María Virginia Garrone

María Virginia Garrone

Personal information
Full name	María Virginia Garrone
National team	Argentina
Born	(1978-11-12) 12 November 1978 (age 46) 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

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]

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]

References

1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "María Virginia Garrone". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
2. Aguado, Jorge (23 June 2003). "De Giovanni, Garrone Each Win Two on Final Day of Argentine Nationals". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
3. Aguado, Jorge (22 June 2003). "Garrone Brings Her Haul at Argentine Nationals to 8 Gold". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
4. "Nunca es tarde: María Virginia Garrone" ["Never too late": María Virginia Garrone] (in Spanish). La Nación. 21 November 2002. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
5. "Swimming – Women's 200m Individual Medley Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Sydney 2000. Omega Timing. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
6. "South American Open Championships Day 4". Swim News. 16 April 2000. Retrieved 23 June 2013.
7. "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 200m Individual Medley Heat 2" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 323. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
8. "Malchow sets Olympic record in 200 fly". Canoe.ca. 18 September 2000. Archived from the original on June 15, 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
9. "Sydney 2000: Día por día" [Sydney 2000: Day by day] (in Spanish). Argentine Swimming Federation. 16–22 September 2000. Archived from the original on 27 May 2009. Retrieved 5 June 2013.