Miss Venezuela 2000

Miss Venezuela 2000
Date	September 8, 2000
Presenters	Maite Delgado Omar Germenos Fabiola Colmenares
Venue	Poliedro de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
Broadcaster	Venevision
Entrants	26
Winner	Eva Ekvall Apure

Miss Venezuela 2000, the 47th Miss Venezuela pageant, was held in Caracas, Venezuela, on September 8, 2000, after weeks of events. The winner of the pageant was Eva Ekvall, Miss Apure.

The pageant was broadcast live on Venevision from the Poliedro de Caracas in Caracas, Venezuela. At the conclusion of the final night of competition, outgoing titleholder Martina Thorogood crowned Eva Ekvall of Apure as the new Miss Venezuela.^[1]

Results

• Miss Venezuela 2000 - Eva Ekvall (Miss Apure)

The runners-up were:

• Miss Venezuela International - Vivian Urdaneta (Miss Costa Oriental)
• 1st runner-up - Ligia Petit-Miss Guárico.

The 10 semi-finalists were:

• Victoria López-Pando (Miss Anzoátegui)
• Ainette Stephens (Miss Bolívar)
• Astrid Carati (Miss Cojedes)
• Dahilmar Toledo (Distrito Capital)
• Zonia El Hawi (Miss Nueva Esparta)
• Daniela Monzant (Miss Península Goajira)
• Cecilia Villegas (Miss Zulia)

Special awards

• Miss Photogenic (voted by press reporters) - Eva Ekvall (Miss Apure)
• Miss Internet (voted by www.missvenezuela.com viewers) - Eva Ekvall (Miss Apure)
• Miss Congeniality (voted by Miss Venezuela contestants) - Ainette Stephens (Miss Bolívar)
• Miss Figure - Verónica Hernández (Miss Monagas)
• Best Smile - Zonia El Hawi (Miss Nueva Esparta)
• Best Face - Felisa Gómez(Miss Lara)
• Best Skin - Verónica Leal (Miss Trujillo)
• Best Runway - Bianca Urdaneta (Miss Mérida)
• Miss Integral - Isis Durán (Miss Táchira)

Delegates

The Miss Venezuela 2000 delegates are:

State	Contestant	Age	Height (cm)	Hometown
Amazonas	Leidy Gisela Moncada	18	178	San Cristóbal
Anzoátegui	Victoria Eugenia López-Pando Noboa	19	177	Puerto La Cruz
Apure	Eva Mónica Anna Ekvall Johnson	17	179	Caracas
Aragua	Adriana Alcibel Steinkopf Torres	18	184	Valencia
Barinas	Kelin Yosselin Peña	18	177	San Cristóbal
Bolívar	Ainette Mery Stephens Sifontes	18	181	Ciudad Guayana
Carabobo	Mariangélica García López	18	175	Valencia
Cojedes	Astrid Eyleen Carati Del Nogal	21	173	Ciudad Guayana
Costa Oriental	Vivian Inés Urdaneta Rincón	21	175	Maracaibo
Delta Amacuro	Paola Andrea Cevallos Zuluaga	20	184	La Victoria
Distrito Capital	Dahilmar del Valle Toledo Moreno	17	176	Valencia
Falcón	Anaís María Franco Millán	23	170	Cabimas
Guárico	Ligia Fernanda Petit Vargas	18	175	Caracas
Lara	Felisa Elena Gómez Perdomo	22	170	Barquisimeto
Mérida	Bianca Rosanna Urdaneta García	18	179	Maracaibo
Miranda	Susana Stephany de Fazio Bracutto	17	175	Caracas
Monagas	Verónica María Hernández Osborn	20	177	Caracas
Nueva Esparta	Zonia Hassan El Hawi Musa	20	175	Porlamar
Península Goajira	Daniela Ysabel Monzant Valencia	18	178	Maracaibo
Portuguesa	Sabrina Daneri	21	178	Caracas
Sucre	Reyna Fabiola Borges Noguera	19	173	Valencia
Táchira	Isis Yumali Durán Moreno	21	172	Ureña
Trujillo	Verónica Leal Prieto	19	173	Maracaibo
Vargas	Ana Belén Abreu Toledo	18	172	Maracay
Yaracuy	Natascha Vanessa Börger Sevilla	19	180	Caracas
Zulia	Cecilia Villegas Arteaga	24	179	Maracaibo

Notes

• Eva Ekvall placed as 3rd runner-up in Miss Universe 2001 in Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
• Vivian Urdaneta won Miss International 2000 in Tokyo, Japan.
• Ligia Petit won Reina Sudamericana 2000 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and later won Miss Intercontinental 2001 in Coburg, Germany. She also placed as 1st runner up in Miss Atlántico Internacional 2001 in Punta del Este, Uruguay.
• Mariangélica García placed as semifinalist in Miss Tourism World 2002 in Antalya, Turkey.
• Natascha Borger won Miss Germany 2002 and placed as semifinalist in Miss Universe 2002 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• Fabiola Borges previously placed as 2nd runner up in Miss Intercontinental 2000 in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

References

1. ^ "Coronada Miss Venezuela 2000 Eva Ekvall". El Universal. http://buscador.eluniversal.com/2000/09/09/cul_art_09314D2.shtml. Retrieved 2000-09-09. 

External links

• Miss Venezuela official website