Todd Torres
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Full name | Todd Torres Bost | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1968-06-11) June 11, 1968 (age 56) North Carolina | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke and Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Todd Torres (born June 11, 1968) is a former international breaststroke and freestyle swimmer from Puerto Rico, who participated in two consecutive Summer Olympics starting in 1992.[1]
His best Olympic result was a 12th place in the Men's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Torres also competed for the United States, winning a gold and a silver medal at the 1987 Summer Universiade in Zagreb.
Torres swam collegiately for Louisiana State University (LSU). At LSU, he was a 14-time All American and won a national and Southeastern Conference (SEC) championship in 1987. Torres also won another SEC Championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1988. In 2015 Swimmer Todd Torres was inducted to the Louisiana State University Athletic Hall of Fame and in 2019 was inducted to the North Carlolina Swimming Hall of Fame.[2]
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- 1966: Rafael Hernández (MEX)
- 1970 – 1974: Felipe Muñoz (MEX)
- 1978: Pablo Restrepo (COL)
- 1982: Miguel Santiesteban (MEX)
- 1986: Pedro Hernández (CUB)
- 1990: Todd Torres (PUR)
- 1993: Mario González (CUB)
- 1998: Gunter Rodríguez (CUB)
- 2002: Francisco Suriano (ESA)
- 2006: Alfredo Jacobo (MEX)
- 2010: Édgar Crespo (PAN)
- 2014: Carlos Claverie (VEN)
- 2018: Jorge Murillo (COL)
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