The change that the organization Miss Universe established so that age would not be a limitation in the international competition was welcomed among the selection of participants who this year compete in the Miss Universe Puerto Rico.
Of some 28 official candidates who aspire to the title of Miss Universe Puerto Rico, -with the aim of bringing the sixth universal crown-, half of the Puerto Rican participants are over the age of 28, which until 2023 was a limiting rule in the franchise. international.
Miss Universe Puerto Rico presented today, April 18, the official candidates whose ages range from 19 to 46 years from the mayor’s office of San Juan, a municipality that is once again the headquarters and sponsor of the local contest. Exactly, half of the delegates, about 14 women, are over 28 years old and will now be able to aspire to become the country’s great ambassadors.
“In the audition process we saw that after the age of 18 they can compete without age limit, we saw that a wonderful group of women arrived with representation from 19 to 46 years old who deserve to have the opportunity to represent their people as they are doing. They are spectacular women and we understood the reason for this opening by the Miss Universe organization, wanting to have a group of women who represent us in all areas without age limitations,” said the national director of the pageant, Yizette Cifredo.
1 / 29 | Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2024: these are the official candidates. The 28 candidates were presented at an event in Old San Juan. – Vanessa Serra Díaz
This year, the local franchise, led by Wapa Television, in charge of the last seven years of the Miss Universe Puerto Rico pageant, advanced the date of the contest to prepare the country’s ambassador with more time. The Miss Universe Puerto Rico preliminary competition will air on Sunday, June 23 and the grand final night It will be on Thursday, June 27, starting at 7:00 pm at the Luis A. Ferré Fine Arts Center in Santurce. Both events will be broadcast on Wapa Television.
Among the participants over 28 years of age are representatives of Aguadilla, Añasco, Arecibo, Arroyo, Carolina, Ciales, Hatillo, Juana Díaz, Lares, Toa Baja, Orocovis, Naranjito, Manatí and Lares.
The youngest candidate is Miss Comerío, Carla Camacho, 19 years old.
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(Vanessa Serra Díaz)
The representative of Aguadilla, Claribel Rosa Bocanegra is the oldest of the group at 46 years old.
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(Vanessa Serra Díaz)
With the earliest selection of the new Puerto Rican queen, successor to the current Miss Universe Puerto Rico 2023, Karla Guilfu, The local franchise team will have more time to polish the preparation of the Puerto Rican ambassador.
“We have more time with the queen, but less time with the group of delegates and the challenge will be to be able to serve them so that they are ready for that competition on June 27. If until now we have come this far with all the queens of Puerto Rico in finalist classifications and even a vice queen in Miss Universe, imagine what we can achieve with a little more time. Puerto Rico is used as a reference for other countries and our goal is focused on the sixth crown,” said Cifredo.
The universal contest will be in November of this year and will be held in Mexico.
The most notable ones on their first day
The official presentation of the Puerto Rican delegates was attended by the president of Wapa Media, Jorge Hidalgo, and the mayor of the capital city, Miguel Romero.
As in 2023, the candidates made their first parade down the stairs of the San Juan mayor’s house and the delegates with experience in beauty pageants projected their experience.
In that sense, Miss Orocovis, Jennifer Colón (36 years old), Miss Arroyo, Genesis Dávila(33 years old) and Miss Lares, Ivanna Carolina Irizarry(30 years) They attracted attention for their dominance on the catwalk. The three candidates have international crowns and have plenty of experience in beauty pageants. Colón was Miss World Puerto Rico in 2009, Dávila was Miss World Puerto Rico 2014, Miss Florida 2018 and was a finalist in Miss USA. While Irizarry represented Puerto Rico in Miss International 2019.
The rest of the participants who stood out in the presentation were the representatives of Arecibo, Raizha Enid Cruz, 31, Toa Alta, Stephanie Rios, 30, SalinasCarolina Mía Gómez, 27 years old, IsabellaKamila Krystal, 22 years old, CorozalOrlanis Rivera, 24 years old, Toa BajaAracelis Moreno, 30 years old and GuaynaboJerusha Mirén Claudio, 27 years old.
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(Vanessa Serra Díaz)
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