Gruppi Sportivi Fiamme Gialle

Sport| 12 disciplines
Jurisdiction| Italy
Abbreviation| G.S. Fiamme Gialle
Founded| 1881 (1881)
Affiliation| CONI
Headquarters| Ostia (Rome)
Official website
www.fiammegialle.org

The Gruppi Sportivi Fiamme Gialle is the sport department of the Italian police force, Guardia di Finanza.

The club's activity is carried out in the following twelve sport disciplines: athletics, swimming, judo, karate, shooting, fencing, diving, canoeing, rowing, sailing, alpine skiing, and speed skating. In athletics, the group is called Gruppo Atletico Fiamme Gialle (G.A. Fiamme Gialle).[1]

## History

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A team of the 4x100 metres relay

The first appearance of the Guardia di Finanza in sporting events date back to 1911. The team participated the gymnastics event organized in Turin, for the 50th anniversary of the Unification of Italy. However, the Scudo Nelli Trophy's first organized team, the Fiamme Gialle (Yellow Flames), was founded in 1921 to compete in a walking race. The trophy was eventually given out following three victories in 1922, 1925, and 1928.[2]

In the following years, the activity was expanded with the establishment of several sports groups, the first of which was the Skiers Group, founded in 1925 at the Alpine School of the Guardia di Finanza in Predazzo (in the province of Trento), a group that became famous as the Yellow Flames of Predazzo.

## Greatest athletes

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The swimmer Domenico Fioravanti, two gold medals at Sydney 2000. Martina Caironi, two gold medals at Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. Summer sports | Winter sports | Paralympic sports

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Athletics

* Ivano Brugnetti (Olympic gold medal)
* Nicola Vizzoni (Olympic silver medal)
* Fabrizio Donato (Olympic bronze medal)
* Giuseppe Gibilisco (Olympic bronze medal)
* Antonietta Di Martino (WC three medals)
* Antonella Palmisano (WC bronze medal)
* Filippo Tortu (Olympic gold medal)
* Fausto Desalu (Olympic gold medal)
* Lorenzo Patta (Olympic gold medal)

Canoeing

* Antonio Rossi (Olympic gold medal)
* Beniamino Bonomi (Olympic gold medal)

Diving

* Tania Cagnotto (two Olympic medals)

Rowing

* Agostino Abbagnale (three Olympic gold medals)

Shooting

* Niccolò Campriani (three Olympic gold medals)
* Roberto Di Donna (Olympic gold medal)

Swimming

* Domenico Fioravanti (two Olympic gold medals)

| Alpine skiing

* Gustav Thöni (four overall World Cup)
* Piero Gros (one overall World Cup)
* Sofia Goggia (Olympic gold medal)
* Isolde Kostner (three Olympic Games medals)
* Kristian Ghedina (three WC medals)

Cross-country skiing

* Giorgio Vanzetta (Olympic gold medal)
* Cristian Zorzi (Olympic gold medal)

Biathlon

* Dorothea Wierer (two overall World Cup & WC three gold medals)

| Para-athletics

* Martina Caironi (two Olympic gold medals)
* Antonio Fantin (Olympic gold medal)
* Oxana Corso (two Olympic silver medals)

## Summer Olympic Games medal table

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Tania Cagnotto, two medals in diving at Rio de Janeiro 2016. Fabrizio Donato, the last Fiamme Gialle athletics Olympic medal in London 2012.

In total, the athletes of the Fiamme Gialle won 42 medals at the Summer Olympics.

Women medalist

Edition | Athlete | Event | Medal

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Athletics (8 medals)[3]
2020 Tokyo | Lorenzo Patta
Fausto Desalu
Filippo Tortu | 4×100 m relay |  Gold
2012 London | Fabrizio Donato | Triple jump |  Bronze
2008 Beijing | Elisa Rigaudo | 20 km walk |  Bronze
2004 Athens | Ivano Brugnetti | 20 km walk |  Gold
Giuseppe Gibilisco | Pole vault |  Bronze
2000 Sydney | Nicola Vizzoni | Hammer throw |  Silver
1984 Los Angeles | Sandro Bellucci | 50 km walk |  Bronze
1948 London | Michele Tito | 4×100 m relay |  Bronze
Canoeing (8 medals)[4]
2008 Beijing | Andrea Facchin
Antonio Scaduto | K2 1000 m |  Bronze
2004 Athens | Antonio Rossi
Beniamino Bonomi | K2 1000 m |  Silver
2000 Sydney | Antonio Rossi
Beniamino Bonomi | K2 1000 m |  Gold
1996 Atlanta | Antonio Rossi | K1 500 m |  Gold
Antonio Rossi | K2 1000 m |  Gold
Beniamino Bonomi | K1 1000 m |  Silver
Beniamino Bonomi | K2 500 m |  Silver
1992 Barcelona | Antonio Rossi
Bruno Dreossi | K2 500 m |  Bronze
Rowing (8 medals)[5][6]
2016 Rio de Janeiro | Domenico Montrone
Matteo Lodo
Giuseppe Vicino | Coxless four |  Bronze
2012 London | Alessio Sartori
Romano Battisti | Double sculls |  Silver
2008 Beijing | Luca Agamennoni
Simone Venier
Simone Raineri | Quadruple sculls |  Silver
2004 Athens | Alessio Sartori | Double sculls |  Bronze
Luca Agamennoni | Coxless four |  Bronze
Catello Amarante | Coxless four lightweight |  Bronze
2000 Sydney | Agostino Abbagnale
Alessio Sartori
Simone Raineri | Quadruple sculls |  Gold
1996 Atlanta | Agostino Abbagnale | Double sculls |  Gold
Fencing (3 medals)[7][6]
2016 Rio de Janeiro | Daniele Garozzo | Foil |  Gold
2012 London | Valerio Aspromonte
Giorgio Avola | Team foil |  Gold
Luigi Samele | Team sabre |  Bronze
Judo (5 medals)[8]
2008 Beijing | Giulia Quintavalle | 57 kg |  Gold
2004 Athens | Lucia Morico | 78 kg |  Bronze
2000 Sydney | Girolamo Giovinazzo | 66 kg |  Bronze
1996 Atlanta | 60 kg |  Silver
1976 Montreal | Felice Mariani | 66 kg |  Bronze
Shooting (6 medals)[9][6]
2012 London | Niccolò Campriani | 50 m rifle three positions |  Gold
10 m air rifle |  Silver
2016 Rio de Janeiro | 50 m rifle three positions |  Gold
10 m air rifle |  Gold
1996 Atlanta | Roberto Di Donna | 10 m air pistol |  Gold
25 m rapid fire pistol |  Bronze
Swimming (2 medals)[10]
2000 Sydney | Domenico Fioravanti | 100 m breaststroke |  Gold
200 m breaststroke |  Gold
Diving (2 medals)[6]
2016 Rio de Janeiro | Tania Cagnotto | Synchronized 3 m springboard |  Silver
3 m springboard |  Bronze

## Winter Olympic Games medal table

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Franco Nones, the first historical gold medal of Fiamme Gialle in cross-country skiing at Grenoble 1968. Dorothea Wierer, two medals in biathlon at Pyeongchang 2018.

In total, the athletes of the Fiamme Gialle won 22 (7 gold, 6 silver, and 9 bronze), at the Winter Olympics.[11]

Women medalist

Edition | Athlete | Event | Medal

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1968 Grenoble | Franco Nones | Cross-country skiing - 30 km |  Gold
1972 Sapporo | Gustav Thoeni | Alpine skiing - Giant slalom |  Gold
Gustav Thoeni | Alpine skiing - Slalom |  Silver
Rolando Thoeni | Alpine skiing - Slalom |  Bronze
1976 Innsbruck | Piero Gros | Alpine skiing - Slalom |  Gold
Gustav Thoeni | Alpine skiing - Slalom |  Silver
1988 Calgary | Gottlieb Taschler | Biathlon – Relay |  Bronze
1992 Albertville | Josef Polig | Alpine skiing - Alpine combined |  Gold
Giorgio Vanzetta | Cross-country skiing - 4×10 km relay |  Silver
Giuseppe Puliè | Cross-country skiing - 4×10 km relay |  Silver
Giorgio Vanzetta | Cross-country skiing - 15 km freestyle pursuit |  Bronze
Giorgio Vanzetta | Cross-country skiing - 50 km freestyle |  Bronze
1994 Lillehammer | Giorgio Vanzetta | Cross-country skiing - 4×10 km relay |  Gold
2002 Salt Lake City | Isolde Kostner | Alpine skiing- Downhill |  Silver
Cristian Zorzi | Cross-country skiing – Men's 4×10 km relay |  Silver
Cristian Zorzi | Cross-country skiing - Sprint |  Bronze
2006 Torino | Cristian Zorzi | Cross-country skiing – Men's 4×10 km relay |  Gold
2010 Vancouver | Alessandro Pittin | Nordic combined - Normal hill/10 km |  Bronze
2014 Sochi | Christof Innerhofer | Alpine skiing- Downhill |  Silver
Christof Innerhofer | Alpine skiing - Alpine combined |  Bronze
Dorothea Wierer | Biathlon – Mixed relay |  Bronze
2018 Pyeongchang | Sofia Goggia | Alpine skiing - Downhill |  Gold
Dorothea Wierer | Biathlon – Mixed relay |  Bronze
2022 Beijing | Dorothea Wierer | Biathlon - Sprint |  Bronze

## Medal table by sport

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This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2020)

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### Canoeing

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Canoesist of Fiamme Gialle have won a total of eight medals at the Olympic Games.[12]

Event  |  |  |  | Tot.

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Olympic Games | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8
World Championships | 4 | 8 | 3 | 15
Junior World Championships | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2
Mediterranean Games | 7 | 6 | 6 | 19
European Championships | 6 | 3 | 4 | 13
Under 23 European Championships | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1
Junior European Championships | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7
Military World Games | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5
Universiade | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2

## See also

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* Guardia di Finanza
* Italian military sports bodies
* European Champion Clubs Cup (athletics)

## References

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1. ^ "G.A. Fiamme Gialle" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
2. ^ "Fiamme Gialle - Cronistoria" (in Italian). fiammegialle.org. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
3. ^ "Atletica statistiche Olimpiadi" (in Italian). fiammegialle.org. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
4. ^ "Canoa statistiche Olimpiadi" (in Italian). fiammegialle.org. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
5. ^ "Canottaggio statistiche Olimpiadi" (in Italian). fiammegialle.org. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
6. ^ a b c d "Que bom, Rio! - Fiamme Gialle" (in Italian). fiammegialle.org. 1 September 2016. p. 38. Retrieved 17 May 2020. "Premiati gli Olimpici: Campriani, Garozzo, Cagnotto, Lodo, Vicino e Montrone"
7. ^ "Scherma statistiche Olimpiadi" (in Italian). fiammegialle.org. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
8. ^ "Judo statistiche Olimpiadi" (in Italian). fiammegialle.org. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
9. ^ "Tiro statistiche Olimpiadi" (in Italian). fiammegialle.org. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
10. ^ "Nuoto statistiche Olimpiadi" (in Italian). fiammegialle.org. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
11. ^ "Sport invernali statistiche Olimpiadi" (in Italian). fiammegialle.org. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
12. ^ "Canoeing Palmarès" (in Italian). fiammegialle.org. Retrieved 16 May 2020.

## External links

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Italian military sports bodies

Active|

* C.S. Aeronautica Militare
* C.S. Carabinieri
* C.S. Esercito
* G.S. Marina Militare
* G.S. Fiamme Oro
* G.S. Fiamme Gialle
* G.S. Fiamme Azzurre
* G.S. Fiamme Rosse

Defunct|

* G.S. Forestale

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