miss INTERNATIONAL 1998
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1998
Koseinenkin Hall, Tokyo, JAPAN
43 ENTRANTS
Results
1 PANAMA Lía Victoria Borrero González (5th RU Universe '97)
2 VENEZUELA Daniela Kossán Montcourt (winner Nuestra Belleza Intl '97)
3 INDIA Shvetha Jaishankar
Top 15
BOLIVIA Liliana Peña Guachalla
COLOMBIA Adriana Hurtado Novella
CZECH REPUBLIC Petra Faltynova (Universe '99)
FINLAND Piia Hartikainen
FRANCE Patricia Spéhar (Universe '97)
JAPAN Megumi Taira
KOREA Hye-young Cho
MACEDONIA Ana Binovska
PHILIPPINES Colette Centeno Glazer
POLAND Agnieszka Osinska
SPAIN Vanessa Romero Torres
TUNISIA Nejla Kouniali
Awards
Friendship (tied) FINLAND & TOGO
Photogenic VENEZUELA
Best National Costume COLOMBIA
Remainder
ARGENTINA Maria Fernanda Ortiz
ARUBA Anushka Sheritsa Lew Jen Tai
AUSTRALIA Katherine Louis O'Brien
BRITAIN Melanie Devina Jones
CURACAO Santa Indris Tokaay
CYPRUS Marianna Panayiotou
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Sorangel Fersobe Matos
GERMANY Fiona Ammann
GREECE Eleni Pliatsika
HAWAII Lori-Ann Lee Medeiros
HOLLAND Ilona Marilyn van Veldhuisen (World '99)
HONDURAS Wendy Suyapa Rodríguez
HONG KONG Natalie Ng Man-Yan
ICELAND Gudbjörg Sigridur Hermannsdóttir
ISRAEL Galia Abramov
LATVIA Liga Graudumniece (World '97)
MEXICO Karina Patricia Mora Novelo
NORTHERN MARIANAS Sonya Palacios Pangelinan
NORWAY Bjorg Sofie Lovstad
PARAGUAY Maria Fabiola Roig Escandriolo
PERU Melissa Miranda Quiñones
PORTUGAL Icilia Silva Berenguel (World '97, Universe '98)
SENEGAL Maimouna Diallo
SINGAPORE Sudha Menon
SLOVAK REPUBLIC Martina Kalmanova
TOGO Manuella Nadou Lawson-Body
TURKEY Senay Akay
USA Susan Paez
NO SHOWS:
BONAIRE Geraldine Juliet
BRAZIL Luizeani Altenhofen
MALTA Roberta Nicholls
PUERTO RICO Jacqueline Negron
DEBUTS: Latvia
WITHDRAWALS: Brazil, Guatemala, Lebanon, Macau, Malta, Puerto Rico, Russia, Ukraine
RETURNS: Cyprus, Iceland, Macedonia, Holland, Norway, Panama, Senegal, Togo