Manhunt International 2008

Manhunt International 2008
Date	June 2, 2008
Venue	The Circle, Central City Convention Hall, Seoul, Korea
Entrants	47
Debuts	Equatorial Guinea, Morocco
Withdraws	Austria, Colombia, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands
Returns	Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Ireland, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Spain
Winner	Abdelmoumen El Maghraouy  Morocco
Congeniality	Rikesh Raj Shrestha  Nepal
Photogenic	Samuel Adam Whitman  England

Manhunt International 2008, the 13th Manhunt International pageant was held at The Circle, Central City Convention Hall, Seoul, Korea on June 2, 2008. 47 contestants competed for the title. Jeffrey Zheng of China crowned his successor Abdelmoumen El Maghraouy of Morocco.

Results

Placements

Final result	Contestant
Manhunt International 2008	Morocco – Abdelmoumen El Maghraouy
1st runner-up	Sweden – Egill Arnljots
2nd runner-up	Costa Rica – Cesar Vargas
3rd runner-up	Korea – Lee Jae-Hwan
4th runner-up	Angola – Claudio Furtado
Top 15 Semi-Finalist	China – Yang Yao  India – Romeo Gates  Brazil – Thiago Testoni  Hong Kong – Mingo Lin  United States – Brandon Michael Anderson  United Kingdom – Samuel Adam Whitman  Panama – Anthony Warren  Philippines – Marvin Wijangco  Luxembourg – Koen Van de Voorde  Venezuela – Orlando Delgado

Special awards

Award	Name	Country
Mr Friendship	Rikesh Raj Shrestha	Nepal
Mr Photogenic	Samuel Adam Whitman	United Kingdom
Mr Physique	Yang Yao	China
Mr Internet Popularity	Romeo Gates	India
Mr Personality	Marvin Wijangco	Philippines
Best National Costume	Mingo Lin	Hong Kong
Best Runway Model	Emre Kizilirmak	Turkey

Contestants

Country	Contestant	Age	Height	Regional	Occupation
Angola	Claudio Furtado	23	6' 2"	Africa	Oil Engineering
Australia	Dean Tahana	28	6' 1"	Asia-Pacific	Mortgage Broker
Belgium	Mike Van de Woestijne	24	5' 11"	Europe	Model
Bosnia	Anel Korjenic	22	6' 2"	Europe	Handball player, Model
Brazil	Thiago Testoni	21	6' 3"	Americas	Law student
Bulgaria	Hristo Hristov	32	6' 0"	Europe	Manager
Canada	Joseph Antonia	23	6' 2"	Americas	Student
China	Yang Yao	25	6' 2"	Asia-Pacific	Model
Costa Rica	Cesar Vargas	24	6' 1"	Americas	Personal trainer
Curacao	Jeffrey de Bruyn	23	6' 2"	Caribbean	Model
Dominican Republic	Jetsen Rodriguez Silva	29	6' 1"	Caribbean	Model / Student
Equatorial Guinea	Gbadebo Williams	22	5' 11"	Africa	Student
Estonia	Risto Kask	22	5' 11"	Europe	Model
Germany	Simon Payer	22	6' 0"	Europe	Model
Ghana	Seth Nyarko	21	6' 4"	Africa	Student
Gibraltar	Jonathon Lavers	21	6' 4"	Europe	Student
Greece	Nikolaos Kavouris	20	6' 2"	Europe	Model
Guatemala	Cesar Fernando Rosales	22	6' 1"	Americas	Model / Student
Hawaii	Cairo Chiang	19	6' 1"	Asia-Pacific	Model / Student
Hong Kong	Mingo Lin	21	6' 1"	Asia-Pacific	Model
India	Romeo Gates	28	6' 2"	Asia-Pacific	Model
Indonesia	Anthony Gunawan	26	6' 1"	Asia-Pacific	Basketball player / Model
Ireland	Quinn Johnson	20	6' 1"	Europe	Model
Kazakhstan	Evgeniy Kopotilo	26	6' 2"	Asia-Pacific	Tennis and ski instructor
Korea	Lee Jae-Hwan	22	6' 2"	Asia-Pacific	Actor / Model
Luxembourg	Koen Van de Voorde	22	6' 3"	Europe	Model
Macau	Shi Chang-Hong	19	6' 2"	Asia-Pacific	Model
Macedonia	Goce Dimkovski	24	6' 4"	Europe	Computer Science Student
Malaysia	Chad Loh	27	6' 0"	Asia-Pacific	Model
Mexico	Alejandro Moreno	19	6' 1"	Americas	Model / Student
Morocco	Abdelmoumen El Maghraouy	26	6' 3"	Africa	Teleoperator
Nepal	Rikesh Raj Shrestha	23	6' 0"	Asia-Pacific	Student
Pakistan	Muhammad Amir Afzal Rehmani	23	5' 11"	Asia-Pacific	Model
Panama	Anthony Warren	25	6' 3"	Americas	Sales executive
Philippines	Marvin Wijangco	24	5' 11"	Asia-Pacific	Model
Puerto Rico	Eduardo de Cuba	23	6' 2"	Caribbean	Student
Singapore	Gordon Tan	25	6' 0"	Asia-Pacific	Student
South Africa	Christopher Lee	22	6' 0"	Africa	I.T. consultant
Spain	Victorio Alba	29	6' 2"	Europe	Model
Sweden	Egill Arnljots	21	6' 4"	Europe	Warehousing executive
Taiwan	Lin Shao Hua	24	5' 11"	Asia-Pacific	Gym Instructor
Thailand	Tanawut Nantarid	25	5' 11"	Asia-Pacific	Disc Jockey
Turkey	Emre Kizilirmak	25	6' 5"	Europe	Model / Student
United Kingdom	Samuel Adam Whitman	20	6' 0"	Europe	Model
United States	Brandon Michael Anderson	29	6' 0"	Americas	Model
Venezuela	Orlando Delgado	18	5' 11"	Americas	Model
Vietnam	Nguyễn Văn Thịnh	24	6' 0"	Asia-Pacific	Model

National pageant notes

Debuts

• Equatorial Guinea and Morocco will compete in Manhunt International for the first time.

Returning countries and territories

• Ireland last competed in 1997.
• Guatemala last competed in 1995.
• Luxembourg last competed in 1999.
• Dominican Republic, Macedonia and Spain last competed in 2006.

Withdraws

No shows

•  Austria
•  Colombia
•  Cyprus
•  Lithuania
•  Malta
•  Netherlands

Nations did not competed

•  Egypt – Tarek Naguib
•  Georgia – Roland Saralidze
•  Latvia – Arturs Mihailovs
•  Lebanon – Ahmad Sabbagh

Contestant notes

• Claudio Furtado of Angola (4th runner-up) also participated in Mister International 2008 but failed to placed.
• Koen Van De Voorde of Luxembourg also participated in Mister International 2008 who placed in the Top 10. In this pageant, Koen represents Belgium.
• Tarek Naguib of Egypt participated Mister World 2010.

The prizes

• Manhunt International 2008: US$ 10,000.00 cash, a US$ 30,000.00 modelling contract with Mythmodels Beijing, China plus trophy, and sash.
• 1st runner-up: US$ 2,000.00 cash, a US$ 15,000.00 modelling contract with Myth Models Beijing, China plus trophy, and sash.
• 2nd runner-up: US$ 1,000.00 cash, a US$ 10,000.00 modelling contract with Myth Models Beijing, China plus trophy, and sash.
• 3rd runner-up: US$ 1,000.00 cash, a US$ 10,000.00 modelling contract with Myth Models Beijing, China plus trophy, and sash.
• 4th runner-up: US$ 1,000.00 cash, a US$ 10,000.00 modelling contract with Myth Models Beijing, China plus trophy, and sash.

The jury

• The contestants will be judged by a 15 member panel composed of both International and Korean celebrity judges. They come from all walks of life – actors and actress, artist, olympic gold medalist, former beauty queen, doctor, fashion magazine editor, talent scouts and professionals.

References

• Manhunt International website
• Global Beauties
• Pageantopolis