Miss World 2001

Miss World 2001
Miss World 2001 Titlecard
Date	November 16, 2001
Presenters	Jerry Springer, and Claire Elizabeth Smith
Entertainment	Umoja
Venue	Super Bowl, Sun City Entertainment Centre, Sun City, South Africa
Entrants	93
Placements	10
Debuts	Malawi
Withdraws	Bahamas, Curaçao, Denmark, Guatemala, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Nepal, Paraguay, Sri Lanka, Swaziland
Returns	Antigua, China PR, Guyana, Hawaii, Latvia, Macedonia FYRO, Nicaragua, St. Maarten, Thailand, Uganda
Winner	Agbani Darego  Nigeria
Photogenic	Lada Engchawadechasilp  Thailand

Miss World 2001, the 51st Miss World pageant was held at the Super Bowl, in Sun City Entertainment Centre, Sun City, South Africa on November 16, 2001. Agbani Darego from Nigeria won the pageant, she became the first black African to win the Miss World crown. 93 contestants from all over the world competed for the title.

Results

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results.

Placements

Final Results	Contestant
Miss World 2001	Nigeria - Agbani Darego
1st Runner-up	Aruba - Zizi Lee
2nd Runner-up	Scotland - Juliet-Jane Horne
Top 5	China - Bing Li  Nicaragua - Ligia Arguello
Top 10	Russia - Irina Kovalenko  South Africa - Jo-Ann Strauss  Spain - Macarena García  Ukraine - Oleksandra Nikolayenko  Yugoslavia - Tijana Stajšić

Special awards

Award	Contestant
Best World Dress Designer	Korea - Seo Hyun-jin
Most Photogenic	Thailand - Lada Engchawadechasilp
Miss World Talent	Barbados - Stephanie Chase
Miss World Scholarship	Costa Rica - Piarella Peralta

Continental Queens

Continental	Contestant
Africa	Nigeria - Agbani Darego
Americas	Nicaragua - Ligia Argüello
Asia & Oceania	People's Republic of China - Bing Li
Caribbean	Aruba - Zizi Lee
Europe	Scotland - Juliet-Jane Horne

Order of announcements

Top 10 semifinalists 1. Nigeria 2. Ukraine 3. Nicaragua 4. Spain 5. Yugoslavia

6. Scotland 7. People's Republic of China 8. Aruba 9. Russia 10. South Africa

Top 5 finalists

• 1. People's Republic of China
• 2. Nicaragua
• 3. Scotland
• 4. Nigeria
• 5. Aruba

Contestants

Virgin Islands - Cherrisse Wood  Angola - Adalgisa Alexandra da Rocha Gonçalves  Antigua - Janelle Williams  Argentina - Virginia di Salvo  Aruba - Zerelda Candice (Zizi) Lee Wai-Yen  Australia - Eva Milic  Austria - Daniela Rockenschaub  Bangladesh - Tabassum Ferdous Shaon  Barbados - Stephanie Chase  Belgium - Dina Tersago  Bolivia - Claudia Ettmüller  Bosnia & Herzegovina - Ana Mirjana Račanović  Botswana - Masego Sebedi  Brazil - Joyce Yara Aguiar  British Virgin Islands - Melinda McGlore  Bulgaria - Stanislava Karabelova  Canada - Tara Hall  Cayman Islands - Shannon McLean  Chile - Christianne Balmelli Fournier  People's Republic Of China - Bing Li  Colombia - Jeisyl Amparo Velez Giraldo  Costa Rica - Piarella Peralta Rodriguez  Croatia - Rajna Raguz  Cyprus - Christiana Aristotelou  Czech Republic - Andrea Fiserova  Dominican Republic - Jeimy Castillo Molina  Ecuador - Carla Lorena Revelo Perez  England - Sally Kettle  Estonia - Liina Helstein  Finland - Jenni Hietanen  France - Emmanuelle Chossat  Germany - Adina Wilhelmi  Ghana - Selasi Kwawu  Gibraltar - Luann Richardson  Greece - Valentini Daskaloudi  Guyana - Olive Gopaul  Hawaii - Radasha Leialoha Hoʻohuli  Holland - Irena Pantelic  Hong Kong - Gigi Chung Pui Chi  Hungary - Zsoka Kapocs  Iceland - Kolbrun Palina Helgadóttir  India - Sara Corner  Ireland - Catrina Supple  Israel - Keren Schlimovitz  Italy - Paola d'Antonino  Jamaica - Regina Beaver  Japan - Yuka Hamano (浜野 由佳)

Kenya - Daniella Kimaru  South Korea - Seo Hyun-jin  Latvia - Dina Kalandarova  Lebanon - Christina Sawaya  FYRO Macedonia - Sandra Spašovska  Madagascar - Tassiana (Cardia) Boba  Malawi - Elizabeth Pullu  Malaysia - Sasha Tan Hwee Teng  Malta - Christine Camilleri  Mexico - Tatiana Rodríguez  Namibia - Michelle Heitha  New Zealand - Amie Hewitt  Nicaragua - Ligia Cristina Argüello Roa  Nigeria - Agbani Darego  Northern Ireland - Angela McCarthy  Norway - Malin Johansen  Panama - Lourdes González Montenegro  Peru - Viviana Rivas Plata  Philippines - Gilrhea Castañeda Quinzon  Poland - Joanna Drozdowska  Portugal - Claudia Jesus Lopez Borges  Puerto Rico - Barbara Serrano Negron  Romania - Vanda Petre  Russia - Irina Kovalenko  Scotland - Juliet-Jane Horne  Singapore - Angelina Johnson  Slovakia - Jana Ivanova  Slovenia - Rebeka Dremelj  South Africa - Jo-Ann Strauss  Spain - Macarena García Naranjo  St. Maarten - Genesis Romney  Sweden - Camilla Bäck  Switzerland - Mascha Santschi  Tahiti - Teriitamihau Rava Nui  Tanzania - Happiness Mageese  Thailand - Lada Engchawadechasilp  Trinidad & Tobago - Sacha St. Hill  Turkey - Tuğçe Kazaz  Uganda - Victoria Kabuye  Ukraine - Oleksandra Nikolayenko  United States - Carrie Stroup  Uruguay - María Daniela Abasolo Cugnetti  Venezuela - Andreina del Carmen Prieto Rincon  Wales - Charlotte Faichney  Yugoslavia - Tijana Stajšić  Zimbabwe - Nokhuthula Mpuli

Group order

GROUP 1 Angola Argentina Aruba Australia Austria American Virgin Islands Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands Croatia Germany Portugal GROUP 2 Barbados Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Bulgaria Czech Republic Hungary Jamaica Kenya Slovakia Slovenia Trinidad & Tobago GROUP 3 Ukraine Chile Costa Rica Dominican Republic Estonia Latvia Romania Russia Uganda Colombia Zimbabwe GROUP 4 Ghana Iceland Wales Belgium Antigua Cyprus Tanzania France F.Y.R.O Macedonia Italy Cayman Islands

GROUP 5 Singapore South Africa Canada Venezuela England Mexico Nicaragua Holland United States People's Republic of China Uruguay Switzerland GROUP 6 Finland Hong Kong China Ireland Madagascar Malawi Malta Nigeria Philippines Poland Sweden Yugoslavia St. Maarten GROUP 7 Northern Ireland Thailand Spain Guyana Greece Ecuador Lebanon Gibraltar Puerto Rico Peru Panama Malaysia GROUP 8 Bangladesh Namibia Israel Hawaii Tahiti Turkey New Zealand Norway India Korea Japan Scotland

National pageant notes

Returning countries and debuts

• Malawi competed in Miss World for the first time.
• Hawaii last competed in 1959.
• Antigua last competed in 1991.
• People's Republic of China last competed in 1994.
• Nicaragua last competed in 1998.
• Guyana, Latvia, St. Maarten, and Thailand last competed in 1999.

Withdrawals and nations not competing

• Curaçao, Denmark, Guatemala, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Paraguay, and Sri Lanka did not compete in Miss World 2001 for unknown reasons.
• Bahamas and Swaziland did not compete in Miss World. Bahamas fell ill and withdrew, while Swaziland had financial problems and lack of sponsorship.
• Lithuania did not compete in Miss World because of a scheduling conflict.
• Moldova had problems with age requirements for the contestants.

Crossovers

• A number of contestants had previously competed at or would later compete in the Miss Universe pageant.
  • Miss World winner Agbani Darego was a semi-finalist at Miss Universe 2001. Ligia Argüello (Nicaragua), a finalist and Jo-Ann Strauss of South Africa, a semi-finalist, also competed at Miss Universe 2001 but did not place. Others who competed at Miss Universe 2001 were Dina Tersago (Belgium) and Viviana Rivasplata (Peru).
  • Michelle Heitha (Namibia) and Joanna Drozdowska (Poland) and Shannon McLean (Cayman Islands) competed at Miss Universe 2002 but did not place in either pageant.
  • Emmanuelle Chossat competed at Miss Universe 2003 but did not place in either pageant.
  • Zizi Lee of Aruba (first runner-up) and Oleksandra Nikolayenko (semi-finalist) competed at Miss Universe 2004 but did not place.
• Christina Sawaya (Lebanon) was expected to compete at Miss Universe 2002, but boycotted because of the participation of an Israeli delegate. She later won the Miss International 2002 title.
• Radasha Hoʻohuli (Hawaii) held the Miss Hawaii USA 2006 title and represented Hawaii at Miss USA 2006.

Historical significance

• Hawaii is technically represented twice: as part of the United States and as Hawaii itself.
  • This is the only second time Hawaii had joined the competition (the first one in 1959).
• 9 out of 10 countries which made it into the semifinals, were not in the semifinals last year: Nicaragua (1968), Yugoslavia (1986), Nigeria (1987), Russia (1992), Aruba (1996), and South Africa and Spain (1999). People's Republic of China and Scotland had made into the semi-finals for the first time. People's Republic of China debuted in 1994, while Scotland in 1999.
• Angola, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China PR, Colombia, Ecuador, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Madagascar, Mexico, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Uruguay, and Venezuela introduced themselves in their native languages.

External links

• Official Miss World website