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Italy competed in all sports except badminton, field hockey, football, handball and rugby sevens. Italy has ended the 2020 Summer Olympics winning 10 gold, 10 silver and 20 bronze medals, setting a new record in number of medals won (36 medals was first reached in the Los Angeles Olympics of 1932, and then again in the Rome Olympics of 1960). [3]
Marcell Jacobs and Filippo Tortu, gold with the 4 × 100 m relay team at Tokyo 2020. Italy has sent athletes to every celebration of the modern Summer Olympic Games, with the uncertain exception of the 1904 Summer Olympics where one Italian may have competed. The Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) is the National Olympic Committee for ...
Italy has the third longest medaling streak after Sweden and Finland. It has medaled in 40 straight Olympic Games, starting with the 1936 Summer Olympics. The Italian National Olympic Committee was created in 1914 and recognised in 1915. As of 2020, Italy is the most successful nation at fencing in Olympic history.
Italy's COVID-19 gamble that allowed a small group of elite athletes to train through the pandemic when much of the world was in lockdown has paid off handsomely at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, with ...
Ceccon made his Olympic debut at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which were held in 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There, he helped Team Italy win a silver medal in the men’s 4x100-meter freestyle ...
Other things might take some getting used to: Italy is a sprint power. It now owns the gold medal in the men's 4x100-meter relay to go with the shocking 100-meter gold that Marcell Jacobs won.
Marcell Jacobs and Filippo Tortu at the 2020 Resisprint in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. The duo would go on to win gold for the 4×100 m relay team at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Italy at the Olympics in athletics competed in all editions of the Summer Olympic Games with the exception of the 1904 Summer Olympics.
At the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and contested in Tokyo, Japan, Ceccon won a silver medal in the 4×100 metre freestyle relay on the second day of competition, contributing a split of 47.45 seconds for the second leg of the relay to help finish second in an Italian record time of 3:10.11. [6]