2021 Olympics: who are the Italians competing in Tokyo?

The Tokyo Olympics arrive, after a year of delay, in 2021: but when does the competition start and who are the Italians in the competition? Let’s find out all the details about it!

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2021 Olympics in Tokyo: when do they start? Opening ceremony

The Tokyo Olympics officially begin on July 23, 2021 and on that date there will be the official opening ceremony, with the lighting of the Olympic torch.

Olympics: when is the first day of competition?

Although the opening ceremony will take place on 23 July, the first races will start a few days earlier. So when do the 2021 Olympics competitions begin? The start date is Wednesday 21 July.

Who are the Italians competing?

The number of Italians competing in the Tokyo 2021 Olympics is a record for the competition. The athletes who will represent Italy will be 383: 197 men and 186 women engaged in more than 30 different disciplines.

Italian Tennis Olympics: who are the qualified athletes?

• Fabio Fognini
• Camila Giorgi
• Lorenzo Musetti
• Jasmine Paolini
• Lorenzo Sonego

Olympics, Swimming Italy: who are the qualified athletes?

As for the New category, however, here are the athletes in the competition divided by categories:

100 breaststroke: Martina Carraro, Nicolò Martinenghi, Benedetta Pilato

100 meters back: Thomas Ceccon

200 meters back: Margherita Panziera

200 meters butterfly: Federico Burdisso

400 meters mixed: Sara Franceschi

200 meters mixed: Alberto Razzetti

200 meters freestyle: Federica Pellegrini

400 meters freestyle: Marco De Tullio, Gabriele Detti

800 meters freestyle: Gregorio Paltrinieri, Simona Quadarella

1500 meters freestyle: Martina Rita Caramignoli, Gregorio Paltrinieri, Simona Quadarella

Olympics, Italy Fencing: who are the athletes competing?

Foil:
Giorgio Avola (reserve)
Martina Batini
Andrea Cassarà
Erica Cipressa
Arianna Errigo
Alessio Foconi
Daniele Garozzo
Alice Volpi

Saber:
Michela Battiston (reserve)
Enrico Berrè
Martina Criscio
Luca Curatoli
Rossella Gregorio
Aldo Montano (reserve)
Luigi Samele
Irene Vecchi

Spade:
Gabriele Cimini (reserve)
Rossella Fiamingo
Marco Fichera
Enrico Garozzo
Federica Isola
Mara Navarria
Andrea Santarelli
Alberta Santuccio (reserve)

Olympics, Sport Climbing Italy: who are the athletes?

Ludovico Fossali
Michael Piccolruaz
Laura Rogora

Olympics, Athletics Italy: who are the athletes?

4 × 100 relay

Anna Bongiorni
Eseosa Fostine Desalu
Zaynab Dosso
Vittoria Fontana
Johanelis Herrera Abreu
Gloria Hooper
Antonio Baldassarre Infantino
Lamont Marcell Jacobs
Dalia Kaddari
Davide Manenti
Lorenzo Patta
Hillary Wanderson Polanco Rijo
Irene Siragusa
Filippo Tortu

Mixed 4 × 400 and 4 × 400 relay

Vladimir Aceti
Lorenzo Benati
Rebecca Borga
Benedicta Chigbolu
Giancarla Dimich Trevisan
Ayomide Folorunso
Matteo Galvan
Giuseppe Leonardi
Brayan Lopez
Raphaela Boaheng Lukudo
Alice Mangione
Eleonora Marchiando
Petra Nardelli
Anna Polinari
Davide Re
Edoardo Scotti
Alessandro Sibilio

Walk 20 km

Francesco Fortunato
Eleonora Anna Giorgi
Antonella Palmisano
Massimo Stano
Federico Tontodonati
Valentina Trapletti

Walk 50 km

Andrea Agrusti
Theodoric Caporaso
Marco De Luca

Marathon

Yassine El Fathaoui
Giovanna Epis
Eyob Ghebrehiwet Faniel
Yassine Rachik

100 meters

Anna Bongiorni
Vittoria Fontana
Lamont Marcell Jacobs
Filippo Tortu

100 meters hurdles

Bright Bogliolo
Elisa Maria Di Lazzaro

110 meters hurdles

Paolo Dal Molin
Hassane Fofana

200 meters

Eseosa Fostine Desalu
Gloria Hooper
Dalia Kaddari
Antonio Baldassarre Infantino

400 meters

Davide Re
Edoardo Scotti

400 meters hurdles

Eleonora Marchiando
Linda Olivieri
Yadisleidy Pedroso
Alessandro Sibilio

800 meters Elena Bellò

1500 meters

Federica Del Buono
Gaia Sabbatini

3000 meters hedges

Ahmed Abdelwahed
Osama Zoghlami
Ala Zoghlami

5000 meters

Nadia Battocletti
Yemaneberhan Crippa

10000 meters
Yemaneberhan Crippa

Triple jump

Tobia Bocchi
Andrea Dallavalle
Dariya Derkach
Chiebuka Emmanuel Ihemeje

With the auction

Roberta Bruni
Elisa Molinarolo
Claudio Michel Stecchi

Long
Filippo Randazzo

High jump

Stefano Sottile
Gianmarco Tamberi
Alessia Trost
Elena Vallortingara

Shot of the weight

Leonardo Fabbri
Nicholas James Ponzio

Discus throw

Giovanni Faloci
Daisy Osakue

Hammer throw
Sara Fantini

Olympics, Basketball Italy: who are the athletes?

Men’s National Team: Simone Fontecchio, Danilo Gallinari, Niccolò Mannion, Nicolò Melli, Riccardo Moraschini, Alessandro Pajola, Achille Polonara, Giampaolo Ricci, Marco Spissu, Amedeo Tessitori, Stefano Tonut, Michele Vitali

Basketball 3 × 3, Women’s National Team: Chiara Consolini, Rae Lin Marie D’Alie, Sara Madera, Giulia Rulli

Olympics, Beach volleyball Italy: who are the Italians?

Men’s national team: Adrian Ignacio Carambula Raurich, Daniele Lupo, Paolo Nicolai, Enrico Rossi

Women’s national team: Marta Menegatti, Viktoria Orsi Toth

Canoe

Speed, K1 and K2 1000 meters
Luca Beccaro
Samuel Burgo

Speed, K1 200 meters
Francesca Genzo
Manfredi Rizza

Slalom, K1
Giovanni De Gennaro
Stefanie Horn

Slalom, C1
Marta Bertoncelli

Boating

Single senior
Gennaro Di Mauro

Double senior
Chiara Ondoli
Alessandra Patelli

Double light weights
Federica Cesarini
Stefano Oppo
Valentina Rodini
Pietro Willy Ruta

Two without seniors
Giovanni Abagnale
Marco Di Costanzo
Aisha Rocek
Kiri Tontodonati

Four of senior couple
Giacomo Gentili
Stefania Gobbi
Valentina Iseppi
Veronica Lisi
Alessandra Montesano
Andrea Panizza
Luca Rambaldi
Simone Venier

Four without seniors
Matteo Castaldo
Matteo Lodo
Bruno Rosetti
Giuseppe Vicino

Reserves
Vincenzo Abbagnale
Luca Chiumento
Clara Guerra

Olympics, Italian cycling: who are the athletes competing?

Bmx racing
Giacomo Fantoni

Mountain biking
Luca Braidot
Nadir Colledani
Gerard Kerschbaumer
Eva Lechner

Track
Martina Alzini
Elisa Balsamo
Simone Consonni
Filippo Ganna
Vittoria Guazzini
Francesco Lamon
Jonathan Milan
Letizia Paternoster
Elia Viviani

Street
Marta Bastianelli
Alberto Bettiol (online, stopwatch)
Damiano Caruso (online)
Giulio Ciccone (online)
Filippo Ganna (time trial)
Elisa Longo Borghini
Gianni Moscon (online)
Vincenzo Nibali (online)
Soraya Paladin

2021 Olympics, Gymnastics: who are the Italians competing?

Artistic, individual
Ludovico Edalli (All-Around)
Marco Lodadio (Rings)
Lara Mori (Free body)

Artistic, team

Alice D’Amato
Asia D’Amato
Vanessa Ferrari
Martina Maggio

Rhythmic, individual

Alexandra Agiurgiuculese
Milena Baldassarri

Rhythmic, team

Martina Centofanti
Agnese Duranti
Alessia Maurelli
Daniela Mogurean
Martina Santandrea

Golf

Lucrezia Colombotto Rosso
Guido Migliozzi
Giulia Molinaro
Renato Paratore

Judo

Fabio Basile (73 kg)
Alice Bellandi (70 kg)
Maria Centracchio (63 kg)
Odette Giuffrida (52 kg)
Manuel Lombardo (66 kg)
Francesca Milani (48 kg)
Nicholas Mungai (90 kg)
Christian Parlati (81 kg)

Karate

Kata
Viviana Bottaro
Mattia Busato

Kumite

Luigi Busà (75 kg)
Angelo Crescenzo (67 kg)
Silvia Semeraro (+61 kg)

Struggle

Freestyle
Frank Chamizo Marquez (-74 kg)
Abraham Conyedo Ruano (-97 kg)

Cross-country swimming

10 km
Rachele Bruni
Gregorio Paltrinieri
Mario Sanzullo

Synchronized swimming

Beatrice Callegari
Domiziana Cavanna
Linda Cerruti
Francesca Deidda
Costanza Di Camillo
Costanza Ferro
Gemma Galli
Enrica Piccoli
Federica Sala

Water polo

National men’s team (Matteo Aicardi, Michael Alexander Bodegas, Marco Del Lungo, Francesco Di Fulvio, Vincenzo Dolce, Oscar Gonzalo Echenique, Niccolò Figari, Pietro Figlioli, Stefano Luongo, Gianmarco Nicosia, Nicholas Presciutti, Vincenzo Renzuto Iodice, Alessandro Velotto)

2021 Olympics, Volleyball Italy: who are the players of the competing teams?

Men’s national team: Simone Anzani, Massimo Colaci, Gianluca Galassi, Simone Giannelli, Osmany Juantorena, Jiri Kovar, Daniele Lavia, Alessandro Michieletto, Matteo Piano, Riccardo Sbertoli, Luca Vettori, Ivan Zaytsev

Women’s national team: Caterina Bosetti, Cristina Chirichella, Anna Danesi, Monica De Gennaro, Paola Ogechi Egonu, Sarah Luisa Fahr, Raphaela Folie, Ofelia Malinov, Alessia Orro, Elena Pietrini, Indre Sorokaite, Miriam Fatime Sylla

Modern pentathlon

Elena Micheli
Alice Sotero

Weights

Maria Grazia Alemanno (59 kg)
Giorgia Bordignon (64 kg)
Antonino Pizzolato (81 kg)
Davide Ruiu (61 kg)
Mirko Zanni (67 kg)

Boxing

Angela Carini
Rebecca Nicoli
Giordana Sorrentino
Irma Testa

Skateboarding

Park
Ivan Federico
Alessandro Mazzara

Street
Asia Lanzi

Softball

National women’s team (Ilaria Cacciamani, Emily Patricia Carosone, Elisa Cecchetti, Greta Cecchetti, Amanda Lynn Fama, Andrea Marie Filler, Marta Gasparotto, Andrea Howard, Giulia Metaxia Koutsoyanopulos, Alexia Lacatena, Giulia Longhi, Fabrizia Marrone, Erika Piancastelli, Beatrice Ricchi, Laura Vineyard)

Equestrian sports

Business suit
Susanna Bordone
Stefano Brecciaroli
Victory Panizzon
Arianna Schivo

Dressage
Francesco Zaza

Show jumping
Emanuele Gaudiano

surf

Leonardo Fioravanti

Taekwondo

Simone Alessio (-80 kg)
Vito Dell’Aquila (-58 kg)

Table tennis

Debora Vivarelli

Shooting

3-position carbine
Lorenzo Bacci
Sofia Ceccarello
Marco De Nicolo

10-meter compressed air rifle
Marco Suppini

Automatic pistol 25 meters
Riccardo Mazzetti
Tommaso Chelli

10 meter compressed air gun
Paolo Monna

Skeet shooting
Skeet
Diana Bacosi
Chiara Cainero
Tammaro Cassandro
Gabriele Rossetti

Trap
Mauro De Filippis
Jessica Rossi
Silvana Maria Tired

Archery

Tatiana Andreoli
Lucilla Boari
Mauro Nespoli
Chiara Rebagliati

Triathlon

Alice Betto
Angelica Olmo
Gianluca Pozzatti
Delian Dimko Stateff
Verena Steinhauser

Diving

Platform 10 meters
Noemi Batki
Sarah Jodoin Di Maria

Synchro springboard 3 meters
Elena Bertocchi
Lorenzo Marsaglia
Chiara Pellacani
Giovanni Tocci

Sail

470
Elena Berta
Giulio Calabrò
Bianca Caruso
Giacomo Ferrari

ILCA 6, formerly Laser Radial
Silvia Zennaro

Nacra 17 mixed
Caterina Marianna Banti
Roger Tita

RS: X
Mattia Camboni
Marta Maggetti

Where to see the 2021 Olympics on TV?

It will be possible to follow all the Olympic competitions on Discovery +. On the occasion of the Tokyo 2021 Olympics, it will be possible to subscribe to the service streaming at € 29.99 for twelve months. Discovery, however, will broadcast unencrypted on the channel NINE some selected events.

RAI, on the other hand, will broadcast 200 hours of events in the clear, and then show the contents also in streaming on RaiPlay. Also on Sky and Eurosport it will be possible to follow some main events.

To find out in detail when and which matches of the 2021 Olympics you can watch on TV, stay up to date with Digital Global Times.