Miss Universe 2010

Miss Universe 2010, the 59th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 23 August 2010 at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Ximena Navarrete of Mexico was crowned by Stefanía Fernández of Venezuela as her successor at the end of the event. This is Mexico's second (and most recent) win at Miss Universe.[1]

Miss Universe 2010
Ximena Navarrete, Miss Universe 2010
Date23 August 2010
Presenters
Entertainment
VenueMandalay Bay Events Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Broadcaster
Entrants83
Placements15
Withdrawals
Returns
WinnerXimena Navarrete
 Mexico
CongenialityJesinta Campbell
 Australia
Best National CostumeFonthip Watcharatrakul
 Thailand
PhotogenicFonthip Watcharatrakul
 Thailand

83 contestants from around the world competed in this year.

Results

Placements
Final results Contestant
Miss Universe 2010
1st Runner-Up
2nd Runner-Up
3rd Runner-Up
4th Runner-Up
Top 10
Top 15

Order of announcements

Contestants
Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss Universe 2010
Country/TerritoryContestantAgeHeightHometownPlacement
 AlbaniaAngela Martini241.77 m (5 ft 10 in)ShkoderTop 10
 AngolaJurema Ferraz251.75 m (5 ft 9 in)Namibe
 ArgentinaYésica Di Vincenzo221.74 m (5 ft 9 in)Mar del Plata
 ArubaPriscilla Lee221.80 m (5 ft 11 in)Oranjestad
 AustraliaJesinta Campbell191.75 m (5 ft 9 in)Gold Coast2nd Runner-Up
 BahamasBraneka Bassett201.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Freeport
 BelgiumCilou Annys191.75 m (5 ft 9 in)BrugesTop 15
 BoliviaClaudia Arce Lemaitre191.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Sucre
 BotswanaTirelo Ramasedi211.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Gaborone
 BrazilDébora Lyra201.80 m (5 ft 11 in)Divinópolis
 British Virgin IslandsJosefina Nunez221.65 m (5 ft 5 in)Road Town
 CanadaElena Semikina261.85 m (6 ft 1 in)Toronto
 ChinaTang Wen181.75 m (5 ft 9 in)Yichun
 ColombiaNatalia Navarro231.79 m (5 ft 10 in)BarranquillaTop 15
 Costa RicaMarva Wright251.76 m (5 ft 9 in)San José
 CroatiaLana Obad221.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Zagreb
 CuraçaoSafira de Wit201.80 m (5 ft 11 in)Willemstad
 CyprusDemetra Olymbiou221.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Aradhippou
 Czech RepublicJitka Válková181.69 m (5 ft 7 in)TřebíčTop 15
 DenmarkEna Sandra Causevic201.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Sønderborg
 Dominican RepublicEva Arias251.83 m (6 ft 0 in)Moca
 EcuadorLady Mina241.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Guayaquil
 EgyptDonia Hamed221.79 m (5 ft 10 in)Cairo
 El SalvadorSonia Cruz201.70 m (5 ft 7 in)San Salvador
 FinlandViivi Pumpanen221.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Vantaa
 FranceMalika Ménard231.76 m (5 ft 9 in)Hérouville-Saint-ClairTop 15
 GeorgiaNanuka Gogichaishvili211.77 m (5 ft 10 in)Tbilisi
 GermanyKristiana Rohder261.75 m (5 ft 9 in)Munich
 GhanaAwurama Simpson221.76 m (5 ft 9 in)Sekondi-Takoradi
 Great BritainTara Hoyos-Martínez201.73 m (5 ft 8 in)London
 GreeceAnna Prelevic201.79 m (5 ft 10 in)Athens
 GuamVanessa Torres251.70 m (5 ft 7 in)Dededo
 GuatemalaJessica Scheel201.68 m (5 ft 6 in)RetalhuleuTop 10
 GuyanaTamika Henry221.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Georgetown
 HaitiSarodj Bertin241.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Port-au-Prince
 HondurasKenia Martinez261.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Tela
 HungaryTímea Babinyecz191.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Szeged
 IndiaUshoshi Sengupta221.71 m (5 ft 7 in)Kolkata
 IndonesiaQory Sandioriva191.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Banda Aceh
 IrelandRozanna Purcell191.80 m (5 ft 11 in)ClonmelTop 10
 IsraelBat-el Jobi221.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Afula
 ItalyJessica Cecchini201.78 m (5 ft 10 in)Borgosesia
 JamaicaYendi Phillipps241.78 m (5 ft 10 in)Kingston1st Runner-Up
 JapanMaiko Itai261.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Ōita
 KazakhstanAsselina Kuchukova271.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Almaty
 KoreaJoori Kim221.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Seoul
 KosovoKështjella Pepshi231.75 m (5 ft 9 in)Junik
 LebanonRahaf Abdallah221.74 m (5 ft 9 in)Khiam
 MalaysiaNadine Ann Thomas231.79 m (5 ft 10 in)Subang Jaya
 MauritiusDalysha Doorga231.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Goodlands
 MexicoXimena Navarrete221.73 m (5 ft 8 in)GuadalajaraMiss Universe 2010
 NetherlandsDesirée van den Berg231.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Santpoort
 New ZealandRia van Dyke211.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Auckland
 NicaraguaScharllette Allen Moses181.77 m (5 ft 10 in)Bluefields
 NigeriaNgozi Odalonu221.77 m (5 ft 10 in)Niger
 NorwayMelinda Elvenes231.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Larvik
 PanamaAnyolí Ábrego221.75 m (5 ft 9 in)Santiago de Veraguas
 ParaguayYohana Benitez231.75 m (5 ft 9 in)San Lorenzo
 PeruGiuliana Zevallos221.76 m (5 ft 9 in)Lima
 PhilippinesVenus Raj221.75 m (5 ft 9 in)Bato4th Runner-Up
 PolandMaria Nowakowska231.80 m (5 ft 11 in)Legnica
 Puerto RicoMariana Vicente211.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Río GrandeTop 10
 RomaniaOana Paveluc191.75 m (5 ft 9 in)Braşov
 RussiaIrina Antonenko181.78 m (5 ft 10 in)YekaterinburgTop 15
 SerbiaLidija Kocić221.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Belgrade
 SingaporeTania Lim Kim Suan221.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Singapore
 Slovak RepublicAnna Amenová251.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Bratislava
 SloveniaMarika Savšek241.75 m (5 ft 9 in)Šmartno pri Litiji
 South AfricaNicole Flint221.72 m (5 ft 8 in)PretoriaTop 10
 SpainAdriana Reverón241.74 m (5 ft 9 in)Tenerife
 Sri LankaIshanka Madurasinghe231.70 m (5 ft 7 in)Kegalle
 SwedenMichaela Savic191.74 m (5 ft 9 in)Helsingborg
  SwitzerlandLinda Fäh221.77 m (5 ft 10 in)Benken
 TanzaniaHellen Dausen231.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Arusha
 ThailandFonthip Watcharatrakul201.70 m (5 ft 7 in)Samut Prakan
 Trinidad & TobagoLaToya Woods251.78 m (5 ft 10 in)Couva
 TurkeyGizem Memiç201.76 m (5 ft 9 in)Gaziantep
 UkraineAnna Poslavska231.81 m (5 ft 11 in)Nova Kakhovka3rd Runner-Up
 UruguayStephany Ortega201.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Montevideo
 USARima Fakih241.71 m (5 ft 7 in)Dearborn
 US Virgin IslandsJaneisha John221.75 m (5 ft 9 in)St. Croix
 VenezuelaMarelisa Gibson221.78 m (5 ft 10 in)Caracas
 ZambiaAlice Musukwa221.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Lusaka

Judges

Preliminary competition

The judges for the preliminary competition are listed below:[2]

  • Basim Shami – President of Farouk Systems
  • BJ Coleman – Publicist, Journalist & Television Personality
  • Carlos Bremer – CEO and General Director of Value Grupo Financiero
  • Corinne Nicolas – President of Trump Model Management
  • Louis Burgdorf – Talent Producer for MSNBC's Joe Scarborough & Mika Brzezinski
  • Natalie Rotman – Television Host and Fashion Expert
  • Sadoux Kim – Television producer

Final telecast

The following celebrities judged the final competition:[2]

Notes

Returns

Last competed in 1989:

Last competed in 2002:

Last competed in 2004:

Last competed in 2007:

Last competed in 2008:

Dethronment and reinstatement
  •  Philippines — Maria Venus Raj was originally dethroned of her official title due to contestation of her true citizenship. The issue was later corrected and national director Stella Araneta restored her titular rights. Raj was also able to obtain a Philippine passport as proof of her candidacy and citizenship.

Replacements
  •  Guatemala – Alejandra Barillas was Miss Universe Guatemala 2010 until she injured her left foot in an accident. This stopped her from participating in the pageant. She was replaced by one of her runners-up, . She competed 1 year later at Miss Universe 2011.
  •  Romania – Alexandra Catalina Filip was Miss Universe Romania 2010 but 1st runner-up, Oana Paveluc, represented Romania instead.
  •  Turkey – Turkey sent Miss Turkey World 2010, Gizem Memic, because its Miss Universe 2010, Serenay Sarikaya, was below 18 and did not meet the age requirement.

Withdrawals
  •  Bulgaria – The Miss Bulgaria Organization did not send a representative to compete in Miss Universe 2010.
  •  Cayman Islands – On 8 September 2009, it was announced that the Miss Cayman Islands 2009 contest would not take place due to lack of funding and sponsorship. Since the winner of that contest also competes in Miss World, there was no Caymanian representative to Miss World 2009 either.[3]
  •  Estonia – Valeri Kirss, Estonia's national director, was selling the Eesti Miss Estonia pageant.
  •  Ethiopia
  •  Iceland
  •  Montenegro – Original contestant Nikolina Lončar was not allowed to participate because she was only 16 at the time of her crowning. She later participated in Miss Universe 2011.[4]
  •  Namibia – Miss Namibia 2010, Odile Gertze, was crowned on 31 July 2010. Since that was only one week from the official start of Miss Universe 2010, national director Connie Maritz decided not to send the winner to Miss Universe but to Miss World 2010 instead.
  •  Vietnam – Miss Vietnam Photogenic 2002 - Phạm Thị Thanh Hằng, who competed in Miss Intercontinental 2005, was invited to participate in Miss Universe 2010. She declined due to lack of preparation time and Vietnam subsequently withdrew from the 2010 pageant[5]

Awards

General references
  • West, Donald (ed.). "Miss Universe 2010". pageantopolis.com. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012.

References
  1. "Miss Universe 2010 - Pageant Planet". www.pageantplanet.com. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  2. "Miss Universe: Judges". Miss Universe Organization. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
  3. "Miss Cayman Islands 2009 postponed due to lack of funding and sponsorship". Caymanian Compass. 7 September 2009. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011.
  4. "Nikolina Lončar ostala kod kuće". Vijesti online. 12 August 2010. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
  5. Vietnam Officially Withdraws from Miss Universe 2010 Archived 25 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine
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