Battle of Honey Springs

Italy competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. They brought 61 competitors, 53 of whom were men and 8 of whom were women. A total of 4 medals were won, including 1 silver and 3 bronze.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Silver	Sergio Zardini Romano Bonagura	Bobsleigh	Two-man
Bronze	Eugenio Monti Sergio Siorpaes	Bobsleigh	Two-man
Bronze	Eugenio Monti Sergio Siorpaes Benito Rigoni Gildo Siorpaes	Bobsleigh	Four-man
Bronze	Walter Außendorfer Sigisfredo Mair	Luge	Men's doubles

Alpine skiing

Men

Athlete	Event	Race
		Time	Rank
Martino Fill	Downhill	2:27.33	27
Bruno Alberti		2:25.30	23
Paride Milianti		2:23.01	21
Ivo Mahlknecht		2:22.72	19
Felice de Nicolo	Giant Slalom	1:59.62	28
Italo Pedroncelli		1:55.14	18
Ivo Mahlknecht		1:54.26	16
Paride Milianti		1:52.87	13

Men's slalom

Athlete	Qualifying				Final
	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Ivo Mahlknecht	1:16.97	74	55.78	7 QF	1:13.69	13	1:04.54	16	2:18.23	15
Martino Fill	56.43	34	56.32	11 QF	1:14.53	20	1:05.10	20	2:19.63	20
Paride Milianti	54.67	18 QF	–	–	1:13.50	10	1:04.90	19	2:18.40	17
Italo Pedroncelli	54.22	14 QF	–	–	1:13.94	16	1:02.38	11	2:16.32	11

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Inge Senoner	Downhill					2:04.22	31
Lidia Barbieri Sacconaghi						2:03.38	25
Pia Riva						2:02.25	18
Giustina Demetz						2:01.20	11
Lidia Barbieri Sacconaghi	Giant Slalom					2:02.73	28
Patrizia Medail						1:59.29	19
Giustina Demetz						1:56.52	14
Pia Riva						1:54.59	9
Giustina Demetz	Slalom	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Inge Senoner		n/a	?	DSQ	–	DSQ	–
Lidia Barbieri Sacconaghi		53.39	27	55.84	21	1:49.23	22
Pia Riva		46.65	11	50.55	11	1:37.20	9

Bobsleigh

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
ITA-1	Eugenio Monti Sergio Siorpaes	Two-man	1:05.94	5	1:04.90	1	1:05.41	4	1:06.38	6	4:22.63
ITA-2	Sergio Zardini Romano Bonagura	Two-man	1:05.63	3	1:05.13	3	1:05.21	2	1:06.05	2	4:22.02

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
ITA-1	Sergio Zardini Sergio Mocellini Ferruccio Dalla Torre Romano Bonagura	Four-man	1:03.95	6	1:04.10	6	1:03.59	1	1:04.25	4	4:15.89	4
ITA-2	Eugenio Monti Sergio Siorpaes Benito Rigoni Gildo Siorpaes	Four-man	1:03.43	2	1:04.07	5	1:04.02	4	1:04.08	2	4:15.60

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Marcello de Dorigo	55:26.1	27
	Giulio Deflorian	53:31.7	18
	Giuseppe Steiner	52:28.0	12
	Franco Nones	52:18.0	10
30 km	Livio Stuffer	1'38:11.0	22
	Gianfranco Stella	1'35:01.1	18
	Giuseppe Steiner	1'33:59.8	16
	Marcello de Dorigoo	1'33:53.4	15
50 km	Angelo Genuin	DNF	–
	Franco Manfroi	2'53:56.5	19
	Eugenio Mayer	2'53:21.3	18
	Livio Stuffer	2'51:04.7	13

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Giuseppe Steiner Marcello de Dorigo Giulio Deflorian Franco Nones	2'21:16.8	5

Figure skating

Men

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Giordano Abbondati	11	16	1688.4	131	14

Women

Athlete	CF	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Sandra Brugnera	27	23	1612.5	221	26

Ice hockey

First round

Winners (in bold) qualified for the Group A to play for 1st-8th places. Teams, which lost their qualification matches, played in Group B for 9th-16th places.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Sweden	12–2	Italy

Consolation round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
9	Poland	7	6	1	0	40	13	12
10	Norway	7	5	2	0	40	19	10
11	Japan	7	4	2	1	35	31	9
12	Romania	7	3	3	1	31	28	7
13	Austria	7	3	3	1	24	28	7
14	Yugoslavia	7	3	3	1	29	37	7
15	Italy	7	2	5	0	24	42	4
16	Hungary	7	0	7	0	14	39	0

• Italy 6-4 Hungary
• Yugoslavia 5-3 Italy
• Norway 9-2 Italy
• Poland 7-0 Italy
• Austria 5-3 Italy
• Romania 6-2 Italy
• Italy 8-6 Japan

Contestants Giancarlo Agazzi Isidoro Alverà Enrico Bacher Enrico Benedetti Vittorio Bolla Giampiero Branduardi Alberto Darin Gianfranco Darin Bruno Frison Roberto Gamper Bruno Ghedina Ivo Ghezze Francesco Macchietto Giovanni Mastel Giulio Oberhammer Edmondo Rabanser Giulio Verocai

Luge

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Giovanni Graber	56.44	24	1:01.66	26	54.80	16	55.50	19	3:48.40	23
Walter Außendorfer	55.47	21	55.02	16	54.85	18	54.83	16	3:40.17	16
Giampaolo Ambrosi	54.31	15	54.50	14	54.96	19	55.29	18	3:39.06	15
Carlo Prinoth	53.01	8	53.36	12	53.70	10	53.42	6	3:33.49	7

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Walter Außendorfer Sigisfredo Mair	51.40	4	51.47	3	1:42.87
Giampaolo Ambrosi Giovanni Graber	51.54	5	52.23	6	1:43.77	5

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Erika Außersdorfer	56.03	15	DNF	–	–	–	–	–	DNF	–
Erica Prugger	55.24	12	1:27.28	13	54.98	11	55.69	12	4:13.19	13

Nordic combined

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
		Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Ezio Damolin	Individual	65.0	62.0	198.1	18	51:42.3	221.44	7	419.54	8
Enzo Perin		68.0	61.5	200.4	15	54:17.7	191.42	17	391.82	18

Ski jumping

Athletes performed three jumps, the best two were counted and are shown here.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Bruno de Zordo	Normal hill	68.5	88.5	72.0	96.6	185.1	46
Nilo Zandanel		72.0	95.9	72.0	95.6	191.5	37
Giacomo Aimoni		72.0	96.9	74.0	100.4	197.3	28
Nilo Zandanel	Large hill	87.5	100.7	81.5	96.7	197.4	25
Giacomo Aimoni		88.0	102.3	86.0	103.6	205.9	13

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Elio Locatelli	43.1	31
1500 m	Elio Locatelli	2:19.0	35
	Renato De Riva	2:15.7	21
5000 m	Renato De Riva	7:57.5	14
10,000 m	Renato De Riva	16:57.5	18

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1964, full results by sports-reference.com