Miss International 2001

Beauty pageant held in Japan

  • Masumi Okada
  • Yukie Sakai
VenueNakano Sun Plaza, Nakano, Tokyo, Japan[1]Broadcaster
  • TV Tokyo
Entrants52[1]Placements15Debuts
  • Mongolia
Withdrawals
  • Egypt
  • Guam
  • Honduras
  • Lebanon
  • Moldova
  • Nepal
  • Panama
  • Portugal
  • South Africa
  • Tahiti
  • Taiwan
  • Togo
ReturnsWinnerMałgorzata Rożniecka
 PolandCongenialitySiv Hegerland
 NorwayBest National CostumeBaek Myoung-hee
 South KoreaPhotogenicDikla Elkabetz
 Israel
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Miss International 2001, the 41st Miss International pageant, was held on October 4, 2001 at the Nakano Sun Plaza in Tokyo, Japan. At the end of the event, Vivian Urdaneta of Venezuela crowned her successor Małgorzata Rożniecka of Poland.

Results

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results

Placements

Placement Contestant
Miss International 2001
1st runner-up
2nd runner-up
Top 15

Special awards

Awards Contestant
Miss Friendship
Miss Photogenic
Best National Costume

Contestants

Fifty-two contestants competed for the title.

Country/Territory Contestant Age[a] Hometown
 Argentina María Victoria Branda 19 Buenos Aires
 Aruba Daphne Croes 23 Oranjestad
 Bolivia Priscilla Quiroga 21 La Paz
 Brazil Fernanda Tinti 19 Minas Gerais
 Britain Michelle Watson[4] 20 Motherwell
 Canada Shauna Olechow 23
 Chile Paula Orchard 22 Santiago
 Colombia Rocio Stevenson 22 Cartagena
 Croatia Martina Poljak 21 Zagreb
 Curaçao Vanessa van Arendonk 20 Willemstad
 Cyprus Maria Alecou Hadzivassiliou 19 Nicosia
 Czech Republic Andrea Vranová[5] 20 Ústecký
 Dominican Republic Judith Cury[6] 19 Santo Domingo Este
 Finland Hanna Pajulammi[7] 21 Helsinki
 France Nawal Benhlal 21 Lyon
 Germany Anna Ziemski 20 Berlin
 Greece Fotini Kokari 19
 Guatemala Rosa Maria Castañeda[8] 20 Chiquimula
 Hawaii Yoon Hee Jenny Lee 23 Honolulu
 Holland Caroline Heijboer 25 Amsterdam
 Hong Kong Heidi Chu[9] 24 Hong Kong
 Iceland Iris Dögg Oddsdóttir 18 Reykjavík
 India Kanwal Toor[10] 23 Delhi
 Israel Dikla Elkabetz 19
 Japan Hanako Suzuki 23
 Latvia Laura Vīksna 22
 Macedonia Dragana Klopcevska 21
 Malaysia Cheah Teck Yoong 20
 Malta Ruth Spiteri 19
 Mexico Irma Ríos 23
 Mongolia Sansarmaa Luvsandoo 25
 Nicaragua Renneé Dávila 24
 Northern Mariana Islands Rowina Taimanao Ogo 22
 Norway Siv Hegerland 22
 Palau Indira Isikl Kazuma 20
 Philippines Maricarl Tolosa[11] 22 Marikina
 Poland Małgorzata Rożniecka 23 Szczecin
 Puerto Rico Lorna Otero 22
 Russia Tatiana Pavlova[3]
 San Marino Marzia Bellesso 24
 Singapore Juley Binte Abdullah 23
 Slovakia Barbara Pappova 19
 South Korea Baek Myoung-hee 19
 Spain Ayola Molina 20
 Sweden Sara Nicole Cameron 21
 Thailand Kanithakan Saengprachaksakula 24
 Tunisia Leila Oualha 23
 Turkey Ece F. Incedursun 18
 Ukraine Natalia Bakulina 18
 United States Eleana Thompson 19
 Venezuela Aura Zambrano 20
 Yugoslavia Iva Gordana Milivojevic 20

Notes

  1. ^ Ages during the competition

Withdrawals

Replacements

  •  San Marino – Maria Elisa Canti (to concentrate on the Miss Europe pageant)

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Miss Poland wins international beauty pageant". Japan Weekly Monitor. October 8, 2001. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
  2. ^ Villano, Alexa (11 November 2017). "The question of a back-to-back win in Miss International". Rappler. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Fairest of them all..." New Straits Times. 4 October 2001. p. 71. Retrieved 28 June 2024 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ McPherson, Lynn; Lavery, Charles (14 January 2007). "Boxing tycoon cheats on his wife with former Miss Scotland - Daily Record". Daily Record. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  5. ^ "Miss Vránová končí, je těhotná!" [Miss Vránová quits, she is pregnant!]. iDNES.cz (in Czech). 14 September 2004. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  6. ^ Hilario, Yohanna (28 September 2009). "Vivencias del Miss RD en un libro" [Miss DR's experiences in a book]. Diario Libre (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  7. ^ "Hanna Pajulammi varustautuu missikisoihin kynsin ja laastarein" [Hanna Pajulammi equips herself for the pageant with nails and plasters]. Ilta-Sanomat (in Finnish). 24 September 2001. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  8. ^ Ochoa, José Andrés (12 September 2018). "La polémica de Miss Guatemala 2018, explicada" [The controversy of Miss Guatemala 2018, explained]. Prensa Libre (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  9. ^ Lam, Emily (26 July 2001). "Zhang fails to charm press". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  10. ^ "Meet Kanwal Toor: Sikh ex-model who plans to oust Tan Dhesi". The Times of India. 16 October 2019. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  11. ^ Lo, Ricky (September 24, 2001). "Who will bring home the crown?". Philippine Star. Retrieved September 20, 2021.

External links

  • Pageantopolis – Miss International 2001
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