Miss Bolivia
NAME: Claudia Tavel
AGE: 25
HOMETOWN: Santa Cruz
HEIGHT: 5’ 8”
LANGUAGE: Spanish
Claudia Maria Tavel was born on March 11, 1989, in the City of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. She loves to ride mountain bikes and run marathons that take place in her country. She likes extreme sports, adventure and travel. Part of her academic training was in the Bolivian Argentine College, and at age 23 she graduated from college and studied Marketing and Advertising at the University of Aquino Bolivia.
Her first catwalk experience was in a parade at the age of 15. In 2006, she won the Queen of Cruceña Tradition, and the title of Elite Model New Face Bolivia, and in 2010 she competed in the Cyzone girl. In 2013 she decided to enter to the most famous contest in her city, Miss Santa Cruz, winning second place, Ms. Santa Cruz, and gave her the opportunity to win Miss Universe Bolivia. Claudia is incapable of lying or pretending, and cannot hide her true emotions. She believes happiness is the ultimate goal in life.
FUN FACTS
1 She helped in rescuing people after the collapse of an eighteen story building in her city, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, along with firefighters.
2 When she was 9, her mother forbade her to use roller skates inside the house, she however decided to break the rules. She accidentally broke a collection of antique porcelain tableware. To this day, her mother labels this instance as the greatest mischief out of all of her seven children.
3 She had to give first aid to a traveling companion when they crashed a 4x4 ATV bike. She used skills that she had learned in school before taking them to a health center and was able to alleviate some of the pain and damage that was caused.