Tokyo 2020 has closed its doors. In the final balance, Italy registered its record with 40 medals, coming in tenth place if the parameter is the number of gold medals won. In total medals, the Azzurri came in seventh place in total number of medals – 10 gold, 10 silver and 20 bronze.
Italy won more medals than Germany (37) and France (33).
In Rio, the Italian national team it was in ninth place, with two less gold medals (8) and the total was 28. Therefore, in Japan the increase was 12 medals, or 43%.
All this also means that in Tokyo the blue team was the first team on the European border in terms of the number of medals won. In Rio she was fourth.
93 nations won medals, including San Marino for the first time (one silver and two bronzes). In Rio, 87 countries reached the podium at least once, in London 85 and in Beijing 86.
In the medal table, the USA triumphed with 113 in total, 39 gold, 41 silver and 33 bronze.
Italian gold medals at the Olympics
- Vito Dell'Aquila (taekwondo)
- Valentina Rodini and Federica Cesarini (oars)
- Gianmarco Tamberi (athletics)
- Marcell Jacobs (athletics)
- Ruggero Tita and Caterina Banti (sail)
- Simone Consonni, Filippo Ganna, Francesco Lamon, Jonathan Milan (cycling)
- Massimo Stano (athletics)
- Antonella Palmisano (athletics)
- Luigi Busà (karate)
- Lorenzo Patta, Marcell Jacobs, Eseosa Desalu, Filippo Tortu (athletics)
silver medals
- Luigi Samele (fencing)
- Alessandro Miressi, Thomas Ceccon, Lorenzo Zazzeri and Manuel Frigo (swimming)
- Diana Bacosi (shot)
- Daniele Garozzo (fencing)
- Giorgia Bordignon (lifting)
- Aldo Montano, Luca Curatoli, Enrico Berrè and Gigi Samele (saber)
- Gregorio Paltrinieri (swimming)
- Mauro Nespoli (shooting)
- Vanessa Ferrari (artistic gymnastics)
- Manfredi Rizza (canoeing)
Bronze medals
- Elisa Longo Borghini (cycling)
- Odette Giuffrida (judo, -52 kg)
- Mirko Zanni (weightlifting, 67 kg)
- Nicolò Martinenghi (swimming)
- Maria Centracchio (judo)
- Rossella Fiamingo, Federica Isola, Mara Navarria, Alberta Santuccio (fencing)
- Federico Burdisso (swimming)
- Matteo Castaldo, Marco Di Costanzo, Matteo Lodo and Giuseppe Vicino (rowing)
- Stefano Oppo and Pietro Willy Ruta (rowing)
- Martina Batini, Erika Cipressa, Arianna Errigo and Alice Volpi (fencing)
- Lucilla Boari (shot)
- Simona Quadarella (swimming)
- Irma Testa (boxing)
- Antonino Pizzolato (weightlifting)
- Thomas Ceccon, Nicolò Martinenghi, Federico Burdisso and Alessandro Miressi (swimming)
- Gregorio Paltrinieri (swimming)
- Elia Viviani (cycling)
- Viviana Bottaro (karate)
- Abraham Conyedo (wrestling)
- Alessia Maurelli, Martina Centofanti, Agnese Duranti, Martina Santandrea, Daniela Mogurean (Rhythmic Gymnastics)
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