Albert Torres

Albert Torres

Albert Torres (2017)
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Full name	Albert Torres Barceló
Date of birth	April 26, 1990
nation	Spain
discipline	Railway (endurance) / road
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 2014 - two-man team driving 2015 - Scratch 2013, 2018 - two-man team driving 2017 - Omnium UEC European Rail Championships 2016 - Omnium, two-man team driving 2015 - two-man team driving
Last updated: March 15, 2020

Albert Torres Barceló (born April 26, 1990 in Ciutadella , Menorca ) is a Spanish cyclist who races on the road and track . He is the dominant Spanish cyclist in the endurance disciplines on the track.

Athletic career

In 2006 Albert Torres was the Spanish youth champion in the individual time trial . At the 2007 European Junior Championships in Cottbus , he finished third in the single pursuit . In 2008 Torres won the title of Spanish junior road racing champion and was second in the points race at the junior European championships in Pruszków , and in 2010 he was U23 road champion.

In 2011 Torres became the Spanish junior championship champions in points racing and champions of the elite in two-man team driving (with David Muntaner ) and in team pursuit (with David Muntaner, Jaime Alberto Muntaner and Vicente Pastor ). At the junior European championships, he again finished third in the pursuit. At the fourth round of the Track Cycling World Cup in London in 2011/12 , he won the points race. Together with Sebastián Mora , he finished fifth in the two-man team at the 2012 UCI Track World Championships in Melbourne .

In 2013 Torres and David Muntaner became vice world champion in two-man team driving in Minsk . Together with Sebastián Mora , he became European champion in the same discipline in 2015 . The following year he was able to defend his 2016 with Mora in the Madison and also won a second title in the Omnium . At the 2017 rail world championships , he was third in the Omnium. In 2018 he was again vice world champion in two-man team driving, this time with Sebastián Mora. The two drivers also won the Six Day Series finale in Palma . Torres won the Omnium at the Track World Cup in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines .

Private

On March 14, 2020, Albert Torres and his long-time girlfriend, the former cyclist María del Mar Bonnin Palou , planned to get married. The wedding and the celebration had to be canceled due to the corona pandemic .

successes

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European champions in Madison 2015: Albert Torres (left) and Sebastián Mora

David Muntaner, now Irish national coach, congratulates Torres on winning the European Championship in the Omnium (2017)

2007

• Junior European Championship - Single Pursuit

2008

• Junior European Champion - Single Pursuit (Juniors)
• Junior European Championship - points race (Juniors)

2009

• U23 European Championship - Scratch

2011

• U23 European Championship - single pursuit
• Spanish champion - two-man team driving (with David Muntaner ), team pursuit (with Jaime Alberto Muntaner , David Muntaner and Vicente Pastor )
• Spanish U23 champion - points race

2012

• World Cup London - points race
• U23 European Championship - single pursuit
• U23 European Championship - two-man team driving (with Julio Alberto Amores )
• Spanish champion - points race, two-man team race (with David Muntanter ), team pursuit (with Francisco Martí and David Muntaner )

2013

• World Championship - two-man team driving (with David Muntaner )
• European Championship - two-man team driving (with David Muntaner )
• Spanish champion - scratch, two-man team driving (with David Muntaner ), team pursuit with Jaime Alberto Muntaner , David Muntaner and Vicente Pastor

2014

• World Champion - two-man team driving (with David Muntaner )
• Spanish champion - points race, team pursuit with Marc Buades , Jaime Alberto Muntaner and Vicente Pastor

2015

• World Championship - Scratch
• European Championship - two-man team driving (with Sebastián Mora )
• Spanish champion - points race, team pursuit (with Jaime Alberto Muntaner , David Muntaner and Jaime Alberto Cañellas )

2016

• Track Cycling World Cup in Glasgow - two-man team driving (with Sebastián Mora )
• European Champion - Omnium, two-man team driving (with Sebastián Mora )
• Six days of Rotterdam (with Sebastián Mora )
• Spanish champions - scratch, single chase, two-man team driving (with Xavier Cañellas ), team chase (with Antonio Ballester , Marc Buades Ferriol and Jaime Alberto Cañellas )

2017

• World Championship - Omnium
• European Champion - Omnium
• Spanish champion - single pursuit, points race, team pursuit (with Joan Martí Bennàssar , Marc Buades and Xavier Cañellas ), two-man team drive (with Xavier Cañellas)

2018

• World Championship - two-man team driving (with Sebastián Mora )
• Final Six Day Series (with Sebastián Mora )
• World Cup in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - Omnium
• Spanish Champion - Scratch, Team Pursuit (with Marc Buades , Xavier Cañellas and Pau Llaneras )

2019

• Spanish Champion - Omnium, points race, scratch, single chase, two- person team drive (with Xavier Cañellas ), team pursuit (with Marc Buades , Xavier Cañellas and Josep Blanco )

Street

2006

• Spanish Champion - Individual Time Trial (Youth)

2008

• Spanish Champion - Road Race (Juniors)

2010

• Spanish Champion - Road Race (U23)

2017

• a stage and points scoring Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional

Teams

• 2012 Androni Giocattoli-Venezuela (Stagiaire)
• 2014 Team Ecuador
• 2015 Team Ecuador
• 2016 Team Ecuador (until March 25th)
• 2016 Team Raleigh-GAC (from March 26th)
• 2017 Inteja Dominican Cycling Team
• 2018 Inteja Dominican Cycling Team

Web links

Commons : Albert Torres  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Albert Torres in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Albert Torres in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Albert Torres in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 20minutos: El ciclista Albert Torres suspende su boda ante la emergencia por coronavirus. In: 20minutos.es. March 14, 2020, accessed March 15, 2020 (Spanish).