Virginia Farmer (born October 19, 1975, in

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) is an American Samoan swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. At age thirty-two, Farmer made her official debut for the

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, where she competed in the women's 50 m freestyle. She finished third in the fourth heat by twelve hundredths of a second (0.12) behind Swaziland's Senele Dlamini, with a time of 28.82 seconds. Farmer, however, failed to advance into the semi-finals, as she placed sixty-second out of ninety-two swimmers in the overall rankings.

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NBC 2008 Olympics profile
1975 births Living people American Samoan female swimmers American people of Samoan descent Olympic swimmers for American Samoa Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics American Samoan female freestyle swimmers Sportspeople from San Luis Obispo, California 21st-century American women {{AmericanSamoa-sport-bio-stub