Monday, August 10, 2009

Priyanka Chopra as Miss World


Miss World 2000

Miss World 2000, the 50th Miss World pageant, was held on 30 November, 2000 at the Millennium Dome in London, United Kingdom. The pageant's swimsuit segment was filmed in the Maldives.

The pageant was the first since the death of pageant owner Eric Morley, whose widow Julia Morley took over responsibility for the event. The pageant had 95 contestants the highest number of Miss World participants ever. This was surpassed in 2003.

The pageant was won by Priyanka Chopra of India, the fifth Indian Miss World and the second consecutive winner from her country. Internationally, Chopra reigned alongside Miss Universe 2000 titleholder Lara Dutta, also of India. This was the first time since 1994 that Miss World and Miss Universe came from the same country; in 1994 the two titleholders were also Indians, Sushmita Sen (Miss Universe) and Aishwarya Rai (Miss World). Chopra was the third Indian winner of Miss World in four years.

Results

Placements

Final resultsContestant
Miss World 2000
  • India - Priyanka Chopra
1st runner-up
  • Italy - Giorgia Palmas
2nd runner-up
  • Turkey - Yüksel Ak
Finalists
  • Kazakhstan - Margarita Kravtsova
  • Uruguay - Katja Thomsen
Semi-finalists
  • Chile - Isabel Bawlitza
  • Colombia - Andrea Durán
  • Kenya - Yolande Masinde
  • Ukraine - Alena Scherban
  • United States - Angelique Breaux

Order of Semi-finalists

  • 1. Italy
  • 2. Chile
  • 3. Colombia
  • 4. United States
  • 5. Uruguay
  • 6. Kazakhstan
  • 7. Turkey
  • 8. Ukraine
  • 9. India
  • 10. Kenya

Continental Queens of Beauty

  • Africa Yolanda Masinde (Kenya)
  • Americas: Katja Thomsen (Uruguay)
  • Asia: Priyanka Chopra (India)
  • Europe: Giorgia Palmas (Italy)
  • Caribbean Isles: Jozaine Marianella Wall (Curaçao)

Special Awards

  • Best World Dress Designer: Margarita Kravtsova (Kazakhstan)

Contestants

  • American Virgin Islands - Luciah Hedrington
  • Angola - Deolinda Manuel Vilela
  • Argentina - Daniela Alejandra Stucan
  • Aruba - Monique Angelique van der Horn
  • Australia - Renee Henderson
  • Austria - Patricia Kaiser
  • Bahamas - Latia Bowe
  • Bangladesh - Sonia Gazi
  • Barbados - Leilani McConney
  • Belarus - Sviatlana Kruk
  • Belgium - Joke van de Velde
  • Bolivia - Jimena Rico Toro Gamana
  • Bosnia & Herzegovina - Jasmina Mahmutović
  • Botswana - Puna Keleabetswe Serati
  • Brazil - Francine Eickemberg
  • British Virgin Islands - Nadia Harrigan Ubinas
  • Bulgaria - Ivanka Peytcheva
  • Canada - Christine Cho
  • Cayman Islands - Jacqueline Bush
  • Chile - Isabel Bawlitza Muñoz
  • Chinese Taipei - Shu-Ting Hao
  • Colombia - Andrea Duran Prieto
  • Costa Rica - Cristina de Mezerville Ferreto
  • Croatia - Andreja Čupor
  • Curaçao - Jozaine Marianela Wall
  • Cyprus - Iphigenia Papaioannou
  • Czech Republic - Michaela Salacova
  • Denmark - Anne Katrin Vrang
  • Dominican Republic - Gilda Jovine
  • Ecuador - Ana Dolores Murillo
  • England - Michelle Walker
  • Estonia - Irina Ovtchinnikova
  • Finland - Salima Anita Peippo
  • France - Karine Meier
  • Germany - Nicole Natascha Berg
  • Ghana - Maame Ewarfaah Hawkson
  • Gibraltar - Tessa Sacramento
  • Greece - Athanasia Tzoulaki
  • Guatemala - Cindy Margo Ramirez Lemus
  • Holland - Raja Moussaoui
  • Honduras - Veronica Alejandra Rivera Castelon
  • Hong Kong China - Margaret Kan Pui-Kin
  • Hungary - Judit Kuchta
  • Iceland - Elva Dogg Melsted
  • India - Priyanka Chopra
  • Ireland - Yvonne Ellard
  • Israel - Dana Dantes
  • Italy - Giorgia Palmas
  • Jamaica - Ayisha Richards
  • Japan - Mariko Sugai
  • Kazakhstan - Margarita Kravtsova
  • Kenya - Yolanda Masinde
  • Korea - Jung-sun Shin
  • Lebanon - Sandra Rizk
  • Lithuania - Martyna Bimbaite
  • Madagascar - Julianna Todimarina
  • Malaysia - Tan Sun Wei
  • Malta - Katia Grima
  • Mexico - Paulina Flores Arias
  • Moldova - Mariana Moraru
  • Namibia - Mia de Klerk
  • Nepal - Usha Khadgi
  • New Zealand - Katherine Allsopp-Smith
  • Nigeria - Matilda Kerry
  • Northern Ireland - Julie Lee-Ann Martin
  • Norway - Stine Pedersen
  • Panama - Ana Raquel Ochy Pozo
  • Paraguay - Patricia Villanueva Distefano
  • Peru - Tatiana Angulo
  • Philippines - Katherine Annwen de Guzman
  • Poland - Justynna Bergmann
  • Portugal - Gilda Dias Pe-Curto
  • Puerto Rico - Sarybel Velilla Cabeza
  • Romania - Aleksandra Cosmoiu
  • Russia - Anna Bodareva
  • Scotland - Michelle Watson
  • Singapore - Charlyn Ding Zung Ee
  • Slovakia - Janka Horecna
  • Slovenia - Maša Merc
  • South Africa - Heather Joy Hamilton
  • Spain - Veronica Garcia Benito
  • Sri Lanka - Gunga Gunasekera
  • Sweden - Ida Sofia Manneh
  • Switzerland - Mahara Brigitta Mackay
  • Tahiti - Vanini Bea
  • Tanzania - Jacqueline Ntuyabelikwe
  • Trinidad & Tobago - Rhonda Rosemin
  • Turkey - Yuksel Ak
  • Ukraine - Olena Shcherban
  • United States - Angelique Breaux
  • Uruguay - Katja Thomsen
  • Venezuela - Vanessa Maria Cardenas Bravo
  • Wales - Sophie-Kate Cahill
  • Yugoslavia - Iva Gordana Milivojević
  • Zimbabwe - Victoria Moyo


National pageant notes

Returning countries and Debuts

  • Belarus, England, Moldova, and Northern Ireland competed in Miss World for the first time.
  • Barbados, and Denmark last competed in 1995.
  • Namibia last competed in 1997.
  • British Virgin Islands, Chinese Taipei, and Curaçao last competed in 1998.

Withdrawals and Nations not competing

  • Guyana, Seychelles, Swaziland, and Zambia did not compete in Miss World 2000 for unknown reasons.
  • Latvia (Dina Kalandarova) withdrew at the last minute for personal and private reasons. She competed in Miss World one year later.
  • No national pageants in Thailand, and St. Maarten to be held in 2000.

Contestant notes and Trivia

  • Two delegates were later runners-up at the Miss Earth 2001 pageant. Margarita Kravtsova (a finalist) placed second runner-up at Miss Earth and third runner-up was Daniella Stucan, who was unplaced at Miss World 2000. Stucan later competed at Miss Universe 2007 where she was also unplaced.
  • A number of other contestants had previously competed in the Miss Universe pageant or would later compete at Miss Universe:
    • Sarybel Velilla Cabeza (Puerto Rico) competed at Miss Universe 1996.
    • Renee Henderson of Australia competed at Miss Universe 1998.
    • Heather Joy Hamilton had previously made the semi-finals at Miss Universe 2000 but was unplaced at Miss World. Joke van de Velde (Belgium), Gilda Jovine (Dominican Republic), Mia de Klerk (Namibia), Matilda Kerry (Nigeria) were unplaced both pageants.
    • Jacqueline Bush (Cayman Islands), Sandra Rizk (Lebanon) and Mahara Brigitta McKay(Switzerland) competed at Miss Universe 2001.
  • Angelique Breaux (United States) was Miss California USA 1999 and second runner-up at Miss USA 1999.
  • 8 out of 10 countries which made it into the semifinals, were not in the semifinals last year: Italy(1973), Uruguay (1979), Kenya (1984), Colombia (1996), Turkey (1997), and Chile (1998).Kazakhstan and Ukraine made into the semi-finals for the first time, marking as the third and fourth nation from the former Soviet Union to enter in this stage of the competition. Ukraine debuted in 1992, while Kazakhstan in 1998.

SWIMWEAR

GROUP 1

  • Uruguay
  • Bahamas
  • Argentina
  • Italy
  • American Virgin Islands
  • Brazil
  • Australia
  • Bulgaria
  • Angola
  • Aruba
  • Portugal
  • Austria

GROUP 2

  • Belgium
  • Russia
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Moldova
  • Czech Republic
  • Barbados
  • France
  • Bangladesh
  • Norway
  • Nepal
  • Kazakhstan
  • Belarus

GROUP 3

  • Cayman Islands
  • Dominican Republic
  • Botswana
  • Costa Rica
  • Curacao
  • Germany
  • Estonia
  • Ghana
  • Bolivia
  • Bosnia & Herzegovina
  • Croatia
  • Holland

GROUP 4

  • Tanzania
  • Denmark
  • Singapore
  • Philippines
  • Hong Kong China
  • Kenya
  • Namibia
  • Turkey
  • Finland
  • Chinese Taipei
  • England
  • Tahiti

GROUP 5

  • Switzerland
  • New Zealand
  • Canada
  • Korea
  • Ireland
  • Wales
  • Malaysia
  • Malta
  • Israel
  • Sweden
  • Japan
  • Iceland

GROUP 6

  • India
  • Jamaica
  • Puerto Rico
  • Slovakia
  • Trinidad & Tobago
  • Scotland
  • Zimbabwe
  • Northern Ireland
  • Sri Lanka
  • Nigeria
  • Paraguay
  • Slovenia

GROUP 7

  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Greece
  • Mexico
  • Cyprus
  • Colombia
  • Guatemala
  • Hungary
  • Gibraltar
  • Lithuania
  • Chile
  • Ecuador

GROUP 8

  • South Africa
  • Peru
  • Lebanon
  • Madagascar
  • Honduras
  • United States
  • Panama
  • Spain
  • Ukraine
  • Yugoslavia
  • Venezuela

EVENING GOWN

GROUP 1

  • Italy
  • Portugal
  • Aruba
  • Austria
  • Australia
  • American Virgin Islands
  • Angola
  • Bulgaria
  • Argentina
  • Bahamas
  • Uruguay
  • Brazil

GROUP 2

  • Czech Republic
  • Belgium
  • Norway
  • Russia
  • Moldova
  • Bangladesh
  • Belarus
  • Nepal
  • Kazakhstan
  • Barbados
  • France
  • British Virgin Islands

GROUP 3

  • Curacao
  • Estonia
  • Bolivia
  • Holland
  • Botswana
  • Germany
  • Cayman Islands
  • Croatia
  • Dominican Republic
  • Bosnia & Herzegovina
  • Costa Rica
  • Ghana

GROUP 4

  • Turkey
  • Namibia
  • Denmark
  • Philippines
  • Hong Kong China
  • England
  • Chinese Taipei
  • Singapore
  • Tanzania
  • Tahiti
  • Finland
  • Kenya

GROUP 5

  • New Zealand
  • Israel
  • Switzerland
  • Malta
  • Sweden
  • Korea
  • Malaysia
  • Japan
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Canada
  • Wales

GROUP 6

  • Slovenia
  • Jamaica
  • India
  • Puerto Rico
  • Northern Ireland
  • Slovakia
  • Zimbabwe
  • Nigeria
  • Scotland
  • Trinidad & Tobago
  • Paraguay
  • Sri Lanka

GROUP 7

  • Gibraltar
  • Hungary
  • Mexico
  • Lithuania
  • Greece
  • Colombia
  • Romania
  • Ecuador
  • Guatemala
  • Cyprus
  • Chile
  • Poland

GROUP 8

  • Venezuela
  • Ukraine
  • Panama
  • Yugoslavia
  • Spain
  • Madagascar
  • Honduras
  • United States
  • Peru
  • South Africa
  • Lebanon


Judges