Italy names Quintavalle as Baku flag bearer

The Italian Olympic committee CONI announced its 295-member team for the Baku 2015 European Games - a group which will include five past Olympic champions among 14 Olympic medallists.

The CONI named as its Baku 2015 flag bearer Quintavalle, who won 57kg Judo gold at Beijing 2008. The 32-year-old Livorno native, who won European gold in 2010, will be the first flag bearer in the history of Italian Judo.

Italy will have a strong Shooting team at Baku 2015 as three of its competitors are past Olympic champions. Niccolo Campriani won 50m Rifle 3 Positions gold and 10m Air Rifle silver at London 2012. Two-time world champion Jessica Rossi collected Women's Trap gold at London 2012. And four-time European champion Chiara Cainero captured Skeet Individual gold at Beijing 2008.

The other Olympic champion for Italy at Baku 2015 will be Mauro Nespoli, winner of Archery Team gold at London 2012 and Team silver at Beijing 2008.

The Italian Shooting team also features four past Olympic medallists. Luca Tesconi won 10m Air Pistol silver in 2012; Deborah Gelisio picked up Double Trap silver at Sydney 2000; Giovanni Pellielo collected Trap silver in 2004 and 2008 as well as bronze at Sydney 2000; and Massimo Fabbrizi was Trap silver medallist at London 2012.

The Italian boxing team features two past Olympic medallists in Beijing 2008 Flyweight bronze winner Vincenzo Picardi and London 2012 Light Welterweight bronze medallist Vincenzo Mangiacapre.

Andreea Stefanescu and Marta Pagnini teamed together to win London 2012 Group All-Around bronze in Rhythmic Gymnastics, and Marco Aurelio Fontana won London 2012 bronze in Mountain Bike.Here is the full Italy team for Baku 2015

Archery: Natalia Valeeva, Guendalina Sartori, Sara Violi, Mauro Nespoli, David Pasqualucci, Massimiliano Mandia

Badminton: Giovanni Greco, Rosario Maddaloni, Jeanine Cicognini

Basketball 3x3: Andrea Iannilli, Claudio Negri, Damiano Verri, Gionata Zampolli

Beach Soccer: Stefano Spada, Matteo Marrucci, Dario Ramacciotti, Francesco Corosiniti, Emanuele Zurlo, Gabriele Dori, Paolo Palmacci, Simone Marinai, Raffaele Ortolini, Alessio Frainetti, Michele Di Palma, Simone Del Mestre

Beach Volleyball: Matteo Ingrosso, Paolo Ingrosso, Alex Ranghieri, Enrico Rossi, Giulia Momoli, Daniela Gioria, Giulia Toti, Laura Giombini

Boxing: Vincenzo Picardi, Riccardo D'Andrea, Donato Cosenza, Vincenzo Mangiacapre, Alfonso Di Russo, Salvatore Cavallaro, Valentino Manfredonia, Fabio Turchi, Guido Vianello, Terry Gordini, Marzia Davide, Romina Marenda, Valentina Alberti, Francesca Amato

Canoe Sprint: Sergiu Craciun, Giulio Dressino, Manfredi Rizza, Matteo Florio, Nicola Ripamonti, Irene Burgo, Sofia Magali Campana, Norma Murabito, Agata Fantini

Cycling BMX: Mattia Furlan, Romain Riccardi

Cycling Mountain Bike: Marco Aurelio Fontana, Gerhard Kerschbaumer, Andrea Tiberi, Eva Lechner, Lisa Rabensteiner

Cycling Road Race: Manuele Boaro, Dario Cataldo, Sacha Modolo, Filippo Pozzato, Alessandro Vanotti, Elia Viviani, Elena Cecchini, Maria Giulia Confalonieri, Arianna Fidanza, Tatiana Guderzo, Rossella Ratto, Valentina Scandolara

Diving: Vladimir Barbu, Giacomo Ciammarughi, Andrea Cosoli, Ruslan Adriano Cristofori, Samuel D'Alessandro, Francesco Porco, Sara Borghi, Laura Anna Granelli, Flavia Pallotta, Giulia Rogantin, Malvina Catalano Gonzaga

Fencing

- Foil: Alessio Foconi, Francesco Ingargiola, Lorenzo Nista, Damiano Rosatelli, Chiara Cini, Valentina Cipriani, Carolina Erba, Alice Volpi

- Sabre: Luigi Angelo Miracco, Massimiliano Murolo, Alberto Pellegrini, Giovanni Repetti, Sofia Ciaraglia, Martina Criscio, Caterina Navarria, Rebecca Gargano

- Epee: Gabriele Bino, Gabriele Cimini, Marco Fichera, Andrea Santarelli, Camilla Batini, Francesca Boscarelli, Brenda Briasco, Alberta Santuccio

Gymnastics Aerobics: Riccardo Pentassuglia, Emanuele Pagliuca, Davide Donati, Paolo Conti, Antonio Caforio, Michela Castoldi

Gymnastics Artistic: Nicola Bartolini, Tommaso De Vecchis, Matteo Morandi, Giorgia Campana, Alessia Leolini, Tea Ugrin

Gymnastics Rhythmic: Martina Centofanti, Sofia Lodi, Alessia Maurelli, Marta Pagnini, Camilla Patriarca, Andreea Stefanescu

Judo: Emanuele Bruno, Antonio Ciano, Domenico Di Guida, Carmine Di Loreto, Walter Facente, Marco Maddaloni, Andrea Regis, Elio Verde, Giulia Cantoni, Assunta Galeone, Odette Giuffrida, Edwige Gwend, Elisa Marchio, Valentina Moscatt, Giulia Quintavalle

Karate: Luigi Busa, Mattia Busato, Nello Maestri, Luca Maresca

Shooting: Niccolo Campriani, Enrico Pappalardo, Marco De Nicolo, Sabrina Sena, Martina Pica, Petra Zublasing, Luca Tesconi, Andrea Amore, Dino Briganti, Giuseppe Giordano, Riccardo Mazzetti, Andrea Spilotro, Giustina Chiaberto, Giovanni Pellielo, Massimo Fabbrizi, Deborah Gelisio, Jessica Rossi, Riccardo Filippelli, Valerio Luchini, Chiara Cainero, Diana Bacosi, Antonino Barilla, Davide Gasparini

Swimming: Giovanni Izzo, Alessandro Bori, Andrea Vergani, Alessandro Miressi, Ivano Vendrame, Jacopo Bietti, Giacomo Carini, Lorenzo Glessi, Christian Ferraro, Federico Poggio, Alex Baldisseri, Alessio Proietti Colonna, Filippo Megli, Matteo Cinquino, Sauro Bertolaccini, Manuel Frigo, Lorenzo Mora, Enzo Nardozza, Cristiano Hantjoglu, Matteo Bertoldi, Luigi Paciolla, Camilla Tinelli, Martina Menotti, Giulia Ramatelli, Martina Rossi, Giulia Verona, Ilaria Cusinato, Sara Franceschi, Tania Quaglieri, Sveva Schiazzano, Giovanna La Cava, Elisa Scarpa Vidal, Marina Luperi, Anna Pirovano

Synchronised Swimming: Beatrice Amadei, Raffaella Baldi, Maria Antonietta Buccheri, Noemi Carrozza, Veronica Gallo, Lalla Huric, Claudia Modaelli, Enrica Piccoli, Ludovica Redaelli, Elena Sernagiotto

Table Tennis: Niagol Stoyanov, Mihai Bobocica

Taekwondo: Claudio Treviso, Roberto Botta, Leonardo Basile, Erica Nicoli

Trampoline: Flavio Cannone

Triathlon: Riccardo De Palma, Delian Stateff, Matthias Steinwandter, Alessia Orla, Elena Maria Petrini, Lisa Schanung

Volleyball: Thomas Beretta, Elia Bossi, Iacopo Botto, Enrico Diamantini, Marco Falaschi, Michele Fedrizzi, Jacopo Massari, Daniele Mazzone, Tiziano Mazzone, Gabriele Nelli, Nicola Pesaresi, Alessandro Preti, Giacomo Raffaelli, Luca Spirito, Letizia Camera, Laura Melandri, Valeria Caracuta, Sara Loda, Laura Partenio, Miriam Sylla, Giulia Pascucci, Elena Perinelli, Benedetta Mambelli, Raffaella Calloni, Giulia Pisani, Alessia Orro, Beatrice Parrocchiale, Anastasia Guerra

Water Polo: Francesco De Michelis, Mario Del Basso, Gaetano Baviera, Gabriele Bassani, Mario Guidi, Massimo Di Martire, Filippo Tommaso Gavazzi, Antonio Maccioni, Matteo Spione, Edoardo Manzi, Gianmarco Nicosia, William De Vena, Filippo Fabiano Antracite, Domitilla Picozzi, Elena Altamura, Elisa Quattrini, Giulia Millo, Agnese Cocchiere, Isabella Riccioli, Flavia Schillaci, Caterina Banchelli, Claudia Presta, Adele Esposito, Chiara Foresta, Anna De Magistris, Maria Imma Simonetti

Wrestling

- Freestyle: Frank Chamizo Marquez, Angelo Costa, Carmelo Lumia, Tudor Vasile Zuz, Dalma Caneva, Silvia Felice, Patrizia Liuzzi, Carola RaineroWrestling

- Greco-Roman: Davide Cascavilla, Fabio Parisi, Ciro Russo, Daigoro Timoncini