Italy has sent athletes to most of the modern Olympic Games held since 1896, outside of not having officially participated in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Joël Thierry Retornaz is an Italian curler from Cembra. He was the skip of the Italian men's Olympic curling team in 2006, 2018, and 2022.
Giovanni Calabrese is an Italian rower who competed at three Olympic Games.
Giovanni Pettenella was an Italian track cyclist. At the 1964 Summer Olympics he won a gold medal in the sprint and a silver in the 1000 m time trial. In the semi-final of the 1,000 metres sprint Pettenella and Pierre Trentin set an Olympic record for standing still - 21 minutes and 57 seconds. After that he turned professional and competed until 1975. In 1968 he won a bronze medal in the sprint at the world championships.
Carlotta Giovannini is an Italian artistic gymnast who competed at her first international competition in 2003.
Giovanni Gozzi was an Italian Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.
Giovanni Kasebacher was an Italian cross-country skier who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics.
Giovanni Invernizzi was an Italian rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics and in the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Giovanni Zucchi was an Italian rower who competed in the 1956, 1960, and the 1964 Summer Olympics, winning bronze in 1960. He won five gold medals at European Rowing Championships.
Guido Ugolotti is an Italian professional football coach and a former player, current coach of the Gozitan team Victoria Hotspurs
Giovanni De Gennaro is an Italian slalom canoeist who has competed at the international level since 2008. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He achieved a gold medal in the Men’s slalom K-1 event in the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Giovanni Faloci is an Italian discus thrower. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Discus throw.
Massimo Stano is a male Italian racewalker. He competed in the 20 kilometres walk event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China, finishing in the 19th position, and the same event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan, finishing in first place. On 24 July 2022, Stano won the 2022 World Athletics Championships with a championship record.
Fabian Aichner is an Italian professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Giovanni Vinci.
Giovanni Tocci is an Italian diver. He competed in the men's synchronized 3 metre springboard at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where he and Andrea Chiarabini finished 6th out of 8 teams.
Francesco Fortunato is an Italian racewalker.
Lamont Marcell Jacobs Jr. is an Italian track and field sprinter and former long jumper. He is the 2020 Olympic 100 metres champion, the 2022 60 metres world champion, the 2022 and 2024 European 100 metres champion, and a member of the gold medal-winning 4 × 100 m relay team at the 2020 Olympics. He currently holds the 100 metres European record, the 60 metres European record, and is the first person to ever qualify for and win the men's 100 metres Olympic final for Italy.
Giovanni "Gianni" Modena is a former Italian combined-event athlete and bobsledder.
Nils Stump is a Swiss judoka. He won the gold medal in the men's 73 kg event at the 2023 World Judo Championships held in Doha, Qatar. He is a bronze medalist at the 2021 European Judo Championships held in Lisbon, Portugal. He also competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan and the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.
Italy competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Italian athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympics edition of the modern era, with the disputed exception of the 1904 edition in which one Italian may have competed.
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