- Miss Earth 2004
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Miss Earth 2004 Date 24 October 2004 Presenters Marc Nelson and Sarah Meir Venue UP Theater, Quezon City, Philippines Broadcaster ABS-CBN, The Filipino Channel, Star World Entrants 61 Debuts Bulgaria, Chad, Macedonia, Martinique, Portugal, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay Withdraws Afghanistan, Antigua & Barbuda, Germany, Gibraltar, Hungary, Kosovo, Spain Returns Egypt, El Salvador, Great Britain, Nepal, Netherlands, Paraguay, Taiwan, Tanzania Winner Priscilla Meirelles
Brazil
Miss Earth 2004, the 4th edition of Miss Earth beauty pageant, took place at the University of the Philippines Theater in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines on October 24, 2004. Miss Brazil took over from last year’s winner Dania Prince of Honduras.[1]
The 21-year-old medical student from Brazil, Priscilla Meirelles, who stands 5’ 8" and has a 35"-24"-35" figure, won the coveted title, and with her win, Brazil became the first country to capture all of the four major international pageants, namely Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth.[1][2]
Miss Martinique Murielle Celimene, an 18-year-old student was crowned Miss Air, the pageant’s equivalent to first runner-up. The last two titles— Miss Water and Miss Fire (second and third runners up, respectively) —were won by Miss Tahiti Kahaia Lesage and Miss Paraguay Yanina Gonzalez. Miss Paraguay was early crowd favorite who maintained her composure when she almost fell off the stage after she broke her shoe’s heels after the long gown competition.
The winners were chosen by the 11-man board of judges who included last year’s Miss Earth’s Beauty for a Cause awardee, Vida Samadzai, Noel Lorenzana of Unilever Philippines, Stefan Voogel of Intercontinental Manila, Kit Ti LIan of Avon Color, Lorraine Timbol of Media Arts Systems and Services Co., Regina Paz Lopez of ABS-CBN Foundation, Chin Chin Gutierrez, actress and staunch advocate of environmental concerns, international singer-actor Leo Valdez, Deborah Landey of the United Nations Development Programme, Freddie Garcia of ABS-CBN, and Department of Trade and Industry Secretary Cesar Purisima.
Organized and launched in 2001 by Carousel Productions, Miss Earth serves as a catalyst in promoting environmental advocacy worldwide. Its slogan, "Beauties For A Cause".[3]
Contents
Results
Placements
Final Results Contestant Miss Earth 2004 Miss Air (1st Runner-up) Martinique - Murielle Celimene
Miss Water (2nd Runner-up) Tahiti - Stéphanie Lesage
Miss Fire (3rd Runner-up) Paraguay - Yanina González
Finalists Australia - Shenevelle Dickson
Honduras - Gabriela Zavala
Philippines - Tamera Marie Lagac Szijarto
Thailand - Radchadawan Khampeng
Semi-finalists Egypt - Arwa Gouda
India - Jyoti Brahmin
Israel - Keren Somech
Nicaragua - Marifely Arguello
Norway - Brigitte Korsvik
Peru - Liesel Holler
Poland - Karolina Gorazda
Trinidad & Tobago - Leah Mari Guevara
- Costa Rica, Cyprus, Guatemala, and Serbia & Montenegro made to the semi-finals last year but not this year.
- Brazil, Honduras, Norway, Philippines, Poland, and Tahiti made to the semi-finals last year and also this year.
Special awards
Special Award Contestant Miss Photogenic Brazil - Priscilla Meirelles
Best National Costume Honduras - Gabriela Zavala
Miss Friendship USA - Stephanie Brownell
Miss Talent Canada - Tanya Beatriz Munizaga
Best in Swimsuit Paraguay - Yanina González
Best in Long Gown Tahiti - Stéphanie Lesage
Judges
No. Judge Background 1 Vida Samadzai Miss Earth 2003 Beauty for a Cause awardee 2 Noel Lorenzana Unilever Philippines 3 Stefan Voogel Intercontinental Manila 4 Kit Ti Lian Avon Color 5 Lorraine Timbol Journalist Media Arts Systems and Services Co. 6 Regina Paz Lopez ABS-CBN Foundation 7 Chin Chin Gutierrez Actress and environmentalist 8 Leo Valdez International singer-actor 9 Deborah Landey United Nations Development Programme 10 Freddie Garcia ABS-CBN 11 Cesar Purisima Secretary, Department of Trade and Industry Winning answer
Final Question in Miss Earth 2004: "On a quiet night, you could hear the sounds of nature talking to you. What do you think is its message and what would you like to tell it back?"
Winning Answer of Miss Earth 2004: "What I can hear is that nature is saying that love is missing. Because people don't respect each other, they don't respect the nature, they don't respect life. That's why nature is reacting to everything that people do to her. Who suffer is us, humankind. And love is what would solve our problem" - Priscilla Meirelles, represented Brazil.[4]
Delegates
List of countries and delegates that participated in Miss Earth 2004:[5]
Albania - Vilma Masha
Argentina - Daniela Puig
Australia - Shenevelle Dickson
Belgium - Ruchika Sharma
Bolivia - Muriel Cruz
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Ana Suton
Brazil - Priscilla Meirelles de Almeida
Bulgaria - Kristiana Dimitrova
Canada - Tanya Beatriz Munizaga
Chad - Myriam Commelin
Chile - Erika Niklitschek Schmidt
China - Xu Nicole Liu (刘旭)
Colombia - Maria Fernanda Navia
Costa Rica - Karlota Calderon Brenes
Denmark - Thea Frojkear
Dominican Republic - Nileny Dippton Estevez
Ecuador - Maria Luisa Barrios Landivar
Egypt - Arwa Gouda
El Salvador - Silvia Gabriela Mejia Cordova
Estonia - Jana Gruft
Ethiopia - Ferehiyewot Abebe Merkuriya
Finland - Iida Laatu
France - Audrey Nogues
Ghana - Maame Afua Akyeampong
Great Britain - Hannah McCuaig
Guatemala - Mirza Odette Garcia
Honduras - Gabriela Zavala Irias
India - Jyoti Brahmin
Israel - Keren Somech
Kenya - Susan Kaittany
Korea - Cho Hye-Jin
Lebanon - Lana Khattab
Macedonia - Natalija Grubovik
Malaysia - Eloise Law
Martinique - Murielle Celimene
Mexico - Valentina Cervera Avila
Nepal - Anita Gurung
Netherlands - Saadia Himi
New Zealand - Rachael Tucker
Nicaragua - Marifely Argüello César
Nigeria - Ufuoma Stacey Ejenobor
Norway - Brigitte Korsvik
Paraguay - Yanina Alicia González Jorgge
Peru - Liesel Holler Sotomayor
Philippines - Tamera Marie Lagac Szijarto
Poland - Karolina Gorazda
Portugal - Frederica Santos
Puerto Rico - Shanira Blanco
Serbia and Montenegro - Katarina Hadzipavlovic
Singapore - Nicole Sze Chin Nee
South Africa - Sally Leung
Sweden - Sara Jilena Lundemo
Switzerland - Simone Röthlisberger
Tahiti - Stéphanie Lesage
Taiwan - Angel Wu
Tanzania - Sophia Byanaku
Thailand - Radchadawan Khampeng
Trinidad and Tobago - Leah Mari Guevara
United States - Stephanie Brownell
Uruguay - Katherine Gonzalves Pedrozo
Vietnam - Bui Thuy Hanh
Contestant notes
- Miss Earth 2004, Priscilla Meirelles also won the title "Miss Cyberpress Earth 2004" awarded by the website Globalbeauties.com after topping a survey participated in by webmasters in 19 pageant-related web portals.[3] Prior to winning the Miss Earth title, she was crowned "Miss Globe 2003."
- The following candidates participated at the Miss Universe 2004 pageant before coming to Miss Earth pageant: Marifely Arguello (Nicaragua), Liesel Holler (Peru), Silvia Gabriela Mejia Cordova (El Salvador), Ferehiyewot Abebe (Ethiopia), and Yanina González (Paraguay), who was 3rd Runner-up.
- Bolivia's Muriel Cruz was a semi-finalist at Miss International 2003.
- Katherine Gonzalves Pedrozo (Uruguay) participated in Miss World 1999; Karolina Gorazda (Poland) joined Miss World 2003, but she did not place. She later became her country's representative in Miss Europe 2005, where she was one of the semi-finalists.
- Some Miss Earth 2004 contestants went on to win minor international titles, Arwa Gouda (Egypt) won the title "Best Model Of the World", Liesel Holler (Peru) won "Miss Caraibes Hibiscus", Marifely Arguello (Nicaragua) won "Miss Expo World," and Maria Luisa Barios (Ecuador) won the "Reina Bolivariana" pageant.
- Hannah Mccaugh (Great Britain) won the "Miss International World" title before competing in Miss Earth 2004; Valentina Cervera Avila (Mexico) won "Reina Mundial Del Mar (Queen of International Seas)" and competed in the Miss Intercontinental, both in 2003.
External links
References
- ^ a b West, Donald (2007-12-18). "Miss Earth History". Pageantopolis. http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/earth.htm. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
- ^ Palmero, Paul (2005-06-18). "Pageant History: Winning Feats". Pageant Almanac. http://www.pageant-almanac.com/history.php. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
- ^ a b WTA World
- ^ Missosology 2004
- ^ Soul, John (2004-10-24). "Miss Earth 2004". Woman of the Earth News. http://womanoftheearth.tv/essentials/2004.html. Retrieved 2009-12-27.
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