Italian Olympic Committee
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The Italian National Olympic Committee , founded in 1914 and a member of the International Olympic Committee
(IOC), is responsible for the development and management of sports activity in Italy. Within Italy, CONI recognizes 45 national sports federations, 16 associate sports disciplines, 12 promotional sports organizations, 1 territorial sports organization, and 19 organizations for the betterment of sports. In total 95,000 sports clubs with 11,000,000 members are recognized. Its 2009 annual budget is 446,640,000 euros which is primarily funded by the Italian government.
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president...
(IOC), is responsible for the development and management of sports activity in Italy. Within Italy, CONI recognizes 45 national sports federations, 16 associate sports disciplines, 12 promotional sports organizations, 1 territorial sports organization, and 19 organizations for the betterment of sports. In total 95,000 sports clubs with 11,000,000 members are recognized. Its 2009 annual budget is 446,640,000 euros which is primarily funded by the Italian government.
National Sport Federations (FSN)
- Aviation Club of Italy (Italian: Aero Club d'Italia (AeCI))
- Automobile Club of Italy (Italian: Automobile Club d'Italia (ACI))
- Italian Association Football Federation (FIGC - Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio)
- Italian Athletics FederationFederazione Italiana di Atletica LeggeraFIDAL is the governing body for athletics in Italy since 1906....
(FIDAL - Federazione Italiana d'Atletica Leggera) - Italian BadmintonBadmintonBadminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Badminton (FIBa)) - Italian Baseball and Softball Federation (FIBS - Federazione Italiana Baseball Softball)
- Italian BocceBocceBocce is a ball sport belonging to the boules sport family, closely related to bowls and pétanque with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Bocce (FIB)) - Federazione Italiana Danza Sportiva (FIDS)
- Federazione Italiana Discipline Armi Sportive da Caccia (FIDASC)
- Federazione Italiana Canoa Kayak (FICK)
- Italian RowingRowing (sport)Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Canottaggio (FIC)) - Italian CyclingCyclingCycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Ciclistica Italiana (FCI)) - Federazione Italiana Cronometristi (FICr)
- Italian GymnasticsGymnasticsGymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Ginnastica d'Italia (FGdI)) - Italian GolfGolfGolf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Golf (FIG)) - Italian HandballTeam handballHandball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Giuoco Handball (FIGH)) - Italian SquashSquash (sport)Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Giuoco Squash (FIGS)) - Italian HockeyHockeyHockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.-Etymology:...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Hockey (FIH)) - Italian Hockey and SkatingIce skatingIce skating is moving on ice by using ice skates. It can be done for a variety of reasons, including leisure, traveling, and various sports. Ice skating occurs both on specially prepared indoor and outdoor tracks, as well as on naturally occurring bodies of frozen water, such as lakes and...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Hockey E Pattinaggio (FIHP)) - Federazione Italiana Judo Lotta Karate Arti Marziali (FIJLKAM)
- Italian Sports Medical Federation (Italian: Federazione Medico Sportiva Italiana (FMSI))
- Italian MotorcycleMotorcycleA motorcycle is a single-track, two-wheeled motor vehicle. Motorcycles vary considerably depending on the task for which they are designed, such as long distance travel, navigating congested urban traffic, cruising, sport and racing, or off-road conditions.Motorcycles are one of the most...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Motociclistica Italiana (FMI)) - Federazione Italiana Motonautica (FIM)
- Italian Swimming FederationItalian Swimming FederationThe Italian Swimming Federation founded in 1899 is the principal Swimming Federation in Italy. It brings together more than 1200 clubs....
(Italian: Federazione Italiana Nuoto (FIN)) - Italian Basketball FederationItalian Basketball FederationThe Italian Basketball Federation is the governing body of basketball in Italy.It is a member of the International Basketball Federation ....
(Italian: Federazione Italiana Pallacanestro (FIP)) - Italian VolleyballVolleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Pallavolo (FIPAV)) - Federazione Italiana Pentathlon Moderno (FIPM)
- Federazione Italiana Pesca Sportiva E Attività Subacquee (FIPSAS)
- Federazione Italiana Pesistica e Cultura Fisica (FIPCF)
- Italian BoxingBoxingBoxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Pugilistica Italiana (FPI)) - Italian Rugby union Federation (FIR - Federazione Italiana Rugby)
- Italian FencingFencingFencing, which is also known as modern fencing to distinguish it from historical fencing, is a family of combat sports using bladed weapons.Fencing is one of four sports which have been featured at every one of the modern Olympic Games...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Scherma (FIS)) - Federazione Italiana Sci Nautico (FISN)
- Federazione Italiana Sport del Ghiaccio (FISG)
- Italian Paralympic Committee (Italian: Comitato Italiano Paralimpico (CIP))
- Italian EquestrianEquestrianismEquestrianism more often known as riding, horseback riding or horse riding refers to the skill of riding, driving, or vaulting with horses...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Sport Equestri (FISE)) - Italian Winter Sports FederationItalian Winter Sports FederationThe Italian Winter Sports Federation is the winter sports federation for Italy. Part of the Italian National Olympic Committee , it deals with all federations conducting sports for the Winter Olympics, including skiing, skating, biathlon, bobsleigh, and luge.-History:Founded in Turin in 1908 as...
(Italian: Federazione Italiana Sport Invernali) (FISI) - Italian TaekwondoTaekwondoTaekwondo is a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea. In Korean, tae means "to strike or break with foot"; kwon means "to strike or break with fist"; and do means "way", "method", or "path"...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Taekwondo (FITA)) - Italian TennisTennisTennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Tennis (FIT)) - Italian Table TennisTable tennisTable tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Tennistavolo (FITET)) - Unione Italiana Tiro a Segno (UITS)
- Federazione Italiana Tiro a Volo (FITAV)
- Federazione Italiana Tiro con L'Arco (FITARCO)
- Italian TriathlonTriathlonA triathlon is a multi-sport event involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance events. While many variations of the sport exist, triathlon, in its most popular form, involves swimming, cycling, and running in immediate succession over various distances...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Triathlon (FITRI)) - Italian SailingSailingSailing is the propulsion of a vehicle and the control of its movement with large foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes the keel or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to move the boat relative to its surrounding medium and...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Vela (FIV))
Associate Sport Disciplines (DSA)
- Italian Rock ClimbingRock ClimbingRock climbing also lightly called 'The Gravity Game', is a sport in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre-defined route without falling...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Arrampicata Sportiva Italiana (FASI)) - Italian BilliardsBilliardsCue sports , also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by rubber .Historically, the umbrella term was billiards...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Biliardo Sportivo (FIBiS)) - Italian BowlingBowlingBowling Bowling Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule Bowling (1375–1425; late Middle English bowle, variant of boule...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Sport Bowling (FISB)) - Italian BridgeDuplicate bridgeDuplicate bridge is the most widely used variation of contract bridge in club and tournament play. It is called duplicate because the same bridge deal is played at each table and scoring is based on relative performance...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Gioco Bridge (FIGB)) - Italian CricketCricketCricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Cricket Italiana (FCrI)) - Italian CheckerCheckerChecker may refer to:*Checker Motors Corporation, an automotive industry subcontractor that was once the builder of the Checker taxicab and the Superba and Marathon automobiles...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Dama (FID)) - Federazione Italiana Giochi e Sport Tradizionali (FIGEST)
- Federazione Itailana Sport Orientamento (FISO)
- Federazione Italiana Palla Tamburello (FIPT)
- Federazione Italiana Pallapugno (FIPAP)
- Italian Chess Federation (Italian: Federazione Scacchistica Italiana (FSI))
- Federazione Italiana Canottaggio Sedile Fisso (FICSF)
- Federazione Italiana Wushu-Kung Fu (FIWuK)
- Italian KickboxingKickboxingKickboxing refers to a group of martial arts and stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from karate, Muay Thai and western boxing....
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Kickboxing (FIKB)) - Italian TwirlingTwirlingTwirling is any of several art forms, hobbies, or sport and recreational activities accomplished by spinning or rotating the twirled object either for exercise, or in a rhythmic, or otherwise artful manner. Though the origin of twirling is impossible to ascertain, twirling enjoyed a steady growth...
Federation (Italian: Federazione Italiana Twirling (FITw)) - Federazione Italiana Turismo Equestre Trec - Ante (FITETREC-ANTE)
Promotional Organizations
- Association of Culture, Sport and Leisure Time (Italian: Associazione di cultura, sport e tempo libero (A.C.S.I.))
- Alleanza Sportiva Italiana (A.S.I.)
- Centro Nazionale Sportivo Libertas (C.N.S. Libertas)
- Centro Sportivo Educativo Nazionale (C.S.E.N.)
- Centro Universitario Sportivo Italiano (C.U.S.I.)
- Movimento Sport Azzurro Italia (MSP Italia)
- Unione Sportiva ACLI (U.S.ACLI)
- Associazione Italiana Cultura Sport (A.I.C.S.)
- Centri Sportivi Aziendali Industriali (C.S.A.IN.)
- Centro Sportivo Italiano (C.S.I.)
- Ente Nazionale Democratico di Azione Sociale (E.N.D.A.S.)
- Polisportive Giovanili Salesiane (P.G.S.)
- Unione Italiana Sport Per tutti (U.I.S.P.)
Betterment Organizations
- Associazione Medaglie d'Oro al Valore Atletico (A.M.O.V.A.)
- Associazione Nazionale Atleti Olimpici e Azzurri d'Italia (A.N.A.O.A.I.)
- Associazione Nazionale Promozione Sportiva nelle Comunità (A.N.P.S.C.)
- Italian National Olympic Academy (Italian: Accademia Olimpica Nazionale Italiana (A.O.N.I.))
- Association of CONI Pensioners (Italian: Associazione Pensionati CONI (A.Pe.C.))
- Collegio Nazionale Professori Educazione Fisica e Sportiva (CONAPEFS)
- Italian Sports Committee Against Drugs (Italiano: Comitato Italiano Sport Contro Droga (C.I.S.D.))
- Italian Committee for Fair Play (Italian: Comitato Nazionale Italiano per il Fair Play (C.N.I.F.P.))
- Federazione Italiana Dirigenti Sportivi (F.I.DI.S.)
- Federazione Italiana Educatori Fisici e Sportivi (F.I.E.F.S.)
- Unione Nazionale Veterani dello Sport (U.N.V.S.)
- Italian Sports Press Union (Italian: Unione Stampa Sportiva Italiana (U.S.S.I.))
- Unione Italiana Collezionisti Olimpici e Sportivi (U.I.C.O.S.)
- Associazione Nazionale Stelle al Merito Sportivo (A.N.S.M.E.S.)
- Federazione Italiana Sportiva Istituti Attività Educative (F.I.S.I.A.E.)
- Società per la Consulenenza e per l'Assistenza nell'Impiantistica Sportiva (S.C.A.I.S.)
- Special Olympics Italia (S.O.I.)
- Unione Nazionale Associazione Sportive Centenarie d'Italia (U.N.A.S.C.I.)
- Centro di Studi per l'Educazione Fisica e l'Attività Sportiva (CE.S.E.F.A.S.)
Presidents
- Carlo Compans de Brichanteau (1914–1920)
- Carlo Montù (1920–1921)
- Francesco Mauro (1921–1923)
- Aldo Finzi (1923–1925)
- Lando FerrettiLando FerrettiLando Ferretti was an Italian journalist, politician and sports administrator.-Journalism:...
(1925–1928) - Augusto TuratiAugusto TuratiAugusto Turati was an Italian journalist and Fascist politician.Born in Parma, after moving to Brescia as a young man, Turati worked on newspapers and became one of the editors at the liberal Provincia di Brescia; he attended law classes, but never graduated...
(1928–1930) - Icilio Bacci (1930–1931)
- Leandro ArpinatiLeandro ArpinatiLeandro Arpinati was an Italian politician.Arpinati was born at Civitella di Romagna. Before World War I, he was originally an individualist-anarchist and, together with his friend Benito Mussolini, collaborated with the socialist newspaper La lotta di classe. He was a fervid interventionist as...
(1931–1933) - Achille StaraceAchille StaraceAchille Starace was a prominent leader of Fascist Italy prior to and during World War II.-Early life and career:Starace was born in Gallipoli in southern Italy near Lecce. He was son of a wine and oil merchant....
(1933–1939) - Rino Parenti (1939–1940)
- Raffaele Manganiello (1940–1943)
- Alberto Bonacossa (1943)
- Ettore Rossi (1943–1944)
- Puccio Pucci (1944)
- Giulio Onesti (1944–1978)
- Franco CarraroFranco CarraroFranco Carraro is an Italian sport manager and a former member of Italian Socialist Party in the 1980s and 1990s.-Football:Carraro was born in Padua....
(1978–1987) - Arrigo Gattai (1987–1993)
- Mario PescanteMario PescanteMario Pescante is an Italian politician and entrepreneur. He is a vice president of the International Olympic Committee and president of Rome's bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics.-Biography:...
(1993–1998) - Bruno GrandiBruno GrandiBruno Grandi is an Italian sportsman, currently president of the FIG since 1996 and a member of the International Olympic Committee since 2000...
(1998–1999) - Giovanni PetrucciGianni Petrucci’’’Giovanni’’’ Petrucci said ’’’Gianni’’’ is an Italian sports director.He is the current President of CONI for the fourth consecutive term, that will end after the Games of the XXX Olympiad of 2012....
(1999 - current)