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Miss International 2000

Miss International 2000, was the 40th Miss International pageant, held at the Koseinenkin Hall in Tokyo, Japan on 4 October 2000.[4]

Miss International 2000
DateOctober 4, 2000[1]
PresentersMasumi Okada
VenueKoseinenkin Hall, Tokyo, Japan[1]
BroadcasterTV Tokyo
Entrants56
Placements15[2]
Withdrawals
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Dominican Republic
  • Britain
  • Latvia
  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Uruguay
Returns
  • Canada
  • Honduras
  • Puerto Rico
  • South Africa
  • Sweden
  • Tahiti
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
WinnerVivian Urdaneta[1][3]
Venezuela
← 1999
2001 →

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

Placements

Placement Contestant
Miss International 2000
1st runner-up
2nd runner-up
  •   Russia – Svetlana Goreva
Top 15

Special awards

Awards Contestant
Miss Friendship
Miss Photogenic
Best National Costume
  •   Aruba - Carolina Francisca Albertsz[2]

Contestants

Fifty-six contestants competed for the title.

Country/Territory Contestant Age[a] Hometown
  Argentina Natalia Cecilia Dalla 19 Buenos Aires
  Aruba Carolina Albertsz 20 Oranjestad
  Bolivia Catherine Villarroel[8] 18 Santa Cruz de la Sierra
  Brazil Fernanda Schiavo 19 Rio Grande do Sul
  Canada Angeliki Lakouras 22 –
  Colombia Carolina Cruz[9] 21 Tuluá
  Croatia Ana Gruica[10] 17 Zagreb
  Curaçao Roselle Angèle Augusta 21 Willemstad
  Cyprus Nikoletta Violari 20 Nicosia
  Czech Republic Markéta Svobodná 19 South Bohemia
  Egypt Hagar El Taher 23 Cairo
  Finland Kati Nirkko[11] 21 Tampere
  France Tatiana Bouguer 23 Bormes-les-Mimosas
  Germany Doreen Adler 22 Berlin
  Greece Dimitra Kitsiou 22 Athens
  Guam Liza Marie Camacho 20 Hagåtña
  Guatemala Yazmin Di Maio 19 Guatemala City
  Hawaii Carly Makanani Ah Sing 18 Honolulu
  Honduras Alba Marcela Rubí 19 Yoro
  Hong Kong Edith Ho 22 Hong Kong
  Iceland Anna Lilja Björnsdóttir 19 Reykjavík
  India Gayatri Joshi 23 Nagpur
  Israel Dana Farkash 18 Jerusalem
  Japan Kanako Shibata[6] 23 Hokkaido
  Lebanon Sahar Mahmoud Al-Ghazzawi 23 Beirut
  Macedonia Sanja Nikolic[12] 18 Skopje
  Malaysia Aida Stannis Kazum[13] 22 Sarawak
  Malta Dominique Desira 21 Valletta
  Mexico Leticia Murray[14] 21 Hermosillo
  Moldova Elena Ungureanu 17 Chișinău
    Nepal Uma Bogati 23 Kathmandu
  Nicaragua Marynes Argüello[5] 21 Managua
  Norway Frida Jonson 22 Oslo
  Palau Eloisa Dilbodel Senior 19 Koror
  Panama Cristina Sousa[15] 19 Panama City
  Philippines Joanna Maria Peñaloza[16] 21 Mandaluyong
  Poland Emilia Raszynska 22 Warmia-Masuria
  Portugal Tânia Isabel Campanacho Ferreira 18 Lisbon
  Puerto Rico Rosiveliz Díaz 20 San Juan
  Russia Svetlana Goreva 18 Moscow
  San Marino Chiara Valentini 21 San Marino
  Singapore Lorraine Mann[6] 23 Singapore
  Slovakia Michaela Strählová[7] 19 Bratislava
  South Africa Irmari Steyl 20 –
  South Korea Son Tae-young[17] 19 Daegu
  Spain Raquel Rovira[18] 19 Madrid
  Sweden Gabrielle Heinerborg 20 Stockholm
  Tahiti Hinarai Leboucher 20 Papeete
  Taiwan Chiang Hsin-Ting[6] 21 Taipei
  Thailand Phongkajorn Sareeyawat[6] 22 Bangkok
  Togo Pamela Agnélé Gunn 23 Lomé
  Tunisia Ismahero Lahmar 17 Tunis
  Turkey Hulya Karanlik[6] 22 Istanbul
  Ukraine Yana Razumovska 18 Kyiv
  United States Kirstin Anne Cook 22 Miami
  Venezuela Vivian Urdaneta 21 Maracaibo

Notes

  1. ^ Ages during the competition

References

  1. ^ a b c "Miss Poland wins international beauty pageant". Japan Weekly Monitor. October 8, 2001. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
  2. ^ a b c d "Miss International 2000 update". Philippine Headline News. November 19, 2000. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
  3. ^ a b c "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. ^ a b "Una Reina de la Moda". La Prensa (in Spanish). 3 June 2003. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d e f "Who's the pretty girl?". New Straits Times. 28 September 2000. p. 12. Retrieved 26 June 2024 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ a b "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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