Miss World 2000

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Miss World 2000
Priyanka Chopra at the Times Of India Film Awards 2013 (TOIFA) (cropped).jpg
Miss World 2000 titleholder – Priyanka Chopra
Date30 November 2000
Presenters
Entertainment
Venue Millennium Dome, London, United Kingdom
Broadcaster
Entrants95
Placements10
Debuts
Withdrawals
Returns
Winner Priyanka Chopra [1] [2]
India
  1999
2001  

Miss World 2000 was the 50th anniversary of the Miss World pageant, held at the Millennium Dome in London, United Kingdom on 30 November 2000. Portions of the pageant were also filmed in the Maldives. [3]

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At the end of the event, Yukta Mookhey of India crowned Priyanka Chopra of India as Miss World 2000. [4] She is the fifth Miss World and the second successive winner from her country. Internationally, Chopra reigned alongside Miss Universe 2000 titleholder Lara Dutta, marking the most recent time (as of 2016) that any country has held the two most prestigious beauty pageant titles in the world in a single year since 1994. [1] [2]

The pageant was the first since the death of pageant owner Eric Morley, whose widow Julia Morley assumed responsibility for the event. The pageant had 95 contestants, the highest number of Miss World participants at that time.

Results

Placements

PlacementContestant
Miss World 2000
1st Runner-Up
2nd Runner-Up
Top 5
Top 10

Continental Queens of Beauty

Continental GroupContestant
Africa
  • Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya – Yolanda Masinde
Americas
Asia
Caribbean
  • Flag of Curacao.svg  Curacao – Jozaine Marianella Wall
Europe

Contestants

Countries and territories which sent delegates, and results for Miss World 2000 Miss World 2000 Map.PNG
Countries and territories which sent delegates, and results for Miss World 2000

95 contestants competed for the title. [5]

Country/TerritoryContestantAge [a] Hometown
Flag of Angola.svg  Angola Deolinda Vilela23 Luanda
Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina Daniela Stucan19 Buenos Aires
Flag of Aruba.svg  Aruba Monique van der Horn21 Oranjestad
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Renee Henderson23 Melbourne
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria Patricia Kaiser [6] 16 Linz
Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas Latia Bowe23 Nassau
Flag of Bangladesh.svg  Bangladesh Sonia Gazi [7] 21 Dhaka
Flag of Barbados.svg  Barbados Leilani McConney19 Bridgetown
Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus Sviatlana Kruk 21 Grodno
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium Joke van de Velde [8] 20 Melle
Flag of Bolivia.svg  Bolivia Jimena Rico22 Cochabamba
Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Bosnia and Herzegovina Jasmina Mahmutović19 Bihać
Flag of Botswana.svg  Botswana Puna Keleabetswe Serati21 Mochudi
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil Francine Eickemberg18 Camboriú
Flag of the British Virgin Islands.svg  British Virgin Islands Nadia Harrigan Ubinas23 Tortola
Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria Ivanka Peytcheva19 Pasardzhik
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Christine Cho [9] 21 Toronto
Flag of the Cayman Islands.svg  Cayman Islands Jacqueline Bush25 George Town
Flag of Chile.svg  Chile Isabel Bawlitza24 Linares
Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei Shu-Ting Hao22 Taipei
Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia Andrea Durán24 Bogotá
Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica Cristina de Mezerville22 Heredia
Flag of Croatia.svg  Croatia Andreja Čupor18 Ozalj
Flag of Curacao.svg  Curaçao Jozaine Wall18 Willemstad
Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus Ifigenia Papaioannou19 Limassol
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic Michaela Salačová18 Moravské Budějovice
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Anne Katrin Vrang23 Copenhagen
Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic Gilda Jovine 20 Santo Domingo
Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador Ana Dolores Murillo20 Portoviejo
Flag of England.svg  England Michelle Walker19 Liverpool
Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia Irina Ovtchinnikova21 Tallinn
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland Salima Peippo18 Turku
Flag of France.svg  France Karine Meier20 Meurthe-et-Moselle
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Natascha Berg20 Mannheim
Flag of Ghana.svg  Ghana Maame Ewarfaah Hawkson22 Accra
Flag of Gibraltar.svg  Gibraltar Tessa Sacramento19 Gibraltar
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece Athanasia Tzoulaki18 Peloponnese
Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala Cindy Ramírez24 Guatemala City
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Holland Raja Moussaoui24 Roermond
Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg  Honduras Verónica Rivera17 Cortés
Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong Margaret Kan20 Hong Kong
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary Judit Kuchta21 Budapest
Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland Elva Dögg Melsteð21 Reykjavík
Flag of India.svg  India Priyanka Chopra [1] [2] 18 Jharkhand
Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Yvonne Ellard21 Tipperary
Flag of Israel.svg  Israel Dana Dantes19 Tel Aviv
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Giorgia Palmas 18 Cagliari
Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica Ayisha Richards24 Kingston
Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Mariko Sugai23 Tokyo
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan Margarita Kravtsova19 Almaty
Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya Yolanda Masinde21 Nairobi
Flag of Lebanon.svg  Lebanon Sandra Rizk18 Beirut
Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania Martyna Bimbaite16 Vilnius
Flag of Madagascar.svg  Madagascar Julianna Todimarina17 Toamasina
Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia Tan Sun Wei24 Kuala Lumpur
Flag of Malta.svg  Malta Katia Grima19 Valletta
Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico Paulina Flores 20 Culiacán
Flag of Moldova.svg  Moldova Mariana Moraru †16 Chișinău
Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia Mia de Klerk21 Windhoek
Flag of Nepal.svg    Nepal Usha Khadgi21 Kathmandu
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand Katherine Allsopp-Smith21 Auckland
Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria Matilda Kerry 19 Benin City
Ulster Banner.svg  Northern Ireland Julie Lee-Ann Martin20 Belfast
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway Stine Pedersen21 Oslo
Flag of Panama.svg  Panama Ana Raquel Ochy22 Panama City
Flag of Paraguay.svg  Paraguay Patricia Villanueva17 Asunción
Flag of Peru.svg  Peru Tatiana Angulo23 Trujillo
Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines Katherine de Guzman [10] 20 San Carlos
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Justyna Bergmann18 Warsaw
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal Gilda Dias Pe-Curto21 Lisbon
Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico Sarybel Velilla24 Toa Alta
Flag of Romania.svg  Romania Aleksandra Cosmoiu20 Bucharest
Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Anna Bodareva19 Moscow
Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland Michelle Watson19 Motherwell
Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore Charlyn Ding19 Singapore
Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia Janka Horecna20 Žilina
Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia Maša Merc22 Maribor
Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa Heather Joy Hamilton23 Durban
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea Jung-sun Shin20 Seoul
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Verónica García20 Madrid
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg  Sri Lanka Ganga Gunasekera25 Colombo
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Ida Sofia Manneh23 Stockholm
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland Mahara McKay 19 Zürich
Flag of French Polynesia.svg  Tahiti Vanini Bea19 Papeete
Flag of Tanzania.svg  Tanzania Jacqueline Ntuyabelikwe 21 Dar es Salaam
Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago Rhonda Rosemin23 Port of Spain
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey Yuksel Ak20 Istanbul
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine Olena Shcherban17 Kyiv
Flag of the United States.svg  United States Angelique Breaux22 Los Angeles
Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.svg  United States Virgin Islands Luciah Hedrington20 Saint Thomas
Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay Katja Thomsen18 Montevideo
Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela Vanessa Cárdenas 19 Maracaibo
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales Sophie-Kate Cahill17 Cardiff
Flag of Serbia and Montenegro (1992-2006).svg  Yugoslavia Iva Milivojević19 Belgrade
Flag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe Victoria Moyo21 Harare

Judges

Notes

  1. Ages at the time of the pageant

Debuts

Returns

Replacements

Withdrawals

References

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