| COUNTRIES 160 |
DISCIPLINES 27 |
EVENTS 228 |
| ATHLETES | ||
| MEN 6983 | WOMEN 2438 | TOTAL 9421 |
| ITALIAN ATHLETES | ||
| MEN 213 | WOMEN 42 | TOTAL 255 |
OLYMPIC FLAME LIGHTING
Son Kee-Chung, Lim Chun-Ae, Chung Sun-Man, Ki, Won-Tak, Sohn Mi-Chung
ITALIAN STANDARD BEARER
Pietro Mennea (atletica)
| COMPETITION SCHEDULE |
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| ITALIAN MEDALS | |||
| TOTAL 14 | |||
| GOLD 6 |
Gelindo Bordin (Atletica) Giuseppe Abbagnale, Carmine Abbagnale, Giuseppe Di Capua [t] (Canottaggio) Agostino Abbagnale, Pietro Poli, Gianluca Farina, Davide Tizzano (Canottaggio) Vincenzo Maenza (Lotta) Giovanni Parisi (Pugilato) Stefano Cerioni (Scherma) |
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| SILVER 4 |
Salvatore Antibo (Atletica) Carlo Massullo (Pentathlon moderno) Daniele Masala, Carlo Massullo, Gianluca Tiberti (Pentathlon moderno) Francesca Bortolotti, Annapia Gandolfi, Lucia Traversa, Dorina Vaccaroni, Margherita Zalaffi (Scherma) |
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| BRONZE 4 |
Maurizio Damilano (Atletica) Stefano Battistelli (Nuoto) Giovanni Scalzo (Scherma) Massimo Cavaliere, Gianfranco Dalla Barba, Marco Marin, Ferdinando Meglio, Giovanni Scalzo (Scherma) |
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| TOTAL MEDALS | GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | TOTAL | ||
| 1. | USSR | 55 | 31 | 46 | 132 | |
| 2. | Democratic Republic of Germany | 37 | 35 | 30 | 102 | |
| 3. | United States of America | 36 | 31 | 27 | 94 | |
| 4. | South Korea | 12 | 10 | 11 | 33 | |
| 5. | Federal Republic of Germany | 11 | 14 | 15 | 40 | |
| 6. | Hungary | 11 | 6 | 6 | 23 | |
| 7. | Bulgaria | 10 | 12 | 13 | 35 | |
| 8. | Romania | 7 | 11 | 6 | 24 | |
| 9. | France | 6 | 4 | 6 | 16 | |
| 10. | Italy | 6 | 4 | 4 | 14 | |
| 11. | China | 5 | 11 | 12 | 28 | |
| 12. | Great Britain | 5 | 10 | 9 | 24 | |
| 13. | Kenya | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | |
| 14. | Japan | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 | |
| 15. | Australia | 3 | 6 | 5 | 14 | |
| 16. | Yugoslavia | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | |
| 17. | Czechoslovakia | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | |
| 18. | New Zealand | 3 | 2 | 8 | 13 | |
| 19. | Canada | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | |
| 20. | Poland | 2 | 5 | 9 | 16 | |
| 21. | Norway | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | |
| 22. | The Netherlands | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | |
| 23. | Denmark | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
| 24. | Brazil | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | |
| 25. | Spain | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| 25. | Finland | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| 27. | Turkey | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 28. | Morocco | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| 29. | Austria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 29. | Suriname | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 29. | Portugal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 32. | Sweden | 0 | 4 | 7 | 11 | |
| 33. | Switzerland | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| 34. | Jamaica | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 35. | Argentina | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 36. | Netherlands Antilles | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 36. | Chile | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 36. | Costa Rica | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 36. | Indonesia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 36. | Islamic Republic of Iran | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 36. | Virgin Islands | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 36. | Senegal | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 36. | Peru | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 44. | Mexico | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 44. | Belgium | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 46. | Colombia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 46. | Djibouti | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 46. | Mongolia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 46. | Greece | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 46. | Philippines | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 46. | Pakistan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 46. | Thailand | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |