Miss International 1998

Miss International 1998
Date	September 26, 1998
Presenters	Masumi Okada
Venue	Koseinenkin Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Broadcaster	TV Tokyo
Entrants	43
Winner	Lía Borrero  Panama

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results.

Miss International 1998, the 38th Miss International pageant, was won by Lía Victoria Borrero González of Panama. It took place on 26 September 1998 at the Koseinenkin Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Lia Borrero

Results

Final results	Contestant
Miss International 1998	Panama - Lía Victoria Borrero González
1st runner-up	Venezuela - Daniela Kosán Montcourt
2nd runner-up	India - Shvetha Jaishankar
Finalists	Bolivia - Liliana Peña Guachalla  Colombia - Adriana Hurtado Novella  Czech Republic - Petra Faltynova  Finland - Piia Hartikainen  France - Patricia Spéhar  Japan - Megumi Taira  Korea - Cho Hye-young  Macedonia - Ana Binovska  Philippines - Colette Centeno Glazer  Poland - Agnieszka Osinska  Spain - Vanessa Romero Torres  Tunisia - Nejla Kouniali

Special awards

• Friendship:
  •  Finland, Piia Hartikainen
  •  Togo, Manuella Nadou Lawson-Body
• Photogenic: Venezuela, Daniela Kosán Montcourt
• National Costume:  Colombia, Adriana Hurtado Novella

Contestants

Argentina - Maria Fernanda Ortiz  Aruba - Anushka Sheritsa Lew Jen Tai  Australia - Katherine Louis O'Brien  Bolivia - Liliana Peña Guachalla  Colombia - Adriana Hurtado Novella  South Korea - Cho Hye-young  Curaçao - Santa Indris Tokaay  Cyprus - Marianna Panayiotou  Dominican Republic - Sorangel Fersobe Matos  Philippines - Colette Centeno Glazer  Finland - Piia Hartikainen  France - Patricia Spéhar  Germany - Fiona Ammann  United Kingdom - Melanie Devina Jones  Greece - Eleni Pliatsika  Hawaii - Lori-Ann Lee Medeiros  Japan - Megumi Taira  Honduras - Wendy Suyapa Rodríguez  Hong Kong - Natalie Ng Man-Yan  India - Shvetha Jaishankar  Iceland - Gudbjörg Sigridur Hermannsdóttir

Israel - Galia Abramov  Latvia - Liga Graudumniece  Macedonia - Ana Binovska  Mexico - Karina Patricia Mora Novelo  Northern Mariana Islands - Sonya Palacios Pangelinan  Norway - Bjorg Sofie Lovstad  Netherlands - Ilona Marilyn van Veldhuisen  Panama - Lía Victoria Borrero González  Paraguay - Maria Fabiola Roig Escandriolo  Peru - Melissa Miranda Quiñones  Poland - Agnieszka Osinska  Portugal - Icilia Silva Berenguel  Czech Republic - Petra Faltynova  Senegal - Maimouna Diallo  Singapore - Sudha Menon  Slovakia - Martina Kalmanova  Spain - Vanessa Romero Torres  Togo - Manuella Nadou Lawson-Body  Tunisia - Nejla Kouniali  Turkey - Senay Akay  Venezuela - Daniela Kossán Montcourt  United States - Susan Paez