Miss World 2010 was the 60th anniversary of the Miss World pageant, held at the Crown of Beauty Theatre in Sanya, China, on 30 October 2010, after Vietnam backed out of the hosting contract.
At the conclusion of the event, Kaiane Aldorino of Gibraltar crowned Alexandria Mills of the United States as her successor at the end of the event. This is the third time the United States has won the title. And the first and second runners-up we're Botswana's Emma Wareus and Venezuela's Adriana Vasini.
Background Vietnam backed out On 8 June 2009, Mr. Hoang Kieu (RAAS Group Chairperson) and Mrs. Morley publicly agreed on Nha Trang as host for Miss World 2010.
According to a manager of the Tien Giang Tourism JS Company, RAAS bought 31 hectares in total to build a tourism site for Miss World 2010, which led to a public debate about some national ecological reserves being devastated and people having to leave their homes due to increasing living costs.
On 28 January 2010, RAAS told Khanh Hoa People's Committee office to announce that they were no longer organising the event without an official explanation on the debate. Khanh Hoa Province then decided to host Miss World with new sponsors. RAAS would return as the main sponsor if another province was assigned as host.VnExpress – RAAS đơn phương rút khỏi Miss World 2010 . Date: 28 January 2010. Retrieved 30 January 2010
Finally on 2 April 2010, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan approved a proposal by the host province Khanh Hoa to back out of hosting Miss World.
Although Miss World 2010 was held in Sanya, China, RAAS Group was still in charge of the financial backing for the event. RAAS confirmed that Miss World would be back to Mỹ Tho, Tien Giang Province later in 2011 or 2012.Thanh Nien Online – "Khanh Hoa begged off Miss World 2010" . However, according to many reliable newswire such as VnExpress, there is no way for Miss World being organised in Tien Giang Province in 2011 or 2012 under the umbrella of RAAS because Mr. Hoang Kieu owed the landlords in the province, involved in the tourism project millions of dollars,
Selection of participants Replacements Ágnes Dobó, was crowned Miss World Hungary 2010 until she injured her arm and wrist. This stopped her from participating in the pageant. She was replaced by her second runner-up, Jennifer Kalo.
Due to a schedule conflict of competing in Miss Universe 2010, Miss Russia 2010, Irina Antonenko was unable to participate in the competition. The first runner-up, Irina Sharipova was appointed as a new representative.
Returns, and, withdrawals This edition saw the return of Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Lesotho, Macau, Malawi, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and the United States Virgin Islands; Saint Kitts and Nevis, which last completed in 1988, Cape Verde and Macau in 1997, Lesotho in 2003, Malawi and the United States Virgin Islands in 2005 and Cayman Islands and Saint Lucia in 2008.
Austria, Dominican Republic, Liberia, Slovenia and Swaziland, withdrew from the competition.
Results Placements Placement Contestant Miss World 2010 – Alexandria Mills1st Runner-Up – Emma Wareus2nd Runner-Up – Adriana VasiniTop 5 – Xiao Tang – Emma WaldronTop 7 – Giada Pezzaioli – Mariann Birkedal Top 25 – Braneka Bassett – Denise Garrido – Laura Palacio – Virginie Dechenaud – Mihilani Teixeira – Susanna Kobylinski – Natasha Metto – Sarnai Amar – Odile Gertze – Desirée van den Berg – Lori Moore – Egni Eckert – Yara Lasanta – Irina Sharipova – Aiasha Gustave – Nicola Mimnagh – Nicole Flint – Sirirat Rueangsri
Continental Queens of Beauty Continental Group Contestant Africa – Emma Wareus Americas – Alexandria Mills Asia Pacific – Tang Xiao Caribbean – Aiasha Gustave Europe – Emma Britt Waldron
Order of Announcements Top 25
Top 7
Top 5
Judges The judges for Miss World 2010 were:
Julia Morley – Chairwoman of the Miss World Organization Denise Perrier – Miss World 1953 from France Ann Sidney – Miss World 1964 from United Kingdom Mary Stävin – Miss World 1977 from Sweden Agbani Darego – Miss World 2001 from Nigeria María Julia Mantilla – Miss World 2004 from Peru Zhang Zilin – Miss World 2007 from China Ksenia Sukhinova – Miss World 2008 from Russia Krish Naidoo – Miss World International Ambassador Mike Dixon – Miss World Musical Director Zhao Benshan – Actor & Comedian Bruce Zhao – Chairperson of the Huayu Group Andrew Minarik – Miss World Make-Up & Hairdresser
It was reported that Beijing may have pressured the judges to provide low scores for Mariann Birkedal, Miss Norway, because the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to one of its political prisoners, Liu Xiaobo. At the time of the pageant, relations between China and Norway were "very strained."
Contestants
115 contestants competed for the title. Country/Territory Contestant Age Hometown Albania Arnita Beqiraj 18 Vlorë Angola Ivanita Jones 23 M'banza Kongo Argentina Mariana Arambarry 22 Santa Rosa Aruba Kimberly Kuiperi 21 Tanki Leendert Australia Ashleigh Francis 23 Sydney Bahamas Braneka Bassett 20 Freeport Barbados Danielle Bishop 21 Bridgetown Belarus Lyudmila Yakimovich 22 Hrodna Belgium Cilou Annys 19 Bruges Belize Jessel Lauriano 22 Belize City Bolivia María Teresa Roca 24 Trinidad Bosnia and Herzegovina Snežana Prorok 18 Istočna Ilidža Botswana Emma Wareus 19 Gaborone Brazil Kamilla Salgado 23 Belém Bulgaria Romina Andonova 21 Sofia Canada Denise Garrido 23 Bradford Cape Verde Joceline Fortes 22 Sao Vicente Cayman Islands Cristin Alexander 23 George Town China Tang Xiao 23 Dalian Colombia Laura Palacio 23 Medellín Costa Rica Dayana Aguilera 19 Palmares Côte d'Ivoire Inès Da Silva 21 N'zi-Comoé Croatia Katarina Banić 20 Trilj Curaçao Angenie Simon 24 Willemstad Cyprus Andrea Kkolou 19 Nicosia Czech Republic Veronika Machová 20 Rokycany Denmark Nataliya Averina 20 Roskilde Ecuador Ana Galarza 21 Ambato Egypt Sara El-Khouly 22 Cairo El Salvador Gabriela Molina 22 San Salvador England Jessica Linley 21 Nottingham Ethiopia Hiwot Assefa Tesfaye 20 Addis Ababa Finland Anne-Marie Nurminen 22 Helsinki France Virginie Dechenaud 24 La Frette Mihilani Teixeira 20 Papeete Georgia Dea Arakishvili 20 Tbilisi Germany Susanna Kobylinski 22 Bremen Ghana Mimi Areme 22 Ho Gibraltar Larissa Dalli 23 Gibraltar Greece Diamanto Gasteratou 22 Athens Guadeloupe Ericka Aly 20 Petit-Bourg Guatemala Lucía Mazariegos 19 Antigua, Guatemala Guyana Aletha Shepherd 22 Georgetown Honduras Marilyn Medina 18 Tegucigalpa Hong Kong Sammi Cheung 23 Hong Kong Hungary Jennifer Kalo 22 Budapest Iceland Fanney Ingvarsdóttir 19 Garðabær India Manasvi Mamgai 22 New Delhi Indonesia Asyifa Latief 21 Bandung Ireland Emma Britt Waldron 21 Celbridge Israel Shavit Wiesel 20 Be'eri Italy Giada Pezzaioli 18 Montichiari Jamaica Chantal Alicia Raymond 24 Kingston Japan Hiroko Matsunaga 18 Fukuoka Kazakhstan Asselina Kuchukova 27 Almaty Kenya Natasha Metto 20 Nairobi Latvia Ludmila Voroncova 19 Riga Lebanon Rahaf Abdallah 22 Khiam Lesotho Karabelo Mokoallo 23 Maseru Lithuania Gritė Maruškevičiūtė 21 Vilnius Luxembourg Shari Thuyns 19 Mamer Macau Cherry Ng Ka-I 23 Macau Macedonia Stefani Borsova 20 Skopje Malawi Ella Kabambe 24 Blantyre Malaysia Nadia Min Dern Heng 25 Kuala Lumpur Malta Francesca Gaspar 24 Iklin Martinique Tully Fremcourt 20 La Trinité Mauritius Dalysha Doorga 23 Goodlands Mexico Anabel Solís 23 Mérida Moldova Daria Zaiteva 20 Chişinău Mongolia Sarnai Amar 23 Ulaanbaatar Montenegro Milica Milatović 18 Podgorica Namibia Odile Gertze 22 Windhoek Nepal Sadichha Shrestha 19 Kathmandu Netherlands Desirée van den Berg 23 Santpoort New Zealand Cody Yerkovich 18 Kaitaia Nigeria Fiona Amuzie 19 Minna Northern Ireland Lori Moore 20 Belfast Norway Mariann Birkedal 23 Stavanger Panama Paola Vaprio Medaglia 24 Panama City Paraguay Egni Eckert 23 Luque Peru Alexandra Liao 20 Lima Philippines Czarina Gatbonton 19 Malolos Poland Agata Szewioła 21 Żary Portugal Catarina Aragonez 22 Portalegre Puerto Rico Yara Lasanta 24 Barranquitas Romania Lavinia Postolache 21 Piteşti Russia Irina Sharipova 18 Apastovo Saint Kitts and Nevis Fatisha Imo 22 Basseterre Saint Lucia Aiasha Gustave 18 Gros Islet Scotland Nicola Mimnagh 21 Kilbarchan Serbia Milica Jelić 20 Belgrade Sierra Leone Neyorlyn Williams 19 Freetown Singapore Anusha Rajaseharan 21 Singapore Slovakia Marína Georgievová 18 Banská Bystrica South Africa Nicole Flint 22 Pretoria South Korea Kim Hye-young 20 Gyeongsangbuk-do Spain Fátima Jiménez 21 Sevilla Sri Lanka Fallon Ranasinghe 22 Colombo Suriname Jo-ann Maria Sang 19 Paramaribo Sweden Dani Chelsea Karlsson 25 Stockholm Tanzania Genevieve Mpangala 20 Chang'ombe Thailand Sirirat Rueangsri 22 Chiang Mai Trinidad and Tobago Davia Chambers 18 Couva Turkey Gizem Memiç 20 Gaziantep Uganda Heyzme Nansubuga 25 Jinja Ukraine Kateryna Zakharchenko 21 Odesa United States Alexandria Mills 18 Louisville United States Virgin Islands Carolyn Carter 20 Christiansted Uruguay Eliana Olivera 22 Montevideo Venezuela Adriana Vasini 23 Maracaibo Vietnam Nguyễn Ngọc Kiều Khanh 19 Ho Chi Minh City Wales Courtenay Hamilton 20 Llantwit Major Zambia Zindaba Hanzala 20 Lusaka Zimbabwe Samantha Tshuma 21 Bulawayo
Notes
Replacements – Carla Conrradi resigned as Miss Mundo Argentina. The 1st runner up, Marianna Arambarry was the new titleholder and Argentina's representative at Miss World 2010. – Due to a schedule conflict of competing in Miss Chinese International Pageant 2010, Toby Chan, Winner of Miss Hong Kong 2010, cannot participate in the competition. The 1st runner-up, Sammi Cheung was representative at Miss World 2010.
Country Changes American Virgin Islands now competes as US Virgin Islands.
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