Gabriela Tafur Náder (born 7 July 1995) is a Colombian lawyer, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Colombia 2018. She represented Colombia at

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and placed in the top five.

Early life and education

Tafur was born in

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on 7 July 1995 to parents Octavio Tafur and Olga Liliana Náder. She is of Lebanese descent (on her mother's side); her grandfather was originally from Chartoun,

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in Lebanon, and immigrated to Colombia during the

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. After graduating from

Colegio Bolivar Colegio Bolivar is a private, non–denominational, American school located in Colombia's third largest city, Cali. Founded in 1947 to serve the dependents of expatriate personnel assigned to Cali, the school's population has shifted over the y ...

in Cali, Tafur moved to

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to study law at the University of Los Andes, where she graduated cum laude. After graduation, she worked as a lawyer in the legal department of Microsoft Colombia, and also acted as a coordinator for the commercial law specialization at the University of Los Andes.

Career

Tafur began her modeling career as a teenager in 2009, after being selected for a modeling show in her hometown of Cali. This show led Tafur to begin a professional career as a model.

Pageantry

Miss Colombia 2018

In 2018, Tafur competed in and won Miss Colombia 2018 in

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. She was crowned by outgoing titleholder

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. Tafur won two supplementary titles during the competition: Miss Punctuality Bulova and Queen of the Police. As Miss Colombia, she was invited to the

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energy conference held in Lebanon in June 2019.

Miss Universe 2019

Tafur represented Colombia at the Miss Universe 2019 pageant and was placed as a top five finalist together with

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of Thailand.

References

External links

Official Miss Colombia website
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