{{pp-sock|small=yes}} {{Infobox beauty pageant | winner = [[Christina Sawaya]]<ref name=pdi/><ref name="Getty Images 2002">{{cite web | title=Newly-elected Miss International 2002, 22-year-old Lebanese Christina Sawaya | website=Getty Images | date=October 10, 2002 | url=http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/newly-elected-miss-international-2002-22-year-old-lebanese-news-photo/1468614 | access-date=January 3, 2016}}</ref> | represented = Lebanon | date = September 30, 2002<ref name=pdi/> | presenters = [[Masumi Okada]] | image = ParkHyattTokyo.JPG | venue = Century Hyatt, [[Tokyo]], Japan<ref name=pdi/> | broadcaster = {{Hlist|[[TV Tokyo]]}} | entrants = 47 | placements = 12 | debuts = {{Hlist|China}} | withdraws = {{Hlist|Argentina|Chile|Croatia|Iceland|Latvia|Mongolia|Netherlands|Norway|Palau|San Marino|Ukraine}} | returns = {{Hlist|Ecuador|Lebanon|Moldova|Senegal}} | before = [[Miss International 2001|2001]] | next = [[Miss International 2003|2003]] }}
'''Miss International 2002''', the 42nd [[Miss International]] pageant, was held on 30 September 2002 in [[Tokyo]], Japan<ref name=pdi/> at the Century Hyatt. [[Małgorzata Rożniecka]] of [[Poland]] crowned her successor [[Christina Sawaya]] of [[Lebanon]] at the end of the event.<ref name="Getty Images 2002"/>
This edition also saw the crowning of the first woman of [[Middle Eastern]] descent to win [[Miss International]], [[Christina Sawaya]] representing Lebanon.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pageant Almanac|url=http://www.pageant-almanac.com/miss-international/former-titleholders.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060711184803/http://www.pageant-almanac.com/miss-international/former-titleholders.php|url-status=usurped|archive-date=July 11, 2006}} Retrieved on 11 Apr 2008.</ref><ref>[https://aljaras.com/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B5-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%82%D8%A9-%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A-%D8%B7%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%A8/ خاص بالصورة: وثيقة طلاق الإعلامي طوني بارود وكريستينا صوايا]</ref>
==Results==
===Placements=== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" |- ! Placement ! Contestant |- | Miss International 2002 | * {{flagu|Lebanon}} – [[Christina Sawaya]]<ref name=pdi/><ref name="Getty Images 2002"/> |- | 1st Runner-up | * {{flagu|France}} – Emmanuelle Jagodsinski<ref name=pdi/><ref name="Getty Images 2002"/> |- | 2nd Runner-up | * {{flagu|Japan}} – Hana Urushima<ref name=pdi/><ref name="Getty Images 2002"/> |- | Top 12 | * {{flagu|Czech Republic}} – Lenka Taussigová * {{flagu|Dominican Republic}} – Jeimi Hernández * {{flagu|Nicaragua}} – [[Marianela Lacayo]] * {{flagu|Poland}} – Monika Angermann * {{flagu|Senegal}} – Mame Diarra Mballo * {{flagu|South Korea}} – Gi Yoon-joo * {{flagu|Spain}} – Laura Espinosa * {{flagu|Thailand}} – Piyanuch Khamboon * {{flagu|Turkey}} – Nihan Akkus |}
==Contestants== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * '''{{flag|Aruba}}''' – Jerianne Tiel * '''{{flag|Bolivia}}''' – Carla Ameller * '''{{flag|Brazil}}''' – Milena Ricarda de Lima Lira * '''{{flag|Canada}}''' – Alicia Victoria Altares * '''{{flag|China}}''' – Amy Yan Wei * '''{{flag|Colombia}}''' – Consuelo Guzman Parra * '''{{flag|Curacao}}''' – Luz Thonysha De Souza * '''{{flag|Cyprus}}''' – Nichole Stylianou * '''{{flag|Czech Republic}}''' – Lenka Taussigova * '''{{flag|Dominican Republic}}''' – Jeimi Vanessa Hernández Franjul * '''{{flag|Ecuador}}''' – Isabel Cristina Ontaneda Pinto * '''{{flag|Finland}}''' – Katariina Kulve * '''{{flag|France}}''' – Emmanuelle Jagodsinski * '''{{flag|Germany}}''' – Eva Dedecke * '''{{flag|Greece}}''' – Stella Yiaboura * '''{{flag|Guatemala}}''' – Evelyn Arreaga * '''{{flag|Hawaii}}''' – Chun Hui Chen * '''{{flag|Hong Kong}}''' – Cathy Wu Kar-Wai * '''{{flag|India}}''' – [[Gauahar Khan]] * '''{{flag|Israel}}''' – Shelly Dina'i * '''{{flag|Japan}}''' – Hana Urushima * '''{{flag|Lebanon}}''' – [[Christina Sawaya]] * '''{{flag|Macedonia}}''' – Marta Pancevska * '''{{flag|Malaysia}}''' – Krystal Pang Chia Boon * '''{{flag|Malta}}''' – Alison Abela * '''{{flag|Mexico}}''' – Velia Rueda Galindo * '''{{flag|Moldova}}''' – Mariana Moraru † * '''{{flag|Nicaragua}}''' – [[Marianela Lacayo]] * '''{{flag|Northern Mariana Islands}}''' – Christine Juwelle Cunanan * '''{{flag|Panama}}''' – Cristina Herrera * '''{{flag|Philippines}}''' – Kristine Alzar * '''{{flag|Poland}}''' – Monika Angermann * '''{{flag|Puerto Rico}}''' – Mariela Lugo Marín * '''{{flag|Russia}}''' – Kseniya Efimtseva * '''{{flag|Senegal}}''' – Mame Diarra Mballo * '''{{flag|Singapore}}''' – Marie Wong Yan Yi * '''{{flag|Slovakia}}''' – Zuzana Gunisova * '''{{flag|South Korea}}''' – Gi Yoon-joo * '''{{flag|Spain}}''' – Laura Espinosa Huertas * '''{{flag|Sweden}}''' – Emelie Lundquist * '''{{flag|Thailand}}''' – Piyanuch Khamboon * '''{{flag|Tunisia}}''' – Nihad El-Abdi * '''{{flag|Turkey}}''' – Nihan Akkus * '''{{flag|United Kingdom}}''' – [[Juliet-Jane Horne]] * '''{{flag|United States}}''' – Mary Elizabeth Jones * '''{{flag|Venezuela}}''' – [[Cynthia Lander|Cynthia Cristina Lander Zamora]] * '''{{flag|FR Yugoslavia|name=Yugoslavia}}''' – Aleksandra Kokotovic {{div col end}}
==Notes==
===Withdrawals=== * '''{{flag|Pakistan}}''' – Neelam Voorani (forced by her Islamic government to withdraw from the pageant 3 days before the finals)
==References== <references> <ref name=pdi>{{cite news|title=International beauties|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=f1Y1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=eCUMAAAAIBAJ&dq=miss-international%20lebanon&pg=570%2C8507670|access-date=5 March 2011|newspaper=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]]|date=October 1, 2002}}</ref> </references>
==Further reading== * {{cite web | last=Rehman | first=I.A. | title=Features; October 12, 2002 | website=[[DAWN (newspaper)|DAWN]] | date=October 12, 2002 | url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1063708 | access-date=January 3, 2016}}
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