List: Olympic silver medalists for Italy

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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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•  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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•  Ilario Di Buò

  Ilario Di Buò (born 13 December 1965 in Trieste) is an archer from Italy. Di Buò won a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the team archery competition. He placed 20th in the individual competition.

  

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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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•  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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•  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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•  Dino Meneghin

  Dino Meneghin (born January 18, 1950) is an Italian former professional basketball player. He was considered the best player of his country for decades and for several years, also the best in all of the history of Europe. He is 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) tall. Meneghin was born in Alano di Piave, Veneto. On November 20, 1966, when he was 16 years old, he played his first match in the Italian A League with the Ignis Varese club. He played the last match of his career at the age of 45.

  

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•  Carmelo Bossi

  Carmelo Bossi (born October 15, 1939) was an Italian boxer who held the European welterweight and world junior middleweight titles. Bossi boxed from 1961 to 1971 and his final overall record was 40 wins (10 KOs), 8 defeats and 3 draws.

  

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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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•  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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•  Francesco Damiani

  Francesco Damiani (born October 4, 1958 in Bagnacavallo) was an Italian boxer who won the silver medal at the 1982 World Championships and at the 1984 Summer Olympics. As a professional, he was the first WBO heavyweight champion.

  

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•  Fiona May

  Fiona May Iapichino was an athlete who competed for the United Kingdom and later Italy in the long jump. She won the World Championships twice and two Olympic silver medals. Her personal best jump was 7.11 metres, which was her silver medal result at the 1998 European Championships. She also competed briefly in triple jump, and her career best of 14.65 metres from 1998 was good enough to place fifth in the world that season.

  

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•  Massimiliano Rosolino

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

  

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•  Davide Rebellin

  Davide Rebellin is an Italian road bicycle racer, currently under suspension for testing positive for Mircera at the 2008 Olympic Games. He is most known in the cycling world for his 2004 season, when he won an unprecedented and unrepeated treble with wins in Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège. He is considered one of the finest classics specialists of his generation with more than fifty top ten finishes in UCI World Cup and UCI ProTour classics.

  

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•  Lorenzo Bernardi

  Lorenzo Bernardi (born 11 August 1968) is an Italian volleyball player who was twice World champion with his national team in 1990 and 1994, and was elected "Volleyball Player of the Century" in 2001.

  

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•  Gianluca Basile

  Gianluca Basile is an Italian professional basketball player. He is 192 cm tall (6 ft 3 ¾ in) and he weighs about 95 kg. He is considered to be one of the best 1990s and 2000s era Italian basketball players. He won the silver medal at the 2004 Olympics. He was also the captain of the Italian national team. He currently plays for Regal FCB.

  

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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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•  Stefania Belmondo

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

  

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•  Andrea Giani

  Andrea Giani (born April 22, 1970 in Naples) is an Italian coach and retired volleyball player who scored notable successes in the 1990s, winning three World Championships with his national team. He is 196 cm (6 ft 5 in) tall.

  

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•  Pasquale Gravina

  Pasquale Gravina is a former Italian professional volleyball player. Gravina is 202 cm and played as middle attacker. After played for minor leagues, he made his debut in the Italian volleyball championship first division in 1988, for Falconara. His qualities, especially in block actions, made him a choice for a top team, Parma, in 1990. In this club he won the scudetto in 1992 and 1993. Later he played for Sisley Treviso, where he won the national title four times more.

  

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•  Roberto Brunamonti

  Roberto Brunamonti (born April 14, 1959 in Spoleto) is a retired Italian basketball player, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, four national championships (1984, 1993, 1994, 1995), one Italian Cup in 1984 and one Italian Supercup in 1995. He is 191 cm (6'3") tall and played as a point guard. He started his career in Rieti in 1975 and after seven years joined the Virtus Sinudyne Bologna in 1982.

  

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•  Michael Silvester

  

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•  Enrico Gilardi

  Enrico Gilardi (born January 20, 1957) is a former basketball player from Italy. Gilardi was born in Rome. He won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. He also won a Euroleague championship in 1983 with Virtus Roma. He ended his career in 1991 at Filodoro Napoli.

  

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