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Place of Birth: Córdoba, Córdoba Province, Argentina
About María Virginia Garrone
- María Virginia Garrone (born November 12, 1978 in Córdoba) is an Argentine former swimmer, who specialized in individual medley events.
- She is a 2000 Olympian and a fifteen-time Argentine national champion in a medley double (both 200 and 400 m).
- During her sporting career, she trained for the swim team at Club Atletico de Córdoba under her longtime coach and mentor 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.
- She challenged seven other swimmers in heat two, including Czech Republic's three-time Olympian Hana Cerná 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.
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