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The Italy women's national basketball team (Italian: Nazionale di pallacanestro femminile dell'Italia) represents Italy in international women's basketball competitions. [2] At the European Women's Basketball Championship the Italian team won Gold medals in 1938. [3] Italy is the leading nation in terms of EuroBasket Women qualifications.
The United States is the defending champion of both the men's and women's tournaments. As of the 2016 Summer Olympics, 90 medals (30 of each color) have been awarded to teams from 20 National Olympic Committees. Two gold medal-winning teams were inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010.
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 has participated in all Olympic Winter Games from 1924 to 2022, securing a total of 141 ...
It is also the first Olympic medal for Italian women gymnastics in 93 years, since Amsterdam 1928 when Italian Women Team won the silver medal in Women's all-around. On 6 August, Italy reached and surpassed its own record for the highest number of Olympic medals won in a single edition.
Prior to its inclusion as a medal sport, basketball was held as an unofficial demonstration event in 1904 and 1924. Women's basketball made its debut in the Summer Olympics in 1976. FIBA organizes both the men's and women's FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournaments and the Summer Olympics basketball tournaments, which are sanctioned by the IOC. [1]
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 ...
Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics was the sixteenth appearance of the sport of basketball as an official Olympic medal event.It took place at the Helliniko Olympic Indoor Arena, a part of the Hellinikon Olympic Complex, in Athens, for the preliminary rounds, with the later stages being held in the Olympic Indoor Hall at the Athens Olympic Sports Complex.
Italy at the 1996 Summer Olympics; IOC code: ITA: NOC: Italian National Olympic Committee: Website: www.coni.it (in Italian) in Atlanta; Competitors: 340 (236 men, 104 women) in 27 sports: Flag bearer : Giovanna Trillini: Medals Ranked 6th: Gold 13 Silver 10 Bronze 12 Total 35: Summer Olympics appearances