Todd Torres
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Todd Torres Bost |
| Born | June 11, 1968 |
| Sport | |
| 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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- 1968 births
- Living people
- Puerto Rican male swimmers
- Puerto Rican male freestyle swimmers
- Male breaststroke swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1991 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1995 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers for Puerto Rico
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Puerto Rico
- Pan American Games swimmers for Puerto Rico
- Pan American Games silver medalists in swimming
- Summer World University Games medalists in swimming
- Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Puerto Rico
- Competitors at the 1990 Central American and Caribbean Games
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for the United States
- Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 1987 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 1991 Pan American Games
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- North American swimming biography stubs
- Puerto Rican sportspeople stubs