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Italy shooting at Summer Olympics
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The Italy national shooting team represents Italy
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in International shooting competitions such as Olympic Games
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or World shooting Championships
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.
History
The national Italian shooting team participated to all theSummer Olympics
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editions, from London 1908, 22 times on 24.
Medal tables
Olympic Games
The Italian national shooting team (including ''rifle and pistol events'' and ''shotgun
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'') has won 42 medals at the Summer Olympic Games
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and hits consecutively from Melbourne 1956, that is from 16 editions. The following table highlights the 14 medals in shooting rifle and pistol events (5 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze). In ''italics'' the medals of the women (four medals in total: one gold and three silver).
note: ''Italic'' = Women
Multiple medalist
Olympic Games
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*Italy at the Olympics
Italy has sent athletes to most of the modern Olympic Games held since 1896, outside of not having officially participated (as a national delegation) in the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Italy has taken part in all the Winter Olympic Games, winning 141 ...
* Shooting Summer Olympics medal table
References
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Italy shooting at Summer Olympics
Unione Italiana Tiro a Segno
{{National sports teams of Italy
Shooting
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Shooting sports in Italy