Italy at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Italy sent a delegation of 86 athletes and 6 guides to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. Italian competitors took part in 12 sports: athletics, rowing, cycling, judo, swimming, wheelchair fencing, equestrian, wheelchair tennis, shooting, archery, table tennis and sailing.^[1]

Italy at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	ITA
NPC	Comitato Italiano Paralimpico
Website	www.comitatoparalimpico.it (in Italian)
in Beijing
Competitors	86 in 12 sports
Flag bearer	Francesca Porcellato
Medals Ranked 28th	Gold 4 Silver 7 Bronze 7 Total 18
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Medallists

Medal	Athlete	Sport	Event
Gold	Fabio Triboli	Cycling	Men's road race LC1-2/CP4
Gold	Paolo Viganò	Cycling	Men's individual pursuit LC4
Gold	Paola Protopapa Luca Agoletto Daniele Signore Graziana Saccocci Alessandro Franzetti (cox)	Rowing	Mixed coxed four
Gold	Maria Poiani Panigati	Swimming	Women's 50m freestyle S11
Silver	Alberto Simonelli	Archery	Men's individual compound open
Silver	Marco Vitale	Archery	Men's individual recurve W1/W2
Silver	Vittorio Podestà	Cycling	Men's time trial HC B
Silver	Cecilia Camellini	Swimming	Women's 50m freestyle S11
Silver	Cecilia Camellini	Swimming	Women's 100m freestyle S11
Silver	Pamela Pezzutto	Table tennis	Women's singles class 1-2
Silver	Michela Brunelli Federica Cudia Pamela Pezzutto Clara Podda	Table tennis	Women's team class 1-3
Bronze	Oscar De Pellegrin Mario Esposito Marco Vitale	Archery	Men's team recurve
Bronze	Walter Endrizzi	Athletics	Men's marathon T46
Bronze	Fabio Triboli	Cycling	Men's time trial LC1
Bronze	Fabio Triboli	Cycling	Men's individual pursuit LC1
Bronze	Giorgio Farroni	Cycling	Mixed road race CP1-2
Bronze	Clara Podda	Table tennis	Women's singles class 1-2
Bronze	Alberto Pellegrini	Wheelchair fencing	Men's sabre A

Sports

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Score	Seed	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Alberto Simonelli	Men's individual compound standing	667	15	Gronberg (SWE) W 112-107	Lee O S (KOR) W 115-112	Klich (CZE) W 111-110	Pemberton (USA) W 116-110	Stubbs (GBR) L 111-116
Fabio Luca Azzolini	Men's individual compound W1	593	10	—	Hatem (FRA) W 107-101	Fabry (USA) L 97-113	did not advance
Mario Esposito	Men's individual recurve standing	631	1	Bye	An (KOR) W 101-98	Zarzuela (ESP) W 102-95	Meunier (FRA) L 91-95	Chen Y (CHN) L 93-98	4
Oscar de Pellegrin	Men's individual recurve W1/W2	629	4	Wolfe (USA) W 107-76	Gilbert (FRA) L 99-101	did not advance
Antonino Lisotta		556	25	Sidik (MAS) L 90-97	did not advance
Marco Vitale		624	7	Chen W Y (TPE) W 104-99	Stone (USA) W 101-97	Sawicki (POL) W 102-98	Tseng L H (TPE) W 103-101	Cheng C (CHN) L 104-108
Oscar de Pellegrin Mario Esposito Marco Vitale	Men's team recurve	1884	2	—		Thailand (THA) W 206-202	China (CHN) L 201-208	Japan (JPN) W 207-194

Women

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Score	Seed	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Elisabetta Mijno	Women's individual recurve W1/W2	519	11	—	Maufras du Chatellier (FRA) L 94-98	did not advance

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men's track

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Semifinal		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Walter Endrizzi	T46	Marathon	—				2:32.51
Samuele Gobbi	T46	200m	23.70	18	did not advance
		400m	51.60	12	did not advance
Stefano Lippi	T42	100m	—				13.50	4
Heros Marai	T44	100m	12.05	8 q	—		12.25	7
		200m	24.95	9	did not advance

Men's field

Athlete	Class	Event	Final
			Result	Points	Rank
Germano Bernardi	F53-54	Discus throw	25.78 SB	937	6
		Javelin throw	23.23 SB	881	9
		Shot put	9.46 SB	974	7
Roberto la Barbera	F42/44	Long jump	6.14	949	8
	P44	Pentathlon	DNF
Stefano Lippi	F42/44	Long jump	5.32	901	10
Heros Marai	F42/44	Long jump	5.78	893	11

Women's track

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Giuseppina Gargano	T44	100m	14.68	10	did not advance
		200m	—		30.17	6
Francesca Porcellato	T53	100m	17.60	4 Q	17.86	4
		200m	32.20	6 Q	31.61	6
		400m	1:01.05	7 q	58.83	5
		800m	—		2:01.99	5
	T54	Marathon	—		1:54:27	9

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men's road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Pierpaolo Addesi	Men's road race LC1/LC2/CP4	1:47:18	16
	Men's road time trial LC1	36:49.94	10
Giorgio Farroni	Mixed road race	48:34
	Mixed road time trial	24:26.57	6
Fabrizio Macchi	Men's road race LC3/LC4/CP3	DNF
	Men's road time trial LC3	39:38.98	7
Vittorio Podestà	Men's road race HC B	1:28:31	5
	Men's road time trial HC B	22:12.06
Fabio Triboli	Men's road race LC1/LC2/CP4	1:46:03
	Men's road time trial LC1	35:23.70
Paolo Viganò	Men's road race LC3/LC4/CP3	DNS
	Men's road time trial LC4	DNF

Men's track

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Rank
Pierpaolo Addesi	Men's individual pursuit LC1	4:58.19	7	did not advance
Fabrizio Macchi	Men's individual pursuit LC3	4:00.40	5	did not advance
Fabio Triboli	Men's individual pursuit LC1	4:46.90	3 q	Gohr (BRA) W 4:45.68
Paolo Viganò	Men's individual pursuit LC4	3:59.74 WR	1 Q	4:02.78
	Men's time trial LC3-4	—		1:17.0	4

Women's road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Silvana Vinci	Women's road time trial LC1/LC2/CP4	47:28.24	8
Cinzia Coluzzi Melissa Merloni	Women's road race B&VI 1-3	DNF
	Women's road time trial B&VI 1-3	39:36.06	6

Women's track

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Rank
Silvana Vinci	Women's individual pursuit LC1-2/CP4	4:02.148	7	did not advance
	Women's time trial LC1-2/CP4	—		39.9	7

Equestrian

Main article: Equestrian at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Individual events

Athlete	Horse	Event	Total
			Score	Rank
Mauro Caredda	Garfielt	Mixed individual championship test grade Ia	55.800	11
		Mixed individual freestyle test grade Ia	62.944	9
Silvia Veratti	Balla Coi Lupi	Mixed individual championship test grade III	64.560	6
		Mixed individual freestyle test grade III	69.834	5
Andrea Vigon	Priool	Mixed individual championship test grade Ia	63.800	4
		Mixed individual freestyle test grade Ia	69.667	4

Team

Athlete	Horse	Event	Individual score			Total
			TT	CT	Total	Score	Rank
Mauro Caredda	See above	Team	62.471	59.800	122.271	379.903	8
Silvia Veratti			67.154	64.560	131.714
Andrea Vigon			66.118	63.800	129.918

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	First Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage round 1	Repechage round 2	Final/ Bronze medal contest
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Matteo Ardit	Men's 81kg	—	Carvallo (VEN) L 0000–0011	—		Pominov (UKR) L 0000-1000	did not advance

Rowing

Main article: Rowing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Simone Miramonti	Men's single sculls	5:44.14	7 R	6:07.65	6 FB	5:45.86	2
Agnese Moro	Women's single sculls	6:26.38	10 R	7:01.36	6 FB	7:01.24	1
Daniele Stefanoni Stefania Toscano	Mixed double sculls	4:23.36	4 R	4:35.24	2 FA	4:32.30	4
Luca Agoletto Alessandro Franzetti Paola Protopapa Graziana Saccocci Daniele Signore	Mixed coxed four	3:34.59	1 Q	—		3:33.13

Sailing

Main article: Sailing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Athlete	Event	Race											Total points	Net points Total	Rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Fabrizio Olmi	2.4mR	8	9	8	(16)	12	11	13	(16)	3	6	—	102	70	10

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Ivano Borgato	Mixed 50m pistol SH1	500	25	did not advance
Giancarlo Iori	Men's 10m air pistol SH1	557	17	did not advance
	Mixed 25m pistol SH1	556	10	did not advance
	Mixed 50m pistol SH1	511	20	did not advance
Antonio Martella	Men's 10m air pistol SH1	555	20	did not advance
	Mixed 25m pistol SH1	570	5 Q	192.0	762.0	7
	Mixed 50m pistol SH1	474	29	did not advance
Oliviero Tiso	Men's 10m air pistol SH1	527	34	did not advance
	Mixed 25m pistol SH1	551	18	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Azzurra Ciani	Women's 10m air rifle standing SH1	376	18	did not advance
	Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH1	598	15	did not advance
	Mixed 50m rifle prone SH1	583	20	did not advance

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Filippo Bonacini	S5	50m butterfly	DSQ		did not advance
	SB3	50m breaststroke	55.75	4 Q	55.76	5
	SM4	150m individual medley	2:58.06	6 Q	2:53.49	6
Luca Mazzone	S4	50m freestyle	42.47	5 Q	38.60	4
		100m freestyle	1:37.23	7 Q	1:31.21	5
		200m freestyle	3:36.63	7 Q	3:14.81	5
Efrem Morelli	SB5	100m breaststroke	1:47.88	10	did not advance
Andrea Palantrani	S13	50m freestyle	26.71	16	did not advance
		100m freestyle	1:00.12	16	did not advance
	SB13	100m breaststroke	1:13.33	8 Q	1:12.82	8
Carlo Piccoli	S3	100m freestyle	2:38.72	10	did not advance
Alessandro Serpico	S12	100m backstroke	1:08.91	9	did not advance
		100m freestyle	58.47	10	did not advance
		400m freestyle	4:31.38	4 Q	4:32.03	5

Women

Athlete	Class	Event	Heats		Final
			Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Cecilia Camellini	S11	50m freestyle	33.08	4 Q	31.95
		100m freestyle	1:12.74	4 Q	1:09.65
Immacolata Cerasuolo	S8	100m butterfly	1:17.50	7 Q	1:17.14	6
	SM8	200m individual medley	2:56.16	5 Q	2:56.24	5
Maria Poiani Panigati	S11	50m freestyle	31.21 WR	1 Q	31.39
		100m freestyle	1:13.22	5 Q	1:12.71	5
Francesca Secci	S9	100m butterfly	1:13.25	6 Q	1:12.81	7
		100m freestyle	1:09.15	12	did not advance
		400m freestyle	5:08.76	10	did not advance

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries				Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Manfredi Baroncelli	Men's singles C9-10	Andersson (SWE) L 0-3	Cardona (ESP) W 3-1	—	2	did not advance
Salvatore Caci	Men's singles C4-5	Jung E C (KOR) L 0-3	Tsang T H (HKG) L 2-3	—	3	did not advance
Andrea Furlan	Men's singles C7	Valera (ESP) L 1-3	Youssef (EGY) W 3-1	Qin X (CHN) W 3-0	4	did not advance
Nicola Molitierno	Men's singles C3	Kesler (SRB) L 1-3	G Rodriguez (CRC) W 3-1	—	2	did not advance
Giuseppe Vella	Men's singles C2	Boury (FRA) L 2-3	Espindola (BRA) L 2–3	Ruep (AUT) L 1–3	4	did not advance
Salvatore Caci Nicola Molitierno	Men's team C4-5	—				Serbia (SRB) L 2-3	did not advance
Manfredi Baroncelli Andrea Furlan	Men's team C9-10	—				Sweden (SWE) L 0-3	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries				Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Michela Brunelli	Women's singles C3	Ahlquist (SWE) L 1-3	Fillou (FRA) W 3-0	Moll (RSA) W 3-0	1 Q	—		Kanova (SVK) L 1-3	Pintar (SLO) L 0-3	4
Federica Cudia	Women's singles C3	Pintar (SLO) L 0-3	Mader (AUT) L 1-3	Bertrand (FRA) L 0-3	4	did not advance
Maria Nardelli	Women's singles C5	Abuawad (JOR) L 1-3	Bessho (JPN) L 0-3	Nir Kistler (USA) W 3-1	3	did not advance
Pamela Pezzutto	Women's singles C1-2	Pushpasheva (RUS) W 3–1	Breathnach (IRL) W 3–1	—	1 Q	—		Lafaye (FRA) W 3–2	Liu J (CHN) L 1-3
Christina Ploner	Women's singles C3	Kanova (SVK) L 0-3	Bakhtiary (IRI) L 0-3	Mariage (FRA) W 3-2	4	did not advance
Clara Podda	Women's singles C1-2	Clot (FRA) W 3-1	Neil (GBR) W 3-2	—	1 Q	—		Liu J (CHN) L 1-3	Lafaye (FRA) W 3-1
Patrizia Sacca	Women's singles C4	Weinmann (GER) L 0-3	Jung J N (KOR) L 1-3	Arenales (MEX) W 3-1	3	did not advance
Valeria Zorzetto	Women's singles C4	Moon S H (KOR) L 0-3	Obiora (NGR) W 3-1	Robertson (GBR) W 3-1	2	did not advance
Michela Brunelli Federica Cudia Pamela Pezzutto Clara Podda	Women's team C1-3	—				Bye		Great Britain (GBR) W 3-0	China (CHN) L 1-3
Maria Nardelli Valeria Zorzetto	Women's team C4-5	—				South Korea (KOR) W 3-1	Serbia (SRB) L 1-3	did not advance

Wheelchair fencing

Main article: Wheelchair fencing at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition	Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Matteo Betti	Men's épée A	Tian (CHN)	L 4-5	3 Q	Markantonatos (GRE) W 15–12	Stanczuk (POL) L 9-15	did not advance
		Wong T T (HKG)	L 4-5
		Stanczuk (POL)	L 3-5
		Alqallaf (KUW)	W 5-0
		Horvath (HUN)	W 5-0
	Men's foil A	Zhang L (CHN)	L 0-5	2 Q	Granell (ESP) W 15-5	Chan W K (HKG) L 14-15	did not advance
		Alqallaf (KUW)	W 5-0
		Horvath (HUN)	W 5-0
		Granell (ESP)	W 5-0
		Saengsawang (THA)	W 5-2
		Andree (GER)	W 5-2
Gerardo Mari	Men's épée B	Shenkevych (UKR)	L 3-5	4 Q	Latreche (FRA) L 10-15	did not advance
		Bezyazychny (BLR)	W 5-4
		Kim G H (KOR)	L 2-5
		Baozhong (CHN)	L 4-5
		Pluta (POL)	W 5-2
	Men's sabre B	Hui C H (HKG)	W 5-4	1 Q	Arnau (ESP) W 15-7	Shenkevych (UKR) L 5-15	did not advance
		Pluta (POL)	L 3-5
		Yusupov (RUS)	W 5-1
		Soler (ESP)	W 5-3
		Moreno (USA)	W 5-2
Alberto Pellegrini	Men's foil A	Pender (POL)	L 2-5	2 Q	Makowski (POL) W 15-10	Pender (POL) L 9-15	did not advance
		Maillard (FRA)	W 5-1
		Mato (HUN)	W 5-1
		Alhaddad (KUW)	W 5-4
		Andreev (RUS)	W 5-1
	Men's sabre A	More (FRA)	L 1-5	1 Q	Andreev (RUS) W 15-6	Frolov (RUS) W 15-3	Tian (CHN) L 8-15	Chan W K (HKG) W 15-5
		Makowski (POL)	W 5-4
		Calhoun (USA)	W 5-0
		Frolov (RUS)	W 5-0
		L Sanchez (ESP)	W 5-0
		Altabbakh (KUW)	W 5-1
Alessio Sarri	Men's foil B	Latreche (FRA)	L 4-5	1 Q	Komar (UKR) L 9-15	did not advance
		Wyganowski (POL)	W 5-3
		Hisakawa (JPN)	W 5-3
		Yusupov (RUS)	W 5-2
		Bezyazychny (BLR)	W 5-2
	Men's sabre B	Cratere (FRA)	L 4-5	4 Q	Pluta (POL) W 15-14	Cratere (FRA) L 13-15	did not advance
		Bogdos (GRE)	L 3-5
		Datsko (UKR)	L 3-5
		Czop (POL)	W 5-3
		Williams (USA)	W 5-0
Alberto Serafini	Men's épée A	Maillard (FRA)	L 2-5	7	did not advance
		Markantonatos (GRE)	L 2-5
		Alhaddad (KUW)	L 1-5
		Davydenko (UKR)	L 2-5
		Saengsawang (THA)	L 3-5
		L Sanchez (ESP)	L 1-5
	Men's sabre A	Tian (CHN)	L 1-5	5 Q	Tian (CHN) L 3-15	did not advance
		Chan W K (HKG)	L 3-5
		Markantonatos (GRE)	L 4-5
		Davydenko (UKR)	L 3-5
		Redondo (ESP)	W 5-2

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition	Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Loredana Trigilia	Women's épée A	Zhang C (CHN)	L 25	5	did not advance
		Gorlina (UKR)	L 3-5
		Krajnyak (HUN)	L 2-5
		Fan P S (HKG)	L 3-5
		Picot (FRA)	W 5-2
	Women's foil A	Zhang C (CHN)	L 0-5	3 Q	—	Fan P S (HKG) L 13-15	did not advance
		Yu C Y (HKG)	L 2-5
		Picot (FRA)	W 5-4
		Halkina (BLR)	W 5-3
		Juhasz (HUN)	W 5-3
Rosalba Vettraino	Women's épée B	Vasilyeva (RUS)	L 1-5	4 Q	Palfi (HUN) L 9-15	did not advance
		Yao F (CHN)	L 1-5
		Magnat (FRA)	L 2-5
		Palfi (HUN)	W 5-1
		Demello (USA)	W 5-4
	Women's foil B	Yao F (CHN)	L 1-5	6	did not advance
		Dani (HUN)	L 3-5
		Lukianenko (UKR)	L 0-5
		Magnat (FRA)	L 3-5
		Hassen Bey (ESP)	W 5-4

Wheelchair tennis

Main article: Wheelchair tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Class	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
			Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Mario Gatelli	Open	Men's singles	Simpson (GBR) W 6–1, 6–7, 6-4	Jeremiasz (FRA) L 0–6, 2-6	did not advance
Fabian Mazzei			Khulongrua (THA) L 7–6, 2–6, 3-6	did not advance
Mario Gatelli Fabian Mazzei		Men's doubles	—	Jewitt (GBR) /  Simpson (GBR) W 6–4, 6-4	Jaroszewski (POL) /  Kruszelnicki (POL) L 0–6, 0-6	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Class	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
			Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Silvia di Maria	Open	Women's singles	Hwang M H (KOR) L 2–6, 2-6	did not advance
Mariana Lauro			Hu D (CHN) L 2–6, 4-6	did not advance
Silvia di Maria Mariana Lauro		Women's doubles	—	Okabe (JPN) /  Yaosa (JPN) L 4–6, 0-6	did not advance

Quads

Athlete	Class	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
			Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result
Giuseppe Polidori	Open	Quad singles	Timmermans van Hall (NED) L 1–6, 6–3, 3-6	did not advance
Antonio Raffaele			van Erp (NED) L 1–6, 1-6	did not advance
Giuseppe Polidori Antonio Raffaele		Quad doubles	—	Timmermans van Hall (NED) /  van Erp (NED) L 0–6, 2-6	did not advance

See also

• Italy at the Paralympics
• Italy at the 2008 Summer Olympics

External links

• Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Official Site
• International Paralympic Committee