Miss International 2000

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Miss International 2000
Tokyo kosei nenkin kaikan shinjuku tokyo 2009.JPG
DateOctober 4, 2000 [1]
Presenters Masumi Okada
VenueKoseinenkin Hall, Tokyo, Japan [1]
Broadcaster TV Tokyo
Entrants56
Placements15 [2]
DebutsSan Marino
Withdrawals
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Dominican Republic
  • Great Britain
  • Latvia
  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Uruguay
Returns
  • Canada
  • Honduras
  • Puerto Rico
  • South Africa
  • Sweden
  • Tahiti
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
WinnerVivian Urdaneta [1] [3]
Venezuela
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Miss International 2000, was the 40th Miss International pageant, held at the Koseinenkin Hall in Tokyo, Japan on 4 October 2000. [4]

Contents

Vivian Urdaneta of Venezuela won and was crowned by Paulina Gálvez of Colombia. It is the third time Venezuela has won the pageant. [3]

Contestants from fifty-six countries and territories participated in the pageant, which was hosted by Masumi Okada.

Background

Selection of participants

Replacements

Lissette Blandón of Nicaragua was replaced by Marynes Argüello due to being overage. [5]

Withdrawals

Nicola Jane Willoughby of the United Kingdom, Evanna Marting of the Dominican Republic, Inga Alspire of Latvia, Maria Leticia Alvarez of Paraguay, Claudia Neyra of Peru, and Alana Selby of Trinidad and Tobago withdrew due to undisclosed reasons. [6]

Results

Miss International 2000 participating countries and territories Miss International 2000 Map.PNG
Miss International 2000 participating countries and territories

Placements

PlacementContestant
Miss International 2000
  • Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela – Vivian Urdaneta [3]
1st runner-up
2nd runner-up
  • Flag of Russia.svg Russia – Svetlana Goreva
Top 15
  • Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada – Angeliki Lakouras
  • Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia – Carolina Cruz
  • Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic – Markéta Svobodná
  • Flag of Finland.svg Finland - Kati Nirkko
  • Flag of India.svg India – Gayatri Joshi
  • Flag of Japan.svg Japan – Kanako Shibata
  • Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico – Leticia Murray
  • Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia – Michaela Strahlová [7]
  • Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden – Gabrielle Heinerborg
  • Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia – Ismahero Lahmar
  • Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey – Hulya Karanlik
  • Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine – Yana Razumovska

Special awards

AwardsContestant
Miss Friendship
  • Flag of Germany.svg Germany - Doreen Adler [2]
Miss Photogenic
Best National Costume
  • Flag of Aruba.svg Aruba - Carolina Francisca Albertsz [2]

Contestants

Fifty-six contestants competed for the title.

Country/TerritoryContestantAge [a] Hometown
Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Natalia Cecilia Dalla19 Buenos Aires
Flag of Aruba.svg Aruba Carolina Albertsz20 Oranjestad
Flag of Bolivia.svg Bolivia Catherine Villarroel [8] 18 Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Flag of Brazil.svg Brazil Fernanda Schiavo19 Rio Grande do Sul
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Angeliki Lakouras22–
Flag of Colombia.svg Colombia Carolina Cruz [9] 21 Tuluá
Flag of Croatia.svg Croatia Ana Gruica [10] 17 Zagreb
Flag of Curacao.svg Curaçao Roselle Angèle Augusta21 Willemstad
Flag of Cyprus.svg Cyprus Nikoletta Violari20 Nicosia
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czech Republic Markéta Svobodná19 South Bohemia
Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt Hagar El Taher23 Cairo
Flag of Finland.svg Finland Kati Nirkko [11] 21 Tampere
Flag of France.svg France Tatiana Bouguer23 Bormes-les-Mimosas
Flag of Germany.svg Germany Doreen Adler22 Berlin
Flag of Greece.svg Greece Dimitra Kitsiou22 Athens
Flag of Guam.svg Guam Liza Marie Camacho20 Hagåtña
Flag of Guatemala.svg Guatemala Yazmin Di Maio19 Guatemala City
Flag of Hawaii.svg Hawaii Carly Makanani Ah Sing18 Honolulu
Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg Honduras Alba Marcela Rubí19 Yoro
Flag of Hong Kong.svg Hong Kong Edith Ho22Hong Kong
Flag of Iceland.svg Iceland Anna Lilja Björnsdóttir19 Reykjavík
Flag of India.svg India Gayatri Joshi23 Nagpur
Flag of Israel.svg Israel Dana Farkash18 Jerusalem
Flag of Japan.svg Japan Kanako Shibata [6] 23 Hokkaido
Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon Sahar Mahmoud Al-Ghazzawi23 Beirut
Flag of North Macedonia.svg Macedonia Sanja Nikolic [12] 18 Skopje
Flag of Malaysia.svg Malaysia Aida Stannis Kazum [13] 22 Sarawak
Flag of Malta.svg Malta Dominique Desira21 Valletta
Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico Leticia Murray [14] 21 Hermosillo
Flag of Moldova.svg Moldova Elena Ungureanu17 Chișinău
Flag of Nepal.svg   Nepal Uma Bogati23 Kathmandu
Flag of Nicaragua.svg Nicaragua Marynes Argüello [5] 21 Managua
Flag of Norway.svg Norway Frida Jonson22 Oslo
Flag of Palau.svg Palau Eloisa Dilbodel Senior19 Koror
Flag of Panama.svg Panama Cristina Sousa [15] 19 Panama City
Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines Joanna Maria Peñaloza [16] 21 Mandaluyong
Flag of Poland.svg Poland Emilia Raszynska22 Warmia-Masuria
Flag of Portugal (official).svg Portugal Tânia Isabel Campanacho Ferreira18 Lisbon
Flag of Puerto Rico.svg Puerto Rico Rosiveliz Díaz20 San Juan
Flag of Russia.svg Russia Svetlana Goreva18 Moscow
Flag of San Marino.svg San Marino Chiara Valentini21San Marino
Flag of Singapore.svg Singapore Lorraine Mann [6] 23Singapore
Flag of Slovakia.svg Slovakia Michaela Strählová [7] 19 Bratislava
Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa Irmari Steyl20–
Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea Son Tae-young [17] 19 Daegu
Flag of Spain.svg Spain Raquel Rovira [18] 19 Madrid
Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Gabrielle Heinerborg20 Stockholm
Flag of French Polynesia.svg Tahiti Hinarai Leboucher20 Papeete
Flag of the Republic of China.svg Taiwan Chiang Hsin-Ting [6] 21 Taipei
Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand Phongkajorn Sareeyawat [6] 22 Bangkok
Flag of Togo (3-2).svg Togo Pamela Agnélé Gunn23 Lomé
Flag of Tunisia.svg Tunisia Ismahero Lahmar17 Tunis
Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey Hulya Karanlik [6] 22 Istanbul
Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine Yana Razumovska18 Kyiv
Flag of the United States.svg United States Kirstin Anne Cook22 Miami
Flag of Venezuela.svg Venezuela Vivian Urdaneta21 Maracaibo

Notes

  1. ↑ Ages during the competition

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Miss Poland wins international beauty pageant". Japan Weekly Monitor. October 8, 2001. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Miss International 2000 update". Philippine Headline News. November 19, 2000. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
  3. 1 2 3 "Un grupo de misses rechaza la violencia en el país" [A group of misses rejects violence in the country]. El Universal (in Spanish). 21 February 2014. Archived from the original on 16 March 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  4. ↑ "Beauty and brawn". Philippine Daily Inquirer. 23 September 2000. p. 28. Retrieved 26 June 2024– via Google Books.
  5. 1 2 "Una Reina de la Moda". La Prensa (in Spanish). 3 June 2003. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Who's the pretty girl?". New Straits Times. 28 September 2000. p. 12. Retrieved 26 June 2024– via Google Books.
  7. 1 2 "Slovenka v najlepšej pätnástke" [Slovakian in the best fifteen]. Korzar (in Slovak). 6 October 2000. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  8. ↑ "Catherine Villarroel: "El título de madre te lo da tu hijo y los otros adjetivos te los da la sociedad"" [Catherine Villarroel: “The title of mother is given to you by your child and the other adjectives are given to you by society”]. El Deber (in European Spanish). 19 May 2023. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  9. ↑ "Carolina Cruz se dejó ver al natural en redes sociales y sorprendió a sus seguidores". Infobae (in European Spanish). 1 February 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  10. ↑ "VREMEPLOV LJEPOTE: Prisjetili smo se kako su Ana Gruica, Žanamari i Monika Sablić izgledale na izboru za miss prije 20 godina" [TIME OF BEAUTY: We remembered how Ana Gruica, Žanamari and Monika Sablić looked at the pageant for miss 20 years ago]. Gloria (in Croatian). 29 August 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  11. ↑ "Kati Nirkko ei kaipaa julkisuutta" [Kati Nirkko doesn't need publicity]. Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). 22 July 2000. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  12. ↑ Mitrovska, Anita (24 August 2020). "Sanja Nikolic turns 38 - Birthday party in the yard, homemade cake and a little surprise (PHOTO) - Free Press". Слободен печат. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  13. ↑ "Striking". New Straits Times. 2 October 2000. p. 12. Retrieved 26 June 2024– via Google Books.
  14. ↑ Marín, Nora (14 July 2000). "Vuelve Leticia Murray a representar a México" [Leticia Murray returned to represent Mexico]. Terra (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 16 December 2004. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  15. ↑ "Pictures anyone?". New Straits Times. 1 October 2000. p. 13. Retrieved 26 June 2024– via Google Books.
  16. ↑ "Oops!". Philippine Daily Inquirer. February 29, 2000. p. 3. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  17. ↑ Han, Hyeon-woo (29 May 2000). "Kim Sa-rang Crowned Miss Korea 2000". The Chosun Ilbo . Archived from the original on 29 December 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  18. ↑ Lo, Ricky (4 October 2000). "Anak is RP's entry to the Oscars". Philippine Star . Retrieved 25 June 2024.
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