Collina insisted he was not disappointed - despite missing out on the chance to referee the"clean sweep" of the Olympic final (1996), Champions League final (1999), World Cup final (2002) and European Championships final.
Elsewhere on day 15 of the Games, China's world number one Zhang Yining won back-to-back table tennis golds, after defeating team-mate Wang Nan to hand the hosts a cleansweep of the medals in the women's singles.