Marco Torrès

Marco Torrès
Marco Torrès
Personal information
Born	22 January 1888; Sidi Bel Abbès, French Algeria
Died	15 January 1963 (aged 74)
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Men's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	France
Olympic Games
World Championships

Marco Torrès (22 January 1888 – 15 January 1963), born in Sidi Bel Abbès, French Algeria, was a French gymnast who competed in two Summer Olympic Games^[1] - the 1912 Summer Olympics, where he finished seventh in the individual all-around competition and in the 1920 Summer Olympics, where he placed 2nd in the all-around and helped his team to a bronze medal.

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 seven 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 the World All-Around Champion (in 1907). Čada was twice World Champion on High Bar in 1911 and 1913, preceded by 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.