Mister International 2008

Mister International 2008
Date	November 24, 2008
Venue	Tainan, Taiwan
Entrants	30
Placements	15
Debuts	Angola, Belgium, Bolivia, China, Croatia, France, Honduras, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Macau, Malta, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Slovenia, Vietnam
Withdrawals	Canada, Costa Rica, Egypt, Guatemala, Italy, Malaysia
Returns	Indonesia, Philippines
Winner	Ngô Tiến Đoàn Vietnam
Congeniality	Mihovil Barun Croatia
Photogenic	Li Chi Hsiang Taiwan

Mister International 2008, the 3rd edition of the Mister International pageant, held in Tainan, Taiwan on November 24, 2008. 30 contestants competed for the title, making the biggest edition in the pageant history. Alan Martini of Brazil crown his successor Ngo Tien Doan of Vietnam as the new Mister International. For the first time, Top 15 finalists were selected.

Results

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Mister International 2008	Vietnam - Ngô Tiến Đoàn
1st runner-up	Lebanon - Mohamad Chamseddine
2nd runner-up	China - Zhang Lun Shuo
3rd runner-up	Croatia - Mihovil Barun
4th runner-up	Netherlands - Vincent Cleuren
Top 10	Belgium - Koen Van de Voorde Brazil - Marciel Moreno Mendes Greece - Dimitris Tsilis Philippines - Jeff Surio Venezuela - Marco Antonio Chinea Franco
Top 15	India - Vikas Mehandroo Indonesia - Rocky Pramata Singapore - Ken Lim Taiwan - Li Chi Hsiang USA - Ivan Rusilko

Special Award

Awards	Contestant
Mister Photogenic	Taiwan - Li Chi Hsiang
Mister Congeniality	Croatia - Mihovil Barun
Mister Spirit	Nigeria - Edgar Chidiebere Chima Ononuju
Best National Costume	Taiwan - Li Chi Hsiang

Contestants

Angola - Claudio Furtado
Belgium - Koen Van de Voorde
Bolivia - Luis Alberto Martinez Reyes Ortiz
Brazil - Marciel Moreno Mendes
China - Zhang Lun Shuo
Croatia - Mihovil Barun
France - Patrick Beck
Greece - Dimitris Tsilis
Honduras - Cesar Quintanilla
Hong Kong - Yang Jung Hao
India - Vikas Mehandroo
Indonesia - Rocky Pramata
Korea - Park Jung Wan
Kyrgyzstan - Azamat Toktakunov
Latvia - Endijs Gravlejs

Lebanon - Mohamad Chamseddine
Luxembourg - Gert De Winne
Macau - Xie Hui
Malta - Andrei Grech
Netherlands - Vincent Cleuren
Nigeria - Edgar Chidiebere Chima Ononuju
Pakistan - Ali Asghar
Philippines - Jeff Surio
Singapore - Ken Lim
Slovenia - Erik Ferfolja
Sri Lanka - Dinesh Priyankara de Silva
Taiwan - Li Chi Hsiang
USA - Ivan Rusilko
Venezuela - Marco Antonio Chinea Franco
Vietnam - Ngô Tiến Đoàn

National pageants notes

Debuts countries and territories

Angola, Belgium, Bolivia, China, Croatia, France, Honduras, Hong Kong, Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Macau, Malta, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Slovenia and Vietnam.

Returning countries and territories

Indonesia and Philippines last competed in 2006.

Withdraws countries and territories

Canada, Costa Rica, Egypt, Guatemala, Italy and Malaysia competed last year but not this year.

Contestants notes

Ali Asghar of Pakistan was participated at Manhunt International 2007 and placed second at Mr. Personality, but failed to made a cut at the final.^[1]
Ngô Tiến Đoàn of Vietnam was a semifinalist (6th) at Manhunt International 2007 and also won Mr. Physique.^[2]
Koen Van De Voorde of Belgium was a semifinalist (13th) at Manhunt International 2008, he was represented Luxembourg at the pageant.^[3]
Claudio Furtado of Angola was placed 4th runner-up at Manhunt International 2008, marking the highest placement for his country in the pageant.^[4]
Ivan Rusilko of United States represents his country in Mister World 2010.

References

Mister International

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Titleholders Countries

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