Perla Beltrán
{{Short description|Mexican model}}
{{Infobox pageant titleholder
| name=Perla Beltrán
| image= Perla-bcs.jpg
| caption=
| competitions=Miss Earth México 2007
(Miss Earth–Air)
Nuestra Belleza México 2008
{{nowrap|(Nuestra Belleza Mundo México)}}
Miss World 2009
(1st runner-up)
(Miss World Americas)
(Miss World Top Model)
| birth_name= Perla Judith Beltrán Acosta
| birth_place= Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico
| birth_date= {{Birth date and age|1986|9|30}}
| height= {{height|m=1.78|precision=0}}
| eye_color= Green
| hair_color= Black
}}
Perla Judith Beltrán Acosta (born September 30, 1986) is a Mexican model and beauty pageant titleholder who placed 1st Runner-Up at Miss World 2009.
Early life
An industrial engineering alumni, Beltrán was born in Culiacán, Sinaloa and raised in Guamúchil from the age of 10. Despite her admiration for beauty queens as a child, Beltrán never expected to take part in the pageant world. However, her mother convinced her to compete in a local contest for the first time in 2001, and she took home the title.
Nuestra Belleza Mexico
Prior to competing in Nuestra Belleza México, Beltrán participated in Miss Earth Mexico in 2007 and placed first runner-up as Miss Air. A year later, 21-year-old Beltrán represented her native Sinaloa in her country's national pageant, Nuestra Belleza México 2008, held in Monterrey, Nuevo León on September 20.
She was named Nuestra Belleza Mundo México among thirty-two other contestants, gaining the right to compete in the 59th Miss World pageant held in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Miss World 2009
As the official representative of her country to the 2009 Miss World pageant, Beltrán won the Miss World Top Model fast-track event, enabling her to automatically advance to the semifinals. She had previously placed among the top twelve in the Beach Beauty event. Beltrán subsequently obtainted the title of Miss World Americas and placed first runner-up to Miss World 2009, on December 12.
References
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{{cite news|title=Miss Gibraltar becomes Miss World|url=http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/Music/2009/12/12/Miss-Gibraltar-becomes-Miss-World/UPI-99541260669852/|accessdate=23 October 2010|date=December 12, 2009|agency=United Press International}}
{{cite news|title=Pair of Queens|url=https://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=es&tl=en&u=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/estilos/59321.html|accessdate=24 October 2010|newspaper=El Universal|date=September 24, 2008}}
{{cite news|title=Five advance to Miss World semifinals |url=http://www.mb.com.ph/node/232667/5-advance-mi |accessdate=24 October 2010 |newspaper=Manila Bulletin |date=December 5, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100424084831/http://www.mb.com.ph/node/232667/5-advance-mi |archivedate=April 24, 2010 }}
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{{S-ach}}
{{S-bef|before={{flagicon|VEN}} Hannelly Quintero}}
{{s-ttl|title=Miss World Americas
|years=2009}}
{{s-aft|after={{flagicon|USA}} Alexandria Mills}}
{{succession box
| before={{flagicon|RUS}} Ksenia Sukhinova
| title=Miss World Top Model
| years=2009
| after={{flagicon|NOR}} Mariann Birkedal
}}
{{succession box
| before=Anagabriela Espinoza
| title={{nowrap|Nuestra Belleza Mundo México}}
| years=2008
| after=Anabel Solís
}}
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{{Miss World 2009 delegates}}
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Category:Nuestra Belleza México winners
Category:Miss World 2009 delegates
Category:Beauty pageant contestants from Culiacán