Manhunt International

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Manhunt International is an international male beauty pageant which began in 1993, though the roots of the pageant go back a few years more to when one single national preliminary was held in Singapore. The pageant is held by Metromedia Singapore and Procon Leisure International.

Contents 1 History 2 Eligibility criteria 3 Competition 4 Titleholders 5 "League tables" 5.1 Performance by Country 5.2 By country tally 5.3 By continental region 6 See also 7 External links

[edit] History

The Manhunt Contest started in 1987, when Alex Liu, pageant director of Metromedia Singapore, decided to stage the first male model contest in Singapore, as there were numerous pageants for women and none for men. Liu consequently planned and engineered the first Manhunt contest in Singapore.

Manhunt became Manhunt International in 1993. It was first held in Australia's Gold Coast in 1993, when Germany's Thomas Sasse took the first Manhunt International title from 25 contestants. In 1994, the pageant remained in Australia's Gold Coast when Nikos Papadakis of Greece won. The Manhunt International Event is a joint partnership with our Australian partner, Procon Leisure International Pty Ltd, headed by Mr. Rosko Dickinson.

The pageant saw one of its most successful years in November 1995 when 35 contestants came to Sentosa Island, Singapore to compete to compete for the prestigious title. The cash award and prizes for 1995's winner alone exceeded $100,000.00.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Eligibility criteria

Title	Description
Sex:	Male
Age range:	18 to 30
Marital status:	SINGLE
Height:	at least 1.8 meter / 5'11"
Skills:	speak English (optional), modeling experience
Additional attributes:	photogenic, good physique (not bodybuilders), wonderful personality, cool character, enthusiastic

[edit] Competition

Manhunt competition is staged on two rounds, preliminary and final. During the preliminary round, the contestants are judged in national costume, swim wear, evening wear, and fashion wear. The contestants with most scores will be named as finalists, from which the judges will determine the winner and the runners up.

During the pageant final, several other awards also given aside from the ultimate title of Manhunt International. These awards are Best in National Costume, Best Runway Model, Mister Photogenic, Mister Friendship, Mister Personality, Mister Physique, and Mister Popularity (voted by people via internet). Since the 2005 edition, Manhunt International has also given five continental awards to the best representatives of each continent. In the 2007 edition, it was announced that the winner of Mister Popularity would automatically advance to final round.

[edit] Titleholders

Not held in 1996, 2003, & 2004.

Year	Manhunt International	Country	Location event
1993	Thomas Sasse	Germany	Gold Coast, Australia
1994	Nikos Papadakis	Greece	Gold Coast, Australia
1995	Albe Geldenhuys	South Africa	Singapore
1997	Jason Erceg	New Zealand	Singapore
1998	Peter Eriksen	Sweden	Gold Coast, Australia
1999	Ernesto Calzadilla	Venezuela	Manila, Philippines
2000	Brett Wilson	Australia	Singapore
2001	Rajeev Singh	India	Beijing, China
2002	Fabrice Wattez	France	Shanghai, China
2005	Tolgahan Sayisman	Turkey	Busan, South Korea
2006	Jaime Augusto Mayol	United States	Jinjiang, China
2007	Jeffrey Zheng Yu Guang	China	Gangwon, South Korea
2008	Abdelmoumen El Maghraouy	Morocco	Seoul, South Korea

[edit] "League tables"

[edit] Performance by Country

As of 2008:

Country	Titles	Winning years
Germany	1	1993
Greece	1	1994
South Africa	1	1995
New Zealand	1	1997
Sweden	1	1998
Venezuela	1	1999
Australia	1	2000
India	1	2001
France	1	2002
Turkey	1	2005
United States	1	2006
China	1	2007
Morocco	1	2008

[edit] By country tally

Anyone who follows the Olympic Games or other sporting events will be familiar with the concept of the Medal Table, which ranks countries based on their first (gold), second (silver) and third (bronze) place finishes. Below is a similar table of the top rankings for the Manhunt International, based on all results from the first event in 1993 to the most recent competition in 2008.

Rank	Country	Victories	1st RU	2nd RU	3rd RU	4th RU	Total
1	India	1	2	0	0	3	6
2	Venezuela	1	1	1	1	1	5
3	China	1	1	1	1	0	4
4	Turkey	1	1	1	1	0	4
5	Australia	1	1	0	1	0	3
6	Germany	1	1	0	0	0	2
7	Sweden	1	1	0	0	0	2
8	United States	1	0	3	0	0	4
9	Greece	1	0	1	0	0	2
10	South Africa	1	0	0	0	1	2

[edit] By continental region

As of 2008:

Region	Titles	Best Performance
Europe	5	Germany, Greece, Sweden, France and Turkey (1).
Americas	2	Venezuela and United States (1).
Asia-Pacific	4	Australia, China, India and New Zealand (1).
Caribbean	-	-
Africa	2	South Africa and Morocco (1).

[edit] See also

• Mister Intercontinental
• Mister International
• Mister World

[edit] External links

• Official Website
• Pageantopolis' Manhunt International page

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