Tamara Almeida

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Tamara Almeida Silva
Miss Brazil 08 Tamara Almeida.jpg
Born
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
TitleMiss Ouro Preto Mundo 2006
Miss Espirito Santo Mundo 2007
Miss Fernando de Noronha TQI 2007
Miss Minas Gerais Mundo 2008
Miss Brazil World 2008
Beauty pageant titleholder
Hair colorBlack
Eye colorBrown
Major
competition(s)
Miss Brazil World 2006 (2nd runner-up)
Miss Maja Mundial 2006 (1st runner-up)
Miss Brazil World 2007 (3rd runner-up)
Miss Tourism Queen International 2007 (2nd runner-up)
Miss Brazil World 2008 (winner)
Miss World 2008 (top 15)

Tamara Almeida Silva (born c. 1986) is a Brazilian beauty pageant contestant who won Miss Brazil World 2008 and represented her country in Miss World 2008. She speaks English, Spanish and Chinese basic.

Miss World 2008 58th edition of the Miss World beauty pageant

Miss World 2008, the 58th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 13 December 2008 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. Originally, the pageant was going to take place in Kiev, Ukraine, but because of the ongoing 2008 Russo-Georgian diplomatic crisis in neighbouring South Ossetia, the Miss World Organization decided to move the pageant away from Eastern Europe. 109 contestants from all over the world compete for the crown, the second highest turnout in the 59 years of the pageant. Zhang Zilin of China crowned Ksenia Sukhinova of Russia as the brand new Miss World.

English language West Germanic language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and eventually became a global lingua franca. Named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to the area of Great Britain that would later take their name, England, both names ultimately deriving from the Anglia peninsula in the Baltic Sea. It is closely related to Frisian and Low Saxon, and its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Norse, and to a greater extent Latin and French.

Spanish language Romance language

Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in the Americas and Spain. It is a global language and the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese.

Almeida won Miss Ouro Preto Mundo 2006 and placed as the 2nd runner-up in Miss Brazil World 2006. She competed in Miss Maja Mundial and placed as the 1st runner-up. In 2007, she competed in Miss Brazil World as Miss Espirito Santo. She placed as 3rd runner-up. In the same year, she was chosen to represent the island of Fernando de Noronha in Miss Tourism Queen International 2007 and she placed as 2nd runner-up. In 2008, she represented the state of Minas Gerais and won. She went on to represent Brazil in Miss World 2008, where she placed in the top fifteen.

Fernando de Noronha Municipality and state district in Pernambuco, Brazil

Fernando de Noronha is an archipelago of 21 islands and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, 354 km (220 mi) offshore from the Brazilian coast. The archipelago's name is a corruption of the name of the Portuguese merchant Fernão de Loronha, to whom it was given by the Portuguese crown for services rendered regarding wood imported from Brazil. Only the homonymous main island is inhabited; it has an area of 18.4 km2 (7.1 sq mi) and a population estimated at 2,718 in 2012. The archipelago's total area is 26 km2 (10 sq mi).

Minas Gerais State of Brazil

Minas Gerais is a state in the north of Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product (GDP), and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte, is a major urban and finance center in Latin America, and the sixth largest municipality in Brazil, after the cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Brasilia and Fortaleza, but its metropolitan area is the third largest in Brazil with just over 5,500,000 inhabitants, after those of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Nine Brazilian presidents were born in Minas Gerais, the most of any state.

Preceded by
Regiane Andrade
Miss Brazil World
2008
Succeeded by
Luciana Reis