Miss Universe 2001

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Miss Universe 2001 was held at Coliseo Rubén Rodríguez, Bayamón, Puerto Rico on May 11, 2001. 77 contestants participated in the prestigious event. Miss Puerto Rico, Denise Quiñones was crowned Miss Universe 2001 by Miss Universe 2000 Lara Dutta of India.

Denise was the first woman to win the Miss Universe title in her home country.

[edit] Results

• 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

Angola Hidianeth Luisa Cussema  Antigua and Barbuda Janil Bird  Argentina Romina Incicco  Aruba Denise Balinge  Bahamas Nakera Simms Belgium Dina Tersago  Bolivia Claudia Andrea Arano Botswana Mataila Sikwane Brazil Juliana Borges British Virgin Islands Kacy Frett  Bulgaria Ivaila Bakalova Canada Cristina Remond  Cayman Islands Jacqueline Bush  Chile Carolina Gomez Colombia Maria Andrea Noceti  Costa Rica Paola Calderon Hutt  Croatia Maja Cecic-Vidos Curacao Fatima St. Jago  Cyprus Stella Demetriou  Czech Republic Petra Kocarova  Dominican Republic Claudia Cruz  Ecuador Jessica Bermudez  Egypt Sarah Shaheen  El Salvador Grace Marie Zabaneh  Estonia Inna Roos

Finland Heidi Willman France Élodie Gossuin TOP 10  Ghana Precious Agyare  Greece Evelina Papantoniou 1st RUNNER-UP  Guatemala Rosa Maria Castaneda Honduras Olenka Fuschich  Hungary Agnes Helbert India Celina Jaitley 4th RUNNER-UP  Israel Ilanit Levy TOP 10 Italy Stefania Maria  Jamaica Zahra Burton  Japan Misao Arauchi Korea Sa-rang Kim Lebanon Sandra Rizk Malta Rosalie Thewma Mexico Jacqueline Bracamontes Netherlands Reshma Roopram  New Zealand Kateao Nehua  Nicaragua Ligia Cristina Arguello Roa  Nigeria Agbani Darego TOP 10 Norway Linda Marshall  Panama Ivette Cordovez  Paraguay Rosmary Britez

Peru Viviana Rivasplata Philippines Zorayda Ruth Andam  Poland Monika Gruda Puerto Rico Denise Quiñones MISS UNIVERSE 2001  Russia Oxana Kalandyrets TOP 10 Singapore Jamie Teo  Slovakia Zuzana Basturova  Slovenia Minka Alagi  South Africa Jo-Ann Strauss Spain Eva Siso Casals Sweden Malin Olsson  Switzerland Mahara McKay Taiwan Hsin Ting Chiang Thailand Warinthorn Padungvithee  Trinidad and Tobago Alexia Charlerie  Turkey Sedef Avci  Ukraine Yuliya Linova  Uruguay Carla Piaggio USA Kandace Krueger 2nd RUNNER-UP US Virgin Islands Lisa Hasseba Wynne Venezuela Eva Ekvall 3rd RUNNER-UP Yugoslavia Ana Jankovic Zimbabwe Tsungai Muskwakwenda

[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. But 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 successor 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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