María Virginia Garrone
Argentine swimmer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
María Virginia Garrone (born November 12, 1978, in Córdoba) is an Argentine former swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events.[1] She is a 2000 Olympian and a fifteen-time Argentine national champion in a medley double (both 200 and 400 m).[2][3] During her sporting career, she trained for the swim team at Club Atletico de Córdoba under her longtime coach and mentor Daniel Garimaldi.[4]
Personal information | |
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Full name | María Virginia Garrone |
National team | Argentina |
Born | (1978-11-12) 12 November 1978 (age 45) Córdoba, Argentina |
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Individual medley |
Club | Club Atletico de Córdoba |
Coach | Daniel Garimaldi |
Garrone competed only in the women's 200 m individual medley at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She set a meet record achieved a FINA B-cut of 2:20.59 from the South American Open Championships in Mar de Plata.[5][6] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including Czech Republic's three-time Olympian Hana Černá and South Korea's 15-year-old Nam Yoo-Sun. Garrone pushed off an early lead with a dominant butterfly leg, but faded down the stretch on the remaining laps to pick up a fifth seed in 2:22.98, almost 2.4 seconds below her entry standard and 5.4 behind leader Cerna. Garrone failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed twenty-ninth overall in the prelims.[7][8][9]