# Miss International 1998

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Miss International 1998 Date September 26, 1998 Presenters Masumi Okada Venue Koseinenkin Hall, Tokyo, Japan Broadcaster TV Tokyo Entrants 43 Placements 15 Debuts Latvia Withdrawals Brazil Guatemala Lebanon Macau Malta Puerto Rico Russia Ukraine Returns Cyprus Holland Iceland Macedonia Norway Panama Senegal Togo Winner Lía Borrero Panama ← 1997 1999 →

**Miss International 1998** was the 38th [Miss International](/source/Miss_International) pageant, held at the Koseinenkin Hall in [Tokyo](/source/Tokyo), Japan on 26 September 1998.

[Lía Borrero](/source/L%C3%ADa_Victoria_Borrero_Gonz%C3%A1lez) of Panama won and was crowned by Consuelo Adler of Venezuela. It is the first time Panama has won the pageant.[1][2]

Contestants from forty-three countries and territories participated in the pageant, which was hosted by [Masumi Okada](/source/Masumi_Okada).

## Results

Miss International 1998 participating countries and territories.

### Placements

Placement Contestant Miss International 1998 Panama – Lía Borrero[3] 1st runner-up Venezuela – Daniela Kosán[4] 2nd runner-up India – Shvetha Jaishankar[3] Top 15 Bolivia – Liliana Peña Colombia – Adriana Hurtado Czech Republic – Petra Faltýnová Finland – Piia Hartikainen France – Patricia Spéhar Japan – Megumi Taira Macedonia – Ana Binovska Philippines – Colette Centeno Poland – Agnieszka Osinska South Korea – Cho Hye-young Spain – Vanessa Romero Tunisia – Nejla Kouniali

### Special awards

Award Contestant Miss Friendship Finland – Piia Hartikainen[3] Togo – Manuella Nadou Lawson-Body[3] Best National Costume Colombia – Adriana Hurtado[3] Miss Photogenic Venezuela – Daniela Kosán

## Contestants

Forty-three contestants competed for the title.

Country/Territory Contestant Age[a] Hometown Argentina Maria Fernanda Ortiz – Buenos Aires Aruba Anushka Sheritsa Lew Jen Tai 18 Oranjestad Australia Katherine O'Brien 18 Sydney Bolivia Liliana Peña[5] 18 Litoral Colombia Adriana Hurtado 21 Valle de Cauca Curaçao Santa Indris Tokaay – Willemstad Cyprus Marianna Panayiotou – Nicosia Czech Republic Petra Faltýnová[6] 21 Prague Dominican Republic Sorangel Fersobe 20 San Juan de la Maguana Finland Piia Hartikainen[7] 20 Rovaniemi France Patricia Spéhar[8] 23 Paris Germany Fiona Ammann – Berlin Great Britain Melanie Devina Jones[9] 20 Ewloe Greece Eleni Pliatsika – Athens Hawaii Lori-Ann Lee Medeiros – Honolulu Holland Ilona Marilyn van Veldhuisen 22 Amsterdam Honduras Wendy Suyapa Rodríguez – Cortés Hong Kong Natalie Ng[10] – Hong Kong Iceland Gudbjörg Sigridur Hermannsdóttir – Reykjavík India Shvetha Jaishankar 17 Chennai Israel Galia Abramov – Tel Aviv Japan Megumi Taira[10] – Tokyo Latvia Līga Graudumniece – Riga Macedonia Ana Binovska – Skopje Mexico Karina Mora 17 Mérida Northern Mariana Islands Sonya Pangelinan[3] – Saipan Norway Bjørg Sofie Løvstad 18 Akershus Panama Lía Borrero[11] 22 Las Tablas Paraguay Maria Fabiola Roig 19 Asunción Peru Melissa Miranda – Tacna Philippines Colette Centeno[12] 17 Manila Poland Agnieszka Osinska 20 Frampol Portugal Icilia Berenguel[13] 21 Póvoa de Varzim Senegal Maimouna Diallo – Dakar Singapore Sudha Menon[14] 21 Singapore Slovakia Martina Kalmanová[15] – Bratislava South Korea Cho Hye-young[10] – Seoul Spain Vanessa Romero 20 Alicante Togo Manuella Nadou Lawson-Body – Lomé Tunisia Nejla Kouniali – Tunis Turkey Senay Akay 18 Istanbul United States Susan Paez 22 South Gate Venezuela Daniela Kosán 24 Maracay

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Ages during the competition

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Lía Victoria Borrero nueva Miss Internacional"](https://portal.critica.com.pa/archivo/092798/port2.html). *portal.critica*. 1998.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Winning ways"](https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/page/straitstimes19980928-1.1.6). *The Straits Times*. 28 September 1998. p. 6. Retrieved 25 June 2024 – via National Library Board.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:1_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:1_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-:1_3-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-:1_3-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-:1_3-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-:1_3-5) Younis, Laila C. (30 September 1998). ["An unforgettable experience"](http://hdl.handle.net/10524/51295). *[Marianas Variety](/source/Marianas_Variety)*. p. 6. Retrieved 3 January 2024 – via eVols.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Daniela Kosán se queda sin palabras"](https://www.panamaamerica.com.pa/variedades/daniela-kosan-se-queda-sin-palabras-670123). *panamaamerica*. April 5, 2011.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Liliana Peña en su mejor papel de mamá emprendedora"](https://eldeber.com.bo/para-ellas/liliana-pena-en-su-mejor-papel-de-mama-emprendedora_368214) [Liliana Peña in her best role as an entrepreneurial mother]. *El Deber* (in European Spanish). 16 May 2024. Retrieved 25 June 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Velímska, Elena (22 February 2024). ["Pamatujete na misku Petru Faltýnovou, bývalku Leoše Mareše? Podívejte, jak dnes vypadá. Poznáte ji ještě?"](https://www.dotyk.cz/magazin/petra-faltynova-dnes/) [Do you remember the bowl of Petra Faltýnová, Leoš Mareš's ex? See how she looks today. Do you still know her?]. *Dotyk* (in Czech). Retrieved 25 June 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["Kokkolan Jonnasta kruunattiin Miss Suomi"](https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/kokkolan-jonnasta-kruunattiin-miss-suomi/5443532) [Kokkola's Jonna was crowned Miss Finland]. *MTV Uutiset* (in Finnish). 14 February 1998. Retrieved 3 January 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** Jaeglé, Yves (5 April 2017). ["Miss France : et revoilà Miss Paris !"](https://www.leparisien.fr/laparisienne/people/miss-france-et-revoila-miss-paris-01-04-2017-6814971.php). *Le Parisien* (in French). Retrieved 25 June 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** ["Actress Melanie Hughes died after battle with alcohol"](https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-44939436). *BBC*. 24 July 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2024.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:2_11-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:2_11-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-:2_11-2) ["Bathing beauties"](https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/page/straitstimes19980924-1.1.16). *The Straits Times*. 24 September 1998. p. 16. Retrieved 25 June 2024 – via National Library Board.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** Concepcion, Martha Vanessa (18 March 2023). ["Ya se supo. Otra Lía Victoria volverá a llevar la corona de Calle Abajo. La tuna la pedirá esta noche"](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/). *Midiario.com* (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 June 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-:0_13-0)** ["RP entries"](https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6ZYVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9goEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4545%2C1803584). *[Manila Standard](/source/Manila_Standard)*. March 17, 1998. Retrieved October 3, 2021.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-14)** Morais, Carolina (21 December 2015). ["Troca de Misses também já aconteceu em Portugal"](https://www.dn.pt/pessoas/troca-de-misses-tambem-ja-aconteceu-em-portugal-4947818.html) [Exchange of Misses has also taken place in Portugal]. *Diario de Noticias* (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 25 June 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-15)** ["Stunning Sudha"](https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/page/newpaper19980722-1.1.9). *The New Paper*. 22 July 1998. p. 9. Retrieved 25 June 2024 – via National Library Board.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-16)** ["Článok z týždenníka PLUS 7 DNÍ, kvôli ktorému prišlo k pokusu o skúpenie nákladu:"](https://domov.sme.sk/c/35276/clanok-z-tyzdennika-plus-7-dni-kvoli-ktoremu-prislo-k-pokusu-o-skupenie-nakladu.html). *SME* (in Slovak). 14 April 2001. Retrieved 25 June 2024.

## External links

- [Official website](https://www.miss-international.org/en/)

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v t e Miss International 1998 national titleholders Shvetha Jaishankar Lía Borrero Daniela Kosán

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