Masbateña is Sinulog Festival Queen 2016

Cynthia Magpatoc Thomalla

MASBATE CITY—It's a back-to-back win for Masbateñas. At the Cebu Sports Center, Cynthia Magpatoc Thomalla of Placer town was crowned Festival Sinulog Festival Queen 2016 yesterday, a year after fellow Masbateña Julienne Hazel Penserga won the same competition.

Thomalla is the lead dancer of Placer's Tribu Himag-ulaw.

A tourism student at the University of Cebu Banilad campus, she also bagged a number of prizes, including Miss Photogenic, Miss Kokuryo Cosmetics, Miss OLX Philippines, Yamaha Rev Queen, Miss Lecit-E, and SM Festival Queen.

In 2013, she was crowned Miss Pintados in Leyte.

She will represent Cebu and the Philippines in the upcoming Purwakarta World Cultural Festival 2016 in Indonesia.—BICOLSTANDARD.COM. Pirming enot. Pirming bago.