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Date Posted: 04:20:20 10/27/05 Thu
Author: Alex Sarmiento
Subject: Miss Earth 2005 Thoughts

A year after Brazil's Priscila Meirelles de Almeida won Miss Earth and thus made her country the first to win all four major crowns at least once, Venezuela matches (nay, exceeds) that achievement.

Alexandra Braun Waldeck, 4th in the Miss Venezuela finals won by Miss Universe-bound Jictzad Vina Carreno, not only placed (a first for Venezuela at Miss Earth) but won the whole thing. This gives her country an unprecedented 14th major crown, to go with the four Miss Universe/five Miss World/ four Miss International triumphs. Though she was sent to Miss Earth by a different organization, Alexandra's triumph will likely prompt Osmel Souza to acquire the franchise in the future. After a disastrous 2004, it is great to see the Venezuela pageant system back in the saddle.

Silver-medalist Amell Santana bested the MU rank of the woman who beat her for the Miss DR Universe crown, Renata de Jesus Sone Savery. This is the first time (correct me if I'm wrong) in some time that a country has placed in the top three in four consecutive majors (Claudia Cruz Rodriguez 2nd at MW 04, Renata 3rd at MU 05, Yadira Geara Cury 2nd at MI 05, and Amell 2nd at MU 05). The pressure is now on Elisa Abreu de los Santos to not only place at Miss World, but to possibly take the crown.

Poland's Katarzyna Borowicz looked much better at Miss Earth than at Miss World last year, where she was the worst of an otherwise illustrious final five. Not since Malgorzata Rozniecka won MI 01 has a Polish woman made top-three in a major. Poland has done well at Miss Earth, and it has three Miss Internationals and a Miss World win from 1989. Now, Poland should try for similar results at Miss Universe.

I didn't expect Serbo-Montenegrin beauty Jovana Marjanovic to be in the hunt, but she proved me wrong. Her fourth place finish is the best in the majors since Sanja Papic took the same spot at Miss Universe 2003.

I thought that there would be a top 20, but instead it was a top 16. I divided the 80 contestants into four groups of 20, and from the elite group my choices made the cut: Venezuela, South Korea, Dominican Republic, Philippines, Poland, USA, Ecuador, and Puerto Rico. From the secondary group: Chile, Russia, Czech Republic, Serbia and Montenegro, and Paraguay. From the tertiary group: Tanzania, El Salvador, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Rehema Sudi's placement is the first ever in the majors for Tanzania. Tanzania is sure to be in the hunt at Miss World, and Miss International yielded a National Costume award for Margareth Wilson Chacha. Miss Universe should be next for the Tanzanians.

Once again, Ukraine comes up with diddly squat. Oleksandra Nikolayenko failed to make the semis at Miss Universe 2004, despite people saying over and over that she was the one to beat. And here, Yevheniya Rudenko falls victim a la Oleksandra.

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