Miss International 2012 | |
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![]() Miss international 2012, Ikumi Yoshimatsu | |
Date | October 21, 2012 |
Entertainment |
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Venue | Okinawa Prefectural Budokan Arena Building, Naha, Okinawa, Japan |
Broadcaster |
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Entrants | 69 |
Placements | 15 |
Debuts | |
Withdrawals | |
Returns | |
Winner | Ikumi Yoshimatsu Japan [1] |
Congeniality | Ameeksha Dilchand Mauritius |
Best National Costume | Nicole Velasquez Honduras |
Photogenic | Ikumi Yoshimatsu Japan |
Miss International 2012, the 52nd Miss International pageant, was held on October 21, 2012, at Okinawa Prefectural Budokan Arena Building in Okinawa, Japan. Fernanda Cornejo from Ecuador crowned her successor Ikumi Yoshimatsu from Japan at the end of the event. [1]
Yoshimatsu was dethroned shortly before the end of her reign, but she was not replaced. [2] [3] [4] She was ordered by The International Culture Association (Miss International organizer) to skip the succession ceremony and “play sick and shut up” out of fear of scandal. [5]
On June 8, 2012, it was announced during a Facebook conferenced by Akemi Shimomura, the president of the International Cultural Association, that the 2012 pageant will be held in Okinawa Prefectural Budokan Arena Building, Naha, Okinawa, Japan on October 21, 2012. [6]
Placement | Contestant |
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Miss International 2012 | |
1st Runner-Up |
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2nd Runner-Up |
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3rd Runner-Up | |
4th Runner-Up |
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Top 15 |
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Award | Contestant |
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Miss Friendship | |
Miss Photogenic | |
Miss Talent |
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Best National Costume |
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Miss Internet | |
Miss JOICFP |
Country/Territory | Contestant | Age | Height | Hometown | Continental Group |
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![]() | Daiana Incandela [7] | 23 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | Capital Federal | Americas |
![]() | Sarah Jane Fraser [8] | 21 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Newcastle | Oceania |
![]() | Anastasia Pogranichnaya | 20 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Minsk | Europe |
![]() | Alien Decock [8] | 24 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Brussels | Europe |
![]() | Destinee Arnold [9] | 19 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Roaring Creek | Americas |
![]() | Stephanie Nuñez | 20 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Pando | Americas |
![]() | Rafaela Butarelli [10] | 23 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Marília | Americas |
![]() | Francoise Odette Ngoumou [11] | 22 | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | Douala | Africa |
![]() | Marta Jablonska [11] | 24 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | Hamilton | Americas |
![]() | Nianyu Yu [11] | 20 | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | Taipei | Asia |
![]() | Melissa Varón [12] | 25 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | Santa Marta | Americas |
![]() | Natasha Sibaja | 21 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Pérez Zeledón | Americas |
![]() | Line Christiansen | 18 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Århus | Europe |
![]() | Melody Mir Jiménez | 23 | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Santiago de los Caballeros | Americas |
![]() | Tatiana Loor [13] | 21 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Santo Domingo | Americas |
![]() | Marlin Ramirez [14] | 21 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | San Salvador | Americas |
![]() | Xenia Likhacheva [11] | 23 | 1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Tallinn | Europe |
![]() | Viivi Suominen [15] | 25 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Turku | Europe |
![]() | Marion Amelineau [11] | 23 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | Givrand | Europe |
![]() | Channa Divouvi [11] | 21 | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Libreville | Africa |
![]() | Aline Marie [16] | 25 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Munich | Europe |
![]() | Kerrianne Massetti [11] | 24 | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | Gibraltar | Europe |
![]() | Aude Belenus [8] | 21 | 1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in) | Basse-Terre | Americas |
![]() | Chanel Cruz Jarrett | 18 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Agana Heights | Oceania |
![]() | Christa Irene García González [11] | 20 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Guatemala City | Americas |
![]() | Anedie Azael [11] | 23 | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Port-au-Prince | Americas |
![]() | Nicole Velasquez [11] | 21 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Tegucigalpa | Americas |
![]() | Tracy Tsin Suet Chu [11] | 24 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Hong Kong | Asia |
![]() | Claudia Kozma | 21 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Budapest | Europe |
![]() | Rochelle Maria Rao [17] | 23 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Chennai | Asia |
![]() | Liza Elly Purnamasari | 21 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Malang | Asia |
![]() | Yael Markovich [18] | 23 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Haifa | Asia |
![]() | Giulia Masala [11] | 19 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Ploaghe | Europe |
![]() | Ikumi Yoshimatsu [19] | 25 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Saga | Asia |
![]() | Lee Jung-bin [11] | 19 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Gwangju | Asia |
![]() | Kristīna Viļuma [11] | 22 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Riga | Europe |
![]() | Cynthia Moukarzel [20] | 24 | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | Beirut | Asia |
![]() | Cherry Ng [21] | 25 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Macau | Asia |
![]() | Mei Xian Teng [11] | 21 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Perak | Asia |
![]() | Ameeksha Dilchand [8] | 25 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Port Louis | Africa |
![]() | Jessica García Formenti [22] | 22 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | La Paz | Americas |
![]() | Dolgion Delgerjav | 21 | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Ulaanbaatar | Asia |
![]() | Nang Khin Zay Yar [11] | 24 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Taunggyi | Asia |
![]() | Paulina Malulu [11] | 23 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Windhoek | Africa |
![]() | Subeksha Khadka | 18 | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | Lalitpur | Asia |
![]() | Hannah Carson | 25 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Auckland | Oceania |
![]() | Reyna Pérez [11] | 20 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Chinandega | Americas |
![]() | Karen Jordán Beitia | 23 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | David | Americas |
![]() | Nicole Huber | 22 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Asunción | Americas |
![]() | Rossmary Pizarro | 25 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Iquitos | Americas |
![]() | Nicole Schmitz [23] | 24 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Cebu City | Asia |
![]() | Rozalia Mancewicz [24] | 25 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Bialystok | Europe |
![]() | Joana Peta | 22 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Faro | Europe |
![]() | Ashley Ruiz [25] | 24 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Rincón | Americas |
![]() | Ekaterina Meglinskaia [8] | 20 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Saratov | Europe |
![]() | Leong Ying Mae [26] | 22 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Singapore | Asia |
![]() | Denisa Krajčovičová | 24 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Bratislava | Europe |
![]() | Ana Amparo Crespo [11] | 22 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Valencia | Europe |
![]() | Madusha Mayadunne [11] | 25 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Colombo | Asia |
![]() | Wynona Redmond [11] | 25 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Paramaribo | Americas |
![]() | Katarina Konow | 19 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Stockholm | Europe |
![]() | Ariirau Sandras [11] | 22 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Papeete | Oceania |
![]() | Rungsinee Panjaburi [11] | 21 | 1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | Lamphun | Asia |
![]() | Meltem Tüzüner [27] | 23 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Istanbul | Europe |
![]() | Julia Gershun [11] | 23 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Dnepropetrovsk | Europe |
![]() | Alize Lily Mounter [28] | 24 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | London | Europe |
![]() | Amanda Renee Delgado [29] | 22 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Los Angeles | Americas |
![]() | Vanessa Donastorg [30] | 23 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | Saint Thomas | Americas |
![]() | Blanca Aljibes [31] | 24 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | Valencia | Americas |
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