Nedo Nadi

Nedo Nadi was an Italian fencer, born in Livorno in 1894, and the only fencer to win a gold medal in each of the three weapons at a single Olympic Games. He won six Olympic gold medals in total, five of them at the 1920 Games in Antwerp, which is the most fencing golds ever won at one Games. The elder son of the fencing master Giuseppe Nadi, he had his first foil lesson at seven in his father's gymnasium, and he and his younger brother Aldo, who was also an Olympic champion, taught themselves epee because their father considered it an undisciplined weapon. At the 1912 Stockholm Olympics he became, at 18 years and 29 days, the youngest fencer to win a foil gold medal. He served in the Italian Army in the First World War and was decorated for bravery.