Career
Jorge is the only boy to run in four high school national championships Foot Locker Cross Country Championships. Four years later, Torres captured his first ever national title at the 2002 National Collegiate Athletic Association Men"s Division I Cross Country Championship in Terre Haute, Indiana, with a course record time of 29:04.70. By the summer of 2003, Torres placed third in the 5,000 meters at the United States of America Outdoor Track and Field Championships, and followed it with a fifteenth-place finish at the IAAF World Championships in Paris, France, clocking at 13:43.37.
Although he missed out the United States. Olympic team in 2004, Torres continued to build success and more importantly, improved his best possible marks in the long-distance and cross-country running.
He highlighted his 2005 track campaign by posting a personal best time of 13:20.57 in the 5,000 meters at the Payton Jordan United States. Open in Palo Alto, California. He also enjoyed a strong cross-country season by winning a silver medal in the men"s 12 km race at the United States. national championships, and by placing fourth in the 4 km race.
Torres found a new success in long-distance running by winning the 10,000 meters at the 2006 American Telephone & Telegraph Company United States of America Outdoor Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana, with a personal best time of 28:14.43, four seconds ahead of runner-up and Olympic silver medalist Meb Keflezighi (28:1874). On April 29, 2007, Torres extended his personal best to 27:42.91, when he finished fifth in the same distance at the Cardinal Invitational in Palo Alto.
Torres qualified for the 2008 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he placed nineteenth in the men"s race, with a time of 36:03.
Torres earned a spot on the United States. team for his first Olympics, by placing third in the 10,000 meters at the United States. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, with a time of 27:46.33. He finished the race in twenty-fifth place by four hundredths of a second (004) ahead of India"s Surendra Kumar Singh, with a time of 28:13.93. A year after the Olympics, Torres began his transition of becoming a marathon runner.
He ran his first half-marathon at the Great North Run in London, with an impressive time of 1:02:42.
Few weeks later, Torres made his official debut in a full distance, and set a personal best time of 2:13:00 at the 2009 New York Marathon, finishing in seventh place. All information taken from IAAF profile.