Italy at the 1964 Summer Paralympics

Italian delegation to sporting event

Sporting event delegation

Italy at the
1964 Summer Paralympics

IPC code| ITA
NPC| Comitato Italiano Paralimpico
Website| Official website (in Italian)
in Tokyo
Medals
Ranked 2nd|

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)

* 1960
* 1964
* 1968
* 1972
* 1976
* 1980
* 1984
* 1988
* 1992
* 1996
* 2000
* 2004
* 2008
* 2012
* 2016
* 2020
* 2024

Italy sent a delegation to compete at the 1964 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan. Its athletes finished third in the gold and overall medal count.[1]

## The wrong reports

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See also: Michal Escapa

Since at the dawn of the Paralympic Games there was no precision in reporting the results of the competitions, the Israeli athlete Michal Escapa was indicated with the Italian nationality and without prename (and so she is mentioned in the International Paralympic Committee[2] of the Italian Paralympic Committee[3] web sites) for the reports of the Swimming at the 1964 Summer Paralympics where she won two bronze medals, simply reported as Escapa and not as Michal Escapa.[4][5] However, as can be seen from a 1968 Israeli newspaper reporting an interview with the athlete, she was the same athlete who had won medals in swimming and table tennis in Tokyo 1964.[6]

## Medalists

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Italian nationality mistakenly attributed to the Israeli swimmer Michal Escapa.

Medal  | Athlete  | Sport  | Event

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Gold | Giovanni Benincasa | Athletics | Shot put C
Gold | Roberto Marson | Athletics | Discus throw C
Gold | Roberto Marson | Athletics | Javelin throw C
Gold | Irene Monaco | Athletics | Discus throw D
Gold | Anna Maria Toso | Athletics | Javelin throw A
Gold | Anna Maria Toso | Athletics | Shot put A
Gold | Francesco Deiana | Swimming | 25 m breaststroke complete class 2
Gold | Renzo Rogo | Swimming | 25 m freestyle supine incomplete class 2
Gold | Renzo Rogo | Swimming | 25 m breaststroke incomplete class 2
Gold | Anna Maria Toso | Swimming | 25 m freestyle supine incomplete class 2
Gold | Giovanni Ferraris
Federico Zarilli | Table tennis |
Gold | Roberto Marson
Renzo Rogo
Franco Rossi | Fencing |
Gold | Elena Monaco
Irene Monaco
Anna Maria Toso | Fencing |
Gold | Anna Maria Toso | Fencing | Foil individual
Silver | Roberto Marson | Athletics | Club throw C
Silver | Roberto Marson | Athletics | Slalom open
Silver | Roberto Marson | Fencing |
Silver | Roberto Marson | Fencing |
Silver | Anna Maria Toso | Athletics | Club throw A
Silver | Anna Maria Toso | Athletics | Discus throw A
Silver | Anna Maria Toso
Silvana Martino | Table tennis | Double
Silver | Francesco Deiana | Swimming | 25 m freestyle prone complete class 2
Silver | Elena Monaco | Swimming | 50 m freestyle prone incomplete class 4
Silver | Irene Monaco | Swimming | 50 m breaststroke incomplete class 3
Silver | Germano Pecchenino | Swimming | 50 m freestyle supine special class
Silver | Anna Maria Toso | Swimming | 25 m freestyle prone incomplete class 2
Silver | Anna Maria Toso | Swimming | 25 m breaststroke incomplete class 2
Silver | Oliviero Venturi | Swimming | 25 m breaststroke incomplete class 2
Silver | Raimondo Longhi | Archery | Columbia round open
Bronze | Giovanni Benincasa | Athletics | Discus throw C
Bronze | Vincenzo Borghese | Athletics | Club throw B
Bronze | Silvio Boscu | Swimming | 50 m freestyle supine complete class 5
Bronze | Francesco Deiana | Swimming | 25 m freestyle supine complete class 2
~~  Bronze~~ | ~~Escapa~~ | ~~Swimming~~ | ~~25 m freestyle prone incomplete class 2~~
~~  Bronze~~ | ~~Escapa~~ | ~~Swimming~~ | ~~25 m breaststroke incomplete class 2~~
Bronze | Irene Monaco | Swimming | 50 m freestyle supine incomplete class 4
Bronze | Irene Monaco | Swimming | 50 m breaststroke incomplete class 4
Bronze | Germano Pecchenino | Swimming | 50 m breaststroke special class
Bronze | Germano Pecchenino | Fencing |
Bronze | Giovanni Pische | Swimming | 50 m freestyle prone complete class 3
Bronze | Renzo Rogo | Swimming | 25 m freestyle prone incomplete class 2
Bronze | Renzo Rogo
Roberto Marson
Franco Rossi | Fencing |
Bronze | Franco Rossi | Swimming | 50 m freestyle prone cauda equina
Bronze | Pasquale Carfagna | Fencing |
Bronze | Silvana Martino | Swimming | 25 m freestyle supine complete class 2

## See also

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* 1964 Summer Paralympics
* Italy at the 1964 Summer Olympics

## References

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1. ^ "Medal Standings Tokyo 1964 Paralympic Games". International Paralympic Committee. 1964. Archived from the original on 14 March 2009. Retrieved 5 August 2009.
2. ^ "Swimming - Women's 25 m Breaststroke Incomplete class 2". paralympic.org. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
3. ^ "Media Guide Tokyo 2020" (PDF). comitatoparalimpico.it (in Italian). Retrieved 15 September 2021.
4. ^ "Michael Escapa - Profile". paralympic.org. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
5. ^ "Escapa - Profile". paralympic.org. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
6. ^ "Michal Escapa - Hi whose mistake?". nli.org.il (in Hebrew). 27 September 1968. Retrieved 15 September 2021. "... but at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964, she came to the place of success precisely. And she brought an additional Israeli team trophy as well as two sports for me"

## External links

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* Storia delle Paralimpiadi: Tokyo 1964 (in Italian)

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Nations at the 1964 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan

Africa|

* Rhodesia
* South Africa

America|

* Argentina
* United States

Asia|

* Japan

Europe|

* Austria
* Belgium
* France
* Great Britain
* Ireland
* Israel
* Italy
* Malta
* Netherlands
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* West Germany

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* Australia
* Fiji

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