Italy at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Sporting event delegation

Italy at the 2002 Winter Olympics

IOC code	ITA
NOC	Italian National Olympic Committee
Website	www.coni.it (in Italian)
in Salt Lake City
Competitors	112 (65 men, 47 women) in 12 sports
Flag bearer	Isolde Kostner (alpine skiing)
Medals Ranked 7th	Gold 4 Silver 4 Bronze 5 Total 13
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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Italy competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.

With Turin being the host of the 2006 Winter Olympics, an Italian segment featuring singers Irene Grandi and Elisa was presented at the closing ceremony.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Daniela Ceccarelli	Alpine skiing	Women's super-G
Gold	Stefania Belmondo	Cross country skiing	Women's 15 km (freestyle, mass start)
Gold	Gabriella Paruzzi	Cross country skiing	Women's 30 km (classical style)
Gold	Armin Zöggeler	Luge	Men's individual
Silver	Isolde Kostner	Alpine skiing	Women's downhill
Silver	Giorgio Di Centa Fabio Maj Pietro Piller Cottrer Cristian Zorzi	Cross country skiing	Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Silver	Stefania Belmondo	Cross country skiing	Women's 30 km (classical style)
Silver	Michele Antonioli Maurizio Carnino Fabio Carta Nicola Franceschina Nicola Rodigari	Short track speed skating	Men's 5000 m relay
Bronze	Karen Putzer	Alpine skiing	Women's super-G
Bronze	Cristian Zorzi	Cross country skiing	Men's sprint
Bronze	Stefania Belmondo	Cross country skiing	Women's 10 km (classical style)
Bronze	Barbara Fusar-Poli Maurizio Margaglio	Figure skating	Ice dancing
Bronze	Lidia Trettel	Snowboarding	Women's parallel giant slalom

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Kristian Ghedina	Downhill			1:42.54	35
Kurt Sulzenbacher				1:41.56	22
Alessandro Fattori				1:41.24	19
Roland Fischnaller				1:40.85	17
Alessandro Fattori	Super-G			DNF	–
Kurt Sulzenbacher				1:26.44	26
Patrick Staudacher				1:23.95	18
Roland Fischnaller				1:23.87	17
Giorgio Rocca	Giant Slalom	1:14.91	1:12.94	2:27.85	26
Alessandro Roberto		1:14.65	1:12.88	2:27.53	22
Alexander Ploner		1:12.86	DNF	DNF	–
Massimiliano Blardone		1:12.72	1:12.15	2:24.87	8
Alan Perathoner	Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Giancarlo Bergamelli		DNF	–	DNF	–
Edoardo Zardini		DNF	–	DNF	–
Giorgio Rocca		DNF	–	DNF	–

Men's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
Athlete	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Total time	Rank
Kurt Sulzenbacher	1:41.49	DNF	–	DNF	–
Alessandro Fattori	1:40.15	50.30	55.12	3:25.57	13
Patrick Staudacher	1:39.23	49.51	53.73	3:22.47	7

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Time	Time	Rank
Lucia Recchia	Downhill			1:42.80	24
Daniela Ceccarelli				1:42.03	20
Patrizia Bassis				1:41.56	17
Isolde Kostner				1:40.01
Patrizia Bassis	Super-G			DNF	–
Isolde Kostner				1:14.99	13
Karen Putzer				1:13.86
Daniela Ceccarelli				1:13.59
Nicole Gius	Giant Slalom	1:18.58	1:16.96	2:35.54	19
Silke Bachmann		1:17.92	1:16.02	2:33.94	16
Denise Karbon		1:17.75	1:15.81	2:33.56	14
Karen Putzer		1:17.43	1:15.51	2:32.94	10
Sonia Vierin	Slalom	DNF	–	DNF	–
Denise Karbon		DNF	–	DNF	–
Silke Bachmann		55.69	57.25	1:52.94	18
Nicole Gius		55.57	55.44	1:51.01	10

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
Athlete	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Total time	Rank
Patrizia Bassis	1:16.72	52.16	49.20	2:58.08	21
Elena Tagliabue	1:17.66	49.03	47.27	2:53.96	19
Lucia Recchia	1:17.28	48.88	46.94	2:53.10	18
Daniela Ceccarelli	1:16.75	48.35	46.71	2:51.81	15

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses	Time	Rank
10 km sprint	Devis Da Canal	2	28:25.9	68
	Wilfried Pallhuber	1	27:35.7	50
	Paolo Longo	0	27:31.9	49
	René Cattarinussi	1	26:37.3	22
12.5 km pursuit	Paolo Longo	1	36:38.8	37
	Wilfried Pallhuber	2	36:19.7	33
	René Cattarinussi	1	35:00.9	20

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time	Rank
20 km	Rene Laurent Vuillermoz	54:00.7	6	1'00:00.7	72
	Wilfried Pallhuber	52:33.2	5	57:33.2	50
	Paolo Longo	55:11.9	1	56:11.9	33
	René Cattarinussi	52:57.2	2	54:57.2	21

Men's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses	Time	Rank
Paolo Longo René Cattarinussi Devis Da Canal Wilfried Pallhuber	5	1'30:56.3	16

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses	Time	Rank
7.5 km sprint	Siegrid Pallhuber	4	26:20.9	68
	Michela Ponza	2	23:36.9	46
	Nathalie Santer	3	23:14.7	40
	Saskia Santer	2	23:11.2	36
10 km pursuit	Saskia Santer	7	36:41.8	42
10 km pursuit	Michela Ponza	4	35:54.7	38

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time	Rank
15 km	Nathalie Santer	DNF	–	DNF	–
	Saskia Santer	47:14.7	7	54:14.7	49
	Katja Haller	51:44.0	2	53:44.0	47
	Michela Ponza	50:13.6	2	52:13.6	36

Women's 4 × 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses	Time	Rank
Michela Ponza Nathalie Santer Katja Haller Saskia Santer	2	1'34:03.7	11

A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

Starting delay based on 10 km sprint results.

One minute added per missed target.

Starting delay based on 7.5 km sprint results.

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
ITA-1	Günther Huber Antonio Tartaglia	Two-man	47.84	7	47.88	8	47.92	8	48.00	9	3:11.64	8
ITA-2	Cristian La Grassa Fabrizio Tosini	Two-man	48.04	10	48.16	13	48.03	9	48.37	20	3:12.60	11

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
ITA-1	Fabrizio Tosini Andrea Pais de Libera Massimiliano Rota Giona Cividino	Four-man	47.48	21	47.40	20	48.11	21	47.97	15	3:10.96	19

Women

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Sled	Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
ITA-1	Gerda Weissensteiner Antonella Bellutti	Two-woman	49.66	8	49.55	7	1:39.21	7

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Sprint

Athlete	Qualifying round		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Fulvio Valbusa	2:57.60	28	did not advance
Freddy Schwienbacher	2:53.03	11 Q	2:57.7	2 Q	3:00.2	3 QB	2:56.1	5
Silvio Fauner	2:51.51	7 Q	2:53.9	4	did not advance
Cristian Zorzi	2:50.34	2 Q	2:52.1	2 Q	2:59.9	1 QF	2:57.2

Pursuit

Athlete	10 km C		10 km F pursuit
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Fulvio Valbusa	27:30.6	30 Q	24:42.7	18
Fabio Maj	27:16.4	26 Q	24:43.8	20
Pietro Piller Cottrer	27:06.2	22 Q	23:54.2	6
Giorgio Di Centa	26:30.9	3 Q	23:46.8	4

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km C	Giorgio Di Centa	40:22.6	35
	Fulvio Valbusa	39:50.6	31
	Cristian Saracco	39:48.4	28
	Freddy Schwienbacher	39:44.9	26
30 km F	Silvio Fauner	1'19:43.9	51
	Fabio Maj	1'13:43.5	13
	Cristian Zorzi	1'13:10.0	9
	Pietro Piller Cottrer	1'11:42.8	4
50 km C	Fabio Santus	2'17:41.4	26
	Fabio Maj	2'14:32.4	14
	Giorgio Di Centa	2'12:59.6	11

Starting delay based on 10 km C. results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Fabio Maj Giorgio Di Centa Pietro Piller Cottrer Cristian Zorzi	1'32:45.8

Women

Sprint

Athlete	Qualifying round		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Karin Moroder	3:21.92	26	did not advance
Magda Genuin	3:20.28	22	did not advance
Sabina Valbusa	3:19.22	17	did not advance
Gabriella Paruzzi	3:16.11	8 Q	3:16.2	2 Q	3:25.3	3 QB	3:26.1	8

Pursuit

Athlete	5 km C		5 km F pursuit
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Cristina Paluselli	14:36.5	53	did not advance
Stefania Belmondo	13:50.4	17 Q	12:37.1	11
Sabina Valbusa	13:41.9	10 Q	12:23.9	9
Gabriella Paruzzi	13:33.9	8 Q	12:20.4	8

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
10 km C	Cristina Paluselli	30:59.4	39
	Antonella Confortola	30:42.2	34
	Marianna Longa	30:04.0	20
	Stefania Belmondo	28:45.8
15 km F	Antonella Confortola	41:57.8	16
	Sabina Valbusa	40:48.3	10
	Gabriella Paruzzi	40:25.7	6
	Stefania Belmondo	39:54.4
30 km C	Marianna Longa	1'44:02.5	33
	Antonella Confortola	1'37:47.4	19
	Stefania Belmondo	1'31:01.6
	Gabriella Paruzzi	1'30:57.1

Starting delay based on 5 km C. results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Marianna Longa Gabriella Paruzzi Sabina Valbusa Stefania Belmondo	50:38.6	6

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Points	SP	FS	Rank
Angelo Dolfini	DNF	26	DNF	–

Women

Athlete	Points	SP	FS	Rank
Vanessa Giunchi	30.5	21	20	20
Silvia Fontana	17.5	11	12	10

Pairs

Athletes	Points	SP	FS	Rank
Michela Cobisi Ruben De Pra	28.5	19	19	19

Ice Dancing

Athletes	Points	CD1	CD2	OD	FD	Rank
Federica Faiella Massimo Scali	35.4	18	18	17	18	18
Barbara Fusar-Poli Maurizio Margaglio	6.0	3	3	3	3

Freestyle skiing

Main article: Freestyle skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification			Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank
Simone Galli	Moguls	34.93	21.01	25	did not advance

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Reinhold Rainer	44.927	11	44.801	7	44.814	19	45.212	20	2:59.754	12
Wilfried Huber	44.851	9	44.814	8	44.611	10	45.043	12	2:59.319	9
Armin Zöggeler	44.546	1	44.521	2	44.296	2	44.578	1	2:57.941

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athletes	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Christian Oberstolz Patrick Gruber	45.882	18	43.421	9	1:29.303	17
Gerhard Plankensteiner Oswald Haselrieder	43.278	7	43.338	7	1:26.616	7

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Natalie Obkircher	44.632	25	43.657	9	43.905	16	43.533	7	2:55.727	17
Waltraud Schiefer	44.209	20	43.798	15	43.879	15	43.830	16	2:55.716	16
Maria Feichter	44.042	17	43.999	20	44.050	22	44.359	25	2:56.450	22

Short track speed skating

Main article: Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Fabio Carta	500 m	43.787	1 Q	43.113	3	did not advance
Nicola Franceschina	500 m	42.876	1 Q	DSQ	–	did not advance
Nicola Rodigari	1000 m	1:30.991	2 Q	1:27.578	3	did not advance
Fabio Carta	1000 m	1:28.520	1 Q	1:28.186	1 Q	1:27.492	3 QB	1:35.589	6
Fabio Carta	1500 m	2:26.644	1 Q			2:25.072	1 Q	2:18.947	4
Nicola Rodigari	1500 m	2:19.067	2 Q			2:53.907	5	did not advance
Nicola Franceschina Nicola Rodigari Fabio Carta Maurizio Carnino Michele Antonioli	5000 m relay					7:10.787	2 Q	6:56.327

Women

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Marta Capurso	500 m	46.313	1 Q	45.137	3	did not advance
Mara Zini	500 m	45.556	2 Q	44.876	2 Q	44.307	4 QB	45.494	8
Katia Zini	1000 m	DSQ	–	did not advance
Mara Zini	1000 m	1:33.697	2 Q	1:33.880	3	did not advance
Mara Zini	1500 m	2:27.553	2 Q			2:32.899	4 QB	2:32.513	9
Katia Zini	1500 m	3:19.248	6	did not advance
Marta Capurso Mara Zini Evelina Rodigari Marinella Canclini Katia Zini	3000 m relay					4:18.131	3 QB	4:20.014	5

Skeleton

Main article: Skeleton at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Christian Steger	52.25	20	52.15	19	1:44.40	19

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Dany Locati	53.19	9	53.46	9	1:46.65	9

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Qualifying jump			Final jump 1			Final jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Rank	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Roberto Cecon	Normal hill	Pre-qualified			91.0	117.0	18 Q	91.5	116.0	233.0	19
Roberto Cecon	Large hill	Pre-qualified			120.0	113.0	23 Q	119.5	112.6	225.6	19

Snowboarding

Main article: Snowboarding at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men's parallel giant slalom

Athlete	Qualifying		Round one	Quarter final	Semi final	Final	Rank
Athlete	Time	Rank	Round one	Quarter final	Semi final	Final	Rank
Simone Salvati	DSQ	–	did not advance
Kurt Niederstätter	38.22	22	did not advance
Roland Fischnaller	37.70	19	did not advance
Walter Feichter	37.33	14 Q	Daniel Biveson W	Chris Klug L	did not advance		8

Men's halfpipe

Athlete	Qualifying round 1		Qualifying round 2		Final
Athlete	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Giacomo Kratter	39.8	4 QF			42.0	4

Women's parallel giant slalom

Athlete	Qualifying		Round one	Quarter final	Semi final	Final	Rank
Athlete	Time	Rank	Round one	Quarter final	Semi final	Final	Rank
Marion Posch	42.59	12 Q	Julie Pomagalski L	did not advance
Dagi Mair unter der Eggen	42.32	8 Q	Jagna Marczułajtis L	did not advance
Isabella Dal Balcon	42.26	6 Q	Katharina Himmler W	Lidia Trettel L	did not advance		7
Lidia Trettel	41.94	3 Q	Jana Šedová W	Isabella Dal Balcon W	Karine Ruby L	Jagna Marczułajtis W

Women's halfpipe

Athlete	Qualifying round 1		Qualifying round 2		Final
Athlete	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Alessandra Pescosta	16.7	20	27.4	10	did not advance

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Dino Gillarduzzi	36.42	30	36.27	33	72.69	30
	Ermanno Ioriatti	36.30	28	DNF	–	DNF	–
	Davide Carta	35.70	22	35.69	29	71.39	23
1000 m	Dino Gillarduzzi					1:10.96	36
1000 m	Davide Carta					1:09.81	26
1500 m	Roberto Sighel					1:48.40	31
	Enrico Fabris					1:47.83	26
	Stefano Donagrandi					1:47.72	24
5000 m	Stefano Donagrandi					6:32.37	20
	Enrico Fabris					6:30.19	16
	Roberto Sighel					6:25.11	7
10,000 m	Roberto Sighel					13:26.19	7

Women

Event	Athlete	Race 1		Race 2		Total
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
500 m	Chiara Simionato	38.45	18	38.47	15	76.92	16
1000 m	Chiara Simionato					1:14.86	10
1500 m	Nicola Mayr					2:00.73	27
1500 m	Chiara Simionato					1:58.52	16
3000 m	Nicola Mayr					4:15.79	22

References

Olympic Winter Games 2002, full results by sports-reference.com

Italy at the Olympics

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Winter Olympic Games	1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
Intercalated Games	1906

Italy hosted the 1960 Summer Olympics, as well as the 1956 and 2006 Winter Olympics.

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