Nations 44
Athletes 3072 (2937 Uomini; 135 Donne)
Italian athletes 202 (199 Uomini; 3 Donne)
Paris had a debt with Baron de Coubertin and kindly cleared it by organising a great edition of the Games (whose sequence of events inspired, in 1981, the splendid "Chariots of Fire"). The Paris Games were modern in the most complete meaning of the term, a concept fully represented by the motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius" (Faster, Higher, Stronger) used for the first time. It also inaugurated the handover ceremony of the Olympic flag to the city selected for the next Games. Paris revealed to the world some of the greatest athletes in history, such as Paavo Nurmi, the "Flying Finn", and Johnny Weissmuller, the immortal Tarzan.
Ugo Frigerio gold Athletics 10.000 m race walk
Angelo De Martini, Alfredo Dinale, Aleardo Menegazzi, Francesco Zucchetti gold Cicling Road TEAM PURSUIT 4000m
Giorgio Zampori, Luigi Cambiaso, Vittorio Lucchetti, Luigi Maiocco, Ferdinando Mandrini, Giuseppe Paris, Francesco Martino, Mario Lertora gold Gymnastics open competition
Francesco Martino gold Gymnastics rings
Oreste Puliti, Renato Anselmi, Guido Balzarini, Marcello Bertinetti, Bino Bini, Vincenzo Cuccia, Oreste Moricca, Giulio Sarrocchi gold Fencing Sabre team
Pierino Gabetti gold Weightlifting Featherweight
Carlo Galimberti gold Weightlifting middle weight
Giuseppe Tonani gold Weightlifting heavy
Romeo Bertini silver Athletics Marathon
Ercole Olgeni, Giovanni Scatturin, Gino Sopracordevole silver Rowing Coxed pair
Tommaso Lequio di Assaba silver Equestrian individual grand prix
Antonio Cattalinich, Francesco Cattalinich , Simeone Cattalinich, Giuseppe Crivelli, Latino Galasso, Vittorio Gliubich , Pietro Ivanov, Bruno Sorich, Carlo Toniatti bronze Rowing EIGHT WITH COXSWAIN (8+) MEN
Giorgio Zampori bronze Gymnastics bars
Giovanni Canova, Marcello Bertinetti, Vincenzo Cuccia, Oreste Moricca, Giulio Basletta, Virgilio Mantegazza bronze Fencing Epee team
Tommaso Lequio di Assaba, Alessandro Alvisi, Emanuele Beraudo di Pralormo, Alberto Lombardi bronze Equestrian Team eventing
Uberto de Morpurgo bronze Tennis singles men