Miss Universe 2011

Miss Universe 2011
Miss Universe 2011, Leila Lopes, at a press conference after winning the contest.
Date	September 12, 2011
Presenters	Natalie Morales, Andy Cohen, Jeannie Mai, Shandi Finnessey
Venue	Credicard Hall,[1] São Paulo, Brazil[2]
Broadcaster	NBC, Telemundo, Rede Bandeirantes
Entrants	89[3]
Placements	16
Withdraws	Norway, Zambia
Returns	Cayman Islands, Chile, Estonia, Montenegro, Portugal, St. Lucia, Turks & Caicos, Vietnam
Winner	Leila Lopes  Angola
Congeniality	Nikolina Lončar  Montenegro
Best National Costume	Sheldry Sáez  Panama
Photogenic	Ronnia Fornstedt  Sweden

Miss Universe 2011, the 60th anniversary of the Miss Universe pageant, was held at the Credicard Hall in São Paulo, Brazil on September 12, 2011. Ximena Navarrete of Mexico crowned her successor, Leila Lopes of Angola, at the end of this event.^[4] Contestants from 89 countries and territories participated in this year's pageant, surpassing the previous record of 86 contestants in 2006.

Miss Universe 2011 participating countries and territories and results.

Results

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss Universe 2011	Angola – Leila Lopes
1st runner-up	Ukraine – Olesya Stefanko
2nd runner-up	Brazil – Priscila Machado
3rd runner-up	Philippines – Shamcey Supsup
4th runner-up	China – Luo Zilin
Top 10	Australia – Scherri-Lee Biggs  Costa Rica – Johanna Solano  France – Laury Thilleman  Panama – Sheldry Sáez  Portugal – Laura Gonçalves
Top 16	Colombia – Catalina Robayo  Kosovo – Afërdita Dreshaj  Netherlands – Kelly Weekers  Puerto Rico – Viviana Ortiz  USA – Alyssa Campanella  Venezuela – Vanessa Gonçalves

• Vote by fans in the Top 16 semi-finalists

Special Awards

Award	Contestant
Miss Congeniality	Montenegro – Nikolina Lončar
Miss Photogenic	Sweden – Ronnia Fornstedt
Best National Costume	Panama – Sheldry Sáez

Judges

Telecast Judges

• Hélio Castroneves
• Connie Chung
• Isabeli Fontana
• Vivica A. Fox
• Adrienne Maloof-Nassif
• Lea Salonga
• Farouk Shami
• Amelia Vega - Miss Universe 2003
• Italo Zanzi

Preliminary Judges

• BJ Coleman^[5]
• Francesca Romana Diana^[6]
• Ana Paula Junqueira^[7]
• Scott Lazerson^[8]
• Matheus Mazzafera^[9]
• Jimmy Nguyen^[10]
• Lara Spotts^[11]

Background Music & Performances

• Opening Number: "Mas que Nada" by Sérgio Mendes featuring The Black Eyed Peas
• Swimsuit Competition: "Locomotion" by Claudia Leitte (Live Performance)^[12]
• Evening Gown Competition: "Close Your Eyes" by Bebel Gilberto (Live Performance)^[12]

Contestants

Country/Territory	Contestant	Age	Height	Hometown
Albania	Xhesika Berberi	20	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Tirana
Angola	Leila Lopes	25	1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)	Benguela
Argentina	Natalia Rodríguez	25	1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)	Buenos Aires
Aruba	Gillain Berry	24	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Oranjestad
Australia	Scherri-Lee Biggs	21	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Perth
Bahamas	Anastagia Pierre	22	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	Nassau
Belgium	Justine de Jonckheere	19	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Wevelgem
Bolivia	Olivia Pinheiro	27	1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)	Santa Cruz
Botswana	Larona Kgabo	25	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Gaborone
Brazil	Priscila Machado	25	1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)	Canoas
British Virgin Islands	Sheroma Hodge	26	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Tortola
Canada	Chelsae Durocher	20	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Tecumseh
Cayman Islands	Cristin Alexander	24	1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)	George Town
Chile	Vanessa Ceruti	25	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	Santiago
China	Luo Zilin	24	1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)	Shanghai
Colombia	Catalina Robayo	22	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	Cali
Costa Rica	Johanna Solano	20	1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)	Escazu
Croatia	Natalija Prica	22	1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)	Zagreb
Curaçao	Evalina van Putten	19	1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)	Willemstad
Cyprus	Andri Karantoni	18	1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)	Larnaca
Czech Republic	Jitka Nováčková	19	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	České Budějovice
Denmark	Sandra Amer	21	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Copenhagen
Dominican Republic	Dalia Fernández	21	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	Santiago
Ecuador	Claudia Schiess	21	1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)	Santa Cruz
Egypt	Sara El-Khouly	23	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Alexandria
El Salvador	Mayra Aldana	25	1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)	San Salvador
Estonia	Madli Vilsar	20	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	Kuressaare
Finland	Pia Pakarinen	20	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	Vantaa
France	Laury Thilleman	20	1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in)	Brest
Georgia	Eka Gurtskaia	25	1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)	Tbilisi
Germany	Valeria Bystritskaya	25	1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)	Karlsruhe
Ghana	Yayra Nego	26	1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)	Accra
Great Britain	Chloe-Beth Morgan	25	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)	Cwmbran
Greece	Iliana Papageorgiou	23	1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)	Patras
Guam	Shayna Afaisen	24	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)	Inaraian
Guatemala	Alejandra Barillas	25	1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)	Zacapa
Guyana	Kara Lord	23	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Georgetown
Haiti	Anedie Azael	22	1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)	Port-au-Prince
Honduras	Keylin Gómez	23	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	Cortés
Hungary	Betta Lipcsei	23	1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)	Szarvas
India	Vasuki Sunkavalli	27	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Hyderabad
Indonesia	Nadine Alexandra	20	1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)	Jakarta
Ireland	Aoife Hannon	19	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Listowel
Israel	Kim Edri	19	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Sderot
Italy	Elisa Torrini	22	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	Rome
Jamaica	Shakira Martin	25	1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)	Kingston
Japan	Maria Kamiyama	24	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)	Tokyo
Kazakhstan	Valeriya Aleinikova	22	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Almaty
Korea	Jung So-ra	20	1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)	Seoul
Kosovo	Afërdita Dreshaj	25	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	Pristina
Lebanon	Yara Khoury Mikhael	19	1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)	Beirut
Malaysia	Deborah Priya Henry	26	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	Kuala Lumpur
Mauritius	Laetitia Darche	20	1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)	Flic en Flac
Mexico	Karín Ontiveros	23	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	Amatitán
Montenegro	Nikolina Lončar	18	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	Pljevlja
Netherlands	Kelly Weekers	22	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	Maastricht
New Zealand	Priyani Puketapu	20	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Wellington
Nicaragua	Adriana Dorn	24	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Managua
Nigeria	Sophie Gemal	22	1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)	Abuja
Panama	Sheldry Sáez	19	1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in)	Chitré
Paraguay	Alba Riquelme	20	1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)	Asunción
Peru	Natalie Vértiz	19	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	Lima
Philippines	Shamcey Supsup	25	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	General Santos
Poland	Rozalia Mancewicz	24	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Bialystok
Portugal	Laura Gonçalves	22	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)	Lisbon
Puerto Rico	Viviana Ortiz	25	1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)	Corozal
Romania	Larisa Popa	24	1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)	Slatina
Russia	Natalia Gantimurova	20	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	Moscow
Serbia	Anja Šaranović	21	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	Belgrade
Singapore	Valerie Lim	26	1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in)	Singapore
Slovak Republic	Dagmar Kolesárová	20	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	Revúca
Slovenia	Ema Jagodič	21	1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)	Ljubljana
South Africa	Bokang Montjane	25	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Johannesburg
Spain	Paula Guilló	22	1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in)	Elche
Sri Lanka	Stephanie Siriwardhana	23	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)	Colombo
St. Lucia	Joy-Ann Biscette	25	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Castries
Sweden	Ronnia Fornstedt	20	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	Södertälje
Switzerland	Kerstin Cook	22	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	Kriens
Tanzania	Nelly Kamwelu	19	1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in)	Dar Es Salaam
Thailand	Chanyasorn Sakornchan	21	1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)	Chonburi
Trinidad & Tobago	Gabrielle Walcott	27	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)	Port of Spain
Turkey	Melisa Aslı Pamuk	20	1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)	Istanbul
Turks & Caicos	Easher Parker	19	1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in)	Providenciales
Ukraine	Olesya Stefanko	23	1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)	Odessa
Uruguay	Fernanda Semino	18	1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in)	Montevideo
USA	Alyssa Campanella	21	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Los Angeles
U.S. Virgin Islands	Alexandrya Evans	25	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	Saint Croix
Venezuela	Vanessa Gonçalves	25	1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)	Caracas
Vietnam	Vũ Thị Hoàng My	20	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Đồng Nai

Returning countries and territories

Last competed in 2002:  Portugal Last competed in 2006:  Chile Last competed in 2007:  St. Lucia

Last competed in 2008:  Turks & Caicos Last competed in 2009:  Cayman Islands  Estonia  Montenegro  Vietnam

Crossovers

Contestants who previously competed or will compete at other beauty pageants:

Miss Teen USA 2004  Bahamas - Anastagia Pierre Florida's representative Miss Tourism Queen International 2005  Poland - Rozalia Mancewicz 3rd runner-up Miss Teen USA 2007  USA - Alyssa Campanella New Jersey's representative 1st runner-up Miss Earth 2007  South Africa - Bokang Montjane Top 16 Miss World 2007  Malaysia - Deborah Priya Henry Top 16 Miss World 2008  Great Britain - Chloe-Beth Morgan Wales' representative  St. Lucia - Joy-Ann Biscette  Trinidad & Tobago - Gabrielle Walcott 2nd runner-up Miss USA 2009  Bahamas - Anastagia Pierre Florida's representative  Ghana - Yayra Erica Nego Minnesota's representative Top 15 Miss Latin America 2009  Costa Rica - Johanna Solano Winner Reina Mundial del Banano 2009  Dominican Republic - Dalia Fernández 1st runner-up Miss Earth 2009  El Salvador - Mayra Aldana  Singapore - Valerie Lim Top 16

Miss International 2009  Great Britain - Chloe-Beth Morgan 2nd runner-up  South Africa - Bokang Montjane Miss Global Teen 2010  Canada - Chelsae Durocher 2nd runner-up Beauty of The World 2010  Paraguay - Alba Riquelme Top 10 Miss Supranational 2010  Denmark - Sandra Amer  Iraq's representative  Ecuador - Claudia Schiess Miss World 2010  Cayman Islands - Cristin Alexander  Egypt - Sara El-Khouly Miss Intercontinental 2010  Bahamas - Anastagia Pierre 2nd runner-up Miss International 2010  Serbia - Anja Šaranović Top 15 Miss Southern Africa International 2011  Tanzania - Nelly Kamwelu Winner[13] Miss Mediterranean 2011  Egypt - Sara El-Khouly Winner Reina Hispanoamericana 2011  Curaçao - Evalina Van Putten Winner  Paraguay - Alba Riquelme 3rd Runner-up  Uruguay - Fernanda Semino

Other pageant notes

Historical Significance

• Angola (Leila Lopes) is the first winner of Miss Universe from Angola and she is the second black woman from Africa to win the title.
• A record of 89 countries participated this year.
• There was no opening dance at the start of the pageant. Instead, the delegates introduced themselves after a live audience. This live introduction format was last used in 1997.
• For the first time ever a 16th semi-finalist spot was added to the contestant who had the most fan votes. Portugal ended up with the most majority of the votes.
• Australia placed for the fourth consecutive year.
• France placed for the third consecutive year.
• Portugal placed for the first time.
• Angola, Portugal and Ukraine placed their highest ever in the pageant.
• Philippines and Ukraine placed in the top 5 of the previous year.
• Countries that placed in the top 15 previous year were Australia, Colombia, France, Philippines, Puerto Rico and Ukraine
• Montenegro won the Miss Congeniality award for the first time.
• Sweden won the Miss Photogenic for the third time, last time was in 1995.
• Panama won the Best National Costume award for the fourth time, last time was in 2009.
• Netherlands last placed in 1992.
• China last placed in 2002
• Panama last placed in 2003.
• Costa Rica last placed in 2004.
• Angola and Brazil last placed in 2007.
• Kosovo, USA and Venezuela last placed in 2009.
• The judges' average score was not shown during the telecast event, instead a "fan score" was introduced, where fans could rate a contestant online.
• A new musical score was introduced during the entire pageant telecast, veering away from the Orente musical score which was used from 2004-2010.

Replacements

• Curaçao - Evalina van Putten replaced Monifa Jansen since Monifa did not meet the age requirements stipulated by the Miss Universe Organization. Monifa was born in March, 1993.^[14]

• El Salvador - Mayra Aldana replaced Alejandra Ochoa after Alejandra suffered from chronic respiratory illness and wasn't able to compete.^[15]

Designations

•  Denmark - Sandra Amer was appointed as Miss Universe Denmark 2011 after a casting call took place.

•  Egypt - Sara El-Khouly was appointed as Miss Universe Egypt 2011 after no national pageant was held due to the political crisis.

•  Greece - Iliana Papageorgiou was appointed by the Star Hellas organization to represent Greece at Miss Universe 2011. The annual Star Hellas pageant takes place in September, conflicting with the international final.

•  Guatemala - Alejandra Barillas was appointed as Miss Universe Guatemala 2011 in a special ceremony. Barillas was the original representative to Miss Universe 2010 but due to an injury she couldn't attend. One of her runner-up's (Jessica Scheel) ended up taking her place.

•  Kazakhstan - Valeriya Aleinikova was appointed to represent Kazakhstan after the Miss Kazakhstan organization dropped the franchise and a new organization took over.

•  Montenegro - Nikolina Loncar was appointed to represent Montenegro after she couldn't compete in 2010 because she didn't meet the minimum age requirement.

•  Vietnam - Vũ Thị Hoàng My was appointed to represent Vietnam after the pageant organizers were unable to host a beauty pageant. The permission was granted by the Ministry of Culture of Vietnam, who authorizes the international representation of the nation events of any kind.

Withdrawals

•  Norway
•  Zambia

International Broadcasters

• Asia-Pacific - STAR World^[16] (LIVE)
•  Australia - Seven Network^[17] (Delayed for 11 hours and 30 minutes)
•  Bolivia - Unitel
•  Brazil (host broadcaster) - Rede Bandeirantes and TNT (LIVE)
•  Colombia - Caracol TV (LIVE)
•  Cambodia- Cambodian Television Network , MYTV (LIVE)
•  Costa Rica - Teletica
•  Dominican Republic - Telemicro
•  Ecuador - Canal Uno^[18] and TNT (LIVE)
•  France - Paris Premiere (LIVE)
•  Hong Kong - TVB Pearl
•  India - Zee Cafe,^[19] (LIVE)
•  Indonesia - Indosiar (Delayed for 13 hours and 30 minutes)
•  South Korea - OnStyle (Recorded) ^[20]
•  Kosovo - RTV21^[21]
•  Mexico - Televisa
•  Nicaragua - Televicentro
•  Panama - Telemetro and TNT (LIVE)
•  Paraguay - LaTele
•  Peru - Global TV and TNT
•  Philippines - ABS-CBN^[22][23] (Delayed for 30 minutes), Studio 23 (Delayed for 12 hours and 30 minutes), Velvet (TV channel) (Delayed for 8 hours)
•  Puerto Rico: Telemundo PR
•  Singapore - MediaCorp Channel 5 (LIVE)
•  Thailand - Channel 7 (Thailand) ^[24] (LIVE)
•  Trinidad and Tobago:NBC Caribbean New Media Group and TNT
•  USA - NBC (LIVE)
•  Venezuela - Venevision and TNT (LIVE)
•  Vietnam - VTV2 (Delayed for 12 hours)

References

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