List: Olympic bronze medalists for Italy

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•  Pietro Mennea

  Pietro Paolo Mennea (born June 28, 1952) is an Italian former sprinter and politician, who was the 1980 Moscow Olympic 200 meter Champion, and also held the 200 m world record for 17 years.

  

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•  Aldo Nadi

  Aldo Nadi (April 29, 1899-November 10, 1965) is considered among the greatest fencers of all time. Aldo was born into a fencing family in Livorno, Italy, and both Aldo and his brother Nedo Nadi were fencers from a very young age. They were both taught in the classical Italian school of swordsmanship by their father, Beppe Nadi, and both were already winning competitions by their teenage years.

  

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•  Luigi Beccali

  Luigi Beccali (19 November 1907 – 29 August 1990) was an Italian athlete, winner of 1500 metres at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Born in Milan, Luigi Beccali, as a youth, was fascinated by cycling and track and field athletics, but choose the latter, when he met the coach Dino Nai. Luigi Beccali, an Italian champion in 1500 m from 1928 to 1931, became a national hero overnight when he won the Olympic 1500 m gold at Los Angeles.

  

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•  Michele Frangilli

  Michele Frangilli (born 1 May 1976) is an archer from Italy. He was born in Gallarate. He has competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery, ending at the 6th place and getting the Bronze Medal for teams. He has also competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery, ending at the 10th place and getting the Silver Medal for teams. In 2003 he has won in New York the World Target Archery Championships for Recurve (Olympic) Division.

  

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•  Eugenio Monti

  Eugenio Monti (January 23, 1928 – December 1, 2003) was an Italian bobsledder. He is one of the most successful athletes in the history of this sport, with ten World championship medals (of which nine gold) and 6 Olympic medals, but is known also for an act of sportsmanship during the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria that made him the first athlete ever to receive the Pierre de Coubertin medal.

  

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•  Novella Calligaris

  Novella Calligaris (born December 27, 1954 in Padua) is an Italian retired swimmer, and the first Italian swimmer to win an Olympic medal in swimming. Novella is daughter of Romana Calligaris. Standing at 1.63 m for 50 kg, Calligaris started her Olympic career very early, obtaining her first national success at the age of 13. Despite having a short figure, she had excellent technique and very strong determination.

  

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•  Jury Chechi

  Jury Dimitri Chechi Commendatore OMRI (born October 11, 1969) is a retired Italian gymnast.

  

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•  Paolo Vidoz

  Paolo Vidoz (born August 21, 1970 in Gorizia) is a boxer from Italy, who won the Olympic bronze medal, twice won the bronze medal at the World Amateur Boxing Championships: 1997 and 1999 and also won a silver medal at the European Championships.

  

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•  Ivan Pelizzoli

  Ivan Pelizzoli (born 18 November 1980) is an Italian footballer who plays goalkeeper for U.C. AlbinoLeffe on loan from FC Lokomotiv Moscow of Russian Premier League.

  

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•  Matteo Ferrari

  Matteo Ferrari (born 5 December 1979) is an Italian football player who is playing for Beşiktaş J.K. in the Turkish Süper Lig.

  

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•  Daniele De Rossi

  Daniele De Rossi, is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Roma and the Italian national team. De Rossi is nicknamed by the Roma fans as Capitan Futuro . This is a double entendre for his high probabality as heir-apparent to Francesco Totti's captain armband. This is mainly due to their common Roman heritage and shared dedication to be one club men. He is well noted for his ability to shoot from distance.

  

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•  Andrea Pirlo

  Andrea Pirlo,, is an Italian World Cup winning footballer who plays for Serie A club Milan and the Italian national team. Praised for his inventive play, he is also a free-kick specialist. Pirlo has played for the Italian youth teams U-15, U-18 and U-21, captaining and leading the latter to victory in the 2000 as the Golden Player and Top Scorer of the tournament.

  

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•  Alberto Gilardino

  Alberto Gilardino, is an Italian footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club Fiorentina and the Italian national team.

  

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•  Gianpiero Combi

  Gianpiero Combi (November 20, 1902 – August 12, 1956) was one of Italian football's greatest goalkeepers of all-time . He spent his entire career at Juventus FC and won the 1934 World Cup with the Italian national team. He was considered one of the best goalkeepers in the world during the 1930s alongside Ricardo Zamora and František Plánička.

  

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•  Edoardo Mangiarotti

  Edoardo Mangiarotti (born April 7, 1919) is an Italian fencer. He has won more Olympic titles and World championships than any other fencer in the history of the sport. His name is coupled with 21 titles including six Olympic individual and team gold, five silver and two bronze medals from 1936 to 1960.

  

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•  Filippo Magnini

  Filippo Magnini (born 2 February 1982) is an Italian swimmer, who was two times 100 m freestyle world champion.

  

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•  Luca Agamennoni

  Luca Agamennoni (born August 8, 1980 in Livorno) is an Italian silver medal and bronze medal winner for rowing in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

  

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•  Umberto De Morpurgo

  Baron Umberto Louis De Morpurgo (January 12, 1896 – February 26, 1961) was a male tennis player from Italy. De Morpurgo was born in Trieste when it was part of Austria, but became an Italian citizen when the city changed hands after World War I. He was ranked in the World’s Top 10 1928-30 —- 9th in 1928, 10th in 1929, and 8th in 1930. American tennis icon Bill Tilden ranked him 10th in the world in 1924,, and 6th in the world in 1929.

  

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•  Giuseppe Gibilisco

  Giuseppe Gibilisco (born January 5, 1979 in Siracusa) is an Italian pole vaulter, who won the 2003 World Championships with a personal best of 5.90m. He followed this with a bronze medal in the 2004 Olympics. In 2007, Gibilisco was suspended by the FIDAL (Italian Athletics Federation) with a two-year ban, due to his involvement in the "Oil for Drugs" case and his relation with suspect doctor Carlo Santuccione, although he had never tested positive.

  

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•  Roberta Brunet

  Roberta Brunet (born May 20, 1965 in Aosta) is a former middle distance runner from Italy who first won a bronze medal in the European Championships in 3,000 metres in 1990 and then won a bronze medal in the 5,000 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics, a silver medal in the same discipline at the 1997 World Championships and a bronze medal in the 3,000 metres at the 1990 European Championships. She is a two-time national champion in the women's 5.000 metres.

  

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•  Cesare Rubini

  Cesare Rubini (born November 2, 1923) is a former Italian basketball player and coach, and high level water polo player. One of the greatest European coaches of all time, Rubini has been inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1994, one of the few Italian basketball figures to receive such an honour, together with Dino Meneghin and Sandro Gamba. He has also been inducted in the International Swimming Hall of Fame.

  

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•  Massimiliano Rosolino

  Massimiliano ("Massi") Rosolino (born 11 July 1978) is an Italian swimmer.

  

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•  Valentina Vezzali

  Maria Valentina Vezzali (born February 14, 1974 in Jesi) is an Italian fencer who has won five Olympic gold medals in foil competitions. Vezzali is the first fencer in Olympic history to win three Individual Foil gold medals at three consecutive Olympics - Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008.

  

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•  Ugo Frigerio

  Ugo Frigerio (September 16, 1901 in Milan – July 7, 1968 in Garda) was an Italian athlete, who won the gold medal in both the 3 km Walk and 10 km Walk at the 1920 Summer Olympics. In the 3 km Walk he had a time of 13:14.2, and in the 10 km Walk he finished with a time of 48:06.2. At the 1924 Summer Olympics, the shorter walk was not contested but Frigerio successfully defended his championship in the 10 kilometre walk.

  

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•  Stefania Belmondo

  Stefania Belmondo (born 13 January 1969) is an Italian former cross-country skier.

  

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