Valeria Ayos

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Colombian beauty pageant titleholder

Born

Valeria Maria Ayos Bossa

Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia

AlmamaterJorge Tadeo Lozano University

Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)

Spouse

Cristhian Lerma Beltrán

(m. 2023)

Valeria Ayos
Valeria Ayos at the Miss Universe Colombia 2022 event
Born	Valeria Maria Ayos Bossa Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia
Alma mater	Jorge Tadeo Lozano University
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Spouse	Cristhian Lerma Beltrán (m. 2023)
Beauty pageant titleholder
Title	Miss Earth Colombia 2018 Miss Earth–Water 2018 Miss Universe Cartagena 2021 Miss Universe Colombia 2021
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Brown
Major competitions	Miss Earth Colombia 2018 (Winner) Miss Earth 2018 (Miss Earth–Water) Miss Universe Colombia 2021 (Winner) Miss Universe 2021 (Top 5)

Valeria María Ayos Bossa (born 20 March 1994) is a Colombian beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Colombia 2021. She represented Colombia at Miss Universe 2021 in Israel where she finished as a Top 5 finalist.^[1]

Ayos completed her elementary education in San Andrés Island and her high school education at Instituto Alberto Merani in Bogotá.^[2] She earned her bachelor's degree in international relations from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá, Colombia.^[3]

Pageantry

Miss Earth Colombia 2018

On 23 August 2018, Ayos won Miss Earth Colombia 2018, held in General Saulo Gil Ramirez Sendoya Auditorium in Bogotá succeeding Juliana Franco.^[4]

Miss Earth 2018

Ayos represented Colombia at the Miss Earth 2018 pageant which was held at MOA Arena, Bay City, Pasay, Metro Manila, the Philippines and finished as Miss Earth - Water 2018.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Miss Universe Colombia 2020

Ayos was an official candidate for Miss Universe Colombia 2020, but withdrew after suffering from partial face paralysis.^[8]

Miss Universe Colombia 2021

Ayos won Miss Universe Colombia 2021 representing Cartagena, succeeding Laura Olascuaga of Bolívar.^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]

Miss Universe 2021

Ayos represented her country at Miss Universe 2021, held on 13 December 2021 at the Universe Dome in Eilat, Israel. She finished as a top five finalist.^[1]

Personal life

Ayos married her boyfriend of 12 years, Cristhian Lerma Beltrán on 28 January 2023 at Iglesia de San Pedro Claver, Cartagena de Indias.^[13]

References

1 2 "Miss Universe 2021 Live Coverage: Results, winners, and more". HOLA. 13 December 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
↑ "Instituto Alberto Merani". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
↑ "Valeria Ayos Bossa participará en el concurso Miss Earth 2018". El Extra (in Spanish). 16 April 2018. Archived from the original on 30 October 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
↑ "Valeria Ayos Bossa, la cartagenera que ganó Miss Earth Colombia". El Universal (in European Spanish). 26 August 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
↑ "La cartagenera Valeria Ayos Bossa se coronó como la nueva 'Miss Water'". El Universal (in European Spanish). 3 November 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
↑ Adina, Armin (3 November 2018). "Nguyen Phuong Khanh from Vietnam crowned as Miss Earth 2018". Inquirer Lifestyle. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
↑ "FULL LIST: Winners, Miss Earth 2018". Rappler. 3 November 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
↑ "Primero una parálisis facial y después un diagnóstico positivo de COVID19 terminaron sacando a Valeria Ayos del concurso Miss Universo Colombia". The Archipielago Press (in Spanish). 9 November 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
↑ "Valeria María Ayos, de Cartagena, es la nueva Miss Universe Colombia". El País (in Spanish). 18 October 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
↑ "Nhan sắc "đáng gờm" của tân Hoa hậu Hoàn vũ Colombia 2021". Thời Đại (in Vietnamese). 24 October 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
↑ "Nhan sắc tân Hoa hậu Hoàn vũ Colombia". VnExpress (in Vietnamese). 19 October 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
↑ "Conozca más de Valeria Ayos, quien representará a Colombia en Miss Universo". Noticias de Norte de Santander, Colombia y el mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 October 2021.
↑ "Valeria Ayos, ex Miss Universo Colombia, se casó en Cartagena. Así fue su boda". elespectador.com (in Spanish). Cromos. 30 January 2023. Retrieved 2 February 2023.

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Adline Castelino (3rd Runner-Up) Kimberly Jiménez (4th Runner-Up)	Miss Universe Top 5 Finalist (with Beatrice Gomez) 2021	Succeeded by Gabriëla Dos Santos Ashley Cariño (Top 5)
Preceded by Laura Olascuaga, Bolívar	Miss Universe Colombia 2021	Succeeded by María Fernanda Aristizábal, Quindío
Preceded by Juliana Franco	Miss Earth – Water 2018	Succeeded by Klára Vavrušková [cz]
Preceded by Juliana Franco, Meta	Miss Earth Colombia 2018	Succeeded by Yenny Carrillo, Cesar

v t e Miss Earth 2018 national titleholders
Monique Shippen Valeria Ayos Abbey-Anne Gyles Melissa Flores Priya Sigdel Celeste Cortesi Telma Madeira Diana Silva Nguyễn Phương Khánh
Miss Earth delegates of 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

Miss Universe 2021 national titleholders

BEL: Kedist Deltour
BRA: Teresa Santos
KHM: Ngin Marady
COL: Valeria Ayos
FRA: Clémence Botino
IND: Harnaaz Sandhu
KEN: Roshanara Ebrahim
LAO: Tonkham Phonchanhueang
NPL: Sujita Basnet
PAN: Brenda Smith
PRY: Nadia Ferreira
PHL: Beatrice Gomez
PUR: Michelle Colón
SGP: Nandita Banna
ZAF: Lalela Mswane
THA: Anchilee Scott-Kemmis
USA: Elle Smith
VEN: Luiseth Materán
VNM: Nguyễn Huỳnh Kim Duyên

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

Miss Earth Colombia 2018

Miss Earth 2018

Miss Universe Colombia 2020

Miss Universe Colombia 2021

Miss Universe 2021

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