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Matthew Torres

American Paralympic swimmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ108607338
Source-derived summary

Matthew Torres (born March 27, 2001) is an American Paralympic swimmer who represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Career

He represented the United States in the men's 400 metre freestyle S8 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics and won a bronze medal.

On April 14, 2022, Torres was named to the roster to represent the United States at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships. On April 29, 2023, Torres was named to the roster to represent the United States at the 2023 World Para Swimming Championships.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2020, 2022, 2023—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001-03-27. For this dossier, Matthew, Torres and American is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Matthew Torres” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.