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Sportsmen

Juan Pablo Montoya – Race car driver.
The best Colombian driver in national and international car racing, at the age of nine, Montoya won the children's division of the Colombian National Karting Championship.
Six years later he secured a first place win in the World Karting Championship, a record he repeated the following year.
In 1999 he won the Cart World Series in the United States seven times over and was the winner of the International Formula 3000 Championship.
In 2000 he won the Indianapolis 500.
From 2001 to 2006 he competed in the Formula One (F1) racing circuit and earned victories in Italy, Monaco, Germany, Brazil, and Great Britain.
He began his NASCAR racing career in 2007 and won the 24 Hours of Daytona race. He received first prize in Mexico's NASCAR Busch Series and also conquered the Nextel Cup in Sonoma. In 2008 he won for the second time the 24 hours of Daytona.
In May 2015 he again became the champion of the Intianapolis 500.
Montoya was born in 1975.

Juan Sebastian Gomez, a tennis player.
The wonderful young player received the Gold Medal at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore (Asia) in August, 2010.
Gomez, from the team of the Colombian Tennis Federation, reached the best achievement in his career after the victory of the Banana Bowl in Sao Paulo (Brazil). He also received Casablaca Cup in Mexico, reached the semifinals of the Copa del Café in Costa Rica, and the Condor de Plata, Bolivia.
In doubles, received the prize of the tournament at Roehampton in London (England).
The player was born in 1992.

Egan Bernal,
cyclist .
Winner of the Giro d'Italia 2021.
Winner of the Tour de France 2019.

Egan became the first Colombian cyclist to win the title of the two most important races in the world.
He has also succeeded in numerous competitions, including "The world Tour" in California, in May 2018. Since he was five years old, he started riding a bicycle driven by his father. In 2011 he started his mountain biking career and has been the winner of several trophies. In 2016 he began to practice road cycling. He won numerous competitions until he became the champion of "The world Tour".  
The extraordinary cyclist was born in Zipaquirá in 1997.




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Beauty Queens "Miss Colombia"



 –1975–
María Helena Reyes
Born in Bogota in 1956.








–1977–

Shirley Sáenz
Born in Bogota in 1959.






–1982–

Julie Pauline Sáenz
Represented the city of Bogotá.
Born in Bogota in Santa Mónica (USA) in 1965.





–1991–

Paola Turbay 
Represented the city of Bogotá.
Born in Houston (USA) in 1970.





–1993–
Carolina Gómez
Represented the city of Bogotá.
Born in Cali, Valle del Cauca en 1975.






Aura María Mojica
 –1976–
Represented the Department of Valle del Cauca.
Born in Bogota in 1958

Tatiana Castro –1994–
Represented the Department of Cesar.
Born in Bogota in 1973



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