Lorenzo Minh Casali

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 will represent Italy at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Personal life
Casali was born in Hanoi in 2002. He spent the first five months of his life at an orphanage before being adopted by Stefano and Stefania Casali, an Italian couple.

Junior gymnastics career
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. Individually Casali placed eighth in the all-around and fifth on floor exercise. He next competed at the 2019 European Youth Olympic Festival where he helped Italy once again win bronze.

2021–2022
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. He next competed at the Koper World Challenge Cup, qualifying to the floor exercise and parallel bars finals. He finished eighth and fourth respectively.

Casali competed at the 2022 DTB Pokal Team Challenge and the 2022 European Championships, helping Italy win silver at both. Individually Casali placed seventh in the all-around at the European Championships.

Later that year Casali was selected to represent Italy at his first World Championships alongside Yumin Abbadini, Nicola Bartolini, Carlo Macchini, and Matteo Levantesi. The team finished fourth and individually Casali finished thirteenth in the all-around.

2023–2024
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. 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.

Casali competed at the 2024 DTB Pokal Team Challenge where he helped Italy finish second behind the United States. The following month Casali competed at the European Championships where he helped Italy win bronze behind Ukraine and Great Britain.

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. That same weekend he was selected to represent Italy at the 2024 Olympic Games alongside Yumin Abbadini, Nicola Bartolini, Mario Macchiati, and Carlo Macchini.