Virginia Farmer

{{Short description|American Samoan swimmer (born 1975)}}

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| birth_place = San Luis Obispo, California, USA

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Virginia Farmer (born October 19, 1975) is an American Samoan swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.{{cite sports-reference|title = Virginia Farmer|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fa/virginia-farmer-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418065514/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/fa/virginia-farmer-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 9 January 2013}} At age thirty-two, Farmer made her official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, 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.{{cite web|title=Women's 50m Freestyle – Heat 4|url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc=SWW010900/index.html|publisher=NBC Olympics|accessdate=9 January 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821062506/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/swimming/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSWW010900/index.html|archivedate=21 August 2012}}