Nadi brothers

Nadi brothers

▪ Italian athletes
 Italian brothers who were among the greatest and most versatile fencers (fencing) in the history of the sport. At the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, Belg., Nedo Nadi (b. July 9, 1894, Livorno, Italy—d. January 1940, Rome) and Aldo Nadi (b. April 29, 1899, Livorno, Italy—d. Nov. 10, 1965, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.) led Italy to a sweep of the gold medals in the three team events. Nedo also captured the gold medal in the individual foil and sabre events, and Aldo won the silver medal in the sabre competition.

      The sons of Giuseppe Nadi, a renowned fencing master, Nedo and Aldo were given their first fencing lesson at a very young age; Nedo began at age six and Aldo perhaps sooner. Under their father's instruction the boys became masters of the foil and sabre. Although Giuseppe forbade them to fence épée, which he considered a crude weapon, Nedo and Aldo secretly taught themselves.

      Nedo qualified for the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, where he won the gold medal in the individual foil competition. His five gold medals at the 1920 Games set a record (unbroken until 1972) for most gold medals at a single Olympic Games. After the Antwerp Games the brothers joined the professional fencing circuit. They fenced each other only once in public, and the match ended in a draw. Later in life, Aldo moved to Hollywood, where he worked in the film industry as a fencing instructor and choreographer. His book On Fencing was published in 1943.

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