Nedo Nadi

Nedo Nadi (born June 9, 1894 in Livorno , † January 29, 1940 in Rome ) was an Italian saber and foil fencer.

At the Summer Olympics in Stockholm in 1912 , Nadi won Olympic gold foil fencing at the age of 18 and was considered a fencing prodigy . At the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp , he won a total of five gold medals . With his brother Aldo Nadi , also a very successful fencer, he was in all three victorious teams in 1920.

In 1921 Nadi became a fencing master and was no longer considered an amateur , which is why he was no longer allowed to compete in the Olympic Games. Until 1926 he worked as a fencing teacher in Buenos Aires ; on his return to Italy he became the Italian professional champion in all three branches of service. From 1935 to 1940 he was President of the Italian Fencing Federation. In 1940 he committed suicide .

In the Olympic Village in Munich a street and the Nadisee lake were named after Nedo Nadi.

literature

Alessandra Lombardi: Nadi, Nedo. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 77: Morlini-Natolini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2012.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 , p. 368.

Web links

Commons : Nedo Nadi - Collection of Images

Nedo Nadi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Nedo Nadi (Italian) on ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti/dalle-origini-al-1900/

personal data
SURNAME	Nadi, Nedo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian saber and foil fencer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 9, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Livorno
DATE OF DEATH	January 29, 1940
Place of death	Rome

[kluge-1] Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 , p. 368.