User:Mauriziok/Miss International 1998

Miss International 1998, the 38th Miss International pageant, took place on 26 September 1998 at the Koseinenkin Hall in Tokyo, Japan. It was won by Lía Victoria Borrero González of Panama.

Special awards

 * Friendship:
 * 🇫🇮 Finland, Piia Hartikainen 
 * 🇹🇬 Togo, Manuella Nadou Lawson-Body
 * Photogenic: 🇻🇪 Venezuela, Daniela Kosán Montcourt
 * National Costume: 🇨🇴 Colombia, Adriana Hurtado Novella

Contestants

 * 🇦🇷 Argentina - Maria Fernanda Ortiz
 * 🇦🇼 Aruba - Anushka Sheritsa Lew Jen Tai
 * 🇦🇺 Australia - Katherine Louise O'Brien
 * 🇧🇴 Bolivia - Liliana Peña Guachalla
 *  Great Britain - Melanie Devina Jones
 * 🇨🇴 Colombia - Adriana Hurtado Novella
 * 🇨🇼 Curaçao - Santa Indris Tokaay
 * 🇨🇾 Cyprus - Marianna Panayiotou
 * 🇨🇿 Czech Republic - Petra Faltynova
 * 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic - Sorangel Fersobe Matos
 * 🇫🇮 Finland - Piia Hartikainen
 * 🇫🇷 France - Patricia Spéhar
 * 🇩🇪 Germany - Fiona Ammann
 * 🇬🇷 Greece - Eleni Pliatsika
 *  Hawaii - Lori-Ann Lee Medeiros
 * 🇭🇳 Honduras - Wendy Suyapa Rodríguez
 * 🇭🇰 Hong Kong - Natalie Ng Man-Yan
 * 🇮🇸 Iceland - Gudbjörg Sigridur Hermannsdóttir
 * 🇮🇳 India - Shvetha Jaishankar
 * 🇮🇱 Israel - Galia Abramov
 * 🇯🇵 Japan - Megumi Taira
 * 🇰🇷 South Korea - Cho Hye-young
 * 🇱🇻 Latvia - Līga Graudumniece
 * 🇲🇰 Macedonia - Ana Binovska
 * 🇲🇽 Mexico - Karina Patricia Mora Novelo
 *  Holland - Ilona Marilyn van Veldhuisen
 *  Northern Marianas - Sonya Palacios Pangelinan
 * 🇳🇴 Norway - Bjorg Sofie Lovstad
 * 🇵🇦 Panama - Lía Victoria Borrero González
 * 🇵🇾 Paraguay - Maria Fabiola Roig Escandriolo
 * 🇵🇪 Peru - Melissa Miranda Quiñones
 * 🇵🇭 Philippines - Colette Centeno Glazer
 * 🇵🇱 Poland - Agnieszka Osinska
 * 🇵🇹 Portugal - Icilia Silva Berenguel
 * 🇸🇳 Senegal - Maimouna Diallo
 * 🇸🇬 Singapore - Sudha Menon
 *  Slovak Republic - Martina Kalmanova
 * 🇪🇸 Spain - Vanessa Romero Torres
 * 🇹🇬 Togo - Manuella Nadou Lawson-Body
 * 🇹🇳 Tunisia - Nejla Kouniali
 * 🇹🇷 Turkey - Senay Akay
 * 🇺🇸 United States - Susan Paez
 * 🇻🇪 Venezuela - Daniela Kosán Montcourt

Did not compete

 *  Bonaire - Geraldine Juliet
 * 🇧🇷 Brazil - Luize Altenhofen
 * 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico - Jacqueline Negron
 * 🇲🇹 Malta - Roberta Nicholls