Miss Universe 2001
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Miss Universe 2001 was held at Coliseo Rubén Rodríguez, Bayamón, Puerto Rico on May 11, 2001. Miss Puerto Rico, Denise Quiñones was crowned Miss Universe 2001 by Miss Universe 2000 Lara Dutta of India.
[edit] Results
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- Miss Universe 2001: Denise Quiñones (Puerto Rico).
- 1st runner-up: Evelina Papantoniou (Greece)
- 2nd runner-up: Kandace Krueger (USA)
- 3rd runner-up: Eva Ekvall (Venezuela)
- 4th runner-up: Celina Jaitley (India)
- Top 10
- Élodie Gossuin (France)
- Ilanit Levy (Israel)
- Agbani Darego (Nigeria)
- Oxana Kalandyrets (Russia)
- Eva Siso-Casals (Spain).
- Special Awards
- Miss Congeniality: Nakera Simms (Bahamas)
- Miss Photogenic: Denise Quiñones (Puerto Rico)
- Best National Costume: Sa-rang Kim (Korea)
[edit] 2001 Contestants
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- Tsungai Muskwakwenda
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[edit] Trivia
- Miss Nigeria Agbani Darego would later win Miss World 2001. In this same pageant, the contestants from Nicaragua (Ligia Arguello) and South Africa (Jo-Ann Strauss) were finalists. Peru's Viviana Rivasplata finished in 11th place.
- Poland was supposed to be represented by the 1st runner-up of Miss Polonia, Malgorzata Rozniecka. Studies prevented her from going, and the organization picked another finalist, Monika Gruda. Later in September, Malgorzata Rozniecka won the Miss International pageant in Japan.
- France's Elodie Gossuin won later the Miss Europe pageant.
- The organization invited Miss Russia 2001, Oxana Fedorova to attend the pageant. The winner of "Miss Russia" never attended the Miss Universe competition (usually a finalist competed) and Fedorova said she couldn't compete because of her studies, and that she would compete in 2002. Her 2nd runner-up, Oxana Kalandyrets, competed instead; and became a Top 10 finalist. In 2002, Fedorova won the contest.
- Miss Spain 2001, Lorena van Heerde, could not compete in the pageant because she was underage (17 at the time). Her 1st runner-up, Eva Siso, replaced her. Lorena was supposed then to compete in Miss Universe 2002 as well, but after a scandal -involving an undercover journalist- threatened the integrity of the Miss Spain pageant, van Heerde crowned her sucessor and cut all ties with the organization.
- To this day, there's still the controversy of having two Puerto Ricans in the panel of judges (Marc Anthony and Dayanara Torres who were married at the time) which supposedly favored Quiñones in her quest for the crown. Many claim that the title was robbed from Miss Greece (Evelina Papantoniou). In addition, Quiñones won three special awards: Clairol Award, Miss Photogenic, and Best in swimsuit. Such controversy influenced Puerto Rico's low-profile participation in 2002.
- Miss Brazil (Juliana Borges) was heavily criticized after opening admitting to the media that she had about 17 plastic surgeries done.
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