Miss Universe 2000

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Miss Universe 2000
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Date 12 May 2000
Presenters Sinbad, Ali Landry, Julie Moran
Entertainment Elvis Crespo, Dave Koz, Montell Jordan, Anna Vissi
Venue Eleftheria Indoor Hall, Nicosia, Cyprus Cyprus
Broadcaster CBS
Entrants 79
Placements 10
Debuts St. Martin
Withdrawals Bonaire, Barbados, Cook Islands, Curaçao, Guyana, Nicaragua, Suriname, Turkey, US Virgin Islands, Zambia
Returns Bulgaria, Denmark, Guam, Netherlands, Norway, Zimbabwe
Winner Lara Dutta
 India
Congeniality Tamara Scaroni
 Aruba
Best National Costume Letty Murray
 Mexico
Photogenic Helen Lindes
 Spain

Miss Universe 2000, the 49th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 12 May 2000 at the Eleftheria Indoor Hall in Nicosia, Cyprus. Lara Dutta of India crowned by Mpule Kwelagobe of Botswana. Seventy-nine delegates competed in this year.

Results

Placements

Final results Contestant
Miss Universe 2000
1st runner-up
2nd runner-up
Top 5
Top 10

Contestants

Notes

Other notes

  • Venezuela, initially chose Martina Thorogood to represent their country at both Miss Universe and Miss World 1999. Miss Universe officials objected to this as Thorogood placed first runner-up at Miss World and there was a chance that she could become Miss World should the winner resign or lose her crown. A second, smaller pageant was held among delegates who had competed in previous Miss Venezuela competitions, and Claudia Moreno was chosen to compete at Miss Universe.[1] Moreno went on to place first runner-up.

Host city

Nicosia was announced as host city of the pageant on July 1, 1999.[2] The country invested $3.5 million in the event, in the hope that the publicity would increase tourism, the island's main industry.[3]

Conservative Cypriot church leaders protested the decision to hold the pageant on the island, claiming that millennium celebrations of the birth of Christ were more important and that the event was scandalous and would promote female nudity.[4]

References

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External links

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