77.36m Final — 76.98m (→ 9th place) Loris Paoluzzi Qualification — 72.82m (→ did not advance) Men's Decathlon Beniamino Poserina Final Result — 7013 points (→ 30th place) Men's 20 kilometres Walk Giovanni Perricelli Giovanni De Benedictis Michele Didoni Men's 50 kilometres Walk Arturo Di Mezza — 3'44:52 (→ 4th place) Giovanni Perricelli — 3'52:31 (→ 13th place) Giovanni De Benedictis — did not finish (→ no ranking) Women's 400 metres Virna De Angeli Patrizia Spuri Women's 5,000 metres Roberta Brunet Silvia Sommaggio Women's 10,000 metres Maria Guida Qualification — 31:55.35 Final — did not start (→ no ranking) Silvia Sommaggio Qualification — 32:59.40 (→ did not advance) Women's Marathon Ornella Ferrara — 2:33.09 (→ 13th place) Maria Curatolo — did not finish (→ no ranking) Maura Viceconte — did not finish (→ no ranking) Women's 100m Hurdles Carla Tuzzi Women's 400m Hurdles Virna de Angeli Qualification — 57.12 (→ did not advance) Women's Discus Throw Agnese Maffeis Qualification — 56.54m (→ did not advance) Women's High Jump Antonella Bevilacqua Qualification — 1.93m Final — 1.99m (→ 4th place) Women's Long Jump Fiona May Qualification — 6.85m Final — 7.02m (→ Silver Medal) Women's Triple Jump Barbara Lah Qualification — 13.74m (→ did not advance) Women's Heptathlon Giuliana Spada Women's 10 km Walk Elisabetta Perrone – 42:12 (→ Silver Medal) Rossella Giordano – 42:43 (→ 5th place) Annarita Sidoti – 43:57 (→ 11th place) Baseball The Italians were one of four teams that made their second appearance in Olympic baseball in 1996. They improved slightly, upon their seventh-place finish of four years earlier by taking the middle place in a three-way tie for fifth through seventh places. They had defeated Korea and Australia in the preliminary round but had lost their other five preliminary games. Men's Team Competition: Italy – 6th place (2–5) Team Roster Claudio Liverzani Pier Paolo Illuminati Roberto De Franceschi David Rigoli Marco Urbani Francesco Casolari Andrea Evangelisti Enrico Vecchi Massimiliano Masin Paolo Ceccaroli Ruggero Bagialemani Paolo Passerini Massimo Fochi Alberto d'Auria Roberto Cabalisti Dante Cabrini Marco Barboni Rolando Cretis Luigi Carrozza Fabio Betto Basketball Women's tournament Preliminary round Quarterfinals Classification Round 5th−8th place 7th place game Beach volleyball Andrea Ghiurghi and Nicola Grigolo — 13th place overall Boxing Men's Flyweight (51 kg) Carmine Molaro First Round — Lost to Hussein Hussein (Australia), 8–11 Men's Lightweight (60 kg) Christian Giantomassi First Round — Lost to Sergey Kopenkin