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Italy At The 2012 Summer Olympics
Italy competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This nation has competed at every Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, except for the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis. The Italian National Olympic Committee (Italian: ''Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano, CONI'') sent the nation's smallest delegation to the Games since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. A total of 285 athletes, 162 men and 123 women, competed in 22 sports. Italy left London with a total of 28 Olympic medals (8 gold, 9 silver, and 11 bronze), finishing eighth in the overall medal standings. Seven of these medals were awarded to the athletes in fencing, five in shooting, and three in boxing. Six Italian athletes won more than a single Olympic medal in London. After suffering a major setback from Beijing, Italy's team-based athletes recaptured their success at these games as the men's water polo team and the men's indoor volleyball team won silver and bronze medals respective ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian National Olympic Committee
The Italian National Olympic Committee ( it, Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano, CONI), founded in 1914 and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), is responsible for the development and management of sports activity in Italy. Within Italy, CONI recognizes 44 national sports federations, 19 associate sports disciplines, 15 promotional sports organizations, and 19 organizations for the betterment of sports. In total 95,000 sports clubs with 11,000,000 members are recognized. Its 2016 annual budget is 412,900,000 euros which is primarily funded by the Italian government. Member Organizations of CONI National Sport Federations (FSN) * Automobile Club of Italy (Italian: Automobile Club d'Italia (ACI)) * Aviation Club of Italy (Italian: Aero Club d'Italia (AeCI)) * Federazione Italiana Canoa Kayak (FICK) * Federazione Italiana Cronometristi (FICr) * Federazione Italiana Danza Sportiva (FIDS) * Federazione Italiana Discipline Armi Sportive da Caccia (FIDASC) * Feder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fencing At The 2012 Summer Olympics
The fencing competitions at the 2012 Olympic Games in London were held from 28 July to 5 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre. Ten events (six individual, four team) were contested. The International Fencing Federation (FIE) had pushed for the inclusion of two more team events, but the International Olympic Committee voted to keep the current format of ten events. Qualification Qualification was primarily based on the ind. official rankings as at 2 April 2012, with further individual places available at four zonal qualifying tournaments. Medal table Despite fencing being its top medal-producing sport, France did not win any medal for the first time since 1960. Events Men's Women's References External links * * * {{coord, 51.5075, N, 0.0297, E, source:wikidata, display=title Olympics 2012 Summer Olympics events 2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fencing At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's Team Foil
The men's team foil competition in fencing at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on 5 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre. Twenty-eight fencers from nine countries competed. Format Great Britain, as hosts, were allowed to enter a team in any event they chose. They entered a team in this competition, and fenced against the 8th-seeded Egyptian team, with the winning team joining the seven other teams in the main quarter-final draw. Quarter-final losers continued fencing to determine ranking spots for fifth through eighth, while the quarter-final winners met in the semi-finals. The winners of the semi-final bouts competed for the gold medal, while the losing teams competed for the bronze. Team events competed to a maximum of 45 touches. Schedule All times are British Summer Time During British Summer Time (BST), civil time in the United Kingdom is advanced one hour forward of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), in effect changing the time zone from UTC±00:00 to UTC+01:0 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Cassarà
Andrea Cassarà (born 3 January 1984) is an Italian left-handed foil fencer, two-time individual European champion, 2011 individual world champion, and three-time Olympics medalist. Cassarà won a bronze medal in the individual men's foil event and a gold medal in the team men's foil event at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, and a gold medal in the team men's foil event at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Cassarà competed in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (as a replacement for suspended world #1 foil fencer Andrea Baldini), the 2012 London Olympic Games, and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. Cassarà's medal record at world fencing championships include: * Bronze medal in the individual men's foil event and gold medal in the team men's foil event at the 2003 World Fencing Championships in Havana, Cuba * Silver medal in the team men's foil event at the 2005 World Fencing Championships in Leipzig, Germany * Bronze medal in the team men's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Baldini
Andrea Baldini (born 19 December 1985) is an Italian Foil (fencing), foil fencing, fencer, several time European and World champion and team Olympic champion in 2012. He is the only foil fencer in history to have obtained four golds (European and World - individual and team event) and the final victory in the World Cup in the same season. Biography 2003-07; # 1 world ranking He made his debut in the Senior World Cup in the 2003/2004 season and obtained an extraordinary second place in Vienna at the age of 18. In the following season, he won his first senior World Cup in Espinho, Portugal. In 2005 he got gold (individual) and a bronze (team) at the 2005 Summer Universiade, Universiade held in Izmir, Turkey followed by a bronze (individual) and gold (team) at the Europeans in Zalaegerszeg. These results, at just 19 years old, cast him definitively into the quartet of the titular national team. Confirmation of that comes at his first Senior World Championship in Leipzig: sixth in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Avola
Giorgio Avola (born 8 May 1989) is an Italian right-handed foil fencer. Avola is a three-time team European champion, 2011 individual European champion, and four-time team world champion. A three-time Olympian, Avola is a 2012 team Olympic champion. Avola competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ..., the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Medal record Olympic Games World Championship European Championship Grand Prix World Cup References External links * * Italian male fencers Italian foil fencers 1989 births Living people Olympic fencers of Italy Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Italy Ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerio Aspromonte
Valerio Aspromonte (born 16 March 1987) is an Italian right-handed foil fencer, three-time team European champion, 2013 team world champion, and 2012 team Olympic Olympic or Olympics may refer to Sports Competitions * Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 1896 ** Summer Olympic Games ** Winter Olympic Games * Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece b ... champion. Medal Record Olympic Games World Championship European Championship Grand Prix World Cup References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Aspromonte, Valerio Fencers from Rome Italian male foil fencers Italian male fencers 1987 births Living people Olympic fencers of Italy Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Italy Olympic medalists in fencing Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Italy Mediterranean Games medalists in fencing Competitors at the 2013 Mediter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's Trap
The Women's trap event at the 2012 Olympic Games took place on 4 August 2012 at the Royal Artillery Barracks. The event consisted of two rounds: a qualifier and a final. In the qualifier, each shooter fired 3 sets of 25 targets in trap shooting Trap shooting, or trapshooting in North America, is one of the three major disciplines of competitive clay pigeon shooting, which is shooting shotguns at clay targets. The other disciplines are skeet shooting and sporting clays. They are disting ..., with 10 targets being thrown to the left, 10 to the right, and 5 straight-away in each set. The shooters could take two shots at each target. The top 6 shooters in the qualifying round moved on to the final round. There, they fired one additional round of 25 targets, where only one shot could be taken at each target. The total score from all 100 targets was used to determine final ranking. Ties are broken using a shoot-off; additional shots are fired one at a time until there is no longer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shooting At The 2012 Summer Olympics
Shooting competitions at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London took place from 28 July to 6 August at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich. Fifteen events were included with 390 athletes taking part. The events were the same as in 2008. The competitions were originally planned for the National Shooting Centre in Bisley, Surrey, and the temporary solution at the Royal Artillery Barracks (which is in the River Zone) was adopted later after the International Olympic Committee expressed concerns about the distance between London and Bisley. Since the pistols used in the 25m and 50m shooting events were deemed by HM Government as prohibited in England, Scotland and Wales after the Dunblane Massacre, special dispensation had to be granted by the UK Government and security criteria met by LOCOG to allow certain events to go ahead. Qualification The qualification system was similar to that used for previous Games, with a fixed number of quota places divided among the nations whose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fencing At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's Team Foil
The women's team foil competition in fencing at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on 2 August at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre ExCeL London (an abbreviation for Exhibition Centre London) is an exhibition centre, international convention centre and former hospital in the Custom House area of Newham, East London. It is situated on a site on the northern quay of the .... Competition format Nine teams competed in the women's team foil event. The draw was made considering the FIE rankings. , london2012.com. Schedule All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)Draw Finals Classification 5–8 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilaria Salvatori
Ilaria Salvatori (born 5 February 1979 in Frascati) is an Italian Foil (fencing), foil fencing, fencer. Biography She won a bronze medal in the foil team event at the 2008 Summer Olympics. and gold medal in the same event in 2012 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1979 births Living people People from Frascati Italian female fencers Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic fencers of Italy Olympic gold medalists for Italy Olympic bronze medalists for Italy Olympic medalists in fencing Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Fencers of Centro Sportivo Aeronautica Militare Sportspeople from the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital 20th-century Italian women 21st-century Italian women {{Italy-fencing-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arianna Errigo
Arianna Errigo (born 6 June 1988) is an Italian left-handed foil and sabre fencer. Errigo is a nine-time team European champion, two-time individual European champion, six-time team world champion, and two-time individual world champion. Known for her aggressive and fast fencing, she is regarded as one of the greatest fencers of all time. A three-time Olympian, Errigo is a 2021 team Olympic bronze medalist, 2012 team Olympic champion, and 2012 individual Olympic silver medalist. Errigo competed in the 2012 London Olympic Games, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Errigo is an athlete of the Centro Sportivo Carabinieri. Biography In the women's individual foil at the 2012 Summer Olympics she denied Valentina Vezzali of her fourth successive gold medal in the competition by defeating her 15–12 in the semi-finals. She went on to win the silver medal in the event, losing in extra time to Elisa Di Francisca. At the 2013 and 2014 World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
