Miss International 2021

Miss International 2021, will be the 60th commemoration of the Miss International expo, to be held in October, 2021 at Pacifico Yokohama in Yokohama, Japan. Sireethorn Leearamwat of Thailand will crown her replacement toward the finish of the occasion. This will be the second time the event has been dropped since 1966.

In 2020, the Miss International association chose to change as far as possible from 27 to 29 years of age for thought of up-and-comers who are roof as far as possible.

Date	October, 2021
Venue	Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan
Returns	Cook Islands Madagascar Malta Sierra Leone Seychelles Uruguay

Miss International

Motto	Love, Peace and Beauty
Formation	August 12, 1960; 59 years ago
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Tokyo
Location	Japan
Official language	English
President	Akemi Shimomura
Affiliations	Miss Paris Group

Background

On January 22, 2020, the Miss International organization announced that the 2020 exhibition would be hung on October 21, 2020 in Tokyo Dome City Hall, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan, while the challengers will go through certain days in Yokohama. Later on, it was uncovered that the 60th commemoration of Miss International will be completely facilitated by the city of Yokohama because of Tokyo being facilitated the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the yearly 2020 rivalry was dropped, making the second time in the show’s history has ever dropped, the first was in 1966 when Long Beach, United States had chose to end the exhibition for all time. With the last occasion will be held in October 2021 at Pacifico Yokohama, a couple of months after the now-rescheduled Olympics.

Contestants

As of 12 July 2020, 16 contestants have been selected.

Country/Territory	Delegate	Age	Hometown	Continental Group
Cook Islands	Emma Tepaeru Kainuku-Walsh	26	Aitutaki	Oceania
Colombia	María Fernanda Aristizábal	23	Quindío	Americas
Costa Rica	Mahyla Roth Benavides	21	Cahuita	Americas
El Salvador	Iris Yazmín Guerra Rivera	24	Santa Ana	Americas
Guam	Franky Lynn Aguon Hill	21	Chalan Pago-Ordot	Oceania
Honduras	Gabriela Irías Paz Morgan	22	Tegucigalpa	Americas
Indonesia	Ayu Saraswati	23	Denpasar	Asia
Japan	Chiho Terauchi	26	Tochigi	Asia
Macau	Dinelle Wong Jialat	23	Cotai	Asia
Malta	Nicole Gumira Agius	25	Città Victoria	Europe
Mauritius	Ava Kancut-Memero	24	Port Louis	Africa
Mexico	Yuridia Durán	22	Ahuacatlán	Americas
Nicaragua	Sherly Esmeralda Casco	18	Jinotega	Americas
Nigeria	Precious Ngaceng Obisoso	24	Sokoto	Africa
Uruguay	Betina Jantan Margni Vilas	22	Montevideo	Americas
United States	Maritsa Platis	19	North Myrtle Beach	Americas

Upcoming national pageants

Several national pageants have been rescheduled due to COVID-19 pandemic for further notice.

Country	Date
Seychelles	July 20, 2020
Finland	July 25, 2020
Slovakia	July 25, 2020
Canada	July 26, 2020
Uganda	August 29, 2020
Dominican Republic	September 5, 2020
Norway	September 19, 2020
Venezuela	September 24, 2020
Sweden	September 29, 2020
Ecuador	September, 2020
Portugal	October 3, 2020
Vietnam	October 23, 2020

Notes

Returns

Last competed in 1995:

• Seychelles

Last competed in 1999:

• Uruguay

Last competed in 2003:

• Malta

Last competed in 2017:

• Sierra Leone

Last competed in 2018:

• Cook Islands
• Madagascar

Crossovers

These are the candidates who recently contended or will contend at other global excellence expos:

Reinado Internacional del Café

• 2020: El Salvador: Iris Yazmínhe Guerra Rivera (Winner)

Reina Hispanoamericana

• 2019: Honduras: Gabriela Irías Paz Morgan (unplaced)

Miss Charm

• 2020: Mexico: Yuridia Durán (TBA)

Crowns of Miss International

• Mikimoto Crown (1970–1998; 2015–present) —The crown was again utilized when Valerie Hernandez of Puerto Rico crowned Edymar Martinez of Venezuela as Miss International 2015.
• Pearl Crown (1999–2005; 2007–2014) — This crown was utilized from 1999–2005 and 2007–2014.
• Crystal Crown (2006) — In 2006, Daniela di Giacomo of Venezuela was delegated.

Recent titleholders

Edition	Country	Title Holder	National Title	Number of Entrants
2019	Thailand	Sireethorn Leearamwat	Miss Thailand	83
2018	Venezuela	Mariem Velazco	Miss Venezuela	77
2017	Indonesia	Kevin Lilliana	Puteri Indonesia	69
2016	Philippines	Kylie Verzosa	Binibining Pilipinas	69
2015	Venezuela	Edymar Martínez	Miss Venezuela	70

Miss International 2019

Date	November 12, 2019
Presenters	Tetsuya Bessho Ayako Kisa Kylie Verzosa
Theme	Cheer All Women
Venue	Tokyo Dome City Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Broadcaster	Hikari TV dTV Channel by NTT DoCoMo YouTube
Entrants	83
Placements	15
Debuts	Burkina Faso Equatorial Guinea
Withdrawals	Cook Islands Cuba Curaçao Egypt Ethiopia Hungary Kenya Korea Lebanon Madagascar Moldova Uruguay
Returns	Armenia Belarus Belize Cambodia Cameroon Italy Liberia Morocco Nigeria Norway South Sudan Tahiti Tunisia Uganda Zambia
Winner	Sireethorn Leearamwat Thailand
Best National Costume	Nguyen Tuong San  Vietnam
Miss Photogenic	Noémie Kribo Milne  Guadeloupe

Results

Placements

Results	Contestant
Miss International 2019	Thailand – Sireethorn Leearamwat
1st Runner-Up	Mexico – Andrea Toscano
2nd Runner-Up	Uganda – Evelyn Namatovu Karonde
3rd Runner-Up	Colombia – Alejandra Vengoechea
4th Runner-Up	United Kingdom – Harriotte Lane
Top 8	Indonesia – Jolene Marie Rotinsulu Philippines – Bea Magtanong Vietnam – Nguyễn Tường San
Top 15	Belarus – Maria Perviy Finland – Jutta Kyllönen Hong Kong – Kaye Cheung Netherlands – Elize Joanne de Hong Puerto Rico – Ivana Carolina Irizarry Sri Lanka – Pawani Vithanage Venezuela – Melissa Jiménez

Continental queens

Award	Contestant
Miss International Africa	Liberia – Naomi Nucia Glay
Miss International America	Peru – María José Barbis
Miss International Asia	Thailand – Sireethorn Leearamwat
Miss International Europe	Netherlands – Elize Joanne de Hong
Miss International Oceania	Hawaii – Eunice Raquel Basco