The Centro Sportivo Esercito (sometimes known as Gruppo Sportivo Esercito or with the acronym CSE), is the sport section of the

Italian Army The Italian Army ( []) is the Army, land force branch of the Italian Armed Forces. The army's history dates back to the Italian unification in the 1850s and 1860s. The army fought in colonial engagements in China and Italo-Turkish War, Libya. It ...

History

Centro Sportivo Esercito was born on 1 January 1960 on the occasion of the

1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad () and commonly known as Rome 1960 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 25 August to 11 September 1960 in Rome, Italy. Rome had previously been awar ...

that took place in

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Sections

*Olympic Sports Center of the Italian Army *Alpine Training Centre - Sports Activities Department *Section Parachuting of the ''Centro Sportivo Esercito'' *Military Centre of Equestrianism *Section Powerboating of the ''2° Reggimento Genio Pontieri''

Sports

There are 17 disciplines and 5 sections.

Notables athletes

;Alpine skiing * Camilla Alfieri *

Giuliano Razzoli Giuliano Razzoli (born 18 December 1984) is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist from Italy. He specializes in the slalom; he won the Slalom at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Biography Born at Castelnovo ne' M ...

;Artistic gymnastics *

Vanessa Ferrari Vanessa Ferrari (born 10 November 1990) is a retired Italian Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. She was the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2006 World All-Around Champion and competed for Italy at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008, ...

;Athletics *

Elisa Cusma Elisa Cusma (born 24 July 1981 in Bologna) is a former Italian middle-distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres. Biography She finished seventh at the 2007 World Athletics Final, sixth at the 2008 World Indoor Championships, sixth at t ...

Daniele Meucci Daniele Meucci (born 7 October 1985) is an Italian athlete who specialises in long-distance running, including track running, cross country and road running who won twenty medals at international level (seventeen at senior level and three at yo ...

Marta Milani Marta Milani (born 9 March 1987) is an Italian sprint athlete, who specializes in the 400 metres. National records * 4x400 metres relay indoor: 3:31.99 ( Sopot, 8 March 2014) - with Maria Enrica Spacca, Chiara Bazzoni, Elena Maria Bonfanti A ...

;Biathlon *

Samuela Comola Samuela Comola (born 30 April 1998 in Aosta) is an Italian biathlete. Comola started her biathlon career in 2009. In 2016, she competed at the Winter Youth Olympic Games. She also participated at the 2017 IBU Youth World Championships. Comola ma ...

Dominik Windisch Dominik Windisch (born 6 November 1989) is an Italian former biathlete.IBU Profi ...

;Cross-country skiing *

Marco Albarello Marco Albarello (born 31 May 1960) is an Italian cross-country skier who competed from 1982 to 2002. He was born in Aosta. His best known victory was part of the 4 × 10 km relay team that upset Norway at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lille ...

Francesco De Fabiani Francesco De Fabiani (born 21 April 1993) is an Italian cross-country skier. Athletic career De Fabiani had his first World Cup start during the 2013–14 season. His first event was the Tour de Ski 5 km Free prologue in Oberhof, Germany. H ...

Magda Genuin Magda Genuin (born 17 June 1979 in Agordo) is an Italian cross-country skier who competed from 1997 to 2011. Biography She finished sixth in the 4 × 5 km relay at the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo and earned her best i ...

;Swimming *

Fabio Scozzoli Fabio Scozzoli (born 8 August 1988) is an Italian swimmer. At the 2012 World Short Course Championships, he won the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke. He is the 2022 Mediterranean champion in the 50 metre breaststroke. Career On 25 J ...

* Dario Verani

Best results

References

External links

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