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ASIANS CONQUER MISS UNIVERSE 2005
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Date Posted: 15:20:29 04/11/05 Mon
As of 2004, India, Thailand and the Philippines had produced two MISS UNIVERSE women each. The first Asian to win the title was Japan's Akiko Kojima in 1959.
In a major racial breakthrough in 1977, Janelle Commissiong of Trinidad-Tobago became the first black woman to win the coveted Miss Universe crown. From 1951 to 2004, no Asian had ever won the MISS WORLD title except 4 women from India. Similarly, from 1960 to 2004, no Asian had ever captured the MISS INTERNATIONAL crown except 3 women from the Philippines and a Lebanese in 2002.
Kerstin Haakonson, the first MISS WORLD from Sweden (1951), did not marry a Filipino but the first MISS UNIVERSE Armi Kuusela from Finland, did. She tied the knot with Virgilio Hilario. Interestingly, Jorge Araneta, another Filipino, married the first MISS INTERNATIONAL who won in 1960 - Maria Stella Marquez Zawadzky of Colombia. Jose Faustino of the Philippines did the same to the first MISS ASIA (now MISS ASIA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL) - Angela Filmer of Malaysia. No Filipino has courted (YET) the first MISS EARTH Catherine Svensson from Denmark who won in 2001.
Miss Philippines Evangeline Pascual was first runner-up to Marjorie Wallace from USA in the MISS WORLD 1973. Wallace was dethroned yet the humble Filipina refused to accept the vacant title.
Miriam Quiambao, a Filipina, was first runner-up to Mpule Kwelagobe from Botswana in the MISS UNIVERSE 1999, the first black African to win the title. Local media asked Quiambao if she would accept the crown had MISS UNIVERSE 1999 get impregnanted (referring to the final question during MISS UNIVERSE 1999 that if a Miss Universe get impregnated she should be dethroned), the humble Filipina's reply was she would never think it happens to Keneilwe during her reign.
MISS UNIVERSE 1993 Dayanara Torres from Puerto Rico left a Filipino boyfriend for a singer-composer Marc Anthony. Ironically, Miss Autralia 1994 Michelle Van Eimeren get married to a Filipino siger-composer Ogie Alcasid. They now have two children. Recently, Dayanara Torres and her husband get separated. Torres's ex-boyfriend get married to Miss Philippines 1994 Charlene Gonzales. They now have two (twins- a boy and a girl) children!
The first Asian woman to win as Miss Canada in 1996 was Renette Cruz, a native of Zamboanga City, Philippines. Miss Great Britain 1998 Leilani Dowding is half-Filipina, half-English. Angela Baraquio, a brainy woman of Asian descent (Filipina), nabbed the MISS AMERICA rhinestones in October 2000.
A decade has passed since MISS UNIVERSE took place on Asian soil. And almost a half decade has passed since an Asian won the title.
MISS UNIVERSE 2005: Miss Philippines
1st Runner-up: Miss Israel
2nd Runner-up: Miss Japan
3rd Runner-up: Miss Lebanon
4th Runner-up: Miss India
Semi-finalists:
Miss Thailand
Miss Indonesia
Miss Sri Lanka
Miss China
Miss Korea
Top 15:
Miss Malaysia
Miss Vietnam
Miss Kazakhstan
Miss Chinese Taipei
Miss Cyprus
WILL AN ASIAN BE CROWNED ON ASIAN SOIL IN MISS UNIVERSE 2005?
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