Italy at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Sporting event delegation

Italy at the
1964 Winter Olympics

IOC code| ITA
NOC| Italian National Olympic Committee
Website| www.coni.it (in Italian)
in Innsbruck
Competitors| 61 (53 men, 8 women) in 9 sports
Flag bearer| Eugenio Monti (Bobsleigh)
Medals
Ranked 12th|

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

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Italy competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. They brought 61 competitors, 53 of whom were men and 8 of whom were women. A total of 4 medals were won, including 1 silver and 3 bronze.

## Medalists

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Medal  | Name  | Sport  | Event

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Silver | Sergio Zardini
Romano Bonagura | Bobsleigh | Two-man
Bronze | Eugenio Monti
Sergio Siorpaes | Bobsleigh | Two-man
Bronze | Eugenio Monti
Sergio Siorpaes
Benito Rigoni
Gildo Siorpaes | Bobsleigh | Four-man
Bronze | Walter Außendorfer
Sigisfredo Mair | Luge | Men's doubles

## Alpine skiing

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Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men
Athlete  | Event  | Race

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Time  | Rank
Martino Fill | Downhill  | 2:27.33  | 27
Bruno Alberti | 2:25.30  | 23
Paride Milianti | 2:23.01  | 21
Ivo Mahlknecht | 2:22.72  | 19
Felice de Nicolo | Giant Slalom  | 1:59.62  | 28
Italo Pedroncelli | 1:55.14  | 18
Ivo Mahlknecht | 1:54.26  | 16
Paride Milianti | 1:52.87  | 13

Men's slalom
Athlete  | Qualifying  | Final

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Time 1  | Rank  | Time 2  | Rank  | Time 1  | Rank  | Time 2  | Rank  | Total  | Rank
Ivo Mahlknecht | 1:16.97  | 74  | 55.78  | 7 QF | 1:13.69  | 13  | 1:04.54  | 16  | 2:18.23  | 15
Martino Fill | 56.43  | 34  | 56.32  | 11 QF | 1:14.53  | 20  | 1:05.10  | 20  | 2:19.63  | 20
Paride Milianti | 54.67  | 18 QF | - | - | 1:13.50  | 10  | 1:04.90  | 19  | 2:18.40  | 17
Italo Pedroncelli | 54.22  | 14 QF | - | - | 1:13.94  | 16  | 1:02.38  | 11  | 2:16.32  | 11

Women
Athlete  | Event  | Race 1  | Race 2  | Total

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Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank
Inge Senoner | Downhill  |  | 2:04.22  | 31
Lidia Barbieri Sacconaghi |  | 2:03.38  | 25
Pia Riva |  | 2:02.25  | 18
Giustina Demetz |  | 2:01.20  | 11
Lidia Barbieri Sacconaghi | Giant Slalom  |  | 2:02.73  | 28
Patrizia Medail |  | 1:59.29  | 19
Giustina Demetz |  | 1:56.52  | 14
Pia Riva |  | 1:54.59  | 9
Giustina Demetz | Slalom  | DSQ  | - | - | - | DSQ  | -
Inge Senoner | n/a  | ?  | DSQ  | - | DSQ  | -
Lidia Barbieri Sacconaghi | 53.39  | 27  | 55.84  | 21  | 1:49.23  | 22
Pia Riva | 46.65  | 11  | 50.55  | 11  | 1:37.20  | 9

## Bobsleigh

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Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Sled  | Athletes  | Event  | Run 1  | Run 2  | Run 3  | Run 4  | Total

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Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank
ITA-1  | Eugenio Monti
Sergio Siorpaes | Two-man  | 1:05.94  | 5  | 1:04.90  | 1  | 1:05.41  | 4  | 1:06.38  | 6  | 4:22.63  |
ITA-2  | Sergio Zardini
Romano Bonagura | Two-man  | 1:05.63  | 3  | 1:05.13  | 3  | 1:05.21  | 2  | 1:06.05  | 2  | 4:22.02  |
Sled  | Athletes  | Event  | Run 1  | Run 2  | Run 3  | Run 4  | Total

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Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank
ITA-1  | Sergio Zardini
Sergio Mocellini
Ferruccio Dalla Torre
Romano Bonagura | Four-man  | 1:03.95  | 6  | 1:04.10  | 6  | 1:03.59  | 1  | 1:04.25  | 4  | 4:15.89  | 4
ITA-2  | Eugenio Monti
Sergio Siorpaes
Benito Rigoni
Gildo Siorpaes | Four-man  | 1:03.43  | 2  | 1:04.07  | 5  | 1:04.02  | 4  | 1:04.08  | 2  | 4:15.60  |

## Cross-country skiing

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Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men
Event  | Athlete  | Race

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Time  | Rank
15 km  | Marcello de Dorigo | 55:26.1  | 27
Giulio Deflorian | 53:31.7  | 18
Giuseppe Steiner | 52:28.0  | 12
Franco Nones | 52:18.0  | 10
30 km  | Livio Stuffer | 1'38:11.0  | 22
Gianfranco Stella | 1'35:01.1  | 18
Giuseppe Steiner | 1'33:59.8  | 16
Marcello de Dorigoo | 1'33:53.4  | 15
50 km  | Angelo Genuin | DNF  | -
Franco Manfroi | 2'53:56.5  | 19
Eugenio Mayer | 2'53:21.3  | 18
Livio Stuffer | 2'51:04.7  | 13

Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Athletes  | Race

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Time  | Rank
Giuseppe Steiner
Marcello de Dorigo
Giulio Deflorian
Franco Nones | 2'21:16.8  | 5

## Figure skating

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Main article: Figure skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men
Athlete  | CF  | FS  | Points  | Places  | Rank

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Giordano Abbondati | 11  | 16  | 1688.4  | 131  | 14

Women
Athlete  | CF  | FS  | Points  | Places  | Rank

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Sandra Brugnera | 27  | 23  | 1612.5  | 221  | 26

## Ice hockey

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Main article: Ice hockey at the 1964 Winter Olympics

### First round

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Winners (in bold) qualified for the Group A to play for 1st-8th places. Teams, which lost their qualification matches, played in Group B for 9th-16th places.

Team 1  |  Score | Team 2

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Sweden | 12–2  |  Italy

### Consolation round

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Rank  | Team  | Pld  | W  | L  | T  | GF  | GA  | Pts

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9 |  Poland | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 13 | 12
10 |  Norway | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 40 | 19 | 10
11 |  Japan | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 35 | 31 | 9
12 |  Romania | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 31 | 28 | 7
13 |  Austria | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 28 | 7
14 |  Yugoslavia | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 29 | 37 | 7
15 |  Italy | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 24 | 42 | 4
16 |  Hungary | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 14 | 39 | 0

* Italy 6-4 Hungary
* Yugoslavia 5-3 Italy
* Norway 9-2 Italy
* Poland 7-0 Italy
* Austria 5-3 Italy
* Romania 6-2 Italy
* Italy 8-6 Japan

| Contestants
Giancarlo Agazzi
Isidoro Alverà
Enrico Bacher
Enrico Benedetti
Vittorio Bolla
Giampiero Branduardi
Alberto Darin
Gianfranco Darin
Bruno Frison
Roberto Gamper
Bruno Ghedina
Ivo Ghezze
Francesco Macchietto
Giovanni Mastel
Giulio Oberhammer
Edmondo Rabanser
Giulio Verocai

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## Luge

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Main article: Luge at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men
Athlete  | Run 1  | Run 2  | Run 3  | Run 4  | Total

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Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank
Giovanni Graber | 56.44  | 24  | 1:01.66  | 26  | 54.80  | 16  | 55.50  | 19  | 3:48.40  | 23
Walter Außendorfer | 55.47  | 21  | 55.02  | 16  | 54.85  | 18  | 54.83  | 16  | 3:40.17  | 16
Giampaolo Ambrosi | 54.31  | 15  | 54.50  | 14  | 54.96  | 19  | 55.29  | 18  | 3:39.06  | 15
Carlo Prinoth | 53.01  | 8  | 53.36  | 12  | 53.70  | 10  | 53.42  | 6  | 3:33.49  | 7

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes  | Run 1  | Run 2  | Total

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Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank
Walter Außendorfer
Sigisfredo Mair | 51.40  | 4  | 51.47  | 3  | 1:42.87  |
Giampaolo Ambrosi
Giovanni Graber | 51.54  | 5  | 52.23  | 6  | 1:43.77  | 5

Women
Athlete  | Run 1  | Run 2  | Run 3  | Run 4  | Total

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Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank  | Time  | Rank
Erika Außersdorfer | 56.03  | 15  | DNF  | - | - | - | - | - | DNF  | -
Erica Prugger | 55.24  | 12  | 1:27.28  | 13  | 54.98  | 11  | 55.69  | 12  | 4:13.19  | 13

## Nordic combined

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Main article: Nordic combined at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Events:

* normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
* 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete  | Event  | Ski Jumping  | Cross-country  | Total

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Distance 1  | Distance 2  | Points  | Rank  | Time  | Points  | Rank  | Points  | Rank
Ezio Damolin | Individual  | 65.0  | 62.0  | 198.1  | 18  | 51:42.3  | 221.44  | 7  | 419.54  | 8
Enzo Perin | 68.0  | 61.5  | 200.4  | 15  | 54:17.7  | 191.42  | 17  | 391.82  | 18

## Ski jumping

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Main article: Ski jumping at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Athletes performed three jumps, the best two were counted and are shown here.

Athlete  | Event  | Jump 1  | Jump 2  | Total

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Distance  | Points  | Distance  | Points  | Points  | Rank
Bruno de Zordo | Normal hill  | 68.5  | 88.5  | 72.0  | 96.6  | 185.1  | 46
Nilo Zandanel | 72.0  | 95.9  | 72.0  | 95.6  | 191.5  | 37
Giacomo Aimoni | 72.0  | 96.9  | 74.0  | 100.4  | 197.3  | 28
Nilo Zandanel | Large hill  | 87.5  | 100.7  | 81.5  | 96.7  | 197.4  | 25
Giacomo Aimoni | 88.0  | 102.3  | 86.0  | 103.6  | 205.9  | 13

## Speed skating

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Main article: Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men
Event  | Athlete  | Race

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Time  | Rank
500 m  | Elio Locatelli | 43.1  | 31
1500 m  | Elio Locatelli | 2:19.0  | 35
Renato De Riva | 2:15.7  | 21
5000 m  | Renato De Riva | 7:57.5  | 14
10,000 m  | Renato De Riva | 16:57.5  | 18

## References

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* Official Olympic Reports
* International Olympic Committee results database
* Olympic Winter Games 1964, full results by sports-reference.com

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