Goizeder Azúa

{{short description|Venezuelan model, presenter, journalist, and beauty queen}}

{{Infobox pageant titleholder

| name = Goizeder Azúa

| photo = Goizeder Azúa - EsGoi - LinkedIn.jpg

| birth_place = San Felipe, Venezuela

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1984|2|23}}

| birth_name = Goizeder Victoria Azúa Barríos

| height = {{height|m=1.77|precision=0}}

| eye_color = Brown

| hair_color = Brown

| nationalcompetition = Miss Venezuela 2002
(Miss Venezuela World 2002)
(Miss Congeniality)
(Miss Personality)
(Best Runway)
Miss World 2002
(Top 10)
Miss Mesoamerica
2003
(Winner)
Miss International 2003
(Winner)
(Miss Photogenic)

| title = Miss Carabobo 2002
Miss Venezuela World 2002
Miss Venezuela International 2003
Miss International 2003

}}

Goizeder Victoria Azúa Barríos (born February 23, 1984) is a Venezuelan television host, anchorwoman, model, journalist and beauty queen who won Miss International 2003.{{cite web|title=Pageant Almanac|url=http://www.pageant-almanac.com/miss-international/former-titleholders.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060711184803/http://www.pageant-almanac.com/miss-international/former-titleholders.php|url-status=usurped|archive-date=July 11, 2006}} Retrieved on 11 Apr 2008.

Career

=Miss Venezuela 2002=

She began her beauty pageant career by winning the Miss Carabobo 2002 title, and then by winning the Miss Venezuela World 2002 crown in the Gala de la Belleza preliminary competition of Miss Venezuela 2002.

=Miss World 2002=

Azúa represented Venezuela in the Miss World 2002 pageant, where she placed in the top 10.

=Miss Mesoamerica 2003=

Azúa prior her participation at Miss International 2003 pageant, went to Miss Mesoamerica 2003 in Las Vegas, where she won the crown.

=Miss International 2003=

Azúa was appointed to represent Venezuela in the Miss International 2003 pageant, where she won the crown. Her win marked the fourth of nine victories of Venezuela in Miss International, the most of any nation.

=Life after Miss International 2003=

Once considered Venezuela's top fashion model, Azúa worked on Globovision as a journalist. She had her own TV program called Fun Race. She worked on Televen as anchorwoman and now she is based in Spain. She is married and has 2 sons.

References

External links

[http://www.missvenezuela.com Web Site Oficial del Miss Venezuela]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20071011010554/http://bellasvenezolanas.org/?p=983 Goizeder Azua @ Bellas Venezolanas]

{{succession box

| before = {{flagicon|Lebanon}} Christina Sawaya

| title = Miss International

| years = 2003

| after = {{flagicon|Colombia}} Jeymmy Vargas

}}

{{succession box

| before = {{flagicon|Caracas}} Cynthia Lander

| title = Miss Venezuela International

| years = 2003

| after = {{flagicon|Zulia}} Eleidy Aparicio

}}