Ana Batarelo
{{short description|Croatian model|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Infobox pageant titleholder
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| birth_place = Zagreb, Croatia
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| hair_color = Brown
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| title = Miss Earth Croatia 2014
| competitions = Miss Earth 2014
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Ana Batarelo is a Croatian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was appointed as Miss Earth Croatia 2014 that gave her the right to represent Croatia in Miss Earth 2014 in November.{{cite news|last=Lazić|first=Gordana Malašić |title=Ana Batarelo će se boriti za titulu Miss Earth! (in Croatian)|url=http://www.scena.hr/naslovnica/ana-batarelo-miss-planet-earth/|accessdate=28 September 2014|newspaper=Scena|year=2014}}{{cite news|title=Ana Batarelo bori se za titulu Miss Earth na Filipinima (in Croatian) |url=http://arhiva.dalje.com/hr-trach/ana-batarelo-bori-se-za-titulu-miss-earth-na-filipinima/523436 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140930074733/http://dalje.com/hr-trach/ana-batarelo-bori-se-za-titulu-miss-earth-na-filipinima/523436 |url-status=live|archive-date=2014-09-30 |accessdate=31 October 2017 |newspaper=Scena |date=28 September 2014}} She became the second Croatian beauty to compete at the Miss Earth pageant. The last time Croatia sent a delegate to Miss Earth was in 2001.
Biography
=Early life and career beginnings=
She is a model under FotoModel agency based in Zagreb. Before joining the fashion industry, she joined football and became a trained football player.{{cite news|last=Lazić|first=Gordana Malašić|title=Ana Batarelo: Bila sam zaljubljena u Zdravka Mamića! (in Croatian)|url=http://www.scena.hr/lifestyle/ana-batarelo-bila-zaljubljena-mamica/|accessdate= 15 October 2014|newspaper=Scena|year=2014}}
=Miss Earth 2014=
{{Quote box|width=250px|align=right|quote="An unpolluted environment is our legacy."|source=—Ana Batarelo's message for Miss Earth.}}
According to her interview, Croatia's national director for Miss Earth contacted Batarelo's modelling agency after seeing her private personal Facebook account. Sanja Popovic Bjedov and Tamara Roglić told her about that news and she gladly accepted the responsibility of representing Croatia. Sanja Popovic Bjedov and Tamara Roglić serve as her mentor for her preparation to the pageant. She also thinks that her short hair is her advantage in the competition. She says that a short hair is quite unusual in a pageant scene.
Being designated as her country's representative, Batarelo flew to the Philippines in November to compete with almost 100 other candidates to be Alyz Henrich's{{cite news|last=Blanco|first=Eunice|title=Alyz Henrich of Venezuela is Miss Earth 2013|url=http://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2013/12/07/1265550/alyz-henrich-venezuela-miss-earth-2013|accessdate=7 December 2013|newspaper=Philippine Star|year=2013}}{{cite news|title=Venezuela's Alyz Henrich wins Miss Earth 2013|url=http://lifestyle.in.msn.com/fashion/venezuelas-alyz-henrich-wins-miss-earth-2013-1|accessdate=9 December 2013|newspaper=MSN|year=2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211045111/http://lifestyle.in.msn.com/fashion/venezuelas-alyz-henrich-wins-miss-earth-2013-1|archive-date=11 December 2013|url-status=dead}} successor as Miss Earth.
As a Miss Earth delegate, an environmental advocacy is must. When she was asked about her advocacy for the pageant, she answered, "Clean and clear water." She explained that Croatia has the fourth cleanest waters in world and also because of Adriatic Sea.
When she was asked about what she wished to promote in her country, Croatia, Batarelo said that the history of her country was what she could promote in addition to "...the proud and hospitable people and beautiful landscape."
References
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External links
- [http://www.missearth.tv Miss Earth Official Website]
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{{s-aft|after=Ana Marija Jurišić}}
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Category:Miss Earth 2014 contestants