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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 Albania Agnese Vuthaj 18 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Prishtina Angola Silvia Anair Joao de Deus 20 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Luanda Antigua Shermain Sunja Jeremy 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) St. John's Argentina Veronica Estarriaga 24 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Buenos Aires Aruba Luisana Nikulay Cicilia 20 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Oranjestad Australia Sarah Davies 22 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) Brisbane Bahamas Brianna Clarke 23 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) Nassau Barbados Kennifer Marius 20 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) Christ Church Belarus Olga Antropova 22 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Polotsk Belgium Ellen Petri 22 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) Merksem Bolivia María Nuvia Montenegro Apuri 18 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Reyes Bosnia & Herzegovina Njegica Balorda 19 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) Sarajevo Botswana Juby Peacock 20 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Maun Brazil Iara Maria Rezende Azevedo Coelho 23 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) Minas Gerais Bulgaria Gergana Guncheva 17 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Sofia Canada Tijana Arnautović 18 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Ottawa Cayman Islands Stacy Ann-Rose Kelly 24 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Bodden Town Chile Verónica Paz Roberts Olcay 21 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) Santiago People's Republic of China Yang Jin 20 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Chongqing Chinese Taipei Dorothy Chu Yi Hui 18 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) Taipei Colombia Paola Andrea Mariňo Garcia 22 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Bogotá Costa Rica Shirley Calvo Jimenez 22 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Alajuela Croatia Ivana Žnidarić 17 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Cakovec Curaçao Sue-Ann Stephanie Hudson 20 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Willemstad Cyprus Constantina Evripidou 19 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Limassol Czech Republic Jana Doleželová 23 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) Unicov Denmark Line Solling Larsen 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Funen Dominican Republic Claudia Julissa Cruz Rodriguez 18 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Santo Domingo Ecuador Cristina Eugenia Reyes Hidalgo 23 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) Guayaquil Egypt Heba Ahmad El-Sisy 22 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Cairo El Salvador Andrea Denise Müschenborn Charlaix 18 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) San Salvador England Danielle Lloyd 20 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Liverpool Estonia Moonika Tooming 23 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Tallinn Ethiopia Sayat Demissie 18 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) Addis Ababa Fiji Islands Aishwarya Sukhdeo 24 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Suva Finland Nina Johanna Tikanmäki 19 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) Naantali France Laetitia Marciniak 23 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Calais Georgia Salome Chikviladze 20 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Tbilisi Germany Inka Weickel 20 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) Alzey Ghana Serena Naa Dei Ashi Roye 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Accra Gibraltar Helen Gustafson 24 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) Gibraltar Greece Maria Spiridaki 19 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Heraklion Guadeloupe Jennifer Desbouiges 18 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) Pointe-à-Pitre Guyana Suzette Marissa Shim 19 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Georgetown Honduras Kimberly Michelle McNab 19 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) Roatan Hong Kong, China Queenie Chu Wai Man 23 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) Hong Kong Hungary Veronika Orban 20 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Zalaegerszeg Iceland Hugrun Hardardóttir 21 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Selfoss India Sayali Bhagat 20 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Nashik Ireland Natasha Nic Gairbheirth 21 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) Gweedore Israel Rita Lokin 23 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Ashdod Italy Valeria Altobelli 20 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) Rome Jamaica Tonoya Anne Toyloy 24 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) Kingston Japan Minako Goto 22 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) Akita Kazakhstan Aleksandra Kazakova 19 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Oskemen Kenya Juliet Atieno Ochieng 19 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Kisumu Korea Han Kyoung-jin 19 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) Seongnam Latvia Agnese Eiduka 20 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) Valmiera Lebanon Nadine Noujeim 20 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Beirut Lithuania Agne Maliaukaitė 19 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)4 Panevėžys Macedonia FYRO Sara Lesi 17 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) Skopje Malaysia Gloria Ting Mei Ru 23 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) Sibu Malta Antonella Vella 20 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Mosta Mauritius Maria Natacha Magalie Antoo 22 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) Rose Hill Mexico Yessica Guadalupe Ramírez Meza 22 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Mazatlán Moldova Marina Chivaciuc 21 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) Tiraspol Namibia Adele Basson 24 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Windhoek Nepal Payal Shakya 18 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) Kathmandu Netherlands Miranda Slabber 24 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) Arnemuiden New Zealand Amber Jean Peebles 21 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Auckland Nicaragua Anielka María Sánchez Castillo 22 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Masaya Nigeria Anita Queen Uwagbale 19 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Lagos Northern Ireland Kirsty Anne Gabriel Stewart 18 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) Enniskillen Norway Hege Torresdal 20 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) Aksdal Panama Melissa del Carmen Piedrahita Melendez 22 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Panama City Paraguay Tania María Domanickzy Vargas 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Asunción Peru Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia 20 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) Trujillo Philippines Maria Karla Rabanal Bautista 20 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Cebu City Poland Katarzyna Weronika Borowicz 19 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Ostrów Wielkopolski Portugal Patricia Oliveira Raposa de Oliveira 17 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Lisbon Puerto Rico Cassandra Carin Castro Holland 20 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Luquillo Romania Adina Maria Cotuna 20 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Arad Russia Tatiana Sidorchuk 19 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Perm St. Lucia Sascha Gianne Michelle Andrew-Rose 18 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) Castries Scotland Lois Anna Weatherup 21 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) Linlithgow Serbia & Montenegro Jelena Pejic 17 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Belgrade Singapore Lisa Huang Shu Jun 22 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) Singapore Slovakia Maria Sandorova 20 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Košice Slovenia Živa Vadnov 22 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) Ljubljana South Africa Joan Kwena Ramagoshi 24 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) Mamelodi Spain Maite Medina Cerrato 24 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Barcelona Sri Lanka Anarkalli Jay Aakarsha 17 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) Colombo Sweden Eva Helena Hjertonsson 19 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Kalmar Switzerland Fiona Hefti 24 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Zürich Tanzania Faraja Kotta 19 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Dar es Salaam Thailand Nikallaya Abdul Dulaya 23 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) Yala Trinidad & Tobago Kenisha Nalisha Finita Thom 21 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) Scarborough Turkey Nur Gumusdograyan 19 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Ankara Turks & Caicos Beryl Christian Kateri Handfield 19 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) Grand Turk Uganda Barbara Kimbugwe 19 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) Kampala Ukraine Lesya Matveyeva 22 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Kiev United States Nancy Randall 24 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) New Orleans Venezuela Andrea María Milroy Díaz 20 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) Caracas Vietnam Nguyễn Thị Huyền 19 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) Hanoi Wales Amy Guy 21 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Wrexham Zambia Rosemary Mulenga Chileshe 24 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Lusaka Zimbabwe Oslie 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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