User:Mauriziok/Miss World 2000

Miss World 2000, the 50th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 30 November 2000 at the Millennium Dome in London, United Kingdom. The pageant's swimsuit segment was filmed in the Maldives.

The pageant was the first since the death of pageant owner Eric Morley, whose widow Julia Morley assumed responsibility for the event. The pageant had 95 contestants, the highest number of Miss World participants at that time.

The pageant was won by Priyanka Chopra of India, at the age of 18. She was crowned by her predecessor Yukta Mookhey also from India. She is the fifth Miss World and the second consecutive winner from her country. Internationally, Chopra reigned alongside Miss Universe 2000 titleholder Lara Dutta, marking the most recent time (as of ) that any country has held the two most prestigious beauty pageant titles in the world in a single year.

Contestants
A total of 95 contestants participated in Miss World 2000.


 *  US Virgin Islands – Luciah Hedrington
 * 🇦🇴 Angola – Deolinda Vilela
 * 🇦🇷 Argentina – Daniela Stucan
 * 🇦🇼 Aruba – Monique van der Horn
 * 🇦🇺 Australia – Renee Henderson
 * 🇦🇹 Austria – Patricia Kaiser
 * 🇧🇸 Bahamas – Latia Bowe
 * 🇧🇩 Bangladesh – Sonia Gazi
 * 🇧🇧 Barbados – Leilani McConney
 * 🇧🇾 Belarus – Sviatlana Kruk
 * 🇧🇪 Belgium – Joke van de Velde
 * 🇧🇴 Bolivia – Jimena Rico Toro
 *  Bosnia & Herzegovina – Jasmina Mahmutović
 * 🇧🇼 Botswana – Puna Keleabetswe Serati
 * 🇧🇷 Brazil – Francine Eickemberg
 *  British Virgin Islands – Nadia Harrigan Ubinas
 * 🇧🇬 Bulgaria – Ivanka Peytcheva
 * 🇨🇦 Canada – Christine Cho
 * 🇰🇾 Cayman Islands – Jacqueline Bush
 * 🇨🇱 Chile – Isabel Bawlitza
 *  Chinese Taipei – Shu-Ting Hao
 * 🇨🇴 Colombia – Andrea Durán
 * 🇨🇷 Costa Rica – Cristina de Mezerville
 * 🇭🇷 Croatia – Andreja Čupor
 * 🇨🇼 Curaçao – Jozaine Wall
 * 🇨🇾 Cyprus – Ifigenia Papaioannou
 * 🇨🇿 Czech Republic – Michaela Salačová
 * 🇩🇰 Denmark – Anne Katrin Vrang
 * 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic – Gilda Jovine
 * 🇪🇨 Ecuador – Ana Dolores Murillo
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England – Michelle Walker
 * 🇪🇪 Estonia – Irina Ovtchinnikova
 * 🇫🇮 Finland – Salima Peippo
 * 🇫🇷 France – Karine Meier
 * 🇩🇪 Germany – Natascha Berg
 * 🇬🇭 Ghana – Maame Ewarfaah Hawkson
 * 🇬🇮 Gibraltar – Tessa Sacramento
 * 🇬🇷 Greece – Athanasia Tzoulaki
 * 🇬🇹 Guatemala – Cindy Ramírez
 *  Holland – Raja Moussaoui
 * 🇭🇳 Honduras – Verónica Rivera
 * 🇭🇰 Hong Kong – Margaret Kan
 * 🇭🇺 Hungary – Judit Kuchta
 * 🇮🇸 Iceland – Elva Dögg Melsted
 * 🇮🇳 India – Priyanka Chopra
 * 🇮🇪 Ireland – Yvonne Ellard
 * 🇮🇱 Israel – Dana Dantes
 * 🇮🇹 Italy – Giorgia Palmas
 * 🇯🇲 Jamaica – Ayisha Richards
 * 🇯🇵 Japan – Mariko Sugai
 * 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan – Margarita Kravtsova
 * 🇰🇪 Kenya – Yolanda Masinde
 * 🇰🇷 South Korea – Jung-sun Shin
 * 🇱🇧 Lebanon – Sandra Rizk
 * 🇱🇹 Lithuania – Martyna Bimbaite
 * 🇲🇬 Madagascar – Julianna Todimarina
 * 🇲🇾 Malaysia – Tan Sun Wei
 * 🇲🇹 Malta – Katia Grima
 * 🇲🇽 Mexico – Paulina Flores Arias
 * 🇲🇩 Moldova – Mariana Moraru †
 * 🇳🇦 Namibia – Mia de Klerk
 * 🇳🇵 Nepal – Usha Khadgi
 * 🇳🇿 New Zealand – Katherine Allsopp-Smith
 * 🇳🇬 Nigeria – Matilda Kerry
 *  Northern Ireland – Julie Lee-Ann Martin
 * 🇳🇴 Norway – Stine Pedersen
 * 🇵🇦 Panama – Ana Raquel Ochy
 * 🇵🇾 Paraguay – Patricia Villanueva
 * 🇵🇪 Peru – Tatiana Angulo
 * 🇵🇭 Philippines – Katherine Annwen de Guzman
 * 🇵🇱 Poland – Justyna Bergmann
 * 🇵🇹 Portugal – Gilda Dias Pe-Curto
 * 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico – Sarybel Velilla
 * 🇷🇴 Romania – Aleksandra Cosmoiu
 * 🇷🇺 Russia – Anna Bodareva
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland – Michelle Watson
 * 🇸🇬 Singapore – Charlyn Ding Zung Ee
 * 🇸🇰 Slovakia – Janka Horecna
 * 🇸🇮 Slovenia – Maša Merc
 * 🇿🇦 South Africa – Heather Joy Hamilton
 * 🇪🇸 Spain – Verónica García
 * 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka – Ganga Gunasekera
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden – Ida Sofia Manneh
 * 🇨🇭 Switzerland – Mahara McKay
 *  Tahiti – Vanini Bea
 * 🇹🇿 Tanzania – Jacqueline Ntuyabelikwe
 *  Trinidad & Tobago – Rhonda Rosemin
 * 🇹🇷 Turkey – Yuksel Ak
 * 🇺🇦 Ukraine – Olena Shcherban
 * 🇺🇸 United States – Angelique Breaux
 * 🇺🇾 Uruguay – Katja Thomsen
 * 🇻🇪 Venezuela – Vanessa Cárdenas
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales – Sophie-Kate Cahill
 *  FR Yugoslavia – Iva Milivojević
 * 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe – Victoria Moyo

Judges

 * Stephanie Beacham
 * Ozwald Boateng
 * Errol Brown
 * Lulu
 * Terry O'Neill
 * Lucy Sykes
 * Hemant Trivedi
 * Amanda Wakeley
 * Shah Rukh Khan

Debuts

 * 🇧🇾 Belarus
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
 * 🇲🇩 Moldova
 *  Northern Ireland

Returns

 * Last competed in 1955:
 * 🇧🇧 Barbados
 * 🇩🇰 Denmark
 * Last competed in 1997:
 * 🇳🇦 Namibia
 * Last competed in 1998:
 *  British Virgin Islands
 *  Chinese Taipei
 * 🇨🇼 Curaçao

Replacements

 * 🇩🇰 Denmark – Cecilie Elisa Dahlstrøm
 * 🇷🇺 Russia – Ekaterina Izmail - Dethroned of her crown due to marriage
 *  Jacqueline Bracamontes - She won Nuestra Belleza Mundo México 2000 and supposed to represent Mexico at Miss World that year, however she decided to enter Nuestra Belleza Mexico 2000 and won the contest, but as she won 2 contests Lupita Jones president of Nuestra Belleza México, decides to appoint Paulina Flores Arias - (Suplente of Nuestra Belleza México 2000 pageant) to compete at Miss World 2000.
 * 🇲🇩 Moldova - Miss Moldova 2000, Irina Babusenko didn't go to Miss World 2000 due to her being underage. She was replaced by her 1st runner up Mariana Moraru.

Withdrawals

 * 🇬🇾 Guyana - No contest.
 * 🇱🇻 Latvia – Miss Latvia 1999, Dina Kalandārova withdrew at the last minute due to personal reasons. She competed in Miss World 2001 instead.
 * 🇸🇨 Seychelles - No contest.
 *  Sint Maarten – Angelique Romou went to Miss Universe instead.
 * 🇸🇿 Swaziland - No contest.
 * 🇹🇭 Thailand – No contest.
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom - No longer competes as United Kingdom. Now competes as its constituent countries instead, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
 * 🇿🇲 Zambia - No contest.