Miss International 2002

Miss International 2002, the 42nd Miss International pageant, took place on 30 September 2002 in Tokyo, Japan[1] at the Century Hyatt. Małgorzata Rożniecka of Poland crowned her successor Christina Sawaya of Lebanon at the end of the event.[2][3]

Miss International 2002
DateSeptember 30, 2002[1]
PresentersMasumi Okada
VenueCentury Hyatt, Tokyo, Japan[1]
BroadcasterTV Tokyo
Entrants47
Placements12
WithdrawalsArgentina, Chile, Croatia, Iceland, Latvia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Palau, San Marino, Ukraine
ReturnsChina, Ecuador, Lebanon, Moldova, Senegal
WinnerChristina Sawaya[1][2][3]
 Lebanon

This edition also saw the crowning of the first ever Middle Eastern descent women to win Miss International, although representing Lebanon which is dominantly Muslim country, Christina Sawaya is a conservative Catholic Christian that comes from Lebanon, the only Middle Eastern country where the president is Christian by the constitution that time.[4][5][6]

Results

Placements
Final results Contestant
Miss International 2002
1st Runner-up
2nd Runner-up
Top 12

Contestants

Notes

Withdrawals
  •  Pakistan – Neelam Voorani (forced by her Islamic government to withdraw from the pageant 3 days before the finals)

References
  1. "International beauties". Philippine Daily Inquirer. October 1, 2002. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
  2. "Newly-elected Miss International 2002, 22-year-old Lebanese Christina Sawaya". Getty Images. October 10, 2002. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
  3. Vina, Nguyen (September 28, 2015). "All winners of the contest Miss International". Global Express News. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
  4. "Pageant Almanac". Retrieved on 11 Apr 2008.
  5. خاص بالصورة: وثيقة طلاق الإعلامي طوني بارود وكريستينا صوايا
  6. Christina Sawaya Biography

Further reading
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