Nations 93
Athletes 5137 (4457 Uomini; 680 Donne)
Italian athletes 170 (158 Uomini; 12 Donne)
For the first time the Games were held in Asia. The Olympic Flame was lit by a young Yoshinori Sakai, who was born in Hiroshima on the tragic day of the bombing. For Japan it was the most meaningful way to launch those games that could not be hosted in 1940. The undisputed hero was the swimmer Don Schollander, who won four gold medals. While the most number of medals were won by the Russian gymnast Larisa Latynina: 2 golds, 2 silvers and 2 bronzes. Judo and volleyball made their Olympic debut in Tokyo . The Italians, empty-handed in the first week of the event, came back strongly in the second: with 27 medals and fifth place in the final medal table.
Abdon Pamich gold Athletics 50 Km Race walk
Giovanni Pettenella gold Cicling Road velocit
Sergio Bianchetto, Angelo Damiano gold Cicling Road tandem
Mario Zanin gold Cicling Road INDIVIDUAL ROAD
Franco Menichelli gold Gymnastics floor
Fernando Atzori gold Boxing Fly weight
Cosimo Pinto gold Boxing light heavy
Mauro Checcoli gold Equestrian Individual eventing
Mauro Checcoli, Paolo Angioni, Alessandro Argenton, Giuseppe Ravano gold Equestrian Team eventing
Ennio Mattarelli gold Shotgun skeet
Renato Bosatta, Giuseppe Galante, Franco De Pedrina, Emilio Trivini, Giovanni Spinola silver Rowing Coxed four
Giovanni Pettenella silver Cicling Road 1,000m time trial
Giorgio Ursi silver Cicling Road individual pursuit
Franco Testa, Vincenzo (Cencio) Mantovani, Carlo Rancati, Luigi Roncaglia silver Cicling Road TEAM PURSUIT
Severino Andreoli, Luciano Dalla Bona, Pietro Guerra, Ferruccio Manza silver Cicling Road team time trial
Sergio Bianchetto silver Cicling Road velocit
Franco Menichelli silver Gymnastics rings
Klaus Dibiasi silver Diving platform
Giuseppe Delfino, Alberto Pellegrino, Gian Luigi Saccaro, Giovanni Battista Breda, Gianfranco Paolucci silver Fencing Epee team
Cesare Salvadori, Giampaolo Calanchini, Wladimiro Calarese, Pier Luigi Chicca, Mario Ravagnan silver Fencing Sabre team
Salvatore Morale bronze Athletics 400 m hurdles
Franco Menichelli bronze Gymnastics bars
Silvano Bertini bronze Boxing welters
Franco Valle bronze Boxing middle weight
Giuseppe Ros bronze Boxing heavy
Antonella Ragno - Lonzi bronze Fencing foil individual women
Raimondo D'Inzeo, Graziano Mancinelli, Piero D'Inzeo bronze Equestrian Team jumping