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![]() Casali at the 2019 Junior World Championships | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Lorenzo Minh Casali | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Hanoi, Vietnam | 12 September 2002||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hometown | Offagna, Ancona, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Level | Senior International Elite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years on national team | 2019–present (ITA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Fiamme Oro | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gym | Associazione Ginnastica Giovanile Ancona | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Alberto Busnari | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lorenzo Minh Casali (born 12 September 2002) is an Italian artistic gymnast. He was part of the gold medal-winning team at the 2023 European Championships and is the 2024 Italian National Champion. He represented Italy at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Casali was born in Hanoi in 2002. [1] He spent the first five months of his life at an orphanage before being adopted by Stefano and Stefania Casali, an Italian couple. [2]
Casali was selected to represent Italy at the inaugural Junior World Championships alongside Lorenzo Bonicelli and Ivan Brunello. Together they won the bronze medal as a team. [3] Individually Casali placed eighth in the all-around and fifth on floor exercise. [4] He next competed at the 2019 European Youth Olympic Festival where he helped Italy once again win bronze.
Casali made his senior international debut at the 2021 European Championships; during qualifications he placed fourteenth in the all-around but did not qualify to the final due to compatriots Nicola Bartolini and Stefano Patron ranking higher. [5] He next competed at the Koper World Challenge Cup, qualifying to the floor exercise and parallel bars finals. He finished eighth and fourth respectively. [6]
Casali competed at the 2022 DTB Pokal Team Challenge and the 2022 European Championships, helping Italy win silver at both. [7] Individually Casali placed seventh in the all-around at the European Championships. [8]
Later that year Casali was selected to represent Italy at his first World Championships alongside Yumin Abbadini, Nicola Bartolini, Carlo Macchini, and Matteo Levantesi. [9] The team finished fourth and individually Casali finished thirteenth in the all-around. [10]
Casali competed at the 2023 European Championships alongside Yumin Abbadini, Matteo Levantesi, Marco Lodadio, and Mario Macchiati. Together they won Italy its first European team gold medal. [11] At the 2023 World Championships Casali helped Italy finish eighth as a team. As a result, they qualified a full team to the Olympic Games for the first time since 2012. [12]
Casali competed at the 2024 DTB Pokal Team Challenge where he helped Italy finish second behind the United States. [13] The following month Casali competed at the European Championships where he helped Italy win bronze behind Ukraine and Great Britain. [14]
In July of that year Casali competed at the Italian national championships. He won the all-around and was named Italian National Champion for the first time in his career. [15] That same weekend he was selected to represent Italy at the 2024 Olympic Games alongside Yumin Abbadini, Nicola Bartolini, Mario Macchiati, and Carlo Macchini. [16]
Year | Event | Team | AA | FX | PH | SR | VT | PB | HB |
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Junior | |||||||||
2019 | International Junior Team Cup | ![]() | 18 | 7 | |||||
Junior World Championships | ![]() | 8 | 5 | ||||||
European Youth Olympic Festival | ![]() | 6 | 6 | ||||||
Italian Championships | 6 | 4 | |||||||
Senior | |||||||||
2020 | Italian Championships | 8 | 4 | 8 | ![]() | 5 | |||
2021 | |||||||||
European Championships | 12 | ||||||||
Italian Championships | 4 | ||||||||
Koper World Challenge Cup | 8 | 4 | |||||||
Arthur Gander Memorial | 7 | ||||||||
2022 | DTB Pokal Team Challenge | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||
Mediterranean Games | ![]() | 5 | |||||||
European Championships | ![]() | 7 | |||||||
Italian Championships | ![]() | ![]() | 4 | ||||||
World Championships | 4 | 13 | |||||||
Arthur Gander Memorial | ![]() | ||||||||
2023 | |||||||||
European Championships | ![]() | 9 | |||||||
Italian Championships | ![]() | 6 | 5 | ![]() | |||||
World Championships | 8 | ||||||||
2024 | DTB Pokal Team Challenge | ![]() | |||||||
European Championships | ![]() | ||||||||
Troyes Friendly | ![]() | ||||||||
Italian Championships | ![]() | ||||||||
Olympic Games | 6 |
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