{{Short description|Venezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder}} {{family name hatnote|Croce|García|lang=Spanish}} {{Infobox pageant titleholder | name = Diana Croce | image = | caption = | birth_name = Diana Macarena Croce García | title = {{ubl|Elite Model Look Venezuela 2012|Miss Nueva Esparta 2016|Miss World Venezuela 2016|Miss International Venezuela 2017}} | nationalcompetition = {{ubl|Elite Model Look Venezuela 2012|(Winner)|Miss Venezuela 2016|(1st Runner-Up)|Miss World 2016|(Unplaced)|Miss International 2017|(2nd Runner-Up)}} | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1997|4|17}} | birth_place = Calabozo, Guárico, Venezuela | occupation= Model | height = {{height|m=1.76|precision=0}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Venezuelia: Diana Croce García |url=http://www.missworld.com/contestants/Venezuela2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161120070530/http://www.missworld.com/contestants/Venezuela2 |website=missworld.com |archive-date=November 20, 2016 |access-date=October 28, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | eye_color = Light brown | hair_color = Black }}
'''Diana Macarena Croce García''' (born April 17, 1997) is a Venezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder who was 1st Runner-Up at Miss Venezuela 2016 and represented Venezuela at Miss World 2016. She represented Venezuela at the Miss International 2017 pageant and finished as 2nd Runner-up.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.missworld.com/contestants/Venezuela2/|title=Venezuela - Diana CROCE GARCIA|publisher=Miss World Organisation|website=|date=28 October 2016|access-date=28 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170530155247/http://www.missworld.com/contestants/Venezuela2/|archive-date=30 May 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.noticiascalabozo.com.ve/diana-croce-calabozo-mundo/|title=Diana Croce: De Calabozo para el mundo|date=28 October 2016|access-date=29 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030081050/http://www.noticiascalabozo.com.ve/diana-croce-calabozo-mundo/|archive-date=30 October 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://stereocenterfm.com.ve/sitio/diana-croce-la-calabocena-que-llevara-la-banda-de-nueva-esparta-en-el-miss-venezuela-2016/|title=Diana Croce from Calabozo, representing Nueva Esparta state in Miss Venezuela 2016|publisher=|language=spanish|website=|date=29 October 2016}}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==Pageantry==
===Miss Venezuela 2016=== Croce competed as Miss Nueva Esparta 2016, one of 24 finalists in her country's national beauty pageant, where she obtained the Miss Glamour award at the Interactive Beauty Gala, the preliminary of Miss Venezuela 2016. The final night of the contest was on October 6, 2016, in Caracas, where she placed 1st Runner-Up.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://notiespartano.com/2016/10/06/miss-nueva-esparta-diana-croce-primera-finalista-miss-venezuela/|title=Diana Croce, Miss Nueva Esparta 2016 - 1st Runner-Up of MISS VENEZUELA 2016|publisher=notiespartano|website=|date=24 September 2016|access-date=24 October 2016|archive-date=5 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705150644/https://notiespartano.com/2016/10/06/miss-nueva-esparta-diana-croce-primera-finalista-miss-venezuela/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
===Miss World 2016=== Croce was appointed by Osmel Sousa, the national director of the Miss Venezuela pageant, to represent Venezuela at the Miss World 2016 pageant in National Harbor in Washington, D.C., United States on December 18, 2016, where she unplaced.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.el-nacional.com/escenas/Diana-Croce-Venezuela-Miss-Mundo_0_947905277.html|title=Diana Croce representará a Venezuela en el Miss Mundo|publisher=El Nacional|website=|date=28 October 2016|access-date=28 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161029045601/http://www.el-nacional.com/escenas/Diana-Croce-Venezuela-Miss-Mundo_0_947905277.html|archive-date=29 October 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Croce was officially crowned Miss World Venezuela 2016 by the outgoing titleholder Anyela Galante, Miss World Venezuela 2015, on November 5, 2016, in Estudio 1 of Venevision.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.etiquetacaribe.com.ve/entretenimiento/diana-croce-es-oficialmente-miss-venezuela-mundo-2016/|title=Diana Croce es oficialmente Miss Venezuela Mundo 2016|publisher=Etiqueta Caribe|website=|date=6 November 2016|language=Spanish|access-date=6 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107014159/http://www.etiquetacaribe.com.ve/entretenimiento/diana-croce-es-oficialmente-miss-venezuela-mundo-2016/|archive-date=7 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
===Miss International 2017=== Croce was appointed by Osmel Sousa, the national director of the Miss Venezuela pageant, to represent Venezuela at the Miss International 2017 pageant which was held in the Tokyo Dome City Hall in Tokyo, Japan on November 14, 2017. She placed third, earning the 2nd Runner-Up title.
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{{S-start}} {{S-ach}} {{S-bef|before= {{flagicon|Indonesia}} Felicia Hwang}} {{s-ttl|title=Miss International 2nd Runner-Up |years=2017}} {{s-aft|after={{flagicon|South Africa}} Reabetswe Sechoaro}} {{S-bef|before= {{flagicon|Trujillo}} Jessica Duarte}} {{s-ttl|title=Miss International Venezuela |years=2016}} {{s-aft|after={{flagicon|Barinas}} Mariem Velazco}} {{S-bef|before= {{flagicon|Portuguesa}} Anyela Galante}} {{s-ttl|title=Miss World Venezuela |years=2016}} {{s-aft|after={{flagicon|Monagas}} Ana Carolina Ugarte}} {{S-bef|before= {{flagicon|Nueva Esparta}} Génesis Saavedra}} {{s-ttl|title=Miss Nueva Esparta |years=2016}} {{S-aft|after= {{flagicon|Nueva Esparta}} Yerardy Montoya}} {{S-end}}
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