Miss International Titleholders from 2001 to 2010

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Malgorzata Rozniecka Ofman Miss International 2001 from Poland

Małgorzata Rożniecka from Poland was crowned Miss International 2001 on 4th October 2001 in Tokyo, Japan. She was 23 years of age when she won the title and her 2001 victory broke the four-year monopoly of Latin American countries of the crown. Małgorzata defeated 52 other delegates from all over the world to win the title. At the end of the event, Vivian Urdaneta of Venezuela crowned her successor Małgorzata Rożniecka of Poland.

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Christina Sawaya Miss International 2002 from Lebanon

Christina Sawaya from Lebanon was crowned Miss International 2002 on 30th September 2002 in Tokyo, Japan. She was 22 years of age when she was crowned the Miss International 2002. Christina Sawaya is a Lebanese beauty queen. As part of her modelling career, Christina entered a series of pageants between 1998 and 2002 in which she became the winner of "Miss University" Lebanon in 1998, and was chosen as "Top Lebanon Modeling 1999". In 2001, Sawaya competed with 19 women to become Miss Lebanon 2001, where she also became eligible to enter in the Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss International pageants. She represented her country in the 2001 Miss World pageant, wherein she was unplaced. But at the Miss Universe 2002 Pageant, Sawaya decided to drop out of the competition after stating that she would not compete in a pageant with Miss Israel, Yamit Har-Noy. She went on to win the Miss International 2002 beauty pageant in Tokyo on September 30, 2002. Sawaya was chosen as Miss International among beauties from 51 countries. She also became the first Miss International of Middle Eastern descent. Christina Sawaya is a conservative Catholic Christian that comes from Lebanon, the only Arab country where the president is Christian by the constitution.

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Goizeder Azua Miss International 2003 from Venezuela

Goizeder Azúa from Venezuela was crowned Miss International 2003 on 8th October 2003 in Tokyo, Japan. She was 19 years of age when she won the title. Goizeder Victoria Azúa Barríos is a Venezuelan TV Host, anchor woman, model, journalist. She began her beauty pageant career by winning the Miss Carabobo 2002 title, and then by winning the Miss Venezuela World 2002 crown in the Gala de la Belleza preliminary competition of Miss Venezuela 2002. Azúa was appointed to represent Venezuela in the Miss International 2003 pageant, where she won the crown. Her win marked the fourth of eight victories of Venezuela in Miss International, the most of any nation. Once considered Venezuela's top fashion model, Azúa worked on Globovision as a journalist. She had her own TV program called Fun Race. She worked on Televen as anchorwoman and now she is based in Spain. She is married and has 2 sons.

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Jeymmy Pola Vargas Miss International 2004 from Colombia

Jeymmy Vargas from Colombia was crowned Miss International 2004 on 16th October 2004 in Beijing, China. She was 21 years of age when she was crowned Miss International 2004. Jeymmy Paola Vargas Gómez is a Colombian beauty queen who was an actress and also a model. She was also crowned Reina Internacional del Café 2004 and she became the third Colombian to win the title of Miss International in 2004.

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Lara Quigaman Miss International 2005 from Philippines

Lara Quigaman from Philippines was crowned Miss International 2005 on 26th September 2005 in Tokyo, Japan. She was 22 years of age when she was crowned as Miss International 2005. She was a Filipino actress and also a multi-product endorser. She is the fourth Filipino to have won the crown, after Gemma Cruz in 1964, Aurora Pijuan in 1970, and Melanie Marquez in 1979. Prior to winning Miss International, Quigaman joined Binibining Pilipinas twice, first in 2001 and last in 2005. The latter ultimately earned her the title of Binibining Pilipinas International.

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Daniela Di Giacomo Miss International 2006 from Venezuela

Daniela di Giacomo from Venezuela was crowned Miss International 2006 on 11th November 2006 in Xianghe, China. She was 21 years of age when she was crowned Miss International 2006. She was a Venezuelan TV show host, journalist, radio host, model. She worked on Venezuelan channel Televen for a long time and after that worked for Univision in the United States. Her victory in the 46th edition of Miss International, held in Beijing, China, earned Venezuela its fifth title in the pageant's history, making it the most successful country to date. She bested 51 other delegates to wear the pageant's unveiled crystal crown, rather than the traditional pearl crown.

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Priscila Perales Miss International 2007 from Mexico

Priscila Perales from Mexico was crowned Miss International 2007 on 15th October 2007 in Tokyo, Japan. She was 24 years of age when she won the title. Priscila was a Mexican actress as well as a model. It was the first time in this edition of Miss International 2007 that Mexico won the crown and brought it home.

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Alejandra Andreu Miss International 2008 from Spain

Alejandra Andreu from Spain was crowned Miss International 2008 on 8th November 2008 in Macau Cotai Strip, Macau. The beauty was a Spanish journalist. She obtained a degree in journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid. She also won the special award of Miss Photogenic at this pageant. Andreu's victory marks the third Miss International crown for Spain. Other winners were Pilar Medina (1977) and Silvia de Esteban (1990). It is also the first "Grand Slam" beauty title for Spain since 1990. Andreu also became one of the youngest winners in Miss International history when she was 18 at the coronation moment. She also represented Zaragoza at Miss España 2008 where she placed as 2nd runner-up.

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Anagabriela Espinoza Miss International 2009 from Mexico

Anagabriela Espinoza from Mexico was crowned Miss International 2009 on 28th November 2009 in China Chengdu, China. Anagabriela was a Mexican model. At the age of nineteen, Anagabriela Espinoza competed against thirty-three other contestants in the 2007 national Nuestra Belleza México contest held in Manzanillo, Colima on October 5, 2007. She obtained Nuestra Belleza Mexico Mundo and the right to compete in the 58th international Miss World pageant held in Johannesburg, South Africa. Espinoza won the Miss World Beach Beauty fast track event and award, which automatically gave her a semi finale spot in the 2008 Miss World competition, held December 13, 2008. A year later, Anagabriela Espinoza was chosen to represent Mexico in Miss International 2009. She became the second Mexican delegate to win that title, just two years after Priscila Perales' victory in 2007.

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Elizabeth Mosquera Miss International 2010 from Venezuela

Elizabeth Mosquera from Venezuela was crowned Miss International 2010 on 7th November 2010 in Chengdu, China. She was 19 years of age when she won the title and was crowned Miss International 2010. She was a Venezuelan model and she became the sixth woman from her country to capture the Miss International title. She was born in Valera, Trujillo, and studied civil engineering at the University of Zulia in Maracaibo prior to her participation in Miss Venezuela 2009. She also participated and represented Venezuela at Reinado Internacional del Café 2010, held in Manizales, Colombia on January 9, 2010, and placed fifth. Mosquera competed against 69 other delegates and was crowned the eventual winner of the title, becoming the sixth woman from Venezuela to capture the Miss International crown in 50 years of history. She had a homage in Super Sabado Sensacional on Venevisión (Venezuela's main TV network). She appears on television in Venezuela and she works with children, humanitarian and charity of the Cisneros Foundation.