Nando Gatti

Nando Gatti, born in 1927, was a South African international lawn bowler. He came to prominence in 1976 when he won the triples, the fours and the team gold medal at the 1976 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Johannesburg. In the triples, with Kevin Campbell and Kelvin Lightfoot, the trio won 14 of their 15 matches, and in the fours with Campbell, Lightfoot and Bill Moseley the same record of 14 wins from 15 matches was repeated. The South African team swept every event at that championship, and the sporting boycott of South Africa during the apartheid era then denied its bowlers further chances to win medals. Before emigrating to South Africa Gatti won 13 gold medals at the Italian sport of bocce. He became a South African citizen in 1969 and in 1975 won the South African National Bowls Championships fours.