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Miss Universe 2001 Date May 11, 2001 Presenters Elle MacPherson, Naomi Campbell, Todd Newton and Brook Lee Entertainment Ricky Martin and La Ley Venue Coliseo Rubén Rodríguez, Bayamón, Puerto Rico Broadcaster CBS Entrants 77 Placements 10 Debuts Slovenia Withdraws Australia, Belize, Denmark, Great Britain, Guam, Hong Kong, Mauritius, Namibia, St. Martin, Turks & Caicos Returns Antigua & Barbuda, Curaçao, Nicaragua, Northern Marianas, Turkey, U.S. Virgin Islands Winner Denise Quiñones
Puerto RicoCongeniality Nakera Simms
BahamasBest National Costume Kim Sa-rang
KoreaPhotogenic Denise Quiñones
Puerto RicoMiss Universe 2001 was held at Coliseo Rubén Rodríguez, Bayamón, Puerto Rico on May 11, 2001. 77 contestants participated in the prestigious event. Miss Puerto Rico, Denise Quiñones was crowned Miss Universe 2001 by Miss Universe 2000 Lara Dutta of India.
Contents
Results
Placements
Final results Contestant Miss Universe 2001 1st runner-up 2nd runner-up 3rd runner-up - Venezuela - Eva Ekvall
4th runner-up Top 10 - Spain - Eva Sisó
- Nigeria - Agbani Darego
- Israel - Ilanit Levy
- Russia - Oksana Kalandyrets
- France - Élodie Gossuin
Semifinal Scores
Country Swimsuit Evening Gown Average Puerto Rico 9.617 (1) 9.742 (1) 9.679 (1) Greece 9.450 (2) 9.667 (2) 9.558 (2) USA 9.375 (3) 9.450 (4) 9.413 (3) Venezuela 9.233 (5) 9.525 (3) 9.379 (4) India 9.283 (4) 9.350 (6) 9.317 (5) Spain 9.167 (6) 9.417 (5) 9.292 (6) Nigeria 9.100 (7) 9.333 (7) 9.217 (7) Israel 9.033 (9) 9.267 (8) 9.150 (8) Russia 9.008 (10) 9.142 (9) 9.075 (9) France 9.100 (7) 8.992 (10) 9.046 (10) - Winner
- First Runner-up
- Second Runner-up
- Third Runner-up
- Fourth Runner-up
- Top 10 Semifinalist
- (#) Rank in each round of competition
Special Awards
Award Contestant Best National Costume - Korea - Kim Sa-rang
- Philippines - Zorayda Ruth Andam
- Honduras - Olenka Fuschich
Miss Congeniality - Bahamas - Nakera Simms
Miss Photogenic Bluepoint Best in Swimsuit Clairol Herbal Essences Style Judges
Telecast Judges
- Mini Anden – Swedish model.
- Kel Gleason – Survivor contestant.
- Marc Bouwer – Fashion designer.
- Veronica Webb – African-American model.
- Richard Johnson – New York Post columnist.
- Dayanara Torres – Miss Universe 1993
- Tyson Beckford – Male model.
- Marc Anthony – Puerto Rican singer.
Contestants
- Angola - Hidianeth Cussema
- Antigua & Barbuda - Janil Bird
- Argentina - Romina Incicco
- Aruba - Denise Balinge
- Bahamas - Nakera Simms
- Belgium - Dina Tersago
- Bolivia - Claudia Arano
- Botswana - Mataila Sikwane
- Brazil - Juliana Borges
- British Virgin Islands - Kacy Frett
- Bulgaria - Ivaila Bakalova
- Canada - Cristina Remond
- Cayman Islands - Jacqueline Bush
- Chile - Carolina Gámez
- Colombia - Andrea María Noceti
- Costa Rica - Paola Calderon Hutt
- Croatia - Maja Cecić-Vidoš
- Curaçao - Fatima St. Jago
- Cyprus - Stella Demetriou
- Czech Republic - Petra Kocarova
- Dominican Republic - Claudia Cruz de los Santos
- Ecuador - Jessica Bermudez
- Egypt - Sarah Shaheen
- El Salvador - Grace Marie Zabaneh
- Estonia - Inna Roos
- Finland - Heidi Willman
- France - Élodie Gossuin
- Germany - Claudia Bechstein
- Ghana - Precious Agyare
- Greece - Evelina Papantoniou
- Guatemala - Rosa María Castañeda
- Honduras - Olenka Fuschich
- Hungary - Agnes Helbert
- India - Celina Jaitley
- Ireland - Lesley Turner
- Israel - Ilanit Levy
- Italy - Stefania Maria
- Jamaica - Zahra Burton
- Japan - Misao Arauchi
- Korea - Kim Sa-rang
- Lebanon - Sandra Rizk
- Malaysia - Tung Mei Chin
- Malta - Rosalie Thewma
- Mexico - Jacqueline Bracamontes
- Netherlands - Reshma Roopram
- New Zealand - Kateao Nehua
- Nicaragua - Ligia Argüello
- Nigeria - Agbani Darego
- Northern Marianas-Janet King
- Norway - Linda Marshall
- Panama - Ivette Cordovez Usuga
- Paraguay - Rosmary Brítez
- Peru - Viviana Rivasplata
- Philippines - Zorayda Ruth Andam
- Poland - Monika Gruda
- Portugal - Telma Santos
- Puerto Rico - Denise Quiñones
- Russia - Oksana Kalandyrets
- Singapore - Jaime Teo
- Slovakia - Zuzana Basturova
- Slovenia - Minka Alagič
- South Africa - Jo-Ann Strauss
- Spain - Eva Sisó
- Sweden - Malin Olsson
- Switzerland - Mahara McKay
- Taiwan - Hsin Ting Chiang
- Thailand - Warinthorn Padungvithee
- Trinidad & Tobago - Alexia Charlerie
- Turkey - Sedef Avcı
- Turks & Caicos - Shereen Novie Gardiner
- Ukraine - Yuliya Linova
- Uruguay - Carla Piaggio
- USA - Kandace Krueger
- U.S. Virgin Islands - Lisa Hasseba Wynne
- Venezuela - Eva Ekvall
- Yugoslavia - Ana Janković
- Zimbabwe - Tsungai Muskwakwenda
Trivia
- The Parade of Nations followed the 1989 pageant in continental format and the delegates wore their national costumes.
- USA, Venezuela, India, Spain, and France also placed in the Top 10 the year before.
- Israel last placed in the semi-finals in 1978, Greece in 1994, Russia in 1998, and Puerto Rico in 1999.
- Nigeria placed in the semi-finals for the first time.
- Slovenia debuted at this year's pageant.
- Greece reaches its highest placement since Corinna Tsopei won the title in 1964.
- Miss Nigeria, Agbani Darego, would later win Miss World 2001. In this same pageant, the contestants from Nicaragua (Ligia Argüello) and South Africa (Jo-Ann Strauss) were finalists. Peru's Viviana Rivasplata finished in 11th place.
- Poland was supposed to be represented by the 1st runner-up of Miss Polonia, Malgorzata Rozniecka. Studies prevented her from going, and the organization picked another finalist, Monika Gruda. Later in September, Malgorzata Rozniecka won the Miss International pageant in Japan.
- France's Élodie Gossuin later won the Miss Europe pageant.
- The organization invited Miss Russia 2001, Oxana Fedorova to attend the pageant. But Fedorova said she couldn't compete because of her studies, and that she would compete in 2002. Her 2nd runner-up, Oxana Kalandyrets, competed instead and became a Top 10 finalist. In 2002, Fedorova won the contest.
- Oxana Kalandyrets sported the same evening gown that Miss Russia 1997, Anna Baitchick, wore during Miss Universe 1997.
- Miss Spain 2001, Lorena van Heerde, could not compete in the pageant because she was underage (17 at the time). Her 1st runner-up, Eva Sisó, replaced her. Lorena was supposed then to compete in Miss Universe 2002 as well, but after a scandal -involving an undercover journalist- threatened the integrity of the Miss Spain pageant, van Heerde crowned her successor and cut all ties with the organization.
- Miss Brazil (Juliana Borges) was heavily criticized after openly admitting to the media that she had about 17 plastic surgeries done.
- The only top ten finalist to wear a maillot swimsuit, Miss Nigeria, was given low scores, compared to other contestants.
- Miss Philippines Zorayda Ruth Andam became a lawyer and would later be part of the prosecution team of the infamous Subic Rape Scandal.
International Broadcasters
These are some of the networks outside the United States (telecasted on CBS at the time) that showed the 2001 Miss Universe pageant live (or recorded earlier) in their respective countries and territories:
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