Miss International 1998 | |
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Date | September 26, 1998 |
Presenters | Masumi Okada |
Venue | Koseinenkin Hall, Tokyo, Japan |
Broadcaster | TV Tokyo |
Entrants | 43 |
Placements | 15 |
Debuts | Latvia |
Withdrawals |
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Returns |
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Winner | Lía Borrero Panama |
Miss International 1998 was the 38th Miss International pageant, held at the Koseinenkin Hall in Tokyo, Japan on 26 September 1998.
Lía Borrero of Panama won and was crowned by Consuelo Adler of Venezuela. It is the first time Panama has won the pageant. [1] [2]
Contestants from forty-three countries and territories participated in the pageant, which was hosted by Masumi Okada.
Placement | Contestant |
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Miss International 1998 | |
1st runner-up | |
2nd runner-up | |
Top 15 |
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Award | Contestant |
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Miss Friendship | |
Best National Costume | |
Miss Photogenic |
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Forty-three contestants competed for the title.
Country/Territory | Contestant | Age [lower-alpha 1] | Hometown |
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Argentina | Maria Fernanda Ortiz | – | Buenos Aires |
Aruba | Anushka Sheritsa Lew Jen Tai | 18 | Oranjestad |
Australia | Katherine O'Brien | 18 | Sydney |
Bolivia | Liliana Peña [5] | 18 | Litoral |
Britain | Melanie Devina Jones [6] | 20 | Ewloe |
Colombia | Adriana Hurtado | 21 | Valle de Cauca |
Curaçao | Santa Indris Tokaay | – | Willemstad |
Cyprus | Marianna Panayiotou | – | Nicosia |
Czech Republic | Petra Faltýnová [7] | 21 | Prague |
Dominican Republic | Sorangel Fersobe | 20 | San Juan de la Maguana |
Finland | Piia Hartikainen [8] | 20 | Rovaniemi |
France | Patricia Spéhar [9] | 23 | Paris |
Germany | Fiona Ammann | – | Berlin |
Greece | Eleni Pliatsika | – | Athens |
Hawaii | Lori-Ann Lee Medeiros | – | Honolulu |
Holland | Ilona Marilyn van Veldhuisen | 22 | Amsterdam |
Honduras | Wendy Suyapa Rodríguez | – | Cortés |
Hong Kong | Natalie Ng [10] | – | Hong Kong |
Iceland | Gudbjörg Sigridur Hermannsdóttir | – | Reykjavík |
India | Shvetha Jaishankar | 17 | Chennai |
Israel | Galia Abramov | – | Tel Aviv |
Japan | Megumi Taira [10] | – | Tokyo |
Latvia | Līga Graudumniece | – | Riga |
Macedonia | Ana Binovska | – | Skopje |
Mexico | Karina Mora | 17 | Mérida |
Northern Mariana Islands | Sonya Pangelinan [3] | – | Saipan |
Norway | Bjørg Sofie Løvstad | 18 | Akershus |
Panama | Lía Borrero [11] | 22 | Las Tablas |
Paraguay | Maria Fabiola Roig | 19 | Asunción |
Peru | Melissa Miranda | – | Tacna |
Philippines | Colette Centeno [12] | 17 | Manila |
Poland | Agnieszka Osinska | 20 | Frampol |
Portugal | Icilia Berenguel [13] | 21 | Póvoa de Varzim |
Senegal | Maimouna Diallo | – | Dakar |
Singapore | Sudha Menon [14] | 21 | Singapore |
Slovakia | Martina Kalmanová [15] | – | Bratislava |
South Korea | Cho Hye-young [10] | – | Seoul |
Spain | Vanessa Romero | 20 | Alicante |
Togo | Manuella Nadou Lawson-Body | – | Lomé |
Tunisia | Nejla Kouniali | – | Tunis |
Turkey | Senay Akay | 18 | Istanbul |
United States | Susan Paez | 22 | South Gate |
Venezuela | Daniela Kosán | 24 | Maracay |
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