Miss International 2001
WinnerMałgorzata Rożniecka
RepresentedPoland
DateOctober 4, 2001[1]
PresentersMasumi Okada · Yukie Sakai
VenueNakano Sun Plaza, Nakano, Tokyo, Japan[1]
BroadcasterTV Tokyo
Entrants52[1]
Placements15
DebutsMongolia
WithdrawsEgypt · Guam · Honduras · Lebanon · Moldova · Nepal · Panama · Portugal · South Africa · Tahiti · Taiwan · Togo
ReturnsChile · Dominican Republic · Great Britain · Holland · Latvia · Northern Mariana Islands · Yugoslavia
Before2000
Next2002

Miss International 2001, the 41st Miss International pageant, was held on October 4, 2001 at the Nakano Sun Plaza in Tokyo, Japan. At the end of the event, Vivian Urdaneta of Venezuela crowned her successor Małgorzata Rożniecka of Poland.

Results

Placements

PlacementContestant
Miss International 2001
1st runner-up
2nd runner-up
Top 15

Contestants

Fifty-two contestants competed for the title.

Country/TerritoryContestantAge[a]Hometown
ArgentinaMaría Victoria Branda19Buenos Aires
ArubaDaphne Croes23Oranjestad
BoliviaPriscilla Quiroga[6]21La Paz
BrazilFernanda Tinti19Minas Gerais
CanadaShauna Olechow23–
ChilePaula Orchard22Santiago
ColombiaRocio Stevenson22Cartagena
CroatiaMartina Poljak21Zagreb
CuraçaoVanessa van Arendonk20Willemstad
CyprusMaria Alecou Hadzivassiliou19Nicosia
Czech RepublicAndrea Vranová[7]20Ústecký
Dominican RepublicJudith Cury[8]19Santo Domingo Este
FinlandHanna Pajulammi[9]21Helsinki
FranceNawal Benhlal21Lyon
GermanyAnna Ziemski20Berlin
Great BritainMichelle Watson[10]20Motherwell
GreeceFotini Kokari19Athens
GuatemalaRosa Maria Castañeda[11]20Chiquimula
HawaiiYoon Hee Jenny Lee23Honolulu
HollandCaroline Heijboer25Amsterdam
Hong KongHeidi Chu[12]24Hong Kong
IcelandIris Dögg Oddsdóttir18Reykjavík
IndiaKanwal Toor[13]23Delhi
IsraelDikla Elkabetz19–
JapanHanako Suzuki23Saitama
LatviaLaura Vīksna22Riga
MacedoniaDragana Klopcevska[14]21Skopje
MalaysiaCheah Teck Yoong20Penang
MaltaRuth Spiteri19Valletta
MexicoIrma Ríos23Mexico City
MongoliaSansarmaa Luvsandoo25Ulaanbaatar
NicaraguaRenneé Dávila[15]24Managua
Northern Mariana IslandsRowina Ogo[16]22Saipan
NorwaySiv Hegerland22Oslo
PalauIndira Isikl Kazuma20Koror
PhilippinesMaricarl Tolosa[17]22Marikina
PolandMałgorzata Rożniecka23Szczecin
Puerto RicoLorna Otero22San Juan
RussiaTatiana Pavlova[3]–Tatarstan
San MarinoMarzia Bellesso[5]24San Marino
SingaporeJuley Binte Abdullah23Singapore
SlovakiaBarbara Pappová[18]19Šaľa
South KoreaBaek Myoung-hee19Seoul
SpainAyola Molina[19]20Castellón
SwedenSara Nicole Cameron21Stockholm
ThailandKanithakan Saengprachaksakula24Bangkok
TunisiaLeila Oualha23Tunis
TurkeyEce F. Incedursun18Istanbul
UkraineNatalia Bakulina18Kyiv
United StatesEleana Thompson19Lake Elsinore
VenezuelaAura Zambrano20San Cristóbal
FR YugoslaviaIva Milivojević20Belgrade

Notes

  1. ^ Ages during the competition

References

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  6. ^ "Priscilla Quiroga" (in Spanish). El Diario. 13 July 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
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  8. ^ Hilario, Yohanna (28 September 2009). "Vivencias del Miss RD en un libro" [Miss DR's experiences in a book] (in Spanish). Diario Libre. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  9. ^ "Hanna Pajulammi varustautuu missikisoihin kynsin ja laastarein" [Hanna Pajulammi equips herself for the pageant with nails and plasters] (in Finnish). Ilta-Sanomat. 24 September 2001. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  10. ^ McPherson, Lynn & Lavery, Charles (14 January 2007). "Boxing tycoon cheats on his wife with former Miss Scotland - Daily Record". Daily Record. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  11. ^ Ochoa, José Andrés (12 September 2018). "La polémica de Miss Guatemala 2018, explicada" [The controversy of Miss Guatemala 2018, explained] (in es-GT). Prensa Libre. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  12. ^ Lam, Emily (26 July 2001). "Zhang fails to charm press". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  13. ^ "Meet Kanwal Toor: Sikh ex-model who plans to oust Tan Dhesi". The Times of India. 16 October 2019. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 28 June 2024.
  14. ^ "Break and Dragana showed the LITTLE BEAUTY (PHOTO) - Free Press". Sloboden Pečat. 10 August 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  15. ^ "Renneé Fabiola, entre ángel y diablilla" [Renneé Fabiola, between angel and devil] (in Spanish). La Prensa. 16 September 2003. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  16. ^ Perez, Jon (19 July 2016). "Real work now begins for Peachy, Palanga". Saipan Tribune. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  17. ^ Lo, Ricky (September 24, 2001). "Who will bring home the crown?". Philippine Star. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
  18. ^ "Slovensko má novou Miss" [Slovakia has a new Miss] (in Slovak). iDNES.cz. 23 April 2001. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  19. ^ Fabian, Rafael (20 February 2020). "Ayola Molina, de ser la más guapa de Castellón, a la alta cocina" (in Spanish). El Periódico Mediterráneo. Retrieved 1 April 2025.