Miss International 2000

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
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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]

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
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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