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Gabriela Tafur
Tafur in 2018
Born	Gabriela Tafur Náder (1995-07-07) 7 July 1995 (age 29) Cali, Cauca Valley, Colombia
Alma mater	University of Los Andes
Spouse	Esteban Santos ​(m. 2024)​
Relatives	Juan Manuel Santos (Father-in-law) María Clemencia de Santos (Mother-in-law)
Beauty pageant titleholder
Title	Miss Colombia 2018
Hair color	Light Brown
Eye color	Brown
Major competition(s)	Miss Colombia 2018 (Winner) Miss Universe 2019 (Top 5)

Gabriela Tafur Náder (born 7 July 1995) is a beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Colombia 2018. She represented Colombia at Miss Universe 2019 and reached placed in the top 5 finalist.

Early life and education

Tafur was born in Cali 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, Aley District in Lebanon, and immigrated to Colombia during the Lebanese Civil War. She speaks Spanish, English and Portuguese.

After graduating from Colegio Bolivar in Cali, Tafur moved to Bogotá to study law at the University of Los Andes, where she graduated cum laude. Tafur then worked as a lawyer in the legal department of Microsoft Colombia, and acted as a coordinator for the commercial law specialization at the University of Los Andes.

Pageantry

Miss Colombia 2018

In 2018, Tafur competed in and won Miss Colombia 2018 in Cartagena, Colombia. She was crowned by outgoing titleholder Valeria Morales. Tafur won two supplementary titles: Miss Punctuality Bulova and Queen of the Police.

As Miss Colombia, she was invited to the Lebanese diaspora energy conference held in Lebanon in June 2019.

Miss Universe 2019

Tafur represented Colombia at Miss Universe 2019, wildcards and reached the top five.

Private Life

On 7 September 2024, at Hacienda Manuelita in Valle del Cauca, Tafur married Esteban Santos, the youngest son of former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and María Clemencia de Santos.

References

1. noticiasrcn.com (8 December 2019). "¡Orgullo colombiano! Gabriela Tafur quedó en el top 5 de Miss Universo 2019". ¡Orgullo colombiano! Gabriela Tafur quedó en el top 5 de Miss Universo 2019 (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 December 2023.
2. "La nouvelle Miss Colombie est d'origine libanaise" (in French). 16 November 2018.
3. "Srta. Colombia® 2019 Gabriela Tafur Nader | Señorita Colombia". www.srtacolombia.org. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
4. "Gabriela Tafur Señorita Colombia 2019 denominada "Miss Académica"". eldiario.com (in Spanish). 16 November 2020.
5. "Gabriela Tafur, Señorita Colombia 2018, sueña con lanzarse a la política". lafm.com (in Spanish). 12 December 2018.
6. "Señorita Colombia® asiste a conferencia LDE en el Líbano". 5 June 2019.
7. "Gabriela Tafur Nader crowned Senorita Colombia 2019". indiatimes.com.
8. ""Menos corrupción, más calidad": Gabriela Tafur habló del Paro Nacional y defendió las protestas". Protagonista (in Spanish). 9 December 2019.
9. "Una boda real: Gabriela Tafur y Esteban Santos se casan en Cali". www.eluniversal.com.co (in Spanish). 7 September 2024. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
10. Barros, Por Danny (8 September 2024). "Así fue la fiesta de Gabriela Tafur y Esteban Santos luego de su boda: Greeicy Rendón prendió la rumba". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 10 September 2024.
11. Tendencias, Redacción (7 September 2024). "Las imágenes que deja el matrimonio de Gabriela Tafur y Esteban Santos". ELHERALDO.CO (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 September 2024.

External links

• Official Miss Colombia website

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Kiara Ortega H'Hen Niê	Miss Universe top 5 Finalist (with Paweensuda Drouin) 2019	Succeeded by Adline Castelino (3rd Runner-Up) Kimberly Jiménez (4th Runner-Up)
Preceded byLaura González, Cartagena	Miss Colombia 2018	Succeeded byMaría Fernanda Aristizábal, Quindío
Preceded byValeria Morales, Valle del Cauca	Miss Universe Colombia 2019	Succeeded byLaura Olascuaga, Bolívar

v t e Colombia at Miss Universe
Miss Universe	Luz Marina Zuluaga (1958) Paulina Vega (2014)
1st runner-up	Paola Turbay (1992) Paula Andrea Betancourt (1993) Carolina Gomez (1994) Taliana Vargas (2008) Ariadna Gutiérrez (2015) Laura González (2017)
2nd runner-up	María Mónica Urbina (1986) Lizeth Mahecha (1990) Andrea Tovar (2016)
3rd runner-up	Ella Cecilia Escandón (1974) Aura Maria Mojica (1977) Mary Shirley Sáenz (1978)
4th runner-up	Susana Caldas (1984)
Top 5-6	Silvia Fernanda Ortiz (1998) Gabriela Tafur (2019) Valeria Ayos (2021) Camila Avella (2023)
Top 10-12	Catherine Daza (2004) Valerie Dominguez (2006)
Top 12-16	Olga Pumarejo Korkor (1959) Stella Márquez (1960) Olga Lucía Botero (1962) María Cristina Álvarez (1965) María Victoria Ocampo (1966) Edna Margarita Rudd (1965) Margarita Reyes Zawadzky (1969) Ana Lucía Agudelo (1973) Martha Lucía Echeverri (1975) María Helena Reyes (1976) María Patricia Arbeláez (1980) Diana Patricia Arévalo (1988) Tatiana Castro (1995) Catalina Acosta (2000) Natalia Navarro (2010) Catalina Robayo (2011) María Fernanda Aristizábal (2022)
Top 20-21	Laura Olascuaga (2020)
Miss Colombia Miss Universe Colombia Miss Universe

• 1995 births
• Colombian beauty pageant winners
• Colombian female models
• Colombian people of Lebanese descent
• Colombian women lawyers
• Living people
• Miss Colombia winners
• Miss Universe 2019 contestants
• Models from Cali
• University of Los Andes (Colombia) alumni
• 21st-century Colombian lawyers
• 21st-century women lawyers