Italy at the 1960 Summer Paralympics

Italy at the Paralympic Games
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At the 1960 Summer Paralympics in Rome
Competitors	65[1]
Medals Rank: 1	Gold 29	Silver 28	Bronze 23	Total 80
Paralympic history (summary)
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Italy was the host country of the inaugural Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome. The country fielded the largest delegation at the Games, with twenty-seven athletes (twenty-three men and four women) competing in athletics, snooker, swimming, table tennis and wheelchair fencing.^[2]

Medals

27 of Italy's competitors won medals, in 6 sports, enabling the country to top the medal chart with 29 gold medals, 28 silver and 23 bronze.^[3]

Multiple medallists

These are official report of International Paralympic Committee. ^[4]

#	Athlete
1	Maria Scutti	10	3	2
2	Anna Maria Toso	3	5	2
3	Enzo Santini	3	0	0
4	Franco Rossi	2	1	2
	Giovanni Ferraris	2	1	2
6	Carlo Jannucci	2	1	0
7	Renzo Rogo	2	0	0

See also

• Italy at the 1960 Summer Olympics

References

1. Paralympic Games Open At Rome Olympics Site, St. Petersburg Times, September 19, 1960, Google News Archive Search
2. Italy at the 1960 Summer Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
3. Italy at the 1960 Summer Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
4. "Multi-Medallists". paralympic.org. Retrieved 13 September 2012.

• The information from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) website is based on sources which does not present all information from earlier Paralympic Games (1960-1984), such as relay and team members. (Per Apr.17, 2011)