Results

1  JAPAN   Riyo Mori

2  BRAZIL   Natália Aparecida Guimarães (SF Intercontinental '06, winner Top Model of the World '07)

3  VENEZUELA   Lydimar “Ly” Carolina Jonaitis Escalona

4  KOREA   Ha-Nui "Honey" Lee

5  USA   Rachel Renee Smith

Top 10

6  TANZANIA   Flaviana Matata

7  ANGOLA   Micaela Patricia de Brito Reis  (1st RU World '07)

8  MEXICO   Rosa María Ojeda Cuen

9  INDIA   Puja Gupta

10  NICARAGUA   Xiomara Gioconda Blandino Artola

Top 15

11  SLOVENIA   Tjasa Kokalj

12  CZECH REPUBLIC   Lucie Hadasova

13  DENMARK   Zaklina Sojic (1st RU Baltic Sea & Scandinavia '07)

14  THAILAND   Farung "Kwang" Yuthithum

15  UKRAINE   Lyudmila Ramiliyivna Bikmullina

Awards

Miss Amity   CHINA

Miss Photogenic   PHILIPPINES

Best National Costume   (not awarded)

Remainder

ALBANIA   Sadina Alla

ANTIGUA & BARBUDA   Stephanie Winter

ARGENTINA   Daniela Alejandra Stucan Figliomeni (World '00, 4th RU Coffee '01, 3rd RU Earth '01, South American Queen '02)

ARUBA   Carolina Ylina Raven Pérez (winner Teen International '99)

AUSTRALIA   Kimberly Busteed

BAHAMAS   Trinere Lynes

BARBADOS   Jewel Diane Garner

BELGIUM   Annelien Coorevits

BELIZE   Maria Jeffrey (Earth '07)

BOLIVIA   Jessica Anne Jordan Burtón (Earth '06, winner Coffee '08)

BULGARIA   Gergana Kochanova

CANADA   Inga Skaya (real name: Ingeborg Berdichevsky)

CHINA   Ning-Ning Zhang 

COLOMBIA   Eileen Roca Torralvo

COSTA RICA   Verónica Maria González Quesada (winner Banana '06)

CROATIA   Jelena Maros

CURACAO   Naemi Elizabeth Monte

CYPRUS   Polyvia Achilleos

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC   Indira Massiel Taveras Henríquez (winner Hispanoamericana '07)

ECUADOR   Maria Lugina Cabezas Andrade

EGYPT   Ehsan Hatem El-Kirdany

EL SALVADOR   Lissette Rodriguez Alfaro

ESTONIA   Viktoria Azovskaja (Baltic Sea & Scandinavia '08)

FINLAND   Noora Hautakangas (Baltic Sea & Scandinavia '08)

FRANCE   Rachel Legrain-Trapani (World '07)

GEORGIA   Ana Giorgelashvili

GERMANY   Angelina Glass (Miss Model of the World '07)

GREECE   Doukissa Nomikou

GUATEMALA   Alida Maria Boer Reyes (1st RU Teen International '00, International '07, World '09)

GUYANA   Meleesa Natasha Payne

HONDURAS   Wendy Patricia Salgado Corea

HUNGARY   Ildiko Bona

INDONESIA   Agni Pratistha Arkadewi Kuswardono

ISRAEL   Sharon Kenett

ITALY   Valentina Massi

JAMAICA   Zahra Redwood

KAZAKHSTAN   Gaukhar Maratovna Rakhmetalyeva

LEBANON   Nadine Wilson Njeim (World '07)

MALAYSIA   Adelaine Chin Ai Nee

MAURITIUS   Sandra Faro

MONTENEGRO   Snezana Buskovic (Intercontinental '09)

NEW ZEALAND   Laural Barrett

NIGERIA   Ebinabo Potts-Johnson

NORWAY   Kirby Ann Tan Basken (SF Intercontinental-Philippines '07)

PANAMA   Sorangel Matos Arce (Tourism Queen Int'l '06)

PARAGUAY   Maria José Maldonado Gomez (2nd RU Hispanoamericana '07)

PERU   María Jimena Elías Roca

PHILIPPINES   Anna Theresa Luy Licaros

POLAND   Dorota Gawron (winner Baltic Sea & Scandinavia '07, International '07)

PUERTO RICO   Wilmadilis “Uma” Blasini Pérez (SF American Continent '07, Tourism Queen Int'l '07)

RUSSIA   Tatyana Nikolaevna Kotova (World '07)

SERBIA   Teodora Marcic (International '07)

SINGAPORE   Jessica Tan Yue Chang

SLOVAK REPUBLIC   Lucia Seniasova

SOUTH AFRICA   Megan Kate Coleman (World '07)

SPAIN   Natalia Zabala Arroyo (World '07)

ST. LUCIA   Yoanna Henry

SWITZERLAND   Christa Rigozzi

TURKS & CAICOS   Saneita Barbara Been

URUGUAY   Giannina Carla Silva Varela (Top 8 Hispanoamericana '07)

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS   Renata Christian

ZAMBIA   Rosemary Mulenga Chileshe (World '04)

NO SHOWS:

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS  Shermel Maduro

NAMIBIA  Laurencia Endjala

ROMANIA  Laura Redac (underage)

SEYCHELLES  Wendy Boniface

SRI LANKA  Aruni Rajapakse

ST.VINCENT & THE GRENADINES  Casynella Abygail Ollivierre

SWEDEN  Isabel Lestapier-Winqvist

TAIWAN  Tzu-Hsuan Liu

TURKEY  Sinem Sulun

REPLACED:

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS  Martha J. Ramirez (dethroned for being pregnant)

ISRAEL  Liran Kohner (due to military service)

MAURITIUS  Melody Selvon (underage)

BELGIUM  Virginie Claes

LEBANON  Annabella Samir Hilal

DEBUTS: Montenegro, Tanzania

WITHDRAWALS: Cayman Islands, Chile, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Namibia, Northern Marianas, Sri Lanka, St. Martin, St. Vincent & The Grenadines, Sweden, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom

RETURNS: Barbados, Belize, Curacao, Honduras, Italy

JUDGES:

Preliminary competition

1- Tran Thuy -  Managing director of DACTYL, a not-for-profit arts and humanities foundation. 

2- Fred Howard - stylist, casting coordinator and model scout.

3- Leigh Rossini - Responsible for the Louis Licari Salon's publicity.

4- Justine Pasek - Miss Universe 2002 from Panama.

5- Luis de Llano Macedo - Vice President of Musical Programming, Televisa

6- Dimitris Margetas - Consumer Marketing Manager for Procter & Gamble’s Prestige Products Inc.

Final telecast

1- Tony Romo – Dallas Cowboys quarterback.

2- James Kyson Lee – actor on Heroes.

3- Nina Garcia – Project Runway judge and Elle magazine fashion director.

4- Dave Navarro – rock star.

5- Dayanara Torres – Miss Universe 1993 from Puerto Rico.

6- Mauricio Islas – Mexican actor.

7- Lindsay Clubine – Deal or No Deal briefcase model.

8- Marc Bouwer – fashion designer.

9- Christiane Martel – Miss Universe 1953 from France.

10- Michelle Kwan – World champion, 1998 Olympic silver medalist, and 2002 Olympic figure skating bronze medalist.