A squirrel-cage rotor of an asynchronous machine, in particular a die-cast rotor, includes a rotatable shaft, a laminated core being rotation-locked on the shaft and having grooves and opposing end faces. A squirrel-cage winding has rotor rods disposed in the grooves and a cage ring disposed on each of the end faces and electrically connecting the rotor rods. A pair of retaining elements is disposed on the shaft, wherein each retaining element extends in a radial direction in form of a disk or a spoke and has in an axial direction a wall and/or an axially extending finger. The wall overlaps on a radial periphery in the axial direction both the cage ring and a predefined axial section of the rotor rods that terminate in the cage ring, without increasing an external diameter of the laminated core.