Italian Artistic Gymnasts - Igor Cassina, Francesco Martino, Mario Lertora, Alberto Braglia, Savino Guglielmetti, Luigi Maiocco (Paperback)

Chapters: Igor Cassina, Francesco Martino, Mario Lertora, Alberto Braglia, Savino Guglielmetti, Luigi Maiocco, Manlio Pastorini, Vittorio Lucchetti, Giovanni Bonati, Luigi Cambiaso, Ettore Bellotto, Lorenzo Mangiante, Giuseppe Paris, Francesco Loi, Guido Boni, Giovanni Lattuada, Luigi Costigliolo, Ferdinando Mandrini, Serafino Mazzarochi, Giovanni Mangiante, Omero Bonoli, Michele Mastromarino, Romualdo Ghiglione, Carlo Costigliolo, Antonio Marovelli, Luigi Contessi, Ambrogio Levati, Giovanni Gasperini, Gaetano Preti, Pietro Borsetti, Amedeo Marchi, Carlo Celada, Tito Collevati. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 73. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: 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., even though they tied. This gold was also the 500th Italian medal at the Summer Olympics. 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 Kolman in the straight position), which the International Gymnastics Federation decided to name Cassina after him as from 2002. ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=92425