Italy at the 1960 Summer Paralympics

Italian delegation to sporting event

Sporting event delegation

Italy at the
1960 Summer Paralympics

IPC code| ITA
NPC| Comitato Italiano Paralimpico
Website| www.comitatoparalimpico.it (in Italian)
in Rome
Competitors| 65[1]
Medals
Ranked 1st|

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)

* 1960
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Italy was the host country of the inaugural Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome. The country fielded the largest delegation at the Games, with twenty-seven athletes (twenty-three men and four women) competing in athletics, snooker, swimming, table tennis and wheelchair fencing.[2]

## Medals

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27 of Italy's competitors won medals, in 6 sports, enabling the country to top the medal chart with 29 gold medals, 28 silver and 23 bronze.[3]

### Medalists

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* The information from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) website is based on sources which does not present all information from earlier Paralympic Games (1960-1984), such as relay and team members.[4]

Medal  | Name  | Sport  | Event

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Gold | Grimaldi | Athletics | Precision javelin throw B
Gold | Felice Lenardon | Athletics | Precision javelin throw C
Gold | Enzo Santini | Athletics | Javelin throw C
Gold | Maria Scutti | Athletics | Club throw A
Gold | Maria Scutti | Athletics | Club throw B
Gold | Maria Scutti | Athletics | Javelin throw A
Gold | Maria Scutti | Athletics | Javelin throw B
Gold | Maria Scutti | Athletics | Precision javelin throw A
Gold | Maria Scutti | Athletics | Precision javelin throw B
Gold | Maria Scutti | Athletics | Precision javelin throw C
Gold | Maria Scutti | Athletics | Shot put A
Gold | Maria Scutti | Athletics | Shot put B
Gold | Carlo Jannucci | Swimming | 25 m crawl complete class 2
Gold | Carlo Jannucci | Swimming | 25 m breaststroke complete class 2
Gold | Ottavio Moscone | Swimming | 25 m backstroke incomplete class 2
Gold | Renzo Rogo | Swimming | 25 m crawl incomplete class 2
Gold | Renzo Rogo | Swimming | 25 m breaststroke incomplete class 2
Gold | Franco Rossi | Swimming | 50 m breaststroke complete class 5
Gold | Enzo Santini | Swimming | 50 m backstroke incomplete class 4
Gold | Enzo Santini | Swimming | 50 m crawl incomplete class 4
Gold | Maria Scutti | Swimming | 50 m breaststroke complete class 4
Gold | Anna Maria Toso | Swimming | 25 m crawl incomplete class 2
Gold | Anna Maria Toso | Swimming | 25 m breaststroke incomplete class 2
Gold | Giovanni Berghella | Table tennis | Singles C
Gold | Giovanni Ferraris
Federico Zarilli | Table tennis | Doubles B
Gold | Franco Rossi
Aroldo Ruschioni | Table tennis | Doubles C
Gold | Aurelio Tedone | Wheelchair fencing | Men's sabre individual
Gold | Giovanni Ferraris
Aurelio Tedone | Wheelchair fencing | Men's sabre team
Gold | Anna Maria Toso | Wheelchair fencing | Women's foil individual
Silver | Anna Maria Galimberti | Athletics | Club throw A
Silver | Anna Maria Galimberti | Athletics | Javelin throw A
Silver | Anna Maria Galimberti | Athletics | Shot put A
Silver | Anna Maria Galimberti | Athletics | Shot put B
Silver | Anna Maria Toso | Athletics | Precision javelin throw A
Silver | Anna Maria Toso | Athletics | Precision javelin throw B
Silver | Anna Maria Toso | Athletics | Precision javelin throw C
Silver | Felice Lenardon | Athletics | Javelin throw A
Silver | Felice Lenardon | Athletics | Shot put A
Silver | Felice Lenardon | Athletics | Shot put B
Silver | Carmelo Russo | Athletics | Club throw B
Silver | Carmelo Russo | Athletics | Javelin throw B
Silver | Carfagna | Swimming | 50 m backstroke complete class 5
Silver | Carlo Jannucci | Swimming | 25 m backstroke complete class 2
Silver | Di Pasquo | Swimming | 50 m breaststroke complete class 4
Silver | Grimaldi | Swimming | 25 m breaststroke incomplete class 2
Silver | Girardi | Swimming | 25 m crawl incomplete class 1
Silver | Grimaldi | Swimming | 25 m crawl incomplete class 2
Silver | Fontana | Swimming | 25 m crawl complete class 2
Silver | Maria Scutti | Swimming | 50 m backstroke complete class 4
Silver | Anna Maria Toso | Swimming | 25 m backstroke incomplete class 2
Silver | Domenico Cascella | Table tennis | Singles A
Silver | Francesco Scalzo | Table tennis | Singles B
Silver | Giovanni Ferraris
Federico Zarilli | Table tennis | Doubles C
Silver | Maria Scutti
Anna Maria Toso | Table tennis | Doubles B
Silver | Franco Rossi | Wheelchair fencing | Men's sabre individual
Silver | Ottavio Moscone
Aroldo Ruschioni | Wheelchair fencing | Men's sabre team
Silver | Maria Scutti | Wheelchair fencing | Women's foil individual
Bronze | Domenico Avitabile | Athletics | Club throw A
Bronze | Castelli | Athletics | Precision javelin throw B
Bronze | Anna Maria Galimberti | Athletics | Club throw B
Bronze | Maria Scutti | Athletics | Club throw C
Bronze | Anna Maria Galimberti | Athletics | Javelin throw B
Bronze | Felice Lenardon | Athletics | Javelin throw B
Bronze | Maria Scutti | Athletics | Javelin throw C
Bronze | Anna Maria Toso | Athletics | Shot put A
Bronze | Giovanni Ferraris | Snooker | Men's paraplegics
Bronze | Pasquarelli | Swimming | 25 m backstroke incomplete class 1
Bronze | Fontana | Swimming | 25 m breaststroke complete class 2
Bronze | Cipriano Gasperini | Swimming | 50 m breaststroke complete class 3
Bronze | Ottavio Moscone | Swimming | 25 m breaststroke incomplete class 2
Bronze | Ottavio Moscone | Swimming | 25 m crawl incomplete class 2
Bronze | Franco Rossi | Swimming | 50 m crawl complete class 5
Bronze | Aroldo Ruschioni | Swimming | 50 m backstroke complete class 3
Bronze | Mazzoni | Swimming | 25 m backstroke incomplete class 2
Bronze | Anna Maria Toso | Table tennis | Singles B
Bronze | Federico Zarilli | Table tennis | Singles B
Bronze | Federico Zarilli | Table tennis | Singles C
Bronze | Giovanni Ferraris | Wheelchair fencing | Men's sabre individual
Bronze | Giovanni Berghella
Franco Rossi | Wheelchair fencing | Men's sabre team
Bronze | Anna Maria Galimberti | Wheelchair fencing | Women's foil individual

### Multiple medallists

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These are official report of International Paralympic Committee. [5]

#  | Athlete  |  |  |

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1  | Maria Scutti | 10 | 3 | 2
2  | Anna Maria Toso | 3 | 5 | 2
3  | Enzo Santini | 3 | 0 | 0
4  | Franco Rossi | 2 | 1 | 2
Giovanni Ferraris | 2 | 1 | 2
6  | Carlo Jannucci | 2 | 1 | 0
7  | Renzo Rogo | 2 | 0 | 0

## See also

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* Italy at the 1960 Summer Olympics

## References

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1. ^ Paralympic Games Open At Rome Olympics Site, St. Petersburg Times, September 19, 1960, Google News Archive Search
2. ^ "Italy at the 1960 Summer Paralympics". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
3. ^ "Italy at the 1960 Summer Paralympics". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 17 April 2011.
4. ^ "Paralympics Games - Results". Retrieved 17 April 2011.
5. ^ "Multi-Medallists". paralympic.org. Archived from the original on 13 September 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2012.

## External links

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* Media Guide Tokyo 2020 (in Italian)

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