MISS UNIVERSE 2004

tuesday, june 1, 2004

Centro de Convenciones CEMEXPO, Quito, Ecuador

80 contestants

PRESENTERS: billy bush, daisy fuentes

entertainment: gloria estefan

Results

1  AUSTRALIA   Jennifer Louise Hawkins

2  USA   Shandi Ren Finnessey (America-Missouri '03)

3  PUERTO RICO   Alba Giselle Reyes Santos

4  PARAGUAY   Yanina Alicia González Jorgge (3rd RU Earth '04)

5  TRINIDAD & TOBAGO   Danielle Amanda Jones

 

Top 10

06 COLOMBIA   Catherine Daza Manchola

07 ECUADOR   María Susana Rivadeneira Simball

08 JAMAICA   Christine Renée Straw (5th RU World '98)

09 INDIA   Tanushree Dutta

10 COSTA RICA   Nancy Patricia Soto Martínez  (SF Teen International '99, SF TMOFW '99, Sudamericana '04)

 

Top 15

11 NORWAY   Kathrine Sörland (3rd RU World '02)

12 CHILE   Gabriela Alejandra Barros Tapia

13 SWITZERLAND   Bianca Nicole Sissing (SF World '03)

14 MEXICO   Rosalva Yazmín Luna Ruiz

15 ANGOLA   Telma de Jesus Esperança Sonhi

 

Awards

Miss Amity   ITALY

Miss Photogenic   PUERTO RICO

Best National Costume  1) PANAMA, 2) MEXICO, 3) TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

Best National Costume finalists: ECUADOR, EGYPT, INDIA, PUERTO RICO, URUGUAY, USA, VENEZUELA  

 

Remainder

ANTIGUA & BARBUDA   Anne-Marie Brown (World '03)

ARUBA   Zerelda "Zizi" Candice Wai-Yen Lee (1st RU World '01)

AUSTRIA   Daniela Strigl

BAHAMAS   Raquel Simone Horton

BARBADOS   Cindy Shenetta Batson Maizz

BELGIUM   Lindsy DeHollander

BELIZE   Leilah Anne Magdalena Pandy (Earth '06)

BOLIVIA   Gabriela Oviedo Serrate (SF Sudamericana '03, Atlantico '04)

BOTSWANA   Icho Keolotswe

BRAZIL   Fabiane Tesche Niclotti

BULGARIA   Ivelina Petrova

CANADA   Venessa Lynn Fisher

CAYMAN ISLANDS   Stacey-Ann Rose Kelly (World '04)

CHINA   Alina Meng Zhang (Chinese International-Australia '00)

CROATIA   Marijana Rupcic

CURACAO   Angeline Fernandine da Silva de Goes (World '03)

CYPRUS   Nayia Iacovidou

CZECH REPUBLIC   Lucie Vachova (World '03)

DENMARK   Tina Christensen (Scandinavia '99, SF Europe '02)

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC   Larissa del Mar Fiallo Scalon

EGYPT   Heba Ahmad El-Sisy (World '04)

EL SALVADOR   Silvia Gabriela Mejía Córdova

ESTONIA   Sirle Kalma

ETHIOPIA   Ferehiyewot Abebe Mekuriya

FINLAND   Mira Salo (1st RU Scandinavia '05, SF Europe '05)

FRANCE   Laëtitia Bleger

GEORGIA   Nino Murtazashvilli

GERMANY   Shermine Sharivar

GHANA   Menaye Donkor

GREECE   Evangelia "Valia" Kakouti (SF Europe '05)

GUATEMALA   Marva Cecilia Weatherborn Serrano

GUYANA   Odessa Abenaa Phillips (World '02)

HUNGARY   Blanka Bakos

IRELAND   Cathriona Duignam

ISRAEL   Gal Gadot

ITALY   Laia Manetti

JAPAN   Eri Machimoto

KENYA   Anita Maina

KOREA   Yun-yong Choi 

LEBANON   Marie-José Hnein (SF World '03)

MALAYSIA   Andrea Veronica Fonseka

NETHERLANDS   Lindsay Grace Pronk

NICARAGUA   Marifely Argüello César (SF Earth '04)

NIGERIA   Anita Queen Uwagbale (World '04)

PANAMA   Jéssica Patricia Rodríguez Clark

PERU   Liesel Holler Sotomayor

PHILIPPINES   Maricar Manalaysay Balagtas (winner Globe International '01)

POLAND   Paulina Panek

RUSSIA   Kseniya Kustova

SERBIA & MONTENEGRO   Dragana Dujovic

SINGAPORE   Sandy Chua Kwang-En 

SLOVAK REPUBLIC   Zuzana Dvorska

SLOVENIA   Sabina Remar

SOUTH AFRICA   Joan Kwena Ramagoshi (World '04)

SPAIN   Maria Jesús Ruiz Garzón (3rd RU Hispanoamericana '07)

ST. VINCENT   & the GRENADINES   LaFerne Fraser

TAIWAN   Janie Yu-Chen Hsieh

SWEDEN   Katarina Agnes Wigander

THAILAND   Morakot "Aimee" Kittisara

TURKEY   Fatos Segmen

TURKS & CAICOS   Shamara Ariza

UKRAINE   Oleksandra Viktorivna Nikolayenko (winner Tourism Int'l '02, SF World '01)

URUGUAY   Nicole Dupont Giglio

VENEZUELA   Ana Karina Áñez Delgado

VIETNAM   Ngoc Hoang Thi 


NO SHOWS:

ANDORRA  Maria Jose Girol Jumenez

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS  Dian Sanderson

HONDURAS  Karla Isabel Mendoza Kipps

ICELAND   Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir

INDONESIA  Dian Krishna

MAURITIUS   Sabine Guichamans Bourdet

NAMIBIA  Petrina Twahangwapo Thomas

ALBANIA  Agnesa Vuthaj


REPLACED:

ANTIGUA & BARBUDA  Toya Turner

ARUBA  Fatima Salie

BELGIUM  Ellen Petri

RUSSIA  Victoria Petrovna Lopyreva

SLOVAK REPUBLIC  Zita Galgóciová (under age)

TAIWAN (CHINESE TAIPEI) Ching Hui Kao

UKRAINE  Mariya Lysa  (under age)

URUGUAY  Nadia Theoduloz (under age)

VIETNAM  Hong Van Nguyen Thi


DEBUTS: Ethiopia, Georgia, Vietnam

WITHDRAWALS: Albania, Argentina, Mauritius, Namibia, New Zealand

RETURNS: Austria, Botswana, Chile, Denmark, Ghana, Kenya, Lebanon, Paraguay, St. Vincent & The Grenadines, Turks & Caicos, Uruguay


JUDGES:

Preliminary competition

1- Thom Allcock - Senior Advertorial Director for all three Wenner Media titles (Rolling Stone, Us Weekly and Men’s Journal).

2- Art Arellanes - Television talent executive and producer.

3- Duane Gazi - Trump Model Management model scout.

4- Kristen Ingersoll - Fashion/entertainment editor at Hearst Magazines International.

5- Mpule Kwelagobe - Miss Universe 1999 from Botswana.

6- Marc Malkin - News Director of Us Weekly.

7- Rhona Menashe - Senior Vice President of one of the most respected international PR firms, Guttman Associates.

8- Kate Roberts - Founder and director of YouthAIDS, an international HIV/AIDS education organization.

9- Beth Sobol - International fashion model for top fashion houses throughout the world, and a fashion show producer.


Final telecast

1- Bo Derek – Film actress.

2- Bill Rancic – Winner of the first season of The Apprentice.

3- Katie Pritz – Today Show's "You Be The Judge" contest winner.

4- Wendy Fitzwilliam – Miss Universe 1998 from Trinidad and Tobago.

5- Elsa Benítez – International supermodel.

6- Jon Tutolo – President of Trump Model Management.

7- Anne Martin – Vice President of Global Cosmetics and Marketing of Procter & Gamble Cosmetics.

8- Monique Menniken – Supermodel.

9- Petra Nemcova – Sports Illustrated supermodel.

10- Jefferson Pérez – 1996 Ecuadorian Olympic gold medalist.

11- Emilio Estefan – Music producer and entertainer.


Note: Kwame Jackson, runner-up on the first season of The Apprentice, was initially chosen as a judge, but he was disqualified because he inadvertently visited the hotel where the delegates were staying and interacted with some of the contestants.