Catalina Duque Abréu (born 20 Sep 1999) is a Colombian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Señorita Colombia 2024.[1][2] She will represent Colombia at Miss International 2025 competition.[3]
Catalina Duque Abréu | |
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Born | Catalina Duque Abréu September 20, 1999 Miami, Florida, US |
Alma mater | Eafit University |
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Beauty pageant titleholder | |
Title | Miss Antioquia 2024 Miss Colombia 2024 |
Hair color | Blonde |
Eye color | Gray |
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Early life
editCatalina Duque was born in Miami, Florida on September 20, 1999, to a Colombian parents from Medellín, Antioquia. She attended high school at The Columbus School in Envigado, Antioquia,[4][5] and later studied social communication at EAFIT University. In addition to her native language, she is fluent in English and Portuguese.[6][7]
Pageantry
editSeñorita Antioquia 2023-2024
editCatalina's career in beauty pageants began in June 2023, when she was decreed as the new Miss Antioquia for the next edition of Miss Colombia pageant (Concurso Nacional de Belleza), that would be carried out during the month of November of the 2023 but after the pageant was cancelled and postponed a year later, having 1 more year her title as sovereign of Antioquia.[8]
Señorita Colombia 2024
editIn the competition, she stood out as one of the favorite candidates to obtain the title of Miss Colombia 2024 in its 90 years of history, which Sofía Osío held at that time. Her performance during the course of the contest allowed her to become the winner on the night of November 10, 2024 in the city of Cartagena as is customary in tradition of the beauty pageant.[9]
After 28 years, her victory gave its department the title number 7 in the history of the Miss Colombia pageant, a distinction that the department hadn't obtained since Claudia Elena Vásquez in 1996.
Miss Internacional 2025
editDuque will represent her country at Miss International 2025 in Tokyo, Japan.[10]
References
edit- ^ "Quién es Catalina Duque Abréu, nueva señorita Colombia 2024-2025". Telemedellín (in Spanish). 2024-11-11. Retrieved 2024-11-13.
- ^ Gaitán, Por Iván (2024-11-11). "Quién es Catalina Duque Abreu, representante de Antioquia y nueva Señorita Colombia". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-13.
- ^ LOS40 (2024-11-11). "¿Cuándo participará Catalina Duque, nueva señorita Colombia, en el Miss International? | Actualidad | LOS40 Colombia". LOS40 (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-13.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Catalina Duque Abreu".
- ^ "Home - The Columbus School". columbus.edu.co. 2024-07-09. Retrieved 2024-11-13.
- ^ "Catalina Duque Abréu: ¿quién es la nueva Reina Nacional de la Belleza del país?". Portafolio.co (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-13.
- ^ canalrcn.com (2024-11-10). "¿Quién es Catalina Duque Abréu, la nueva Señorita Colombia?". ¿Quién es Catalina Duque Abréu, la nueva Señorita Colombia? (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-13.
- ^ Digital, Periodista. "Catalina Duque la nueva señorita Antioquia". Teleantioquia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-13.
- ^ Rodríguez, Colprensa,Rodrigo (2024-11-10). "Catalina Duque, de Antioquia, es la nueva Señorita Colombia 2024". W Radio (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-13.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Ríos, Brian Ferney Valencia (2024-11-12). "La nueva señorita Colombia, Catalina Duque, no representará al país en Miss Universo, ¿cuál es el motivo?". El Colombiano (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2024-11-13.
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