Nemani Nadolo (born 31 January 1988) is a young Australian winger for the NSW Waratahs rugby union club in the Super 14 competition.

He plays club rugby for Randwick in Sydney and is the cousin of Lote Tuqiri. He has also played for Australia at junior levels.^[1]

Nadolo's size, style of play and Fijian background have drawn him comparisons to Jonah Lomu when he signed for the Waratahs.^[2]

Nemani Nadolo was one of the finds of the 2008 season, with his hard-running and tryscoring prowess earning the powerhouse wing a Super 14 contract with the Waratahs.

After featuring for Perth Spirit in the 2007 Mazda Australian Rugby Championship, Nasiganiyavi headed east and instantly hit the ground running for Randwick scoring 13 tries in his first seven matches. His club Rugby season was punctuated with the IRB Junior World Championship, where he crossed seven times in five matches to be the tournament’s leading tryscorer.

The cousin of fellow Waratah wing Lote Tuqiri, Nasiganiyavi was born on 31 January 1988 and played his first match for the Junior Waratahs on the 2008 Development Tour of Fiji less than 200 metres from his mother’s village in Nadi.

In Early November, he changed his name from Ratu Nasiganiyavi to Nemani Nadolo because he wanted to honour his mother and chose to keep her maiden name instead of his father's surname who left him and his family when he was still young ^[3] He runs like a chicken but he is faster then a lion as described by the Australia's prop Matt Dunning .

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