User:Mauriziok/Miss World 2003

Miss World 2003, the 53rd edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 6 December 2003 at the Crown of Beauty Theatre in Sanya, China. The pageant was presented by Phil Keoghan, Amanda Byram, and Angela Chow. The contestants also paid a visit to Hong Kong, Xi'an, Shanghai, and Beijing. Azra Akın of Turkey crowned her successor Rosanna Davison of Ireland, the daughter of popular musician Chris de Burgh, claiming Ireland's first major beauty pageant title. 106 contestants from all over the world competed for the crown, marking at that time, the biggest edition in the pageant history. This was the first time China hosted the pageant. Ticket pricing for the event ranged from $110 to $2,730.



Contestants
106 contestants participated in Miss World 2003.


 * 🇦🇱 Albania – Denisa Kola
 * 🇦🇩 Andorra – Beverly Bella
 * 🇦🇴 Angola – Celma Katia Carlos
 * 🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda – Anne-Marie Browne
 * 🇦🇷 Argentina – Grisel Hitoff
 * 🇦🇼 Aruba – Nathalie Biermanns
 * 🇦🇺 Australia – Olivia Stratton
 * 🇧🇸 Bahamas – Shantell Hall
 * 🇧🇧 Barbados – Raquel Wilkinson
 * 🇧🇾 Belarus – Volha Nevdakh
 * 🇧🇪 Belgium – Julie Taton
 * 🇧🇿 Belize – Dalila Vanzie
 * 🇧🇴 Bolivia – Helen Aponte
 * 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina – Irna Smaka
 * 🇧🇼 Botswana – Boingotlo Motlalekgosi
 * 🇧🇷 Brazil – Lara Brito
 * 🇧🇬 Bulgaria – Rajna Naldzhieva
 * 🇨🇦 Canada – Nazanin Afshin-Jam
 * 🇰🇾 Cayman Islands – Nichelle Welcome
 * 🇨🇱 Chile – Alejandra Soler
 * 🇨🇳 China – Guan Qi
 * 🇨🇴 Colombia – Claudia Molina
 * 🇨🇷 Costa Rica – Shirley Álvarez
 * 🇭🇷 Croatia – Aleksandra Grdić
 * 🇨🇼 Curaçao – Angeline da Silva Goes
 * 🇨🇾 Cyprus – Stella Stylianou
 * 🇨🇿 Czech Republic – Lucie Váchová
 * 🇩🇰 Denmark – Maj Buchholtz Pedersen
 * 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic – María Eugenia Vargas
 * 🇪🇨 Ecuador – Mayra Rentería
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England – Jacqueline Turner
 * 🇪🇪 Estonia – Kriistina Gabor
 * 🇪🇹 Ethiopia – Hayat Ahmed
 * 🇫🇮 Finland – Katri Johanna Hynninen
 * 🇫🇷 France – Virginie Dubois
 *  Georgia – Irina Onashvili
 * 🇩🇪 Germany – Babette Konau
 * 🇬🇮 Gibraltar – Kim Marie Falzun
 * 🇬🇷 Greece – Vasiliki Tsekoura
 * 🇬🇵 Guadeloupe – Lauranza Doliman
 * 🇬🇹 Guatemala – Dulce María Duarte
 * 🇬🇾 Guyana – Alexis Glasgow
 *  Holland – Sanne de Regt
 * 🇭🇰 Hong Kong – Rabee'a Yeung
 * 🇭🇺 Hungary – Eszter Toth
 * 🇮🇸 Iceland – Regína Jónsdóttir
 * 🇮🇳 India – Ami Vashi
 * 🇮🇪 Ireland – Rosanna Davison
 * 🇮🇱 Israel – Miri Levy
 * 🇮🇹 Italy – Silvia Cannas
 * 🇯🇲 Jamaica – Jade Fulford
 * 🇯🇵 Japan – Kaoru Nishide
 * 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan – Saule Zhunosova
 * 🇰🇪 Kenya – Janet Kibugu
 * 🇰🇷 South Korea – Park Ji-yea
 * 🇱🇻 Latvia – Irina Askolska
 * 🇱🇧 Lebanon – Marie-José Hnein
 * 🇱🇸 Lesotho – Makuena Lepolesa
 * 🇱🇹 Lithuania – Vaida Grikšaitė
 * 🇲🇰 Macedonia – Marija Vašik
 * 🇲🇾 Malaysia – Wong Sze Zen
 * 🇲🇹 Malta – Rachel Xuereb
 * 🇲🇺 Mauritius – Marie Aimee Bergicourt
 * 🇲🇽 Mexico – Erika Honstein
 * 🇲🇩 Moldova – Elena Danilciuc
 * 🇳🇦 Namibia – Petrina Thomas
 * 🇳🇵 Nepal – Priti Sitoula
 * 🇳🇿 New Zealand – Melanie Paul
 * 🇳🇮 Nicaragua – Hailey Britton Brooks
 * 🇳🇬 Nigeria – Celia Bissong
 *  Northern Ireland – Diana Sayers
 *  Northern Marianas – Kimberly Castro Reyes
 * 🇳🇴 Norway – Elisabeth Wathne
 * 🇵🇦 Panama – Ivy Ruth Ortega
 * 🇵🇾 Paraguay – Karina Buttner
 * 🇵🇪 Peru – Claudia Hernández
 * 🇵🇭 Philippines – Maria Rafaela (Mafae) Yunon
 * 🇵🇱 Poland – Karolina Gorazda
 * 🇵🇹 Portugal – Vanessa Job
 * 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico – Joyceline Montero
 * 🇷🇴 Romania – Patricia Filomena Chifor
 * 🇷🇺 Russia – Svetlana Goreva
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland – Nicci Jolly
 *  Serbia and Montenegro – Bojana Vujadinović
 * 🇸🇬 Singapore – Corine Kanmani
 * 🇸🇰 Slovakia – Adriana Pospíšilová
 * 🇸🇮 Slovenia – Tina Zajc
 * 🇿🇦 South Africa – Cindy Nell
 * 🇪🇸 Spain – María Teresa Martín
 * 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka – Sachini Stanley
 * 🇸🇿 Swaziland – Thembelihle Zwane
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden – Ida Söfringsgärd
 * 🇨🇭 Switzerland – Bianca Sissing
 * 🇹🇿 Tanzania – Sylvia Bahame
 * 🇹🇭 Thailand – Janejira Keardprasop
 * 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago – Magdalene Walcott
 * 🇹🇷 Turkey – Tuğba Karaca
 * 🇺🇬 Uganda – Aysha Nassanga
 * 🇺🇦 Ukraine – Ilona Yakovleva
 * 🇺🇸 United States – Kimberly Harlan
 * 🇺🇾 Uruguay – Natalia Rodríguez
 * 🇻🇪 Venezuela – Valentina Patruno
 *  Vietnam – Nguyễn Đình Thụy Quân
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales – Imogen Thomas
 * 🇿🇲 Zambia – Cynthia Kanema
 * 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe – Phoebe Monjane

Judges
Miss World 2003 had nine judges.
 * Candace Bushnell
 * Jackie Chan
 * Agbani Darego – Miss World 2001 from Nigeria
 * Bruce Forsyth
 * Gustavo Gianetti
 * Julia Morley – Chairwoman of the Miss World Organisation
 * Krish Naidoo
 * Clive Robertson
 * Dick Zimmermann

Debuts

 * 🇦🇩 Andorra
 * 🇪🇹 Ethiopia
 *  Georgia
 * 🇬🇵 Guadeloupe
 *  Northern Marianas

Returns

 * Last competed in 1981:
 * 🇱🇸 Lesotho
 * Last competed in 1998:
 * 🇲🇺 Mauritius
 * Last competed in 1999:
 * 🇿🇲 Zambia
 * Last competed in 2000:
 * 🇧🇾 Belarus
 * 🇩🇰 Denmark
 * 🇬🇹 Guatemala
 * 🇲🇩 Moldova
 * 🇳🇵 Nepal
 * 🇵🇾 Paraguay
 * 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
 * Last competed in 2001:
 * 🇰🇾 Cayman Islands
 * 🇨🇷 Costa Rica
 * 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
 * 🇮🇸 Iceland
 * 🇰🇷 South Korea
 * 🇵🇹 Portugal
 * 🇨🇭 Switzerland

Withdrawals

 * 🇦🇲 Armenia – Lusine Tovmasyan - She withdrew due to financial problems. She later competed at Miss Europe 2005 and finished 1st Runner-up.
 * 🇫🇯 Fiji – Aishwarya Sukhdeo - She withdrew at the last minute for unknown reasons. however, she competed in Miss World a year later.

No Shows

 * 🇩🇿 Algeria – Mounia Achlaf
 * 🇦🇹 Austria – Miss Austria 2003, Tanja Duhovich did not compete due to not meeting the age requirements, she was just 17. Then the Miss Austria corporation decided to appoint the Miss Austria 2003 second runner up, Bianca Zudrell at the last minute with no time to prepare her visa.
 *  US Virgin Islands – Alexandrya Evans. She competed at Miss Universe 2011 8 years later.
 *  British Virgin Islands – No contest
 * 🇭🇹 Haiti - No Contest
 * 🇲🇼 Malawi – Mable Pulu
 *  Tahiti - Heitiare Tribondeau
 *  Turks and Caicos- No contest
 * 🇬🇭 Ghana – Did not compete because of a shift in the Miss Ghana calendar. Organizers held the national final, Miss Ghana 2003, on the same day Miss World 2003 was held. This is the reason Ghanaian delegates to Miss World have their titles dating back by a year.

Replacements

 * 🇱🇻 Latvia – Agnese Eiduka
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden – Isabelle Jonsson - She was the first runner up of Fröken Sverige 2003, but the organization just lost the MW licence that year to the newly Miss World Sweden contest.
 * 🇻🇪 Venezuela – Amara Barroeta Seijas.

Country Changes

 * Yugoslavia changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro.

Other notes

 * Northern Marianas was originally crowned for the Miss Universe pageant but was sent to Miss World instead.