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MISS UNIVERSE 2004!
Jennifer Hawkins - Australia
2. Shandi Finnessey - USA
3. Alba Giselle Reyes Santos - Puerto Rico
4. Yanina González - Paraguay
5. Danielle Jones - Trinidad & Tobago
SEMI-FINALISTS:
Catherine Daza Machola - Colombia
Nancy Soto Martínez - Costa Rica
María Susana Rivadeneira Simball - Ecuador
Tanushree Dutta - India
Christine Renée Straw - Jamaica
QUARTER-FINALISTS:
Telma de Jesus Esperança Sonhi - Angola
Gabriela Barros - Chile
Rosalva Yazmín Luna Ruiz - Mexico
Katrine Sørland - Norway
Bianca Nicole Sissing - Switzerland
Miss Congeniality: Laia Manetti - Italy
Miss Photogenic: Alba Giselle Reyes Santos - Puerto Rico
Best National Costume: Jéssica Patricia Rodríguez Clark - Panama
2. Rosalva Yazmín Luna Ruiz - Mexico
3. Danielle Jones - Trinidad & Tobago
COSTUME COMPETITION FINALISTS:
María Susana Rivadeneira Simball - Ecuador
Heba El-Sisy - Egypt
Tanushree Dutta - India
Alba Giselle Reyes Santos - Puerto Rico
Nicole Dupont Giglio - Uruguay
Shandi Finnessey - USA
Ana Karina Áñez Delgado - Venezuela
Fast Facts:
Australia - second crown; first winner since 1972; first placement since 1993!
USA - best result since 1997; 8th Miss USA to be first runner-up
Puerto Rico - 4th straight Miss Photogenic; best result and first placement since 2001
Paraguay - BEST PLACEMENT TO DATE! Only two previous SFs; last in 1991
Trinidad & Tobago - best result since 1998
Colombia - shut out since 2000, now back in style!
Costa Rica - ONLY SECOND PLACEMENT EVER! Only other was in 1954 -- WOW!
Ecuador - ONLY SECOND PLACEMENT EVER! Only other was in 1981!
India - after a one year shut-out, they're also back in style!
Jamaica - only fourth semi-finalist; last was in 1999
Angola - two quarter-finalists in two years!
Chile - last finalist was in 1990; great job!
Mexico - Lupita Jones can finally breathe again...first placement since 1999!
Norway - last finalist was also in 1990, when Norway won; was 4th in Miss World '02
Switzerland - last finalist was in 1994; was top 20 in Miss World '03
2004 June 1 - Centro de Convenciones CEMEXPO - Quito, Ecuador
ANGOLA - Telma de Jesus Esperança Sonhi
ANTIGUA & BARBUDA - Anne-Marie Browne (Miss Carival ’01, MW 03)
ARUBA - Zerelda Candice Wai-Yien “Zizi” Lee (MW 01)
AUSTRALIA - Jennifer Hawkins
AUSTRIA - Daniela Strigel
BAHAMAS - Raquel Simone Horton
BARBADOS - Cindy Shenetta Batson
BELGIUM - Lindsy DeHollander
BELIZE - Leilah Pandy (Mesoamérica 03, Reina de la Costa Maya ‘03)
BOLIVIA - Gabriela Oviedo Serrate (R-Sud 03, Atlántico 04)
BOTSWANA - Icho Keolotswe
BRAZIL - Fabiane Niclotti
BULGARIA - Ivelina Petrova
CANADA - Venessa Lynn Fisher
CAYMAN ISLANDS - Stacey-Ann Kelly (MW 04)
CHILE - Gabriela Barros
CHINA - Zhang Meng (Chinese Int’l 00)
COLOMBIA - Catherine Daza Machola
COSTA RICA - Nancy Soto Martínez (Teen Int’l 99)
CROATIA - Marijana Rupcic
CURACAO - Angeline da Silva de Goes (MW 03)
CYPRUS - Nayia Iacovidou
CZECH REPUBLIC - Lucie Váchová (MW 03)
DENMARK - Tina Christensen (Baltic 02, Europe 02)
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Larissa del Mar Fiallo Scanlón
ECUADOR - María Susana Rivadeneira Simball
EGYPT - Heba El-Sisy
EL SALVADOR - Silvia Gabriela Mejía Córdova
ESTONIA - Sirle Kalma
ETHIOPIA - Ferehyiwot (Frehiwot) Abebe
FINLAND - Mira Salo
FRANCE - Laëtitia Bleger
GEORGIA - Nino Murtazashvilli
GERMANY - Shermine Sharivar
GHANA - Minaye Donkor
GREECE - Valia Kakouti
GUATEMALA - Marva Cecilia Weatherborn Serrano
GUYANA - Odessa Phillips (MW 02)
HUNGARY - Blanka Bakos
INDIA - Tanushree Dutta
IRELAND - Cathriona Duignam
ISRAEL - Gal Gadot
ITALY - Laia Manetti
JAMAICA - Christine Renée Straw (MW 98)
JAPAN - Eri Machimoto
KENYA - Anita Maina
KOREA - Yun-yong Choi
LEBANON - Marie-José Hnein (MW 03)
MALAYSIA - Andrea Veronica Fonseka
MEXICO - Rosalva Yazmín Luna Ruiz
NETHERLANDS - Linsday Grace Pronk
NICARAGUA - Marifely Argüello César
NIGERIA - Mary Jane Unueroh Onajite (MW 04)
NORWAY - Katrine Sørland (MW 02)
PANAMA - Jéssica Patricia Rodríguez Clark
PARAGUAY - Yanina González
PERU - Liesel Holler Sotomayor
PHILIPPINES - Maricar Manalaysay Balagtas (Miss Globe ’01, Model-World 02)
POLAND - Paulina Panek
PUERTO RICO - Alba Giselle Reyes Santos
RUSSIA - Ksenia Kustova
ST. VINCENT & THE GRENADINES - Laferne Fraser (Miss Carival ’02)
SERBIA & MONTENEGRO - Dragana Dujovic
SINGAPORE - Sandy Chua
SLOVAK REPUBLIC - Zuzana Dvorska
SLOVENIA - Sabina Remar
SOUTH AFRICA - Joan Ramagoshi (MW 04)
SPAIN - María Jesús Ruiz Garzón
SWEDEN - Katarina Wigander
SWITZERLAND - Bianca Nicole Sissing (MW 03)
TAIWAN - Janie Hsieh (Yu-Chen Hsieh)
THAILAND - Morakot “Amy” Kittisara
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO - Danielle Jones
TURKEY - Fatos Segmen
TURKS & CAICOS - Shamara Ariza
UKRAINE - Oleksandra Nikolayenko (MW 01, Miss Tourism International ‘02)
URUGUAY - Nicole Dupont Giglio (Mundo Latino 03, Atlántico 04)
USA - Shandi Finnessey
VENEZUELA - Ana Karina Áñez Delgado
VIETNAM - Hoang Ngoc
(rumoured)
ICELAND - Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir
MAURITIUS - Sabine Guichamans Bourdet
NAMIBIA - Petrina Twahangwapo Thomas (MW 03)
(replaced)
ANTIGUA & BARBUDA - Toya Turner (U.S. citizen)
ARUBA - Fatima Salie (MW 04)
BELGIUM - Ellen Petri (MW 04)
URUGUAY - Nadia Theoduloz (underage by five days)
VIETNAM - Nguyên Thi Hong Van
Be sure to check out the Miss Universe coverage on Global Beauties and Belleza Venezolana!
Jimmy's Pageant Page offers you complete coverage of Miss Universe 2003 from a Canadian perspective - that is to say, focusing on Canada's Leanne Marie Cecile.
Click here to check it out. You can also see an interview with this year's Miss Universe Canada, Venessa Fisher.
Information courtesy of Global Beauties, Julio Rodriguez, Michael Knittel, Dawid from World of Beauty and Rahul's World. Many thanks!