Miss World 2000, the 50th anniversary of the

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pageant, was held on 30 November 2000 at the

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. The pageant's swimsuit segment was filmed in the

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. The pageant was the first since the death of pageant owner

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, whose widow

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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

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, at the age of 18. She was crowned by her predecessor

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also from

. She is the fifth Miss World and the second consecutive winner from her country. Internationally, Chopra reigned alongside

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titleholder

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, 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.

Results

Placements

Continental Queens of Beauty

Order of Announcements Top 10 # # # # # # # # # # Top 5 # # # # #

Contestants

A total of 95 contestants participated in Miss World 2000. * – Luciah Hedrington * – Deolinda Vilela * – Daniela Stucan * – Monique van der Horn * – Renee Henderson * – Patricia Kaiser * – Latia Bowe * – Sonia Gazi * – Leilani McConney * – Sviatlana Kruk * – Joke van de Velde * – Jimena Rico Toro * – Jasmina Mahmutović * – Puna Keleabetswe Serati * – Francine Eickemberg * – Nadia Harrigan Ubinas * – Ivanka Peytcheva * – Christine Cho * – Jacqueline Bush * – Isabel Bawlitza * – Shu-Ting Hao * – Andrea Durán * – Cristina de Mezerville * – Andreja Čupor * – Jozaine Wall * – Ifigenia Papaioannou * – Michaela Salačová * – Anne Katrin Vrang * –

Gilda Jovine Gilda Gross (born February 10, 1981 in Santo Domingo) commonly known as Gilda Jovine is a Dominican actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She was born and raised in Santo Domingo to a businessman from the United States and a business ...

* – Ana Dolores Murillo * – Michelle Walker * – Irina Ovtchinnikova * – Salima Peippo * – Karine Meier * – Natascha Berg * – Maame Ewarfaah Hawkson * – Tessa Sacramento * – Athanasia Tzoulaki * – Cindy Ramírez * – Raja Moussaoui * – Verónica Rivera * – Margaret Kan * – Judit Kuchta * – Elva Dögg Melsted * –

* – Yvonne Ellard * – Dana Dantes * –

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* – Ayisha Richards * – Mariko Sugai * – Margarita Kravtsova * – Yolanda Masinde * – Jung-sun Shin * – Sandra Rizk * – Martyna Bimbaite * – Julianna Todimarina * – Tan Sun Wei * – Katia Grima * – Paulina Flores Arias * – Mariana Moraru † * – Mia de Klerk * – Usha Khadgi * – Katherine Allsopp-Smith * –

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* – Julie Lee-Ann Martin * – Stine Pedersen * – Ana Raquel Ochy * – Patricia Villanueva * – Tatiana Angulo * – Katherine Annwen de Guzman * – Justyna Bergmann * – Gilda Dias Pe-Curto * – Sarybel Velilla * – Aleksandra Cosmoiu * – Anna Bodareva * – Michelle Watson * – Charlyn Ding Zung Ee * – Janka Horecna * – Maša Merc * – Heather Joy Hamilton * – Verónica García * – Ganga Gunasekera * – Ida Sofia Manneh * –

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* – Vanini Bea * – Jacqueline Ntuyabelikwe * – Rhonda Rosemin * – Yuksel Ak * – Olena Shcherban * – Angelique Breaux * – Katja Thomsen * – Vanessa Cárdenas * – Sophie-Kate Cahill * – Iva Milivojević * – Victoria Moyo

Judges

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† *

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* Terry O'Neill † *

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* Hemant Trivedi *

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Notes

Debuts

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Returns

*Last competed in

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijiangs ...

: ** ** *Last competed in

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

: ** *Last competed in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

: ** ** **

Replacements

* – Cecilie Elisa Dahlstrøm * – Ekaterina Izmail - Dethroned of her crown due to marriage * –

Jacqueline Bracamontes Jacqueline Bracamontes Van Hoorde (born 23 December 1979) is a Mexican actress, former model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Nuestra Belleza Jalisco 2000, Nuestra Belleza México 2000 and represented her country at Miss Universe 2001. ...

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. * – 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

* – No contest. * – Miss Latvia 1999, Dina Kalandārova withdrew at the last minute due to personal reasons. She competed in Miss World 2001 instead. * – No contest. * – Angelique Romou went to

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instead. * – No contest. * – No contest. * – No longer competes as United Kingdom. Now competes as its constituent countries instead, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. * – No contest.

References

External links

Pageantopolis – Miss World 2000
{{Miss World countries and territories Miss World 2000 in the United Kingdom 2000 beauty pageants Beauty pageants in the United Kingdom November 2000 events in the United Kingdom