News archive

The first swimming medal arrives! Martinenghi bronze in the 100 breaststroke

TOKYO 2020

26 July 2021

The first swimming medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is bronze, and Nicolò Martinenghi signs it! At the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, the Italian (photo Ferraro - GMT Sport) placed third in the 100 breaststroke final with 58"33 behind the Olympic champion, the British Adam Peaty, gold in 57"37 and the Dutch Arno Kamminga (58"00).Twenty-one years after Sydney 2000, when Domenico Fioravanti and Davide Rummolo took two-thirds of the podium (first and third), the Italian breaststroke team is back on th...

Three bronze medals for Italia team! Mirko Zanni is 3rd in the 67 kg category

WEIGHTLIFTING

25 July 2021

The third bronze medal of the day for the Italian Team at Tokyo 2020 comes from weightlifting. It was signed by Mirko Zanni (photo Mezzelani - GMT Sport) who, in the 67 kg category, conquered the third step of the podium, with 322 kg total, behind the Chinese Lijun Chen (332 kg, with Olympic record) and the Colombian Luis Javier Mosquera Lozano (331 kg). For Zanni, this is his second Olympic medal after taking bronze at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing.For the Italian Team, as mentioned, ...

Giuffrida bronze in 52 kg! On the Olympic podium as five years ago

JUDO

25 July 2021

Odette Giuffrida is a bronze medal in Tokyo 2020! The Italian judo player is still on the Olympic podium, and after the silver medal in Rio 2016, she conquers the bronze medal in the -52 kg overcoming the Hungarian Reika Pupp at the golden score. On her way to the medal, the Italian (photo Pagliaricci - GMT Sport) defeated the Romanian Andreea Chitu by ippon at the golden score and then beat the Belgian Charline van Snick with a waza-ari, before being defeated with a waza-ari by the hostess Uta ...

Longo Borghini again! Bronze in the road race as in Rio 2016

CYCLING

25 July 2021

Tokyo 2020 is like Rio 2016. As five years ago, Elisa Longo Borghini won the bronze medal in the road cycling road race. The Italian (photo Sirotti - GMT Sport) crossed the finishing line of the Fuji International Speedway, after 137 km of route, in the third position at 1'29 from the Austrian Kiesenhofer (3:52.45), Olympic champion, in front of the Dutch van Vleuten. For the Italian Team, this is the third medal in this edition of the Games. ...

Dell'Aquila champion in the -58 kg! First Italy team gold at Tokyo 2020

TAEKWONDO

24 July 2021

The first gold medal of the Italy team in Tokyo 2020 bears the signature of Vito Dell'Aquila, in taekwondo. The Italian from Mesagne was the undisputed protagonist of the -58 kg category at the Japanese Olympic Games and at the Makhuari Messe Hall got the better of the Tunisian Khalil Mohamed Jendoubi 16-12 in the final.The Apulian had started his path to Olympic gold by defeating the Hungarian Omar Salim 26-13 in the Round of 16 in the -58 kg category. The Italian then beat Thailand's Ramnarong...

Tokyo 2020: first Italy team medal! Samele takes silver in the individual sabre event

FENCING

24 July 2021

The Italy team inaugurates the medal table of Tokyo 2020 with the silver medal of Luigi Samele in the men's sabre. The Italian lost only in the final to the Hungarian Aron Szilagyi with a score of 15-7. In his ride to the medal, the Italian had overcome the Korean Junghwang Kim (15-12) in a semifinal won by winning the derby with Enrico Berrè (15-10).The Italian (photo Ferraro - GMT Sport) is the second Olympic medal after the team bronze medal won in London 2012. ...

The curtain rises on the Games. The Italian tricolour waves in the hands of Jessica Rossi and Elia Viviani

TOKYO 2020

23 July 2021

A year late, the curtain rises on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The first in history to be postponed by 12 months, the first of the Covid-19 era. The first major world event in which the athletes of the Planet (reproduced in the finale in the sky to the notes of Imagine) meet to measure themselves, confront themselves and others, going beyond those walls that the coronavirus has erected between us.The ceremony staged at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium sends a message of hope to the world, united by Sp...

Casa Italia opens its doors with its 'mirabilia'. Malagò: "it is our added value"

TOKYO 2020

22 July 2021

There is Casa Italia also in Tokyo 2020. Despite the pandemic, Italian hospitality, a point of reference in the Olympic world from Los Angeles 1984 to today, raises the curtain ready to accompany the five-circle adventure of the Italian team at the Japanese Olympic Games. Casa Italia has been set up at "The Kihinkan - Takanawa Manor House", a building characterised by Art Nouveau architecture from the beginning of the last century in the Minato district, about 10 kilometres from the Olympic Vill...

Italbasket flies to the Games. Record trip with 384 Italians qualified

THE EXPLOIT

04 July 2021

After a 17-year wait, it is time for the Italians to shine. It's an extraordinary Italy that dominates the Nikolic Arena in Belgrade and conquers the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020, after their last appearance in Athens 2004, when the ‘Azzurri’ (Italian athletes) won the Olympic silver medal. This is Italy's 12th time participating in the Olympic Games: 1936 (7th place), 1948 (17th place), 1960 (4th place), 1964 (5th place), 1968 (8th place), 1972 (4th place), 1976 (5th place), 1980 (Silver), 1984 ...

Never have so many Italians taken part in the Games: 370, an historic record! Surpassing Athens 2004

WITH ATHLETICS' QUALIFIEDS

02 July 2021

The National Teams Technical Director, Antonio La Torre, has announced the Italian national team's qualifying invitation to the Tokyo Olympic Games (athletics programme: 30th July - 8th August). The Italian team is made up of 76 athletes, including 41 men and 35 women, the highest number ever recorded at the Olympics for Italian athletics. The number of Italian athletes qualifying for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has therefore risen to 370 (185 men, 185 women) in 34 different disciplines...