Marco Torrès

Marco Torrès
Men's artistic gymnastics
Medal record Olympic Games 1920 Antwerp Men's all-around 1920 Antwerp Team, European system World Championships 1909 Luxembourg Team 1909 Luxembourg All-around 1909 Luxembourg Rings 1913 Paris All-Around 1913 Paris Rings 1913 Paris Horizontal bar 1909 Luxembourg Parallel Bars 1911 Turin Horizontal Bar 1913 Paris Team 1913 Paris Pommel Horse 1922 Ljubljana Team

Marco Torrès (22 January 1888 – 15 January 1963), born in

He also had tremendous success at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships where he led his French team to victory in 1909 and where he became one of only 7 male gymnasts in history to become individual World All-Around Champion twice (1909 and 1913). He was also a formidable rival for Josef Čada, also World All-Around Champion (in 1907). Čada was twice World Champion on High Bar in 1911 and 1913, preceded by a silver on the apparatus in 1909; Torres placed just behind Čada on the apparatus, winning silver in 1911, but tying Čada for the title in 1913.

One of the very most successful of the earliest crops of career gymnasts at the World and Olympic level, additionally, like Čada, Torres was one of the few pre-World War I gymnasts who continued to compete (successfully) after the war.

References

External links

• Marco TORRES at the International Gymnastics Federation
• Marco Torrès at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

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