Miss International 2011

Miss International 2011, the 51st Miss International pageant, was held on 6 November 2011 at the International Tennis Center in Chengdu, China. Elizabeth Mosquera of Venezuela crowned her successor, Fernanda Cornejo of Ecuador, at the final event.

Miss International 2011
Chengdu, China
Date	6 November 2011[1]
Venue	International Tennis Center, Chengdu, China[2]
Entrants	67[3]
Placements	15
Debuts	Belize Estonia Zimbabwe
Withdrawals	Bahamas Canada Chile Czech Republic Greece Jamaica Kenya Lithuania Martinique Mauritius Nicaragua Norway Serbia Sri Lanka United Kingdom
Returns	Cuba El Salvador Honduras Hungary Kyrgyzstan Portugal Romania Tanzania Trinidad and Tobago
Winner	Fernanda Cornejo  Ecuador
Congeniality	Shanna Nakamura  Hawaii Karen Higuera  Mexico
Best National Costume	Kantapat Peerdachainarin  Thailand
Photogenic	Jessica Barboza  Venezuela

Results

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss International 2011	Ecuador – Fernanda Cornejo
1st Runner-Up	Venezuela – Jessica Barboza
2nd Runner-Up	Mongolia – Tugsuu Idersaikhan
3rd Runner-Up	Puerto Rico – Desiree Del Rio
4th Runner-Up	Panama – Keity Drennan
Top 15	Brazil – Gabriella Marcelino  Latvia – Lelde Paulsone  Lebanon – Maria Farah  Netherlands – Talitha Hertsenberg  Philippines – Dianne Necio  Russia – Elena Chepilchenko  Sweden – Denice Andrée  Thailand – Kantapat Peerdachainarin  Trinidad and Tobago – Renee Bhagwandeen  Vietnam – Trương Tri Trúc Diễm

Special awards

Awards	Contestant
Miss Friendship	Hawaii – Shanna Nakamura  Mexico – Karen Higuera
Miss Photogenic	Venezuela – Jessica Barboza
Best in National Costume	Thailand – Kantapat Peerdachainarin
Miss Talent	China – Baixue Yuting
Miss Internet Popularity	Philippines – Dianne Necio
Miss Goodwill Ambassador	Aruba – Vivian Chow
Miss Panda Angel	Latvia – Lelde Paulsone
Miss Active	Puerto Rico – Desiree Del Rio
Miss Expressive	Zimbabwe – Lisa Morgan
Miss Elegance	Russia – Elena Chepilchenko
Miss Beauty	Ecuador – Fernanda Cornejo
Miss Stature	Ecuador – Fernanda Cornejo

Contestants

The Miss International 2011 contestants were:[3]

Country/Territory	Contestant	Age	Height	Hometown
Aruba	Vivian Chow	19	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Oranjestad
Australia	Brooke Nash	20	1.72 m (5 ft 7 ^1⁄2 in)	Mackay
Belarus	Ulyana Volokhovskaya	18	1.81 m (5 ft 11 ^1⁄2 in)	Minsk
Belgium	Kristina De Munter	24	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Caracas[4]
Belize	Annlyn Apolonio[5][6]	21	1.72 m (5 ft 7 ^1⁄2 in)	Belize City
Bolivia	Daniela Núñez del Prado	20	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Santa Cruz
Brazil	Gabriella Marcelino[7]	21	1.82 m (5 ft 11 ^1⁄2 in)	Simões Filho
China	Baixue Yuting[8]	20	1.72 m (5 ft 7 ^1⁄2 in)	Zhengzhou
Chinese Taipei	Ying Kuei Li	20	1.77 m (5 ft 9 ^1⁄2 in)	Taipei
Colombia	Natalia Valenzuela[9]	22	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	Neiva
Costa Rica	Amalia Matamoros	22	1.79 m (5 ft 10 ^1⁄2 in)	Naranjo
Cuba	Elizabeth Robaina	23	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)	McAllen
Denmark	Monica Kristensen	20	1.77 m (5 ft 9 ^1⁄2 in)	Vejen
Dominican Republic	Catherine Ramírez[10]	25	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	Santiago
Ecuador	María Fernanda Cornejo[11]	22	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	Quito
El Salvador	Marcela Santamaría[12]	19	1.74 m (5 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in)[13]	San Salvador
Estonia	Sandra Daškova	19	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Tallinn
Finland	Niina-Maria Lavonen	22	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Pori
France	Laura Maurey	22	1.74 m (5 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in)	Bagnoles-de-l'Orne
Georgia	Ellen Sikorskaia	19	1.77 m (5 ft 9 ^1⁄2 in)	Tbilisi
Germany	Sandra Kaczmarczyk	22	1.71 m (5 ft 7 ^1⁄2 in)	Bonn
Guadeloupe	Daena Hatilip	25	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Saint-Claude
Guam	Katarina Martinez[14]	20	1.77 m (5 ft 9 ^1⁄2 in)	Barrigada Heights
Guatemala	Karen Remón	21	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	Guatemala
Hawaii	Shanna Nakamura	24	1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)	Honolulu
Honduras	Esthefany Pineda	18	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	Tela
Hong Kong	Whitney Hui[15]	22	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	Fujian
Hungary	Nora Viragh[16]	20	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)	Mátészalka
India	Ankita Shorey	25	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Mumbai
Indonesia	Reisa Kartikasari	25	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Yogyakarta
Italy	Anthea Lucà	19	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	Bazzano
Japan	Nagomi Murayama	23	1.67 m (5 ft 5 ^1⁄2 in)	Kanagawa
Korea	Kim Hye-sun	25	1.76 m (5 ft 9 ^1⁄2 in)	Seoul
Kyrgyzstan	Asel Samakova	18	1.77 m (5 ft 9 ^1⁄2 in)	Bishkek
Latvia	Lelde Paulsone	22	1.72 m (5 ft 7 ^1⁄2 in)	Riga
Lebanon	Maria Farah	22	1.77 m (5 ft 9 ^1⁄2 in)	Windsor
Macau	Winnie Sin	24	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)	Macau
Malaysia	Phong Sze Ling	21	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	Perak
Mexico	Karen Higuera	20	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	La Paz
Mongolia	Tugsuu Idersaikhan[17]	19	1.81 m (5 ft 11 ^1⁄2 in)	Ulan Bator
Nepal	Sarina Maskey[18]	24	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Narayangad
Netherlands	Talitha Hertsenberg	19	1.81 m (5 ft 11 ^1⁄2 in)	Amsterdam
New Zealand	Claire Kirby	24	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Palmerston North
Panama	Keity Mendieta Britton[19]	21	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Panama City
Paraguay	Stephania Vázquez Stegman	19	1.77 m (5 ft 9 ^1⁄2 in)	Asunción
Peru	María Alejandra Chávez[20]	18	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Lima
Philippines	Dianne Necio[21]	19	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[22]	Polangui
Poland	Adrianna Wojciechowska	25	1.79 m (5 ft 10 ^1⁄2 in)	Gostynin
Portugal	Patrícia Da Silva[23]	21	1.77 m (5 ft 9 ^1⁄2 in)	Lisbon
Puerto Rico	Desireé Del Río[24]	24	1.76 m (5 ft 9 ^1⁄2 in)	San Juan
Romania	Andrada Vilciu	25	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Bucharest
Russia	Elena Chepilchenko	20	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	St. Petersburg
Singapore	Stella Kae Sze Yun	22	1.71 m (5 ft 7 ^1⁄2 in)	Singapore
Slovakia	Dušana Lukáčová	20	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	Veľký Šariš
South Africa	Natasha Kashimoto[25]	20	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Benoni
Spain	Sarah Lopez Bujia	23	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	Santiago de Compostela
Sweden	Denice Andrée[26]	23	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	Stockholm
Tahiti	Hitiana Monnier	23	1.76 m (5 ft 9 ^1⁄2 in)	Papeete
Tanzania	Nelly Kamwelu	19	1.74 m (5 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in)	Dar es Salaam
Thailand	Kantapat Peeradachainarin	25	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Ratchaburi
Trinidad and Tobago	Renee Bhagwandeen	23	1.76 m (5 ft 9 ^1⁄2 in)	San Fernando
Turkey	Elif Korkmaz[27]	21	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	İzmir
Ukraine	Oleksandra Kyrsha	23	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Kiev
USA	Kristen Little[28]	23	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Albuquerque
Venezuela	Jessica Barboza	24	1.74 m (5 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in)	Maracaibo
Vietnam	Trương Tri Trúc Diễm	24	1.74 m (5 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in)	Ho Chi Minh City
Zimbabwe	Lisa Morgan	21	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Harare

Notes

Debuts

•  Belize
•  Estonia
•  Zimbabwe

Returns

Last competed in 1971:  Trinidad and Tobago Last competed in 2000:  Portugal Last competed in 2004:  Hungary

Last competed in 2009:  Cuba  El Salvador  Honduras  Kyrgyzstan  Romania  Tanzania

Withdrawals

Bahamas  Canada  Chile  Czech Republic  Greece  Jamaica  Kenya  Lithuania

Martinique  Mauritius  Nicaragua  Norway  Serbia  Sri Lanka  United Kingdom

Crossovers

Contestants who previously competed at other international beauty pageants or are expected to:

Miss Universe 2011:  Tanzania - Nelly Kamwelu 2014:  Portugal - Patrícia Da Silva 2016:  Panama - Keity Drennan (Top 13) Miss World 2008:  Costa Rica - Amalia Matamoros 2012:  Macau - Winnie Sin Miss Earth 2007:  New Zealand - Claire Kirby 2007:  Viet Nam - Truc Diem Truong (Miss Fashion) 2009:  Venezuela - Jessica Barboza (2nd Runner-up) 2011:  Tanzania - Nelly Kamwelu 2013:  Belgium - Kristina De Munter 2013:  Guam - Katarina Martinez 2013:  Sweden - Denice Andrée 2014:  Mongolia - Tugsuu Idersaikhan (Top 8) Miss Supranational 2013:  Puerto Rico - Desireé Del Río (Semi-finalist, Miss Photogenic) 2015:  Paraguay - Stephania Vázquez Stegman (Winner) Miss Tourism International 2011:  Estonia - Sandra Daškova Miss Tourism Queen International 2008:  Costa Rica - Amalia Matamoros 2011:  Australia - Brooke Nash (Oceania Queen) 2011:  Thailand - Kantapat Peeradachainarin (Winner) 2011:  Tanzania - Nelly Kamwelu (4th runner-up) Miss Tourism World 2013:  Puerto Rico - Desireé Del Río (Semi-finalist)

Miss Friendship International 2009:  Mongolia - Tugsuu Idersaikhan (1st runner-up) 2009:  Thailand - Kantapat Peeradachainarin (Winner) Miss Continente Americano 2009:  Costa Rica - Amalia Matamoros Miss América Latina 2008:  Costa Rica - Amalia Matamoros (Semi-finalist) 2010:  Brazil - Vanessa Gabriella Marcelino Rocha (3rd runner-up) Reina Hispanoamericana 2009:  Costa Rica - Amalia Matamoros 2010:  El Salvador - Marcela Santamaría 2012:  Paraguay - Stephania Vázquez Stegman (3rd runner-up, Miss Photogenic) Reinado Internacional del Café 2012:  Dominican Republic - Catherine Ramirez 2012:  Australia - Brooke Nash Miss Southern Africa International 2011:  Tanzania - Nelly Kamwelu (Winner)[29] Miss Chinese International Pageant 2013:  Singapore - Stella Kae Miss Model of the World 2011:  Paraguay - Stephania Vázquez Stegman (Best Skin)

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External links

• Miss International official website