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Miss International 2003
Date	October 8, 2003
Venue	Radisson Miyako Hotel, Tokyo, Japan
Broadcaster	TV Tokyo
Entrants	45
Placements	12
Debuts	Ethiopia Latin Mexico Native Americans in the United States Serbia & Montenegro
Withdrawals	Curaçao Czech Republic Dominican Republic Ecuador Hawaii Lebanon Macedonia Moldova Nicaragua Panama Poland Senegal Sweden
Returns	Argentina Chile Costa Rica Croatia New Zealand Nigeria Ukraine Vietnam
Winner	Goizeder Azúa  Venezuela
Congeniality	Saeko Matsumi  Japan
Photogenic	Goizeder Azúa  Venezuela
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Miss International 2003, the 43rd Miss International pageant, was held on October 8, 2003 at Radisson Miyako Hotel in Tokyo, Japan. Forty-five beauties from all over the world competed to win the coveted title held by Christina Sawaya of Lebanon. In the end, Goizeder Azúa of Venezuela won the title.

Results

Placements

Special awards

Contestants

•  Argentina – Catalina Rouiller
•  Aruba – Falon Juliana Lopez
•  Bolivia – Carmen Muriel Cruz Claros
•  Brazil – Carlessa Rubicínthia Macedo da Rocha
•  Canada – Katarzyna Dziedzic
•  Chile – Christiane Balmelli Fournier
•  China – Wang Chan
•  Colombia – Isabel Sofia Cabrales Baquero
•  Costa Rica – Merilyn Villalta Castro
•  Croatia – Maja Uzarevic
•  Cyprus – Maria Pelekanou
•  Ethiopia – Yodit Getahun
•  Finland – Suvi Paivikki Hartlin
•  France – Elodie Couffin
•  Germany – Aleksandra Vodjanikova
•  Greece – Apostolina Zaproydis
•  Guatemala – Ana Pamela Prado Diaz
•  Hong Kong – Priscilla Chik Doi-Doi
•  India – Shonali Nagrani
•  Israel – Stavit Budin
•  Japan – Saeko Matsumi
•  South Korea – Shin Ji-soo
•  Latin Mexico – Lorena Ruiz Martinez
•  Malaysia – Ester Tan
•  Malta – Nadine Cassar
•  Mexico – Gabriela Ortiz
• Native American – Lana-la Trell Onque Henry
•  New Zealand – Amber Jean Peebles
•  Nigeria – Nwando Okwosa
•  Northern Mariana Islands – Nancie Rae King Ripple
•  Philippines – Jhezarie Games Javier
•  Puerto Rico – Dignelis Jiménez
•  Russia – Tatiana Chebotarevskaya
•  Serbia and Montenegro – Andja Ratko Budimir
•  Singapore – Berlin Koh Meng Yean
•  Slovak Republic – Simona Slobodnikova
•  Spain – Maria Carrillo Reyes
•  Thailand – Pawina Bamrungrot
•  Tunisia – Amira Thabet
•  Turkey – Gizem Kalyoncu
•  Ukraine – Veronika Dmitrievna Bondarenko
•  United Kingdom – Gayle Williamson
•  United States – Masielle Otero
•  Venezuela – Goizeder Victoria Azua Barrios
•  Vietnam – Lê Minh Phượng

Notes

Did not compete

•  Algeria – Massika Benakila
•  Czech Republic – Klára Medková (ill the day before she was to leave for Japan)
•  Lebanon – Rita Lamah
•  Norway – Marna Haugen

Country changes

• Yugoslavia changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro.

References

1. ^ Vina, Nguyen (September 28, 2015). "All winners of the contest Miss International". Global Express News. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
2. ^ Cite error: The named reference phn was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

External links

• Pageantopolis – Miss International 2003

• Miss International
• 2003 beauty pageants
• 2003 in Tokyo
• Beauty pageants in Japan