Mister International (Thailand)

Not to be confused with Mister International (Philippines).

For the most recent competition, see Mister International 2025.

Mister International

Type	International male beauty pageant
Parent organization	Mister International Company, Ltd
Headquarters	Bangkok, Thailand
First edition	2006;19 years ago (2006)
Most recent edition	2025
Current titleholder	Kirk Bondad Philippines
Founder	Alan Sim
President	Pradit Pradinunt
Vice President	Anthony Santana
Chief Executive Officer	Jung-hoon "Ricky" Jeon
Chief Operating Officer	Nicholo Paulo "Pawee" Ventura
Language	English, Thai (since 2023)
Website	www.misterinternational.org

Mister International is an international male beauty pageant that the Mister International Organization runs since 2006. It was Singapore-based, owned, and organized by its former president and late founder Alan Sim.

Following Sim's death, two new Mister International organizations emerged, one based in the Philippines, the other in Thailand. Since 2023, both organizations have conducted their own competitions and chosen their own Mister International winner.

The current Mister International is Kirk Bondad of the Philippines, who was crowned on September 25, 2025, at the MCC Hall, The Mall Ngamwongwan Nonthaburi, Thailand.

History

2006–2021

Mister International Organization was Singapore-based, owned, and organized by its former president and late founder, Alan Sim, ^[1] Since the first edition, 80 countries have sent their representative to this competition. The Mister International Organization licenses local organizations that wish to select the Mister International delegate for their country and approves the selection method for national contestants. Traditionally, Mister International lived in Singapore during his reign and was allowed to live anywhere in every country (hence the name Mister International). ^[2]

2022–present

Since Sim's death on October 12, 2022, two Mister International organizations emerged, with one being headquartered to Thailand and led by Pradit Pradinunt from October 31, 2022. For the first time in 16 years, the Mister International Organization will allow fathers, married, and divorced men to compete. ^[3] A separate Mister International Organization based in the Philippines led by Manuel Deldio ^{[4] [5]} has been holding a pageant of the same name since 2023. ^{[6] [7] [8]}

Titleholders

Edition	Year	Date	Mister International	Runners-ups					Location	No.	Ref.
				First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth
1st	2006	October 7, 2006	Wissam Hanna   Lebanon	Erbert Javier Delgado Venezuela	Konstantinos Avrampos Greece	Karlis Karolis Latvia	Chaka Sedgwick USA	Not awarded	Singapore	18	[9] [10]
2nd	2007	December 31, 2007	Alan Bianco Martini   Brazil	Oh Jong Sung South Korea	Aristotelis Bolovinos Greece	Alberto García Gómez Venezuela	Bassel Mohammad Abou Lebanon		Kuching, Malaysia	17	[11] [10]
3rd	2008	November 24, 2008	Ngô Tiến Đoàn   Vietnam	Mohamad Chamseddine Lebanon	Zhang Lun Shuo China	Mihovil Barun Croatia	Vincent Cleuren Netherlands		Tainan, Taiwan	30	[12] [13] [14] [10]
4th	2009	December 19, 2009	Bruno Kettels   Bolivia	Hector Soria Spain	Marcelino Gebrayel Lebanon	Maxime Thomasset France	Sebastian Strzepka Poland		Taichung, Taiwan	29	[10]
5th	2010	November 30, 2010	Ryan Terry Great Britain	Caio Lucius Ribeiro Brazil	Luis Alberto Macías Spain	Thomas Sebastian Indonesia	Leodion Sulaj Greece		Jakarta, Indonesia	40	[10]
6th	2011	December 17, 2011	César Curti Brazil	Martin Gardavsky Czech Republic	Steven Yoswara Indonesia	Le Khoi Nguyen Vietnam	Marco Djelevic Virriat Sweden		Bangkok, Thailand	33	[10]
7th	2012	November 24, 2012	Ali Hammoud   Lebanon (resigned) Ron Teh   Singapore (assumed)	Ron Teh   Singapore (originally first runner-up)	Marko Sobot Slovenia	Ricardo Magrino Brazil	Ján Haraslín Slovak Republic			38	[10]
8th	2013	November 21, 2013	José Anmer Paredes   Venezuela	Albern Sultan Indonesia	Jhonatan Marko Brazil	Hans Briseño Mexico	Gil Wagas Philippines	Antonin Beránek Czech Republic	Jakarta, Indonesia	38	[10]
9th	2014	February 14, 2015	Neil Perez   Philippines	Rabih El Zein   Lebanon	Tomas Dumbrovsky Czech Republic	Rafal Maslak Poland	Mitja Nadizar Slovenia	Not awarded	Ansan, Korea	29	[10]
10th	2015	November 30, 2015	Pedro Mendes   Switzerland	Anderson Tomazini Brazil	Sang Jin Lee South Korea	Julian Javier Torres Panama	Jakub Kraus Czech Republic		Manila, Philippines	36	[10] [15]
11th	2016	February 13, 2017	Paul Iskandar   Lebanon	Masaya Yamagishi Japan	Vinicio Modolo Italy	Not awarded			Bangkok, Thailand	35	[10]
12th	2017	April 30, 2018	Seung Hwan Lee South Korea	Manuel Molano Colombia	Dwayne Geldenhuis South Africa				Yangon, Myanmar	36	[10]
13th	2018	February 25, 2019	Trịnh Văn Bảo   Vietnam	Francesco Piscitelli Venezuela	Waikin Kwan Hong Kong				Pasay City, Philippines	39	[16] [17] [10] [18]
2019–2021 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
14th	2022	October 30, 2022	Emmanuel "Manu" Franco Dominican Republic	Lukanand Kshetrimayum India	Orangel Dirinot Venezuela	Jason Li Hong Kong	Myron Jude Ordillano Philippines	Juan Pablo Colias Spain	Quezon City, Philippines	35	[19] [20] [21] [10]
15th	2023	September 17, 2023	Kim Goodburn Thailand	William Badell Venezuela	Edward Ogunniya Brazil	Not awarded			Bangkok, Thailand	36	[22]
16th	2024	December 14, 2024	Nwajagu Samuel Nigeria	Nguyễn Mạnh Lân Vietnam	Glenn Victor Sutanto Indonesia					47	[23] [24]
17th	2025	September 25, 2025	Kirk Bondad   Philippines	Saadedine Hneineh   Lebanon	Seung Ho Choi   South Korea	Bethel Mbamara   Nigeria	Roberto Mena   Costa Rica	Kanapol Treesongkiat   Thailand	Nonthaburi, Thailand	42

Titleholders by country or territory

Country Titles Year   Philippines 2 2014, 2025   Vietnam 2008, 2018   Lebanon 2006, 2016   Brazil 2007, 2011 Nigeria 1 2024 Thailand 2023 Dominican Republic 2022 South Korea 2017   Switzerland 2015   Venezuela 2013   Singapore 2012 Great Britain 2010   Bolivia 2009

Continents by number of wins Continent Titles Years Asia 9 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 , 2023, 2025 Americas 5 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2022 Europe 2 2010, 2015 Africa 1 2024 Oceania 0

Assumed wins

Titles assumed following resignations.

Country or territory	Titles	Year(s)
Singapore	1	2012

Dethroned wins

Country or territory	Titles	Year(s)
Lebanon	1	2012

Winners gallery

• 
  Mister International 2014
  Neil Perez
   Philippines
• 
  Mister International 2023
  Kim Thitisan Goodburn
   Thailand
• 
  Mister International 2024
  Nwajagu Samuel
   Nigeria
• 
  Mister International 2025
  Kirk Bondad
   Philippines

First Mr. International

The Mr. International, organized by India-based clothing company Graviera, was a male pageant first held in 1998 and was held annually in India until 2003, when it was staged in London. It has not been held since then and has been de facto replaced by Mister International.^{[ improper synthesis? ]} Entries have been cross-referenced with their participation in the Manhunt International, Mister Intercontinental, and Mister World pageants. ^[25]

Titleholders

Edition	Year	Date	Mr. International	Runners-up		Location	Entrants	Ref.
				First	Second
1st	1998	October 31, 1998	Mario Carballo   Costa Rica	Hasan Yalnizoglu Turkey	Tamme Boh Tjarks Germany	Jaipur, India	23	[26]
2nd	1999	October 30, 1999	Nadir Nery Djiukich   Venezuela	James Ghoril Lebanon	Abhijit Sanyal   India	New Delhi, India	24	[27]
3rd	2000	October 13, 2000	Aryan Vaid   India	Jorge Pascual Mexico	Xu Chong China	Jodhpur, India	25	[28]
4th	2001	December 15, 2001	Alexander Aquino   Philippines	Anibal Martignani Pérez   Venezuela	Leroy Vissers Holland	Udaipur, India	36	[29] [30] [31]
5th	2002	October 26, 2002	Raghu Mukherjee   India	Julio César Cabrera Mendieta   Venezuela	Odysseus Karouis Greece	New Delhi, India	26	[32] [33] [34]
6th	2003	August 24, 2003	William Kelly Sharjah, UAE	Rajneesh Duggal   India	Shaun Paul Cuthbert   Singapore	London, England	32	[35]

• Note: In 2003 edition, three contestants came from United Arab Emirates , included Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah. William Kelly represented Sharjah and later won the title.

League tables

Countries/Territories by number of wins

Country/Territory	Titles	Year
India	2	2000, 2002
United Arab Emirates	1	2003
Philippines		2001
Venezuela		1999
Costa Rica		1998

Continents by number of wins

Continent	Titles	Years
Asia	4	2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
Americas	2	1998, 1999

Map of countries/territories by number of wins

• 
  Map of countries and territories that have won Mr. International.

• Note: The winner of the 2003 edition, William Kelly, represented Sharjah, one of the emirates of the UAE. The crown is counted for the United Arab Emirates only, and not for Sharjah, since Sharjah is part of the UAE. This is reflected in the table. ^[36]

See also

• Mister World
• Manhunt International
• Mister Supranational
• Man of the World
• Mister Global

References

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External links

• Official Website