Igor Cassina Hopes To Swing High for Bars Title (15th November, 2005)

Italian gymnast Igor Cassina will be hoping to add the Men’s Horizontal Bar World title to the Olympic gold he won in Athens. Competition will be high as Cassina faces the European Champion, German Fabian Hambuechen and the defending World Horizontal Bar champion, Japan’s Takehiro Kashima.

In the lead up to the World Championships, Cassina won the International French tournament held in Paris in May. In August, Cassina finished with the silver medal at the European Championships with 9.737. Hambuechen won the event with 9.750.

Cassina has been honoured this year in the United Nation’s International Year of Sport and Physical Education. The appointment, made in October at a Grand Prix event, means that Cassina will act as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.

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