Igor Cassina

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Igor Cassina

Country	Italy
Club
Date of birth	15 August 1977(1977-08-15)
Place of birth	Seregno, Italy
Titles
Olympic Finals:	Olympic gold 2004, world silver 2003

Olympic medal record
Competitor for  Italy
Men’s Gymnastics
Olympic Games
Gold	2004 Athens	Horizontal Bar
World Championships
Silver	2003 Anaheim	Horizontal Bar
European Championships
Silver	2005 Debrecen	Horizontal Bar
Bronze	2002 Patras	Horizontal Bar
Bronze	2007 Amsterdam	Horizontal Bar

Igor Cassina (born August 15, 1977 in Seregno, Province of Milan) is an Italian gymnast who won gold in the men's horizontal bar at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This competition saw a crowd protest over a low score for a routine by Alexei Nemov of Russia, which lasted for fifteen minutes until the score was raised. Despite this atmosphere, Cassina performed his exercise without major error, and he took the gold medal over Paul Hamm of the U.S..

Igor Cassina had already entered the history of gymnastics before winning the Olympic gold. He was the first ever to perform a giant Kovacs straight with 1/1 turn (also known as a Kõlman in the straight position), which the International Gymnastics Federation decided to name Cassina after him as from 2002.

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