User:Mauriziok/Miss Universe 1998

Miss Universe 1998, the 47th Miss Universe pageant, was held on May 12, 1998 at the Stan Sheriff Arena in Honolulu, Hawaii. Wendy Fitzwilliam of Trinidad and Tobago was crowned by Brook Lee of the US at the end of the event. This marked the only second (and most recent) time that Trinidad and Tobago has won Miss Universe. 81 contestants competed in this year.

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 * Winner
 * First Runner-up
 * Second Runner-up
 * Top 5 Finalist
 * Top 10 Semifinalist
 * (#) Rank in each round of competition

Order of Announcements
Top 10



Top 5



Top 3



Contestants

 *  - Emilia Guardano
 * 🇦🇷 - Marcela Brane
 *  - Wendy Lacle
 * 🇦🇺 - Renee Henderson
 *  - Juliette Sargent
 * 🇧🇪 - Sandrine Corman
 *  - Elvia Vega
 * 🇧🇴 - Veronica Larrieu
 *  Bonaire - Uzmin Everts
 * 🇧🇷 - Michella Marchi
 * 🇻🇬 - Kaida Donovan
 * 🇧🇬 - Natalia Gourkova
 * 🇨🇦 - Juliana Thiessen
 *  - Claudia Arnello
 * 🇨🇴 - Silvia Fernanda Ortiz Guerra
 *  - Kisha Alvarado
 * 🇭🇷 - Ivana Grzetić
 * 🇨🇼 - Natacha Bloem
 * 🇨🇾 - Daniella Iordanova
 * 🇨🇿 - Kristina Fridvalská
 * 🇩🇴 - Selinés Méndez
 * 🇪🇨 - Soraya Hogonaga
 * 🇪🇬 - Karine Fahmy
 *  - María Gabriela Jovel
 * 🇪🇪 - Mari Lawrens
 * 🇫🇮 - Jonna Kauppila
 * 🇫🇷 - Sophie Thalmann
 * 🇩🇪 - Katharina Mainka
 * 🇬🇭 - Francisca Awuah
 *  Great Britain - Leilani Dowding
 *  - Dimitra Eginiti
 * 🇬🇺 - Joylyn Munoz
 *  - Astrid Ramírez
 *  - Dania Prince
 * 🇭🇰 - Virginia Yung
 * 🇭🇺 - Agnes Nagy
 * 🇮🇳 - Lymaraina D'Souza
 * 🇮🇪 - Andrea Roche
 * 🇮🇱 - Hagit Raz
 * 🇮🇹 - Claudia Trieste
 * 🇯🇲 - Shani McGraham
 * 🇯🇵 - Nana Okumura
 * 🇰🇷 KOR - Kim Ji-yeon
 *  - Nina Kadis
 *  - Sherine Wong
 * 🇲🇹 - Carol Cassar
 * 🇲🇺 - Leena Ramphul
 * 🇲🇽 - Katty Fuentes
 * 🇳🇦 - Retha Reinders
 *  - Jacqueline Rotteveel
 * 🇳🇿 - Rosemary Rassell
 * 🇳🇮 - Claudia Alaniz
 * 🇳🇬 - Chika Chikezie
 *  Northern Marianas - Helene Yun Lizama
 * 🇳🇴 - Stine Bergsvand
 * 🇵🇦 - Tanisha Drummond
 *  - Luz Marina González
 * 🇵🇪 - Karim Bernal
 * $\phi$ - Jewel Lobaton
 * 🇵🇱 - Sylwia Kupiec
 *  - Icilia Berenguel
 *  - Joyce Giraud
 *  - Juliana Elena Verdes
 * 🇷🇺 - Anna Malova
 *  - Alice Lim
 *  Slovak Republic - Vladimíra Hreňovčíková
 *  - Kerishnie Naicker
 * 🇪🇸 - María José Besora
 * 🇸🇪 - Jessica Olérs
 *  - Tanja Gutmann
 * 🇹🇼 TWN - Annie Tsai
 * 🇹🇭 - Chalida Thaochalee
 * 🇹🇹 - Wendy Fitzwilliam
 * 🇹🇷 - Asuman Krause
 * 🇺🇦 - Olena Spirina
 *  - Virginia Russo
 * 🇺🇸 USA - Shawnae Jebbia
 *  US Virgin Islands - Leah Webster
 * 🇻🇪 - Veruska Ramírez
 *  SCG - Jelena Trninić
 *  - Selina Stuart

Withdrawals

 * 🇧🇲 - Joanne Darrell
 * 🇮🇸 - Harpa Lind Hardardttir
 *  Turks and Caicos - Kricket Hunt
 *  Turks and Caicos - Kricket Hunt

Returns

 * Last competed in 1991
 *  FR Yugoslavia
 * Last competed in 1995
 * Last competed in 1996
 *  Great Britain
 * Last competed in 1996
 *  Great Britain
 * Last competed in 1996
 *  Great Britain
 *  Great Britain

Replacements

 * 🇮🇱 - Linor Abargil, Miss Israel 1998 couldn't compete due underage. Her first runner up- Hagit Raz who was Israel's Maiden of Beauty 1998 (IMB) went in her place. Later that year Abargil won Miss World 1998 crown.
 * 𝜙 - The winner of Binibining Pilipinas Universe 1998, Tisha Silang had to resign due to her Canadian citizenship. The pageant's first runner-up - Jewel Mae Lobaton of Bacolod City, was selected as the Philippine representative in the Miss Universe 1998.

Awards

 * 🇹🇷 - Miss Congeniality (Asuman Krause)
 * 🇸🇰 Slovak Republic - Miss Photogenic (Vladimíra Hreňovčíková)
 * 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago - Best National Costume (Wendy Fitzwilliam)