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Miss World 2004 
Miss World 2004 TitlecardDate December 6, 2004 Presenters Troy McClain, Angela Chow, and Lisa Snowdon Entertainment Lionel Richie, and Il Divo Venue Crown of Beauty Theatre, Sanya, China Entrants 107 Placements 15 Debuts Fiji Islands Withdraws Andorra, Guatemala, Northern Marianas, Swaziland, and Uruguay Returns Chinese Taipei, Egypt, El Salvador, Ghana, Honduras, St. Lucia, and Turks & Caicos Winner María Julia Mantilla
PeruMiss World 2004, the 54th Miss World pageant was held at the Crown of Beauty Theatre, Sanya, People's Republic of China on December 6, 2004. The 2004 pageant marks the second straight year that Sanya played host of the pageant. Miss World 2003, Rosanna Davison of Ireland crowned her successor María Julia Mantilla of Peru. 107 contestants from all over the world competed for the crown marking at that time, the biggest turnout in the pageant's 54 year history. That record was held until Miss World 2008 where 109 nations sent representatives. It is also regarded as having the largest global vote made since the pageant entire results were decided by votes cast by viewers via the internet and SMS. Five contestants were "Fast Tracked" to the semifinals with the remaining ten determined by the global vote.
Contents
Results
Placements
Final Results Contestant Miss World 2004 1st runner-up 2nd runner-up Top 5
Philippines - Maria Karla Bautista
Poland - Katarzyna Borowicz
Top 15
Antigua and Barbuda - Shermain Jeremy
Australia - Sarah Davies
China - Yang Jin
Czech Republic - Jana Doleželová
Mexico - Yessica Ramírez
Nigeria - Anita Uwagbale
Russia - Tatiana Sidorchuk
Trinidad & Tobago - Kenisha Thom
Vietnam - Nguyễn Thị Huyền
Wales - Amy Guy
Continental Queens
- Queen of Africa: Anita Uwagbale (Nigeria)
- Queen of Americas: María Julia Mantilla (Peru)
- Queen of Asia & Oceania: Maria Karla Bautista (Philippines)
- Queen of Caribbean: Claudia Cruz (Dominican Republic)
- Queen of Europe: Katarzyna Borowicz (Poland)
Fast Track Competitions
Beach Beauty
- Winner: United States
- 1st runner-up: Australia
- 2nd runner-up: Trinidad & Tobago
- Top 10 finalists: Bolivia, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Philippines
- Top 20 semi-finalists: Aruba, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Lebanon, Panama, Uganda, Ukraine, Venezuela
Miss Sports
- Winner: Wales
- 1st runner-up: Australia
- 2nd runner-up: (tied) Peru, Trinidad & Tobago
- Top 10 finalists: Antigua, Fiji Islands, Iceland, Netherlands, Russia, Thailand
Miss Talent
- Winner: Antigua & Barbuda
- 1st runner-up: China PR
- 2nd runner-up: Barbados
- Top 25 semi-finalists: Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Botswana, Brazil, Chile, Chinese Taipei, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Fiji Islands, Gibraltar, Italy, Korea, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Spain, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, Uganda, Zambia
Top Model
- Winner: Mexico
- 1st runner-up: Angola
- 2nd runner-up: Belgium
- Top 10 finalists: Chinese Taipei, Czech Republic, Greece, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
- Top 20 semi-finalists: Aruba, Botswana, Bulgaria, China PR, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Poland, United States
Contestants' Choice
- Winner: Australia
- 1st runner-up: United States
- 2nd runner-up: Peru
Special awards
- Best World Dress Designer: Ellen Petri (Belgium)
- Miss World Scholarship: Tonoya Toyloy (Jamaica)
Contestants
Country Contestant Age Height Hometown
AlbaniaAgnese Vuthaj 18 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Prishtina
AngolaSilvia Anair Joao de Deus 20 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Luanda
AntiguaShermain Sunja Jeremy 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) St. John's
ArgentinaVeronica Estarriaga 24 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Buenos Aires
ArubaLuisana Nikulay Cicilia 20 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Oranjestad
AustraliaSarah Davies 22 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) Brisbane
BahamasBrianna Clarke 23 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) Nassau
BarbadosKennifer Marius 20 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) Christ Church
BelarusOlga Antropova 22 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Polotsk
BelgiumEllen Petri 22 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) Merksem
BoliviaMaría Nuvia Montenegro Apuri 18 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Reyes
Bosnia & HerzegovinaNjegica Balorda 19 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) Sarajevo
BotswanaJuby Peacock 20 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Maun
BrazilIara Maria Rezende Azevedo Coelho 23 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) Minas Gerais
BulgariaGergana Guncheva 17 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Sofia
CanadaTijana Arnautović 18 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Ottawa
Cayman IslandsStacy Ann-Rose Kelly 24 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Bodden Town
ChileVerónica Paz Roberts Olcay 21 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) Santiago
People's Republic of ChinaYang Jin 20 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Chongqing
Chinese TaipeiDorothy Chu Yi Hui 18 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) Taipei
ColombiaPaola Andrea Mariňo Garcia 22 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Bogotá
Costa RicaShirley Calvo Jimenez 22 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Alajuela
CroatiaIvana Žnidarić 17 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Cakovec
CuraçaoSue-Ann Stephanie Hudson 20 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Willemstad
CyprusConstantina Evripidou 19 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Limassol
Czech RepublicJana Doleželová 23 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) Unicov
DenmarkLine Solling Larsen 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Funen
Dominican RepublicClaudia Julissa Cruz Rodriguez 18 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Santo Domingo
EcuadorCristina Eugenia Reyes Hidalgo 23 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) Guayaquil
EgyptHeba Ahmad El-Sisy 22 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Cairo
El SalvadorAndrea Denise Müschenborn Charlaix 18 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) San Salvador
EnglandDanielle Lloyd 20 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Liverpool
EstoniaMoonika Tooming 23 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Tallinn
EthiopiaSayat Demissie 18 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) Addis Ababa
Fiji IslandsAishwarya Sukhdeo 24 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Suva
FinlandNina Johanna Tikanmäki 19 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) Naantali
FranceLaetitia Marciniak 23 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Calais
GeorgiaSalome Chikviladze 20 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Tbilisi
GermanyInka Weickel 20 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) Alzey
GhanaSerena Naa Dei Ashi Roye 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Accra
GibraltarHelen Gustafson 24 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) Gibraltar
GreeceMaria Spiridaki 19 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Heraklion
GuadeloupeJennifer Desbouiges 18 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) Pointe-à-Pitre
GuyanaSuzette Marissa Shim 19 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Georgetown
HondurasKimberly Michelle McNab 19 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) Roatan
Hong Kong, ChinaQueenie Chu Wai Man 23 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) Hong Kong
HungaryVeronika Orban 20 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Zalaegerszeg
IcelandHugrun Hardardóttir 21 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Selfoss
IndiaSayali Bhagat 20 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Nashik
IrelandNatasha Nic Gairbheirth 21 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) Gweedore
IsraelRita Lokin 23 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Ashdod
ItalyValeria Altobelli 20 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) Rome
JamaicaTonoya Anne Toyloy 24 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) Kingston
JapanMinako Goto 22 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) Akita
KazakhstanAleksandra Kazakova 19 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Oskemen
KenyaJuliet Atieno Ochieng 19 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Kisumu
KoreaHan Kyoung-jin 19 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) Seongnam
LatviaAgnese Eiduka 20 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) Valmiera
LebanonNadine Noujeim 20 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Beirut
LithuaniaAgne Maliaukaitė 19 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)4 Panevėžys
Macedonia FYROSara Lesi 17 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) Skopje
MalaysiaGloria Ting Mei Ru 23 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) Sibu
MaltaAntonella Vella 20 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Mosta
MauritiusMaria Natacha Magalie Antoo 22 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) Rose Hill
MexicoYessica Guadalupe Ramírez Meza 22 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Mazatlán
MoldovaMarina Chivaciuc 21 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) Tiraspol
NamibiaAdele Basson 24 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Windhoek
NepalPayal Shakya 18 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) Kathmandu
NetherlandsMiranda Slabber 24 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) Arnemuiden
New ZealandAmber Jean Peebles 21 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Auckland
NicaraguaAnielka María Sánchez Castillo 22 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Masaya
NigeriaAnita Queen Uwagbale 19 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Lagos
Northern IrelandKirsty Anne Gabriel Stewart 18 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) Enniskillen
NorwayHege Torresdal 20 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) Aksdal
PanamaMelissa del Carmen Piedrahita Melendez 22 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Panama City
ParaguayTania María Domanickzy Vargas 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Asunción
PeruMaria Julia Mantilla Garcia 20 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) Trujillo
PhilippinesMaria Karla Rabanal Bautista 20 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Cebu City
PolandKatarzyna Weronika Borowicz 19 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Ostrów Wielkopolski
PortugalPatricia Oliveira Raposa de Oliveira 17 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Lisbon
Puerto RicoCassandra Carin Castro Holland 20 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Luquillo
RomaniaAdina Maria Cotuna 20 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Arad
RussiaTatiana Sidorchuk 19 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Perm
St. LuciaSascha Gianne Michelle Andrew-Rose 18 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) Castries
ScotlandLois Anna Weatherup 21 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) Linlithgow
Serbia & MontenegroJelena Pejic 17 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Belgrade
SingaporeLisa Huang Shu Jun 22 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) Singapore
SlovakiaMaria Sandorova 20 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Košice
SloveniaŽiva Vadnov 22 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) Ljubljana
South AfricaJoan Kwena Ramagoshi 24 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) Mamelodi
SpainMaite Medina Cerrato 24 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Barcelona
Sri LankaAnarkalli Jay Aakarsha 17 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) Colombo
SwedenEva Helena Hjertonsson 19 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Kalmar
SwitzerlandFiona Hefti 24 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Zürich
TanzaniaFaraja Kotta 19 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Dar es Salaam
ThailandNikallaya Abdul Dulaya 23 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) Yala
Trinidad & TobagoKenisha Nalisha Finita Thom 21 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) Scarborough
TurkeyNur Gumusdograyan 19 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Ankara
Turks & CaicosBeryl Christian Kateri Handfield 19 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) Grand Turk
UgandaBarbara Kimbugwe 19 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) Kampala
UkraineLesya Matveyeva 22 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Kiev
United StatesNancy Randall 24 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) New Orleans
VenezuelaAndrea María Milroy Díaz 20 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) Caracas
VietnamNguyễn Thị Huyền 19 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) Hanoi
WalesAmy Guy 21 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Wrexham
ZambiaRosemary Mulenga Chileshe 24 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Lusaka
ZimbabweOslie Muringai 20 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Bulawayo National pageant notes
Debut
- Fiji Islands competed in Miss World for the first time.
Returning countries and territories
- Turks & Caicos last competed in 1988.
- El Salvador last competed in 1993.
- St. Lucia last competed in 1994.
- Egypt last competed in 1997.
- Chinese Taipei and Honduras last competed in 2000.
- Ghana last competed in 2002.
Withdraws
- Guatemala, Northern Marianas, Swaziland and Uruguay did not compete in Miss World 2004 for unknown reasons.
Nation did not competed
- Austria (Silvia Hackl) withdrew at the very last minute for personal reasons.
Country Changes
- Holland changed its name to Netherlands.
Contestant notes
- 15 contestants competed in some Miss Universe pageants.
- Miss Universe 2002: Australia
- Miss Universe 2004: Cayman Islands, Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa.
- Miss Universe 2005: Albania, Antigua, Aruba, Lebanon, Mauritius, Namibia and Switzerland (who made into the Top 10 finalists).
- Miss Universe 2006: St. Lucia and Trinidad & Tobago (MW 2004 Semi-Finalist) had made into the Top 10 Finalists.
- Miss Universe 2007: Zambia
- Bahamas (Brianna Clarke), Hong Kong China (Queenie Chu) and Wales (Amy Guy) who represented United Kingdom competed in Miss International 2005.
- Ecuador, Paraguay and Poland had made into the semi-finals in Miss Earth 2005. Poland placed as Miss Earth-Water.
- Puerto Rico (Cassandra Castro) is currently a semi-finalist in Miss Tourism Queen International 2008.
Historical significance
- 9 out of 15 countries which made it into the semifinals, were not in the semifinals last year: Poland (1992), Mexico (1996), Czech Republic (1998),Nigeria, Russia, United States, and Vietnam (2002).Antigua and Wales made into the semi-finals in Miss World after winning two Fast-Track Awards for MW Talent and MW Sport, respectively. Antigua debuted in 1986, while Wales in 1999.
Philippines placed for the third consecutive year and was fourth runner-up twice in a row.
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