One competitor from

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

was present at the 1896 Summer Olympics. He competed in

shooting Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe). Even the acts of launching flame, artillery, darts, harpoons, grenades, rockets, and guided missiles ...

. Italy was one of four nations present that won no medals; Sweden,

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and

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were the others. Italy's competitor, Rivabella, entered one event in the shooting program. A second Italian was present in Athens.

Carlo Airoldi Carlo Airoldi (21 September 1869 in Origgio – 18 June 1929 in Milan) was an Italian marathon runner, famous for walking to the 1896 Olympics. Early life Airoldi was born in Origgio near Saronno, to a farming family. He began to participate ...

had walked most of the way from

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, but was disqualified because he had received prize money in

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events and was therefore not an amateur.

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

Shooting

Rivabella was somewhere between 14th and 41st place, with a score less than 845.

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