Miss Universe 2014

FIU Arena, Miami, Florida, United States the venue for Miss Universe 2014.

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss Universe 2014

88 contestants competed for the title of Miss Universe 2014:[1]

Country/Territory	Contestant	Age	Height	Hometown
Albania	Zhaneta Byberi	19	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	Tirana
Angola	Zuleica Wilson	21	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)	Cabinda
Argentina	Valentina Ferrer	23	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	Córdoba
Aruba	Digene Zimmerman	21	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)	Oranjestad
Australia	Tegan Martin	23	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	Newcastle
Austria	Julia Furdea	20	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)	Vienna
Bahamas	Tomii Culmer	24	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)	Nassau
Belgium	Anissa Blondin	22	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)	Brussels
Bolivia	Claudia Tavel	25	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)	Santa Cruz
Brazil	Melissa Gurgel	20	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)	Fortaleza
British Virgin Islands	Jaynene Jno Lewis	26	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)	Tortola
Bulgaria	Kristina Georgieva	23	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Sofia
Canada	Chanel Beckenlehner	27	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)	Caledon
Chile	Hellen Toncio	20	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)	Santiago
China	Karen Hu	24	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)	Beijing
Colombia	Paulina Vega	22	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Barranquilla
Costa Rica	Karina Ramos	21	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)	San José
Croatia	Ivana Mišura	26	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)	Zagreb
Curaçao	Laurien Angelista	27	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)	Willemstad
Czech Republic	Gabriela Franková	21	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)	Prague
Dominican Republic	Kimberly Castillo	26	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	Higüey
Ecuador	Alejandra Argudo	22	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Portoviejo
Egypt	Lara Debbane	21	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Cairo
El Salvador	Patricia Murillo	22	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)	San Salvador
Ethiopia	Hiwot Mamo	24	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)	Addis Ababa
Finland	Bea Toivonen	22	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	Helsinki
France	Camille Cerf	20	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)	Coulogne
Gabon	Maggaly Nguema	22	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)	Libreville
Georgia	Ana Zubashvili	22	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Tbilisi
Germany	Josefin Donat	21	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)	Leipzig
Ghana	Abena Appiah	21	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Accra
Great Britain	Grace Levy	25	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)	London
Greece	Ismini Dafopoulou	26	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)	Athens
Guam	Brittany Bell	27	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Barrigada
Guatemala	Ana Luisa Montufar	21	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)	Guatemala City
Guyana	Niketa Barker	24	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Georgetown
Haiti	Christie Desir	25	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	Port-Au-Prince
Honduras	Gabriela Ordoñez	21	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Comayagua
Hungary	Henrietta Kelemen	21	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)	Budapest
India	Noyonita Lodh	21	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)	Bangalore
Indonesia	Elvira Devinamira	21	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Surabaya
Ireland	Lisa Madden	23	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Cork
Israel	Doron Matalon	21	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Beit Aryeh-Ofarim
Italy	Valentina Bonariva	25	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)	Milan
Jamaica	Kaci Fennell	23	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Kingston
Japan	Keiko Tsuji	21	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)	Nagasaki
Kazakhstan	Aiday Issayeva	25	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Almaty
Kenya	Gaylyne Ayugi	21	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)	Nairobi
Korea	Yoo Ye-bin	22	5 ft 7.5 in (1.71 m)	Daegu
Kosovo	Artnesa Krasniqi	23	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)	Pristina
Lebanon	Saly Greige	25	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)	Bishmizzine
Lithuania	Patricija Belousova	19	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)	Vilnius
Malaysia	Sabrina Beneett	24	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	Kuala Lumpur
Mauritius	Pallavi Gungaram	21	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)	Vacoas-Phoenix
Mexico	Josselyn Garciglia	24	5 ft 7.5 in (1.71 m)	La Paz
Myanmar	Sharr Htut Eaindra	20	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)	Yangon
Netherlands	Yasmin Verheijen	21	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	Amsterdam
New Zealand	Rachel Maree Millns	24	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)	Wellington
Nicaragua	Marline Barberena	27	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)	Chichigalpa
Nigeria	Queen Celestine	22	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	Lagos
Norway	Elise Dalby	19	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)	Hamar
Panama	Yomatzy Hazlewood	23	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)	Panama City
Paraguay	Sally Jara	21	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)	Asuncion
Peru	Jimena Espinoza	26	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)	Lima
Philippines	Mary Jean Lastimosa[2]	27	5 ft 7.5 in (1.71 m)[3]	Tulunan
Poland	Marcela Chmielowska	23	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Warsaw
Portugal	Patrícia Da Silva	25	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Lisbon
Puerto Rico	Gabriela Berrios	24	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Toa Baja
Russia	Yulia Alipova	24	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	Balakovo
Serbia	Anđelka Tomašević	21	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)	Zubin Potok
Singapore	Rathi Menon	24	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)	Singapore
Slovak Republic	Silvia Prochádzková	23	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	Bratislava
Slovenia	Urška Bračko	21	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	Maribor
South Africa	Ziphozakhe Zokufa	23	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)	Cape Town
Spain	Desirée Cordero	22	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	Seville
Sri Lanka	Avanti Marianne	25	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	Colombo
St. Lucia	Roxanne Didier-Nicholas	23	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)	Castries
Sweden	Camilla Hansson	26	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)	Stockholm
Switzerland	Zoé Metthez	21	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)	Zurich
Tanzania	Nale Boniface	22	5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)	Dodoma
Thailand	Pimbongkod Chankaew	20	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)	Bangkok
Trinidad and Tobago	Jevon King	26	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	Diego Martin
Turkey	Dilan Çiçek Deniz	20	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	Istanbul
Turks and Caicos	Shanice Williams	22	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Grand Turk Island
Ukraine	Diana Harkusha	20	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Kharkiv
Uruguay	Johana Riva	24	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	Montevideo
USA	Nia Sanchez	24	5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)	Las Vegas
Venezuela	Migbelis Castellanos	19	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	Cabimas

Negotiations between Ceará State Secretary of Tourism, Brazil, and Miss Universe Organization started in late September 2013, when MUO directors traveled to Fortaleza to start dialogues and arrangement of pageant activities in the city. On 11 January 2014, Bismarck Maia, State Secretary of Tourism, announced the latest development to Fortaleza's market leading newspaper, Diário do Nordeste, confirming that the event would be held at Centro de Eventos do Ceará, in Ceará's capital.[12]

On 27 March 2014, Annette Cammer, national licenses director of the Miss Universe Organization, answered via an e-mail conversation to a question by a national directive that the 2014 Miss Universe pageant would not be held in Ceará's capital as promised and announced by local authorities.[13] Fortaleza's bid was officially retired on 20 May, and four other Brazilian cities – Rio de Janeiro, Ribeirão Preto, Porto Alegre and Manaus were being considered by MUO as a replacement.[14]

On 22 August 2014, Donald Trump posted to Twitter that Miami and other cities were "fighting hard to host the Miss Universe pageant" and that an announcement would be made soon; specifically mentioning the city of Miami prompted many pageant watchers to believe that the pageant was headed for the Floridian city for the first time since 1997.[15] On 9 September 2014, Puerto Rican newspaper, El Nuevo Dia, and Venezuelan newspaper, El Nacional, each printed an article that said that the contestants would be staying at a Trump-owned hotel in Miami; further fueling rumors that the pageant would be held in Miami in December.[16][17]

On 12 September 2014, Luigi Boria, mayor of Doral, Florida, announced via Twitter that the pageant was going to take place in Doral on 18 January 2015, leading to some controversy among pageant fans.[18][19] This was confirmed in late September. Because the pageant slipped into 2015, 2014 was the first year in the Miss Universe history where the pageant hasn't been celebrated during a Julian calendar year, however, the pageant was still known as the 2014 pageant.

• "Miss Universe Contestants: 2014". missuniverse.com. Archived from the original on 30 December 2014.

• Miss Universe Organization official website