List: Olympic gold medalists for Italy

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•  Nino Benvenuti

  Giovanni Benvenuti, better known as Nino Benvenuti, is an Italian former boxer who is considered by many, including noted boxing writer Brian Doogan, to be the greatest boxer ever from Italy. Benvenuti went to the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, where he earned the Welterweight division's gold medal and the Val Barker trophy as the Games' best boxer. At the end of his amateur career he had an outstanding record of 120 wins and only one loss.

  

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•  Livio Berruti

  Livio Berruti (born May 19, 1939) is an Italian former athlete. He became the surprising winner of the 200 m in the 1960 Summer Olympics. Born in Turin, Berruti, a chemistry student, was only 21 when he competed in the 1960 Olympics, which were held in front of his home crowd in Rome. In the semi-finals of the 200 m, he suddenly ran 20.5, equalling the standing world record for that distance. This made him a surprise outsider for the final, later that day.

  

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•  Eros Poli

  Eros Poli is an Italian former professional racing cyclist of the 1990s, notably employed as Mario Cipollini's lead-out man in bunch sprints. Poli won the golden medal in the Team Time Trial at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, together with Claudio Vandelli, Marcello Bartalini and Marco Giovannetti. Following Cipollini's retirement in the 1994 Tour de France, Poli won Montpellier to Carpentras stage which featured an ascent of Mont Ventoux.

  

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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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•  Alberto Cova

  Alberto Cova (born December 1, 1958) is a retired Italian athlete, winner of the 10,000 m at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

  

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•  Gelindo Bordin

  Gelindo Bordin (born April 2, 1959) is an Italian former athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Born at Vicenza, Bordin made his first breakthrough at the 1986 European Championships where he won a gold medal. His next international competition was at the 1987 World Championships in Rome. The marathon race was held on a very hot and humid day, and Bordin wisely held back from the leaders in the early stages.

  

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•  Paolo Bettini

  Paolo Bettini is a former Italian champion road racing cyclist. Considered the best classics specialists of his generation, and probably one of the strongest of all times, he won gold medals in the 2004 Athens Olympics road race and in the 2006 and 2007 World Road Race Championships. He is nicknamed Il Grillo ("the cricket") for his repeated sudden attacks and his sprinting style. He gained prominence by winning Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 2000 and 2002.

  

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•  Federica Pellegrini

  Federica Pellegrini (born 5 August 1988) is an Italian swimmer. A native of Mirano, in the province of Venice, she is currently the women's 200 m freestyle (long course and short course) and 400 m (long course) freestyle world record holder. At the 2009 World Championships in Rome, Pellegrini became the first woman ever to breach the 4 minute barrier in 400 m freestyle with the time 3:59.15.

  

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•  Igor Cassina

  Igor Cassina is an Italian gymnast who won gold in the men's horizontal bar at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This competition saw a crowd protest over a low score for a routine by Alexei Nemov of Russia, which lasted for fifteen minutes until the score was raised. Despite this atmosphere, Cassina performed his exercise without major error, and he took the gold medal over Paul Hamm of the U.S. , even though they tied. This gold was also the 500th Italian medal at the Summer Olympics.

  

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•  Marco Galiazzo

  Marco Galiazzo (born May 7, 1983 in Padova) is an athlete from Italy. He competes in archery.

  

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•  Stefano Baldini

  Stefano Baldini is an Italian athlete and the 2004 Olympic and current European champion in the marathon.

  

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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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•  Jury Chechi

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

  

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•  Fabio Casartelli

  Fabio Casartelli (August 16, 1970 – July 18, 1995) was an Italian cyclist and an Olympic gold medalist, who died in a crash on the descent of the Col de Portet d'Aspet, France, during the 15th stage of the 1995 Tour de France. He was born in Como, Italy.

  

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•  Italo Santelli

  Italo Santelli (August 15, 1866-February 8, 1945) was an Italian fencer who is considered to be the "father of modern sabre fencing".

  

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•  Alberto Tomba

  Alberto Tomba (born December 19, 1966) is a retired champion alpine ski racer from Italy. He was the dominant technical skier in the late 1980s and 1990s. Tomba won three Olympic gold medals, two World Championships, and nine World Cup season titles; four in slalom, four in giant slalom, and one overall title. He was popularly called Tomba la Bomba ("Tomba the Bomb").

  

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•  Agostino Straulino

  Agostino Straulino (October 10, 1914 – December 14, 2004) was an Italian sailor and sailboat racer, who won one Olympic gold medal and one silver medal in the Star class, and eight consecutive European championships and two world championships in this class and was world champion in the 5.5m-class . Straulino was born in Mali Lošinj on the island of Lošinj, Croatia (at that time in the Austrian part of Austria-Hungary).

  

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•  Annibale Frossi

  Annibale Frossi (August 6, 1911—February 26, 1999) was a footballer from Muzzana del Turgnano, Italy. He made 147 appearances for Internazionale scoring 50 goals. In 1956 Frossi became Team Coach of Inter, but this was only a short-term job, which ended soon after.

  

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•  Alfredo Foni

  Alfredo Foni (January 20, 1911 – January 28, 1985) was an Italian footballer in the 1930s and later on a coach. He was born in Udine. Along with teammate Pietro Rava at Juventus, they were the best defensive partnership in the 1936 Summer Olympics and 1938 FIFA World Cup. He played for Udinese, Lazio, Padova and Juventus. He coached in Italy and Switzerland. He won two consecutive scudettoes with FC Internazionale in 1953 and 1954. He later coached Switzerland in the 1966 FIFA World Cup.

  

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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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•  Nedo Nadi

  Nedo Nadi (9 July 1894 – 29 January 1940) was an Italian fencer, widely regarded as the most versatile ever. He is the only fencer to win a gold medal in each of the three weapons at a single Olympic Games and won the most gold medals ever at a single Games - five. Until Mark Spitz won seven swimming championships at the 1972 Summer Olympics, this was also the record number of gold medals won at a single Games by any competitor. Nadi won six Olympic gold medals in total.

  

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•  Paola Pezzo

  Paola Pezzo (born 8 January 1969 in Bosco Chiesanuova) is a cross-country mountain bike racer from Verona, Italy. Pezzo won the female World Mountain Bike Championship title in both 1993 and 1997. In 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, in the U.S. , she won the Olympic gold medal in mountain biking, when the event made its debut. In 1997 she won the Grundig World Cup crown.

  

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•  Gabriella Dorio

  Gabriella Dorio is an Italian former athlete and Olympic gold winner. She first participated in the 1980 Summer Olympics, placing fourth in the 1500 metres race. She won the gold medal at the 1982 European Indoor Championships, the bronze medal at the 1982 European Championships, and finally the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, beating the Romanians Doina Melinte (silver) and Maricica Puica (bronze).

  

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