10 (8.8 s)	13
	Sidehorse vault	8.58	44
	Vault	4.83	57
Giuseppe Paris	All-around	101.169	18
	Horizontal bar	16.356	27
	Parallel bars	20.86	16
	Pommel horse	20.100	5
	Rings	19.743	18
	Rope climbing	8 (9.4 s)	24
	Sidehorse vault	9.03	36
	Vault	7.08	41
Giorgio Zampori	All-around	96.549	26
	Horizontal bar	16.203	30
	Parallel bars	21.45
	Pommel horse	17.730	23
	Rings	20.246	16
	Rope climbing	6 (9.8 s)	35
	Sidehorse vault	9.42	24
	Vault	5.50	53
Luigi Cambiaso Mario Lertora Vittorio Lucchetti Luigi Maiocco Ferdinando Mandrini Francesco Martino Giuseppe Paris Giorgio Zampori	Team	839.058

Four pentathletes represented Italy in 1924. It was the nation's second appearance in the sport.

17 rowers represented Italy in 1924. It was the nation's fourth appearance in the sport. Italy took two medals.

Ranks given are within the heat.

Rower	Event	Semifinals		Repechage		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Ercole Olgeni Giovanni Scatturin Gino Sopracordevole	Coxed pair	Unknown	2 Q	N/A		8:39.1
Massimo Ballestrero Renato Berninzone Marcello Casanova Ludovico Cerato Jean Cipollina	Coxed four	7:13.0	1 Q	Advanced directly		Unknown	4
Ante Katalinić Frane Katalinić Šimun Katalinić Giuseppe Crivelli Latino Galasso Vittorio Gliubich Petar Ivanov Bruno Sorić Carlo Toniatti	Eight	6:06.0	1 Q	Advanced directly		Unknown

Three sailors represented Italy in 1924. It was the nation's debut in the sport.

Fourteen sport shooters represented Italy in 1924. It was the nation's third appearance in the sport.

Ranks given are within the heat.

Men

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 128	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Umberto de Morpurgo	Singles	Wolff (LUX) W 6–1, 6–0, 6–0	Debran (SUI) W 6–2, 6–3, 6–3	Zerlentis (GRE) W 6–0, 6–2, 6–4	Washer (BEL) W 2–6, 6–4, 1–6, 6–4, 8–6	Harada (JPN) W 6–4, 6–1, 6–1	Richards (USA) L 3–6, 6–3, 1–6, 4–6	Bronze medal final  Borotra (FRA) W 1–6, 6–1, 8–6, 4–6, 7–5
Clemente Serventi	Singles	Washburn (USA) L 4–7, 3–6, 4–6	Did not advance
Umberto de Morpurgo Clemente Serventi	Doubles	N/A	Bye	Washer / de Laveleye (BEL) W 6–4, 6–4, 7–5	Brunon / Cochet (FRA) L 2–6, 4–6, 2–6	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Paola Bologna	Singles	Bye	Golding (FRA) L 0–6, 3–6	Did not advance
Rosetta Gagliardi	Singles	Brehm (DEN) W 6–0, 6–2	Blair-White (IRL) W 4–6, 7–5, 6–2	Shepherd-Barron (GBR) L 1–6, 0–6	Did not advance
Giulia Perelli	Singles	Bye	Torras (ESP) L 4–6, 6–4, 6–8	Did not advance
Rosetta Gagliardi Giulia Perelli	Doubles	N/A	Bye	Bye	Billout / Bourgeois (FRA) L 5–7, 1–6	Did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Umberto de Morpurgo Giulia Perelli	Doubles	Torras / Saprisa (ESP) W 6–3, 8–6	McKane / Gilbert (GBR) L 7–9, 6–1, 5–7	Did not advance

Italy made its second Olympic water polo appearance.

Roster

• Tito Ambrosini
• Ottone Andreancich
• Mario Balla
• Gian Battista Benvenuto
• Arnoldo Berruti
• Mario Cazzaniga
• Eugenio Della Casa
• Achille Francesco Gavoglio
• Emilio Gavoglio
• Carmine De Luca
• Giuseppe M. Valle

First round

Sweden

7–0

Italy

Piscine des Tourelles

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Media related to Italy at the 1924 Summer Olympics at Wikimedia Commons