Michel Porasso

Michel Émile Porasso (20 August 1891 – 6 August 1944) was a Monegasque gymnast. Born in Monaco, he would compete at the 1920 Summer Olympics, representing Monaco in men's artistic gymnastics. He would be one of the first Monegasque athletes to compete at an Olympic Games as the nation would debut at these Summer Games.

Porasso would compete in the men's artistic individual all-around event, which consisted a total of five combined events. There, he would place twelfth out of the twenty-five competitors that participated in the event.

Michel Émile Porasso was born on 20 August 1891 in Monaco. Porasso would compete at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium, representing Monaco in men's artistic gymnastics. He would be one of the first Monegasque athletes to compete at an Olympic Games as the nation had made their first appearance at these Summer Games. The entire team would be composed of four athletes.^[1][2]

Alongside his teammate Joseph Crovetto, Porasso would compete in the men's artistic individual all-around event which consists of the floor exercise, rings, parallel bars, horizontal bar, and pommel horse. Each exercise would have a possible amount of 12 points which would then be added to get a total amount of points attributed to each athlete. The pair would compete on 26 August in the Olympisch Stadion. There, Porasso would score a total amount of 81.40 points out of a possible amount of 96 points, placing twelfth out of the twenty-five competitors that participated in the event.^[3]

Porasso later died on 6 August 1944.^[1]

• Michel Porasso at Olympedia