Andrea Tovar

Andrea Tovar
Tovar in 2016
Born
Jealisse Andrea Tovar Velásquez

Quibdó, Choco, Colombia
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Beauty pageant titleholder
Title
Hair colorBrown[citation needed]
Eye colorBrown[citation needed]
Major
competition(s)

Andrea Tovar is a Colombian beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Colombia 2015, and represented Colombia at Miss Universe 2016, finishing as second runner-up.

Personal life

Jealisse Andrea Tovar Velásquez was born in Quibdó,to Antonio José Tovar Mendoza and Xenia Rosa Velásquez Salguero. In 2015 she was studying Industrial Design and Photographic Image Production at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá.[1]

Miss Colombia 2015

She was crowned Miss Chocó in 2014, but as another contestant was selected in a different pageant to represent the same department, she had to postpone her participation in the national pageant until 2015.[2]

Miss Universe 2016

Tovar represented Colombia at Miss Universe 2016, held in the Philippines where she finished second runner-up to Iris Mittenaere of France.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "¿Quién es Jealisse Andrea Tovar, la nueva señorita Colombia?". El País. 16 Nov 2015. Archived from the original on 23 November 2015. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Los obstáculos que superó Andrea Tovar, la Señorita Colombia 2015 - 2016". El Espectador. 17 Nov 2015.
  3. ^ Adina, Armin P. (29 January 2017). "Miss Colombia is the candidate to beat". lifestyle.inquirer.net. Retrieved 2017-04-28.


Awards and achievements
Preceded by Miss Universe 2nd Runner-Up
2016
Succeeded by
Preceded by Miss Colombia
2015
Succeeded by
Laura González, Cartagena
Preceded by
Iliam Zapata
Miss Chocó
2015
Succeeded by
Carmen Serna