Lucero Miroslava Montemayor Gracia (born January 5, 1990) is a Mexican former

beauty pageant A beauty pageant is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include inner beauty, with criteria covering judging of personality, intelligence, ...

titleholder, sportscaster and businesswoman. Montemayor won Nuestra Belleza Internacional México 2013 title and represented Mexico at

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Pageants

Lucero Montemayor was Señorita UANL 2011, beauty pageant in her University. She represented her home Químicas as Señorita Químicas 2011. Later at Nuestra Belleza Nuevo León 2012 she was the Suplente/1st Runner-up and was designated to compete with

Cynthia Duque Cynthia Lizeth Duque Garza (born September 18, 1992) is a Mexican beauty pageant titleholder who won Nuestra Belleza México 2012 and represented Mexico at Miss Universe 2013. Duque was crowned Nuestra Belleza Mexico 2012 at the grand finale ...

winner of Nuestra Belleza Nuevo León 2012 at

Nuestra Belleza México 2012 The 19th annual Nuestra Belleza Mexico pageant was held at the Poliforum del Centro de Convenciones of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico on September 1, 2012. Thirty-five contestants of Mexico competed for the national title, which was won by Cy ...

pageant. At the semifinal competition she was the Suplente/1st Runner-up of Nuestra Belleza Mundo México 2012, title which was won by Marilyn Chagoya from

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. At the final night she was again the Suplente/1st Runner-up of

who was

winner. Months later, she was designated by

Nuestra Belleza México Mexicana Universal is a national beauty pageant in Mexico held annually since 2018, replacing the former pageant, Nuestra Belleza México, held since 1994. Currently, the pageant is responsible for selecting the country’s delegates to Miss U ...

Organization as Nuestra Belleza Internacional México 2013. And she represented Mexico at

in Japan.

Broadcasting career

In 2014 Montemayor started her sportscasting career in Monterrey appearing in

TV Azteca TV Azteca, S.A.B. de C.V. is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate owned by Grupo Salinas. It is the second-largest mass media company in Mexico after Televisa. It primarily competes with Televisa as well as some local operators. It owns two nationa ...

Noreste sports show ''ADN''. At TV Azteca Noreste, Montemayor covered the

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and

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in Glendale, Arizona, as well as other sporting events. In December 2015, Montemayor left Azteca and joined

ESPN ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by ESPN Inc., owned jointly by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and Hearst Communications (20%). Th ...

to become the presenter of Spanish-language version of ''

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''. Montemayor was also the presenter for ESPN Mexico's afternoon sports talk show ''Los Capitanes'' which is anchored by

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. Montemayor left ''NFL Live'' and ''Los Capitanes'' in August 2017 to become an anchor for the Spanish version of '' SportsCenter''. She also hosts a show named ''Otra Ronda'' with Adalberto Franco every Thursday, the show airs on

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in Mexico. At ESPN Montemayor has covered events such as the Mexican Open (tennis), Mexican Tennis Open in Acapulco, the Los Cabos Open in Los Cabos Municipality, Los Cabos, Super Bowl LI in Houston and the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. On October 4, 2019, Montemayor announced her departure from ESPN.

Personal life

Montemayor is in a relationship with businessman and Club Tijuana President and owner Jorge Alberto Hank (son of Jorge Hank Rhon). On September 14, 2019, Montemayor announced their engagement on Instagram.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Montemayor, Miroslava 1990 births Living people Nuestra Belleza México winners Mexican beauty pageant winners Mexican television journalists Mexican television presenters Mexican journalists Mexican women journalists Miss International 2013 delegates Women television journalists Mexican women television presenters Mexican expatriates in the United States