Miss International 2000

Miss International 2000
Date	October 4, 2000[1]
Presenters	Masumi Okada
Venue	Koseinenkin Hall, Tokyo, Japan[1]
Broadcaster	TV Tokyo
Entrants	56
Placements	15[2]
Debuts	Croatia, Moldova, Nepal, San Marino
Withdrawals	Côte d'Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Britain, Latvia, Northern Mariana Islands, Uruguay
Returns	Canada, Honduras, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Sweden, Tahiti, Taiwan, Thailand
Winner	Vivian Urdaneta[1][3][4]  Venezuela
Congeniality	Doreen Adler  Germany[2]
Best National Costume	Carolina Albertsz[2]  Aruba
Photogenic	Son Tae-young  Korea[2]

Miss International 2000, the 40th Miss International pageant, took place on October 4, 2000 at the Koseinenkin Hall in Tokyo, Japan. It was won by Vivian Urdaneta of Venezuela.^[3][4]

Results

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss International 2000	Venezuela – Vivian Urdaneta[3][4]
1st runner-up	Korea – Son Tae-young
2nd runner-up	Russia – Svetlana Goreva
Semi-finalists	Canada – Angeliki Lakouras  Colombia – Carolina Cruz Osorio  Czech Republic – Markéta Svobodná  Finland – Kati Nirkko  India – Gayatri Joshi  Japan – Kanako Shibata  Mexico – Leticia Murray  Slovak Republic – Michaela Strahlová  Sweden – Gabrielle Elisabeth Heinerborg  Tunisia – Ismahero Lahmar  Turkey – Hulya Karanlik  Ukraine – Yana Anatoliyivna Razumovska

Special awards

Awards	Contestant
Best National Costume	Aruba - Carolina Francisca Albertsz[2]
Miss Friendship	Germany - Doreen Adler[2]
Miss Photogenic	Korea - Son Tae-young[2]

Contestants

Argentina – Natalia Cecilia Dalla Costa  Aruba – Carolina Fransisca Albertsz  Bolivia – Catherine Villarroel Márquez  Brazil – Maria Fernanda Schneider Schiavo  Canada – Angeliki Lakouras  Colombia – Carolina Cruz Osorio  Croatia – Ana Gruica  Curaçao – Roselle Angèle Augusta  Cyprus – Nikoletta Violari  Czech Republic – Markéta Svobodná  Egypt – Hagar Ahmed El Taher  Finland – Kati Hannele Nirkko  France – Tatiana Micheline Bouguer  Germany – Doreen Adler  Greece – Dimitra Kitsiou  Guam – Liza Marie Leolini Camacho  Guatemala – Yazmin Alicia Di Maio Bocca  Hawaii – Carly Makanani Ah Sing  Honduras – Alba Marcela Rubí Castellón  Hong Kong – Edith Ho Wai Wong  Iceland – Anna Lilja Björnsdóttir  India – Gayatri Anilkumar Joshi  Israel – Dana Farkash  Japan – Kanako Shibata  Korea – Son Tae-young  Lebanon – Sahar Mahmoud Al-Ghazzawi  FYR of Macedonia – Sanja Nikolik  Malaysia – Aida Stannis Kazum

Malta – Dominique Desira  Mexico – Leticia "Letty" Judith Murray Acedo  Moldova – Elena Andrej Ungureanu    Nepal – Uma Bogati  Nicaragua – Marynés Argüello César  Norway – Frida Agnethe Jonson  Palau – Eloisa Dilbodel Senior  Panama – Cristina Marie Sousa Broce  Philippines – Joanna Maria Mijares Peñaloza  Poland – Emilia Ewelina Raszynska  Portugal – Tânia Isabel Campanacho Ferreira  Puerto Rico – Rosiveliz Díaz Rodríguez  Russia – Svetlana Victorovna Goreva  San Marino – Chiara Valentini  Singapore – Lorraine Mann Loo Koo  Slovak Republic – Michaela Strählová  South Africa – Irmari Steyl  Spain – Raquel González Rovira  Sweden – Gabrielle Elisabeth Heinerborg  Tahiti – Hinarai Leboucher  Taiwan – Chiang Hsin-Ting  Thailand – Phongkajorn Sareeyawat  Togo – Pamela Agnele Gunn  Tunisia – Ismahero Lahmar  Turkey – Hulya Karanlik  Ukraine – Yana Anatoliyivna Razumovska  U.S.A. – Kirstin Anne Cook  Venezuela – Vivian Urdaneta

Notes

Did not compete

Britain – Nicola Jane Willoughby (World '99)  Dominican Republic – Evanna Marting  Latvia – Inga Alspire

Paraguay – Maria Leticia Alvarez  Peru – Claudia Neyra  Trinidad & Tobago – Alana Selby

Replacements

•  Nicaragua – Lissette Blandó (over the 23-age limit)

References

1. "Miss Poland wins international beauty pageant". Japan Weekly Monitor. October 8, 2001. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
2. "Miss International 2000 update". Philippine Headline News. November 19, 2000. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
3. "Arte y Entretenimiento". El Universal (in Spanish). 21 February 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
4. Vina, Nguyen (September 28, 2015). "All winners of the contest Miss International". Global Express News. Retrieved January 3, 2016.

External links

• Pageantopolis – Miss International 2000