{{pp-sock|small=yes}} {{Infobox beauty pageant | winner = [[Lía Borrero]] | represented = Panama | date = September 26, 1998 | presenters = [[Masumi Okada]] | image = Tokyo kosei nenkin kaikan shinjuku tokyo 2009.JPG | venue = Koseinenkin Hall, [[Tokyo]], Japan | broadcaster = [[TV Tokyo]] | entrants = 43 | placements = 15 | debuts = Latvia | withdraws = {{Hlist|Brazil|Guatemala|Lebanon|Macau|Malta|Puerto Rico|Russia|Ukraine}} | returns = {{Hlist|Cyprus|Holland|Iceland|Macedonia|Norway|Panama|Senegal|Togo}} | before = [[Miss International 1997|1997]] | next = [[Miss International 1999|1999]] }}
'''Miss International 1998''' was the 38th [[Miss International]] pageant, held at the Koseinenkin Hall in [[Tokyo]], Japan on 26 September 1998.
[[Lía Victoria Borrero González|Lía Borrero]] of Panama won and was crowned by Consuelo Adler of Venezuela. It is the first time Panama has won the pageant.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lía Victoria Borrero nueva Miss Internacional |url=https://portal.critica.com.pa/archivo/092798/port2.html|date= 1998|website=portal.critica}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=28 September 1998 |title=Winning ways |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/page/straitstimes19980928-1.1.6 |access-date=25 June 2024 |work=The Straits Times |pages=6 |via=National Library Board}}</ref>
Contestants from forty-three countries and territories participated in the pageant, which was hosted by [[Masumi Okada]].
==Results== [[File:Miss International 1998 Map.PNG|thumb|250x250px|Miss International 1998 participating countries and territories.]]
===Placements=== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" |- ! Placement ! Contestant |- | Miss International 1998 | * {{flagu|Panama}} – [[Lía Borrero]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Younis |first=Laila C. |date=30 September 1998 |title=An unforgettable experience |pages=6 |work=[[Marianas Variety]] |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10524/51295 |access-date=3 January 2024 |via=eVols}}</ref> |- | 1st runner-up | * {{flagu|Venezuela|1954}} – Daniela Kosán<ref>{{Cite web |title=Daniela Kosán se queda sin palabras|url=https://www.panamaamerica.com.pa/variedades/daniela-kosan-se-queda-sin-palabras-670123 |date=April 5, 2011| website=panamaamerica}}</ref> |- | 2nd runner-up | * {{flagu|India}} – [[Shvetha Jaishankar]]<ref name=":1" /> |- | Top 15 | * {{flagu|Bolivia}} – Liliana Peña * {{flagu|Colombia}} – Adriana Hurtado * {{flagu|Czech Republic}} – Petra Faltýnová * {{flagu|Finland}} – Piia Hartikainen * {{flagu|France}} – Patricia Spéhar * {{flagu|Japan|1947}} – Megumi Taira * {{flagu|Macedonia}} – Ana Binovska * {{flagu|Philippines}} – Colette Centeno * {{flagu|Poland}} – Agnieszka Osinska * {{flagu|South Korea}} – Cho Hye-young * {{flagu|Spain}} – Vanessa Romero * {{flagu|Tunisia|1959}} – Nejla Kouniali |}
=== Special awards === {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" !Award !Contestant |- |Miss Friendship | * {{flagu|Finland}} – Piia Hartikainen<ref name=":1" /> * {{flagu|Togo}} – Manuella Nadou Lawson-Body<ref name=":1" /> |- |Best National Costume | * {{flagu|Colombia}} – Adriana Hurtado<ref name=":1" /> |- |Miss Photogenic | * {{flagu|Venezuela|1954}} – Daniela Kosán |}
==Contestants== Forty-three contestants competed for the title. {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" !Country/Territory !Contestant !Age{{Efn|Ages during the competition}} !Hometown |- |{{flag|Argentina}} |Maria Fernanda Ortiz |– |[[Buenos Aires]] |- |{{flag|Aruba}} |Anushka Sheritsa Lew Jen Tai |18 |[[Oranjestad, Aruba|Oranjestad]] |- |{{flag|Australia}} |Katherine O'Brien |18 |[[Sydney]] |- |{{flag|Bolivia}} |Liliana Peña<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 May 2024 |title=Liliana Peña en su mejor papel de mamá emprendedora |trans-title=Liliana Peña in her best role as an entrepreneurial mother |url=https://eldeber.com.bo/para-ellas/liliana-pena-en-su-mejor-papel-de-mama-emprendedora_368214 |access-date=25 June 2024 |website=El Deber |language=es-ES}}</ref> |18 |[[Litoral (Bolivia)|Litoral]] |- |{{flag|Colombia}} |Adriana Hurtado |21 |[[Valle del Cauca Department|Valle de Cauca]] |- |{{flag|Curaçao}} |Santa Indris Tokaay |– |[[Willemstad]] |- |{{flag|Cyprus}} |Marianna Panayiotou |– |[[Nicosia]] |- |{{flag|Czech Republic}} |Petra Faltýnová<ref>{{Cite web |last=Velímska |first=Elena |date=22 February 2024 |title=Pamatujete na misku Petru Faltýnovou, bývalku Leoše Mareše? Podívejte, jak dnes vypadá. Poznáte ji ještě? |trans-title=Do you remember the bowl of Petra Faltýnová, Leoš Mareš's ex? See how she looks today. Do you still know her? |url=https://www.dotyk.cz/magazin/petra-faltynova-dnes/ |access-date=25 June 2024 |website=Dotyk |language=cs}}</ref> |21 |[[Prague]] |- |{{flag|Dominican Republic}} |Sorangel Fersobe |20 |[[San Juan de la Maguana]] |- |{{flag|Finland}} |Piia Hartikainen<ref>{{Cite web |date=14 February 1998 |title=Kokkolan Jonnasta kruunattiin Miss Suomi |trans-title=Kokkola's Jonna was crowned Miss Finland |url=https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/kokkolan-jonnasta-kruunattiin-miss-suomi/5443532 |access-date=3 January 2024 |website=MTV Uutiset |language=fi}}</ref> |20 |[[Rovaniemi]] |- |{{flag|France}} |Patricia Spéhar<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jaeglé|first=Yves|date=5 April 2017|title=Miss France : et revoilà Miss Paris !|url=https://www.leparisien.fr/laparisienne/people/miss-france-et-revoila-miss-paris-01-04-2017-6814971.php|access-date=25 June 2024|website=Le Parisien|language=fr-FR}}</ref> |23 |[[Paris]] |- |{{flag|Germany}} |Fiona Ammann |– |[[Berlin]] |- |{{flag|Great Britain}} |Melanie Devina Jones<ref>{{Cite news |date=24 July 2018 |title=Actress Melanie Hughes died after battle with alcohol |language=en-GB |work=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-44939436 |access-date=3 January 2024}}</ref> |20 |[[Ewloe]] |- |{{flag|Greece}} |Eleni Pliatsika |– |[[Athens]] |- |{{flag|Hawaii}} |Lori-Ann Lee Medeiros |– |[[Honolulu]] |- |{{flag|Holland}} |Ilona Marilyn van Veldhuisen |22 |[[Amsterdam]] |- |{{flag|Honduras|1949}} |Wendy Suyapa Rodríguez |– |[[Cortés (department)|Cortés]] |- |{{flag|Hong Kong}} |Natalie Ng<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=24 September 1998 |title=Bathing beauties |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/page/straitstimes19980924-1.1.16 |access-date=25 June 2024 |work=The Straits Times |pages=16 |via=National Library Board}}</ref> |– |Hong Kong |- |{{flag|Iceland}} |Gudbjörg Sigridur Hermannsdóttir |– |[[Reykjavík]] |- |{{flag|India}} |[[Shvetha Jaishankar]] |17 |[[Chennai]] |- |{{flag|Israel}} |Galia Abramov |– |[[Tel Aviv]] |- |{{flag|Japan|1947}} |Megumi Taira<ref name=":2" /> |– |[[Tokyo]] |- |{{flag|Latvia}} |Līga Graudumniece |– |[[Riga]] |- |{{flag|Macedonia}} |Ana Binovska |– |[[Skopje]] |- |{{flag|Mexico}} |Karina Mora |17 |[[Mérida, Yucatán|Mérida]] |- |{{flag|Northern Mariana Islands}} |Sonya Pangelinan<ref name=":1" /> |– |[[Saipan]] |- |{{flag|Norway}} |Bjørg Sofie Løvstad |18 |[[Akershus]] |- |'''{{flag|Panama}}''' |'''[[Lía Borrero]]'''<ref>{{Cite web|last=Concepcion|first=Martha Vanessa|date=18 March 2023|title=Ya se supo. Otra Lía Victoria volverá a llevar la corona de Calle Abajo. La tuna la pedirá esta noche|url=https://www.midiario.com/farandula/ya-se-supo-otra-lia-victoria-volvera-a-llevar-la-corona-de-calle-abajo-la-tuna-la-pedira-esta-noche/|access-date=25 June 2024|website=Midiario.com|language=es}}</ref> |22 |[[Las Tablas, Los Santos|Las Tablas]] |- |{{flag|Paraguay|1990}} |Maria Fabiola Roig |19 |[[Asunción]] |- |{{flag|Peru}} |Melissa Miranda |– |[[Tacna]] |- |{{flag|Philippines}} |Colette Centeno<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=March 17, 1998 |title=RP entries |work=[[Manila Standard]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6ZYVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9goEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4545%2C1803584 |access-date=October 3, 2021}}</ref> |17 |[[Manila]] |- |{{flag|Poland}} |Agnieszka Osinska |20 |[[Frampol]] |- |{{flag|Portugal}} |Icilia Berenguel<ref>{{Cite web|last=Morais|first=Carolina|date=21 December 2015|title=Troca de Misses também já aconteceu em Portugal|trans-title=Exchange of Misses has also taken place in Portugal|url=https://www.dn.pt/pessoas/troca-de-misses-tambem-ja-aconteceu-em-portugal-4947818.html|access-date=25 June 2024|website=Diario de Noticias|language=pt-PT}}</ref> |21 |[[Póvoa de Varzim]] |- |{{flag|Senegal}} |Maimouna Diallo |– |[[Dakar]] |- |{{flag|Singapore}} |Sudha Menon<ref>{{Cite news |date=22 July 1998 |title=Stunning Sudha |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/page/newpaper19980722-1.1.9 |access-date=25 June 2024 |work=The New Paper |pages=9 |via=National Library Board}}</ref> |21 |Singapore |- |{{flag|Slovakia}} |Martina Kalmanová<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=14 April 2001 |title=Článok z týždenníka PLUS 7 DNÍ, kvôli ktorému prišlo k pokusu o skúpenie nákladu: |url=https://domov.sme.sk/c/35276/clanok-z-tyzdennika-plus-7-dni-kvoli-ktoremu-prislo-k-pokusu-o-skupenie-nakladu.html |access-date=25 June 2024 |website=SME |language=sk}}</ref> |– |[[Bratislava]] |- |{{flag|South Korea}} |Cho Hye-young<ref name=":2" /> |– |[[Seoul]] |- |{{flag|Spain}} |Vanessa Romero |20 |[[Alicante]] |- |{{flag|Togo}} |Manuella Nadou Lawson-Body |– |[[Lomé]] |- |{{flag|Tunisia|1959}} |Nejla Kouniali |– |[[Tunis]] |- |{{flag|Turkey}} |Senay Akay |18 |[[Istanbul]] |- |{{flag|United States}} |Susan Paez |22 |[[South Gate, California|South Gate]] |- |{{flag|Venezuela|1954}} |Daniela Kosán |24 |[[Maracay]] |}
== Notes == <references group="lower-alpha" responsive="1"></references>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* {{Official website|https://www.miss-international.org/en/}} {{Miss International}} {{Miss International 1998 delegates}}
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