Team Italy - Profile

Highlights:

@ PYEONGCHANG 2018
Italy competed with a team of 116 athletes (71 men, 45 women) in 14 sports: Alpine skiing, biathlon, bobsleigh, cross-country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, luge, Nordic combined, short track speed skating, skeleton, ski jumping, snowboarding, and speed skating.

Italy won 10 medals (three gold), with six won by women, three by men, and one in mixed/open events. Its top performer at PyeongChang was Arianna Fontana, who won a full set of medals in short track speed skating - gold in the 500m, silver in the relay, and bronze in the 1000m.

PYEONGCHANG 2018 MEDALS
Alpine Skiing: 2 (1-0-1)
Biathlon: 2 (0-0-2)
Cross-Country Skiing: 1 (0-1-0)
Short Track Speed Skating: 3 (1-1-1)
Snowboarding: 1 (1-0-0)
Speed Skating: 1 (0-0-1)
Total: 10 (3-2-5)

PYEONGCHANG 2018 FLAGBEARERS
Opening Ceremony: Arianna Fontana (STK)
Closing Ceremony: Carolina Kostner (FSK)

OLYMPIC GAMES HISTORY
Though Italy did not form a National Olympic Committee until 1908, Italians have competed at every edition of the Olympic Games since 1896.

The nation has won 124 Olympic Winter Games medals with 40 gold. Its top sports have been cross-country skiing (35 medals, nine gold), Alpine skiing (32 medals, 14 gold), and luge (17 medals, seven gold), with its most successful Olympians being cross-country skier Stefania Belmondo, with 10 medals, and short track speed skater Ariana Fontana, with eight. Alpine skiers Alberto Tomba and Deborah Compagnoni have both won three gold medals.

At the Olympic Winter Games at Sochi 2014, luger Armin Zoeggeler became the first athlete at either the Olympic or Olympic Winter Games to win a medal at six consecutive Games in the same individual event. He had previously won gold in 2002 and 2006, silver in 1998 and two bronze medals in 1994 and 2010. His tally of six Olympic medals is also a record for luge.

Italy has had success in many different sports, winning 742 Olympic medals, with 257 gold medals, and has often been the dominant country in cycling and fencing. Fencer Edoardo Mangiarotti has won the most medals of any Italian Olympian, with 13. He is trailed by female cross-country skier, Stefania Belmondo, who has won 10. Both Mangiarotti and fencer Nedo Nadi have won six gold medals, while female fencer Valentina Vezzali joined them in 2012 by winning her sixth gold medal.

OLYMPIC HOSTS
Cortina d'Ampezzo - 1956 Olympic Winter Games
Rome - 1960 Olympic Games
Torino - 2006 Olympic Winter Games
Milano/Cortina d'Ampezzo - 2026 Olympic Winter Games (scheduled)

*Rome - 1908 Olympic Games (selected as host but turned down after eruption of Mount Vesuvius)

MILESTONES

First Competitor, Female: Isaline Crivelli (7 February 1936) - 1936 - Alpine Skiing (Combined) - DNF
First Competitor, Female: Paula Wiesinger (7 February 1936) - 1936 - Alpine Skiing (Combined) - 16th
First Competitor, Female: Clara Frida (7 February 1936) - 1936 - Alpine Skiing (Combined) - 12th
First Competitor, Female: Nives Dei Rossi (7 February 1936) - 1936 - Alpine Skiing (Combined) - 24th

First Competitor, Male: Team (29 January 1924) - 1924 - Military Ski Patrol (Military Ski Patrol) - DNF

Youngest Competitor, Female: Marzia Peretti (14y-241d) - 1980 - Speed Skating (500m) - DNF
Youngest Competitor, Male: Giordano Abbondati (15y-249d) - 1964 - Figure Skating (Singles) - 14th

Oldest Competitor, Female: Sabina Valbusa (38y-035d) - 2010 - Cross-Country Skiing (4x5km Relay) - 4th
Oldest Competitor, Male: Fabio Alvera (46y-257d) - 2006 - Curling - 7th

First Medallist, Female: Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo (17 February 1952) - 1952 - Alpine Skiing (Downhill) - Bronze
First Medallist, Male: Nino Bibbia (4 February 1948) - 1948 - Skeleton (Skeleton) - Gold

First Gold Medallist, Female: Erika Lechner (13 February 1968) - 1968 - Luge (Singles) - Gold
First Gold Medallist, Male: Nino Bibbia (4 February 1948) - 1948 - Skeleton (Skeleton) - Gold

Youngest Medallist, Female: Arianna Fontana (15y-313d) - 2006 - Short Track Speed Skating (3000m Relay) - Bronze
Youngest Medallist, Male: Maurizio Carnino (18y-357d) - 1994 - Short Track Speed Skating (5000m Relay) - Gold

Youngest Gold Medallist, Female: Paola Magoni-Sforza (19y-155d) - 1984 - Alpine Skiing (Slalom) - Gold
Youngest Gold Medallist, Male: Maurizio Carnino (18y-357d) - 1994 - Short Track Speed Skating (5000m Relay) - Gold

Oldest Medallist, Female: Gerda Weissensteiner (37y-048d) - 2006 - Bobsleigh (2-woman) - Bronze
Oldest Medallist, Male: Maurilio De Zolt (43y-150d) - 1994 - Cross-Country Skiing (4x10km Relay) - Gold

Oldest Gold Medallist, Female: Stefania Belmondo (33y-026d) - 2002 - Cross-Country Skiing (15km Mass Start Freestyle) - Gold
Oldest Gold Medallist, Male: Maurilio De Zolt (43y-150d) - 1994 - Cross-Country Skiing (4x10km Relay) - Gold

Most Medals, Female: Stefania Belmondo (10 | 2-3-5) - Cross-Country Skiing
Most Medals, Male: Eugenio Monti (6 | 2-2-2) - Bobsleigh
Most Medals, Male: Armin Zoeggeler (6 | 2-1-3) - Luge

Most Gold Medals, Female: Deborah Compagnoni (3) - Alpine Skiing
Most Gold Medals, Male: Alberto Tomba (3) - Alpine Skiing

Additional Information:

http://www.coni.it/

Anthem Title: Il Canto degli Italiani (The Song of the Italians)

Anthem Composer: Music: Michele Novaro, Lyrics: Goffredo Mameli

Anthem Inducted: 1946

Founding Date: 1908

IOC Recognition Date: 1915

Delegation President: Giovanni Malago

Delegation Secretary General: Carlo Mornati

IOC Members: Current:Ivo Ferriani (entry into IOC: 2016)Giovanni Malago (entry into IOC: 2019)Federica Pellegrini (entry into IOC: 2021)Former:Ferdinando Lucchesi Palli (1894-1895)Riccardo, Duke Carafa d'Andria (1894-1898)Eugenio, Count Brunetta d'Usseaux (1897-1919)Scipione, Prince Borghese (1908-1909)Attilio Brunialti (1909-1914)Carlo Montu (1914-1939)Giorgio Guglielmi (1919-1929)Alberto, Count Bonacossa (1925-1953)Augusto Turati (1930-1931)Paolo, Count Thaon Di Revel (1932-1964)Giorgio Vaccaro (1939-1949)Giorgio De Stefani (1951-1992)Giulio Onesti (1964-1981)Franco Carraro (1982-2019)Primo Nebiolo (1992-1999)Mario Pescante (1994-2019)Ottavio Cinquanta (1996-2016)Manuela Di Centa (1999-2010)Gianni Agnelli (2000-2003)Bruno Grandi (2000-2004)Francesco Ricci Bitti (2006-2013)Manuela Di Centa (IOC member from 1999 to 2010, Honorary Member since 2010)

First OG/PG Appearance: 1924

Number OG/PG Appearances: 23

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