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{{Short description|Italian gymnast (born 1977)}}
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| name = Igor Cassina
| image = Igor Cassina.jpg
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| caption = Igor Cassina in 2008
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1977|08|15}}
| birth_place = [[Seregno]], [[Italy]]
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| height = 180 cm
| discipline = MAG
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| natlteam = 1994–2011
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| eponymousskills = [[Glossary of gymnastics terms#C|Cassina]]
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| medaltemplates = <!-- see [[Template:MedalRelatedTemplates]] -->
{{MedalCompetition|[[Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens]]|[[Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar|Horizontal bar]]}}
{{MedalCompetition | [[World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|2003 Anaheim]]|Horizontal bar}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2009 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|2009 London]]|Horizontal bar}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships|European Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2005 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships|2005 Debrecen]]|Horizontal bar}}
{{MedalBronze|2002 Patras|Horizontal bar}}
{{MedalBronze|[[2007 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships|2007 Amsterdam]]|Horizontal bar}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Mediterranean Games]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2001 Mediterranean Games|2001 Tunis]]|Team}}
{{MedalBronze|2001 Tunis|Pommel horse}}
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'''Igor Cassina''' ({{IPA|it|ˈiːɡor kasˈsiːna}}; born 15 August 1977) is an [[Italians|Italian]] gymnast.  He is a three-time Olympian and won gold in the men's horizontal bar at the [[Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Summer Olympics]] in [[Athens]].

==Biography==
At the [[2004 Summer Olympics]], his 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 [[United States|U.S.]], even though they tied.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE7DC153EF937A1575BC0A9629C8B63 | work=The New York Times | title=SUMMER 2004 GAMES -- GYMNASTICS: EVENT FINALS; Hamm Ruling Stands, but Ire At Judges Rises | first=Juliet | last=Macur | date=2004-08-24 | access-date=2010-05-05}}</ref> This gold was also the 500th Italian medal at the Summer Olympics. At the [[2008 Summer Olympics]] he was 4th in the man's horizontal bar.

At the World Gymnastics Championships, he won the silver medal in Anaheim 2003 and the bronze in London 2009. At the European Gymnastics Championships, he won silver in Patras 2002 and Debrecen 2005 and bronze in Amsterdam 2007, always on the horizontal bar. Before winning the Olympic gold, Cassina had already made [[gymnastics]] history as the first to perform a giant Kovacs straight with 1/1 turn (also known as a Kõlman in the straight position), which the [[International Gymnastics Federation]] named [[Glossary of gymnastics terms#C|Cassina]] after him as of 2002.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.fedintgym.com/rules/docs/06-code/01-mag/codemag0701-efs.zip |title=Code of Points (Men's Artistic Gymnastics) |publisher=[[International Gymnastics Federation]] |access-date=2008-08-14 |page=125 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070322233033/http://www.fedintgym.com/rules/docs/06-code/01-mag/codemag0701-efs.zip |archive-date=March 22, 2007 }}</ref>

== Eponymous skills ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Apparatus
!Name
!Description
!Difficulty
!Added to Code of Points
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| Horizontal bar
| Cassina
| [[Péter Kovács (gymnast)|Kovacs]] straight with 1/1 turn
| G
| [[2002 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships|2002 World Championships]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gymnastics.sport/site/news/displaynews.php?urlNews=981136|title=A skill is born!|date=December 3, 2014|work=[[International Gymnastics Federation]]}}</ref>
|}

==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:1977 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Seregno]]
[[Category:Italian male artistic gymnasts]]
[[Category:Olympic gymnasts for Italy]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medalists for Italy]]
[[Category:Gymnasts at the 2000 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Gymnasts at the 2004 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in gymnastics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore alumni]]
[[Category:Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Italy]]
[[Category:Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games]]
[[Category:Mediterranean Games medalists in gymnastics]]
[[Category:Originators of elements in artistic gymnastics]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from the Province of Monza e Brianza]]
[[Category:20th-century Italian sportsmen]]