Italy at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Definition and Overview

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Italy at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Medals

	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Italy	10	11	11	32

Results by event

Archery

Men's individual:

• Marco Galiazzo - gold medal
• Ilario di Buo - 16th place
• Michele Frangilli - 31st place

Women's individual:

• Natalia Valeeva - 53rd place

Men's team:

• Ilario di Buo, Michele Frangilli, and Marco Galiazzo - 7th place

Athletics

Men's 100 metres:

• Simone Collio - Round 2, 10.29 s (did not advance)

Men's 200 metres:

• Marco Torrieri - Round 2, 20.89 s (did not advance)
• Andrew Howe - Round 2, 21.17 s (did not advance)

Men's 800 metres:

• Andrea Longo - Semifinal, 1:46.0 (did not advance)

Men's 3000 metre steeplechase:

• Giuseppe Maffei - Round 1, DNF (did not advance)

Men's 4x100 metre relay:

• Marco Torrieri, Simone Collio, Massimiliano Donati, and Maurizio Checcucci - Round 1, 0:38.79 (did not advance)

Men's decathlon:

• Paolo Casarsa - 7404 points (28th place)

Men's marathon:

• Stefano Baldini - 2:10:55 (gold medal)
• Alberico di Cecco - 2:14:34 (9th place)
• Daniele Caimmi - 2:23:07 (52nd place)

Men's 20 km walk:

• Ivano Brugnetti - 1:19:40 (gold medal)
• Marco Giungi - 1:23:30 (13th place)
• Alessandro Gandellini - DNF

Men's 50 km walk:

• Giovanni de Benedictis - DQ

Men's long jump:

• Nicola Trentin - Round 1, 7.86 metres (did not advance)

Men's triple jump:

• Fabrizio Donato - Round 1, 16.45 metres (did not advance)

Men's high jump:

• Alessandro Talotti - Final, 2.25 metres (12th place)
• Nicola Ciotti - Round 1, 2.25 metres (did not advance)

Men's pole vault:

• Giuseppe Gibilisco - Final, 5.85 metres (bronze medal)

Men's hammer:

• Nicola Vizzoni - Final, 74.27 metres (10th place)

Baseball

The Italian baseball team tied for 7th in the preliminary round and did not advance to the semifinals.

• Players: Luca Bischeri, James Buccheri, Francesco Casolari, Mario Chiarini, Davide Dallospedale, Seth la Fera, David Francia, Daniele Frignani, Claudio Liverziani, William Lucena, Marcello Malagoli, Michael Marchesano, Anthony Massimino, Giuseppe Mazzanti, Fabio Milano, Peter Nyari, Kasey Olenberger, Giovanni Pantaleoni, Vincent Parisi, Jairo Ramos-Gizzi, Carlo Richetti, David Rollandini, Riccardo de Santis, Igor Schiavetti
• Manager: Giampiero Faraone
• Coaches: Claudio Corradi, Manuel Cortina, Salvatore Varriale

Basketball

Men's: silver medal

• Preliminary round: 3-2
• Quarterfinal: Defeated Puerto Rico, 83-70
• Semifinal: Defeated Lithuania, 100-91
• Final: Lost to Argentina, 84-69

Fencing

Men's épée individual:

• Alfredo Rota - defeated in round of 16

Women's épée individual:

• Cristiana Cascioli - defeated in round of 16

Men's foil individual:

• Salvatore Sanzo - silver medal
• Andrea Cassara - bronze medal
• Simone Vanni - defeated in quarterfinals

Women's foil individual:

• Valentina Vezzali - gold medal
• Giovanna Trillini - silver medal
• Margherita Granbassi - defeated in round of 16

Men's sabre individual:

• Aldo Montano - gold medal
• Luigi Tarantino - defeated in round of 16
• Gianpiero Pastore - defeated in round of 32

Women's sabre individual:

• Gioia Marzocca - defeated in round of 16

Men's foil team:

• Salvatore Sanzo, Simone Vanni, and Andrea Cassara - gold medal

Men's sabre team:

• Luigi Tarantino, Gianpiero Pastore, and Aldo Montano - silver medal

Football (Soccer)

Men's: bronze medal

• Preliminary round: 1-1-1
• Quarterfinal: defeated Mali, 1-0
• Semifinal: lost to Argentina, 3-0
• Bronze medal match: defeated Iraq, 1-0

Officials

• President: Gianni Petrucci
• Secretary General: Raffaele Pagnozzi