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Beauty pageant edition

Miss World 2003 Rosanna Davison, Miss World 2003 Date 6 December 2003 Presenters Phil Keoghan Amanda Byram Angela Chow Entertainment Luis Fonsi Bryan Ferry Venue Crown of Beauty Theatre, Sanya, China Broadcaster E! CCTV Entrants 106 Placements 20 Debuts Andorra Ethiopia Georgia Guadeloupe Northern Mariana Islands Withdrawals Algeria French Polynesia Ghana United States Virgin Islands Returns Belarus Cayman Islands Costa Rica Denmark Dominican Republic Guatemala Iceland Lesotho Mauritius Moldova Nepal Paraguay Portugal South Korea Sri Lanka Switzerland Zambia Winner Rosanna Davison Ireland ← 2002 2004 →

**Miss World 2003** was the 53rd edition of the [Miss World](/source/Miss_World) pageant, held at the [Crown of Beauty Theatre](/source/Crown_of_Beauty_Theatre) in [Sanya](/source/Sanya), China, on December 6, 2003.[1] It was the first time that the Miss World pageant held in [China](/source/China).

[Azra Akın](/source/Azra_Ak%C4%B1n) of [Turkey](/source/Turkey) crowned [Rosanna Davison](/source/Rosanna_Davison) of [Ireland](/source/Republic_of_Ireland) as her successor at the end of the event.[2] It is Ireland's first victory in the history of the pageant.[3]

106 contestants competed in this year's pageant, surpassing the previous record of 95 contestants in [2000](/source/Miss_World_2000). The pageant was hosted by [Phil Keoghan](/source/Phil_Keoghan), [Amanda Byram](/source/Amanda_Byram), and [Angela Chow](/source/Angela_Chow). [Luis Fonsi](/source/Luis_Fonsi) and [Bryan Ferry](/source/Bryan_Ferry) performed in this year's pageant.

## Debuts, returns, and, withdrawals

This edition saw the debut of Andorra, Ethiopia, Georgia, Guadeloupe and Northern Mariana Islands, and the return of Belarus, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Iceland, Lesotho, Mauritius, Moldova, Nepal, Paraguay, Portugal, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Switzerland and Zambia; Lesotho, which last competed in [1981](/source/Miss_World_1981), Mauritius in [1998](/source/Miss_World_1998), Zambia in [1999](/source/Miss_World_1999), Belarus, Denmark, Guatemala, Moldova, Nepal, Paraguay and Sri Lanka in [2000](/source/Miss_World_2000) and Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Iceland, Portugal, South Korea and Switzerland in [2001](/source/Miss_World_2001) .

Algeria, French Polynesia, Ghana, and the United States Virgin Islands, withdrew from the competition.

## Results

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### Placements

Placement Contestant Miss World 2003 Ireland – Rosanna Davison[4] 1st Runner-Up Canada – Nazanin Afshin-Jam[4] 2nd Runner-Up China – Guan Qi[4] Top 5 India – Ami Vashi Philippines – Maria Rafaela Yunon Top 20 Australia – Olivia Stratton Bolivia – Helen Aponte Dominican Republic – María Vargas Ethiopia – Hayat Ahmed Georgia – Irina Onashvili Greece – Vasiliki Tsekoura Jamaica – Jade Fulford Lebanon – Marie-José Hnein New Zealand – Melanie Paul Norway – Elisabeth Wathne Peru – Claudia Hernández Puerto Rico – Joyceline Montero Switzerland – Bianca Sissing Trinidad and Tobago – Magdalene Walcott Venezuela – Valentina Patruno

#### Continental Queens of Beauty

Continent Contestant Africa Ethiopia – Hayat Ahmed Americas Canada – Nazanin Afshin-Jam Asia and Oceania China – Guan Qi Caribbean Jamaica – Jade Fulford Europe Ireland – Rosanna Davison

## Judges

Miss World 2003 had nine judges.[5]

- [Candace Bushnell](/source/Candace_Bushnell)[6]

- [Jackie Chan](/source/Jackie_Chan)[7][8]

- [Agbani Darego](/source/Agbani_Darego) – [Miss World 2001](/source/Miss_World_2001) from [Nigeria](/source/Nigeria)[9]

- [Bruce Forsyth](/source/Bruce_Forsyth)†[10]

- [Gustavo Gianetti](/source/Gustavo_Gianetti)[5]

- [Julia Morley](/source/Julia_Morley) – Chairwoman of the Miss World Organisation[10]

- Krish Naidoo[10]

- [Clive Robertson](/source/Clive_Robertson_(actor))[11]

- Dick Zimmermann[6]

## Contestants

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 2003[3][12]

106 contestants competed for the title.[12]

Country/Territory Contestant Age[a] Hometown Albania Denisa Kola[13] 21 Peshkopi Andorra María José Girol Jumenez 19 Andorra la Vella Angola Celma Katia Carlos 20 Lubango Antigua and Barbuda Anne-Marie Browne 24 St. John's Argentina Grisel Hitoff 24 Buenos Aires Aruba Nathalie Biermanns 21 Oranjestad Australia Olivia Stratton 22 Adelaide Bahamas Shantell Hall[14] 19 Freeport Barbados Raquel Wilkinson 23 Bridgetown Belarus Volha Nevdakh[15] 23 Minsk Belgium Julie Taton 19 Jambes Belize Dalila Vanzie 25 Dangriga Bolivia Helen Aponte 19 Beni Bosnia and Herzegovina Irna Smaka 19 Sarajevo Botswana Boingotlo Motlalekgosi 19 Gaborone Brazil Lara Brito 24 Goiânia Bulgaria Rajna Naldzhieva 17 Sofia Canada Nazanin Afshin-Jam 24 Vancouver Cayman Islands Nichelle Welcome 24 George Town Chile Alejandra Soler 25 La Serena China Guan Qi 21 Changchun Colombia Claudia Molina 18 Barranquilla Costa Rica Shirley Álvarez 23 Desamparados Croatia Aleksandra Grdić 24 Virovitica Curaçao Angeline da Silva Goes 19 Willemstad Cyprus Stella Stylianou 18 Nicosia Czech Republic Lucie Váchová 19 Příbram Denmark Maj Buchholtz Pedersen 20 Skagen Dominican Republic María Eugenia Vargas 19 Santiago Ecuador Mayra Rentería 18 Esmeraldas England Jacqueline Turner 25 Dorset Estonia Kriistina Gabor 19 Pärnu Ethiopia Hayat Ahmed 21 Addis Ababa Finland Katri Johanna Hynninen 20 Naantali France Virginie Dubois 19 Paris Georgia Irina Onashvili 18 Tbilisi Germany Babette Konau 25 Kiel Gibraltar Kim Marie Falzun 20 Gibraltar Greece Vasiliki Tsekoura 23 Athens Guadeloupe Lauranza Doliman 23 Goyave Guatemala Dulce María Duarte 21 Chiquimula Guyana Alexis Glasgow 22 New Amsterdam Holland Sanne de Regt 21 Goes Hong Kong Rabee'a Yeung 22 Hong Kong Hungary Eszter Tóth[16] 19 Tatabánya Iceland Regína Jónsdóttir 20 Reykjavík India Ami Vashi 23 Mumbai Ireland Rosanna Davison[2] 19 Enniskerry Israel Miri Levy 20 Haifa Italy Silvia Cannas 21 Cagliari Jamaica Jade Fulford 21 Kingston Japan Kaoru Nishide 25 Kyoto Kazakhstan Saule Zhunosova 17 Pavlodar Kenya Janet Kibugu 18 Nairobi Latvia Irina Askolska 23 Riga Lebanon Marie-José Hnein 19 Baabda Lesotho Makuena Lepolesa 20 Maseru Lithuania Vaida Grikšaitė 20 Klaipėda Macedonia Marija Vašik 19 Skopje Malaysia Wong Sze Zen 23 Kuala Lumpur Malta Rachel Xuereb 22 Gwardamanġa Mauritius Marie Aimee Bergicourt 24 Pamplemousses Mexico Erika Honstein 22 Hermosillo Moldova Elena Danilciuc 18 Chișinău Namibia Petrina Thomas 22 Keetmanshoop Nepal Priti Sitoula 21 Kathmandu New Zealand Melanie Paul 23 Auckland Nicaragua Hailey Britton Brooks 22 Bluefields Nigeria Ohumotu Bissong 20 Calabar Northern Ireland Diana Sayers 22 Saintfield Northern Mariana Islands Kimberly Castro Reyes 19 Saipan Norway Elisabeth Wathne 21 Mandal Panama Ivy Ruth Ortega 19 Panama City Paraguay Karina Buttner 21 Asunción Peru Claudia Hernández 22 Lima Philippines Maria Rafaela Yunon[17] 22 Tarlac Poland Karolina Gorazda 23 Kraków Portugal Vanessa Job 20 Oeiras Puerto Rico Joyceline Montero 21 Bayamón Romania Patricia Filomena Chifor 17 Satu Mare Russia Svetlana Goreva 21 Tula Scotland Nicci Jolly 22 Inverbervie Serbia and Montenegro[b] Bojana Vujadinović 23 Belgrade Singapore Corine Kanmani 24 Singapore Slovakia Adriana Pospíšilová 20 Bratislava Slovenia Tina Zajc 20 Ljubljana South Africa Cindy Nell 22 Pretoria South Korea[c] Park Ji-yea 24 North Jeolla Spain María Teresa Martín 23 Antequera Sri Lanka Sachini Stanley 21 Kandy Swaziland Thembelihle Zwane 18 Mbabane Sweden Ida Söfringsgärd 19 Växjö Switzerland Bianca Sissing 24 Lucerne Tanzania Sylvia Bahame 20 Dar es Salaam Thailand Janejira Keardprasop[18] 22 Bangkok Trinidad and Tobago Magdalene Walcott 21 Tunapuna–Piarco Turkey Tuğba Karaca[19] 24 Ankara Uganda Aysha Nassanga 20 Kampala Ukraine Ilona Yakovleva 22 Kharkiv United States Kimberly Ann Harlan 20 Atlanta Uruguay Natalia Rodríguez 24 Montevideo Venezuela Valentina Patruno 21 Caracas Vietnam Nguyễn Đình Thụy Quân[20] 17 Ho Chi Minh City Wales Imogen Thomas 21 Llanelli Zambia Cynthia Kanema 22 Kabwe Zimbabwe Phoebe Monjane 21 Marondera

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** Ages at the time of the pageant

1. **[^](#cite_ref-19)** Yugoslavia changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-20)** competed as Korea in the pageant

### Did not compete

- **[Armenia](/source/Armenia)** – **[Lusine Tovmasyan](/source/Lusine_Tovmasyan)** - She withdrew due to financial problems.

- **[Fiji](/source/Fiji)** – **Aishwarya Sukhdeo** - She withdrew at the last minute for unknown reasons. however, she competed in Miss World a year later.

### No Shows

- **[Algeria](/source/Algeria)** – Mounia Achlaf

- **[Austria](/source/Austria)** – Miss Austria 2003, Tanja Duhovich did not compete due to not meeting the age requirements, she was just 17. Then the Miss Austria corporation decided to appoint the Miss Austria 2003 second runner up, Bianca Zudrell at the last minute with no time to prepare her visa.

- **[British Virgin Islands](/source/British_Virgin_Islands)** – No contest

- **[Haiti](/source/Haiti)** - No Contest

- **[Malawi](/source/Malawi)** – Mable Pulu

- **[Tahiti](/source/French_Polynesia)** - Heitiare Tribondeau

- **[Turks and Caicos Islands](/source/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands)**- No contest

- **[Ghana](/source/Ghana)** – Did not compete because of a shift in the Miss Ghana calendar. Organizers held the national final, Miss Ghana 2003, on the same day Miss World 2003 was held. This is the reason Ghanaian delegates to Miss World have their titles dating back by a year.

- **[United States Virgin Islands](/source/United_States_Virgin_Islands)** – Alexandrya Evans. She competed at [Miss Universe 2011](/source/Miss_Universe_2011) 8 years later.

### Replacements

- **[Latvia](/source/Latvia)** – Agnese Eiduka

- **[Sweden](/source/Sweden)** – Isabelle Jonsson - She was the first runner up of Fröken Sverige 2003, but the organization just lost the MW licence that year to the newly [Miss World Sweden](/source/Miss_World_Sweden) contest.

- **[Venezuela](/source/Venezuela)** – Amara Barroeta Seijas.

### Country Changes

- **Yugoslavia** changed its name to **Serbia and Montenegro**.

### Other notes

- **Northern Mariana Islands** was originally crowned for the [Miss Universe](/source/Miss_Universe) pageant but was sent to Miss World instead.

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## External links

- [*Miss World 2003*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390266/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

- [http://www.grahamecurtis.com/irishconnectionsmag/archives/v5i1/missworld.htm](http://www.grahamecurtis.com/irishconnectionsmag/archives/v5i1/missworld.htm)

v t e Miss World Editions 1950s 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960s 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970s 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980s 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990s 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000s 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010s 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020s 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Related Titleholders Runners-up and finalists Editions Countries Beauty with a Purpose

v t e Miss World 2003 national titleholders Julie Taton Nazanin Afshin Aleksandra Grdić Lucie Váchová Hayat Ahmed Lauranza Doliman Ami Vashi Rosanna Davison Omotu Bissong Karina Buttner Claudia Hernández Nicci Jolly Tina Zajc Sachini Ayendra Stanley Valentina Patruno Imogen Thomas

v t e Miss World participant countries and territories Active (1951–present) Africa Angola Botswana Cameroon Côte d'Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Kenya Madagascar Mauritius Namibia Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Americas Argentina Belize Bolivia Brazil Canada Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Curaçao Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guadeloupe Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Martinique Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States Venezuela Asia Armenia Bangladesh Cambodia China India Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Philippines Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Thailand Turkey Vietnam Europe Albania Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Finland France Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Latvia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Northern Ireland Poland Portugal Romania Scotland Serbia Slovenia Spain Sweden Ukraine Wales Oceania Australia New Zealand Inactive since 2025 Africa Algeria (2002) Cape Verde (2017) Chad (2014) Democratic Republic of the Congo (2016) Egypt (2018) Eswatini (2009) Gabon (2015) Gambia (1986) Guinea-Bissau (2023) Lesotho (2023) Liberia (2023) Malawi (2012) Morocco (2023) Rwanda (2021) São Tomé and Príncipe (2014) Seychelles (2017) Tanzania (2023) Americas Antigua and Barbuda (2019) Aruba (2019) Bahamas (2021) Barbados (2019) Bermuda (2015) Bonaire (2012) British Virgin Islands (2019) Costa Rica (2023) Cuba (1975) Dominica (2013) Grenada (2007) Montserrat (1964) Saint Barthélémy (2011) Saint Kitts and Nevis (2015) Saint Lucia (2021) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1994) Sint Maarten (2021) Turks and Caicos Islands (2004) United States Virgin Islands (2019) Uruguay (2023) Asia Hong Kong (2019) Israel (2017) Iraq (2023) Jordan (1981) Laos (2019) Macau (2023) Syria (1966) Taiwan (2013) Uzbekistan (2013) Europe Andorra (2003) Austria (2018) Belarus (2019) Cyprus (2018) Georgia (2019) Greenland (1992) Iceland (2021) Kosovo (2014) Lithuania (2014) Luxembourg (2021) Norway (2023) Monaco (1955) Russia (2019) Slovakia (2023) Switzerland (2014) Oceania Cook Islands (2019) Fiji (2017) French Polynesia (2010) Guam (2018) Northern Mariana Islands (2003) Papua New Guinea (1990) Samoa (2015) Tonga (1986) Inactive non-existing countries and former territories and others Czechoslovakia (1992) Guernsey (1975) Hawaii (2001) Isle of Man (1988) Jersey (1981) Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1965) Serbia and Montenegro (2005) South Africa (Miss South Africa for Blacks) (1976) Soviet Union (1990) United Kingdom (1999)

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