IMPORTANT FIGURES AND OUTSTANDING PEOPLE BORN IN BOGOTA



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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.
Montoya was born in 1975.



Beauty Queen

Mercedes Baquero Román
Miss Cundinamarca and Queen of the Americas in 1957.
She represented Cundinamarca in Miss Colombia Beauty Pageant in 1957.
Born in Bogota in 1939.


Beauty Queens "Miss Colombia"

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

Shirley Sáenz Starnes –1977–
Born in Bogota in 1959.

Julie Pauline Sáenz Starnes –1982–
Represented the city of Bogotá.
Born in Bogota in Santa Mónica (USA) in 1965.

Paola Turbay Gómez  –1991–
Represented the city of Bogotá.
Born in Houston (USA) in 1970.

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

Catalina Inés Acosta Albarracín –1999–
Miss Cundinamarca and Miss Colombia.
She obtained the title of Miss Italy in "El Mundo" in 2002. Representó el departamento de Cundinamarca.
Born in Bogota in 1978.

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

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







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