Igor Cassina

Igor Cassina (August 15, 1977, 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 was the infamous competition in which a low score for an exciting routine by Alexei Nemov of Russia caused the crowd to protest for fifteen minutes until the score was raised. Despite this atmosphere, Cassina performed his difficult exercise without major error, and there appeared to be a consensus that his victory over Paul Hamm of the USA was deserved.

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, which the International Gymnastics Federation decided to name Cassina after him as from 2002.