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Nedo Nadi (9 June 1894 – 29 January 1940) was one of the best Italy Fencing of all time. He is the only fencer to win a gold medal in each of the fencing at a single Olympic Games and won the most fencing gold medals ever at a single Games—five. Nadi won six Olympic gold medals in total.
Nedo Nadi’s 1920 Olympic performances were acclaimed as near to perfection as a fencer could execute. Nadi won the individual foil gold medal with a record 10 wins in the final pool.
Nadi’s entry in the team épée event annoyed his father, who regarded the épée as "a crude and undisciplined weapon”. Unlike the foil, where a fencer could only score off a hit which landed on the trunk of the opponent’s body, or the sabre where the upper torso and face mask count as scoring hits, in épée any part of the body is a legitimate hit. Nevertheless, Nedo Nadi led the Italian épée team, which included his brother Aldo, to the Olympic team gold medal. Nadi did not compete in the individual épée event, however.
Nedo Nadi's perfect balance, timing and rapid reflexes were an advantage in any style of fencing, so without much difficulty he won the individual sabre gold medal by 11 victories to 9. His brother Aldo Nadi won the silver medal. In the team sabre event, the Italian team supported their star fencer and cruised to an easy victory.
Nadi, carried in triumph by his opponents, added three team victories to his tally of two individual golds and his younger brother Aldo won three team gold and one silver to make the family total a record for any sport in one Olympic Games.
His brother Aldo moved to Hollywood where he worked in the film industry.
The Nadisee of Munich is a smallest bathing lake that was built together with the Olympic Village for the 1972 Summer Olympics along with the Nadistraße both referees to the Italy athlete Nedo Nadi
Later life
After his Antwerp Olympic victories Nadi turned professional and took up coaching at the Buenos Aires Jockey Club. He returned to Rome some years later and was reinstated as an amateur. In 1932 he retired from actively fencing. From 1935 to his death in January 1940 he served as president of the Italian Fencing Federation. Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini called upon Nadi to coach the Italian fencing team to be entered in the 1936 Summer Olympics which challenge Nadi accepted. His teams performed well, dominating the games, with Italian fencers sweeping gold, silver, and bronze in the individual épée competitions, thus easily claiming the team épée gold; collecting the individual gold and bronze and team gold in foil; and the individual and team silver medals in sabre.
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Categories: 1894 Births, 1940 Deaths, Fencers From Livorno, Italian Male épée Fencers, Italian Military Personnel Of World War I, Italian Soldiers, Olympic Fencers For Italy, Fencers At The 1912 Summer Olympics, Fencers At The 1920 Summer Olympics, Olympic Gold Medalists For Italy, Olympic Medalists In Fencing, Medalists At The 1912 Summer Olympics, Medalists At The 1920 Summer Olympics, Italian Male Foil Fencers, Italian Male Sabre Fencers, 20th-century Italian Sportsmen
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