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Miss Universe 2011
Miss Universe 2011, Leila Lopes, official photo, after the coronation.
Date	September 12, 2011
Presenters	Natalie Morales, Andy Cohen, Jeannie Mai, Shandi Finnessey
Entertainment	Bebel Gilberto, Claudia Leitte
Venue	Credicard Hall São Paulo, Brazil
Broadcaster	NBC, Telemundo, Rede Bandeirantes
Entrants	89
Placements	16
Withdrawals	Norway, Zambia
Returns	Cayman Islands, Chile, Estonia, Montenegro, Portugal, St. Lucia, Turks & Caicos, Vietnam
Winner	Leila Lopes  Angola
Congeniality	Nikolina Lončar  Montenegro
Best National Costume	Sheldry Sáez  Panama
Photogenic	Ronnia Fornstedt  Sweden

Miss Universe 2011, the 60th anniversary of the Miss Universe pageant, was held at the Credicard central Hall in São Paulo, Brazil on September 12, 2011. Ximena Navarrete of Mexico crowned her successor, Leila Lopes of Angola, at the end of this event. Contestants from 89 countries and territories participated in this year's pageant, surpassing the previous record of 86 contestants in 2006.

Placements

Special awards

Best National Costume

Order of announcements

Judges

Telecast judges

• Hélio Castroneves
• Connie Chung
• Isabeli Fontana
• Vivica A. Fox
• Adrienne Maloof-Nassif
• Lea Salonga
• Farouk Shami
• Amelia Vega – Miss Universe 2003
• Italo Zanzi

Preliminary judges

• BJ Coleman
• Francesca Romana Diana
• Ana Paula Junqueira
• Scott Lazerson
• Matheus Mazzafera
• Jimmy Nguyen
• Lara Spotts

Background music and performances

• Opening music: "Mas que Nada" by Sérgio Mendes featuring The Black Eyed Peas
• Swimsuit competition: "Locomotion Batucada" by Claudia Leitte (Live Performance)
• Evening gown competition: "Close Your Eyes" by Bebel Gilberto (Live Performance)

Contestants

• Albania – Xhesika Berberi
• Angola – Leila Lopes
• Argentina – Natalia Rodríguez
• Aruba – Gillain Berry
• Australia – Scherri-Lee Biggs
• Bahamas – Anastagia Pierre
• Belgium – Justine de Jonckheere
• Bolivia – Olivia Pinheiro
• Botswana – Larona Kgabo
• Brazil – Priscila Machado
• British Virgin Islands – Sheroma Hodge
• Canada – Chelsae Durocher
• Cayman Islands – Cristin Alexander
• Chile – Vanessa Ceruti
• China – Luo Zilin
• Colombia – Catalina Robayo
• Costa Rica – Johanna Solano
• Croatia – Natalija Prica
• Curaçao – Evalina van Putten
• Cyprus – Andri Karantoni
• Czech Republic – Jitka Nováčková
• Denmark – Sandra Amer
• Dominican Republic – Dalia Fernández
• Ecuador – Claudia Schiess
• Egypt – Sara El-Khouly
• El Salvador – Mayra Aldana
• Estonia – Madli Vilsar
• Finland – Pia Pakarinen
• France – Laury Thilleman
• Georgia – Eka Gurtskaia
• Germany – Valeria Bystritskaia
• Ghana – Yayra Nego
• Great Britain – Chloe-Beth Morgan
• Greece – Iliana Papageorgiou
• Guam – Shayna Afaisen
• Guatemala – Alejandra Barillas
• Guyana – Kara Lord
• Haiti – Anedie Azael
•  Honduras – Keylin Gómez
• Hungary – Betta Lipcsei
• India – Vasuki Sunkavalli
• Indonesia – Nadine Alexandra
• Ireland – Aoife Hannon
• Israel – Kim Edri
• Italy – Elisa Torrini
• Jamaica – Shakira Martin
• Japan – Maria Kamiyama
•  Kazakhstan – Valeriya Aleinikova
• Korea – Jung So-ra
• Kosovo – Afërdita Dreshaj
• Lebanon – Yara Khoury Mikhael|
• Malaysia – Deborah Priya Henry
•  Mauritius – Laetitia Darche
• Mexico – Karín Ontiveros
• Montenegro – Nikolina Lončar
• Netherlands – Kelly Weekers
• New Zealand – Priyani Puketapu
• Nicaragua – Adriana Dorn
• Nigeria – Sophie Gemal
• Panama – Sheldry Sáez
• Paraguay – Alba Riquelme
• Peru – Natalie Vértiz
• Philippines – Shamcey Supsup
• Poland – Rozalia Mancewicz
• Portugal – Laura Gonçalves
• Puerto Rico – Viviana Ortiz
• Romania – Larisa Popa
• Russia – Natalia Gantimurova
• Serbia – Anja Šaranović
• Singapore – Valerie Lim
• Slovak Republic – Dagmar Kolesárová
• Slovenia – Ema Jagodič
• South Africa – Bokang Montjane
• Spain – Paula Guilló
• Sri Lanka – Stephanie Siriwardhana
•  St. Lucia – Joy-Ann Biscette
• Sweden – Ronnia Fornstedt
• Switzerland – Kerstin Cook
• Tanzania – Nelly Kamwelu
• Thailand – Chanyasorn Sakornchan
• Trinidad & Tobago – Gabrielle Walcott
• Turkey – Melisa Aslı Pamuk
• Turks & Caicos – Easher Parker
• Ukraine – Olesya Stefanko
• Uruguay – Maria Fernanda Semino
• USA – Alyssa Campanella
•  U.S. Virgin Islands – Alexandrya Evans
• Venezuela – Vanessa Gonçalves
• Vietnam – Vũ Thị Hoàng My

Returning countries and territories

Crossovers

Contestants who previously competed or will compete at other beauty pageants:

Other pageant notes

Historical significance

• Angola (Leila Lopes) is the 1st winner of Miss Universe from Angola.
• A record of 89 countries participated this year.
• This was the first time, since 1983, that no Spanish-speaking country made it to the top 5, and the 16th time in the history of Miss Universe.
• There was no opening dance at the start of the pageant. Instead, the delegates introduced themselves to a live audience. This live introduction format was last used in 1997.
• For the first time, a 16th semi-finalist spot was added to the contestant who had the most fan votes. Portugal ended up with the majority of the votes.
• Portugal was placed for the first time.
• Australia was placed for the fourth consecutive year.
• Colombia was placed for the second consecutive year.
• France and Puerto Rico were placed for the third consecutive year.
• Angola, Portugal and Ukraine reached their highest ever places in the pageant.
• Philippines and Ukraine placed in the top five the previous year while Australia, Colombia, France and Puerto Rico placed in the top 15 in the previous year.
• Philippines scored its first back-to-back placement since its 4-year streak from 1972 to 1975.
• Montenegro won the Miss Congeniality award for the first time.
• Sweden won the Miss Photogenic for the third time.
• Panama won the Best National Costume award for the fourth time.
• Netherlands last placed in 1992.
• China was last placed in 2002.
• Panama was last placed in 2003.
• Costa Rica was last placed in 2004.
• Angola and Brazil were last placed in 2007.
• Kosovo, USA and Venezuela were last placed in 2009.
• The judges' average score was not shown during the telecast event. Instead, a "fan score" was introduced, where byfans could rate a contestant online.
• A new musical score was introduced during the entire pageant telecast, veering away from the Orente musical score which had been used from 2004 to 2010.

Replacements

• Curaçao – Evalina van Putten replaced Monifa Jansen since Jansen did not meet the age requirements stipulated by the Miss Universe Organization. Jansen was born in March, 1993.

• El Salvador – Mayra Aldana replaced Alejandra Ochoa after Alejandra suffered from chronic respiratory illness and was not able to compete.

Designations

•  Denmark – Sandra Amer was appointed as Miss Universe Denmark 2011 after a casting call took place.

•  Egypt – Sara El-Khouly was appointed as Miss Universe Egypt 2011 after no national pageant was held due to the political crisis.

•  Greece – Iliana Papageorgiou was appointed by the Star Hellas organization to represent Greece at Miss Universe 2011.

•  Guatemala – Alejandra Barillas was appointed as Miss Universe Guatemala 2011 in a special ceremony. Barillas was the original representative to Miss Universe 2010 but due to an injury she could not attend. One of her runner-ups (Jessica Scheel) took her place.

•  Kazakhstan – Valeriya Aleinikova was appointed to represent Kazakhstan after the Miss Kazakhstan organization dropped the franchise and a new organization took over.

•  Montenegro – Nikolina Loncar was appointed to represent Montenegro after she could not compete in 2010 because she did not meet the minimum age requirement.

•  Vietnam – Vũ Thị Hoàng My was appointed to represent Vietnam after the pageant organizers were unable to host a beauty pageant. The permission was granted by the Ministry of Culture of Vietnam, which authorizes the international representation of the nation in events of any kind.

Withdrawals

•  Norway
•  Zambia

International broadcasters

•  Albania – Albanian Screen
• Asia-Pacific – STAR World (live)
•  Australia – Seven Network
•  Bolivia – Unitel
•  Brazil Rede Bandeirantes and TNT
•  Colombia – Caracol TV
•  Cambodia- Cambodian Television Network, MYTV
•  Costa Rica – Teletica
•  Dominican Republic – Telemicro
•  Ecuador – Canal Uno
•  France – Paris Premiere
•  Ghana – Viasat 1
•  Hong Kong – TVB Pearl
•  India – Zee Cafe,
•  Indonesia – Indosiar
•  Japan – NTV, WOWOW
•  South Korea – OnStyle (Recorded)
•  Kosovo – RTV21
•  Malaysia – STAR World
•  Mexico – Televisa
•  Nicaragua – Televicentro
•  Panama – Telemetro
•  Paraguay – LaTele
•  Peru – Global TV
•  Philippines – ABS-CBN, Studio 23, Velvet (TV channel)
•  Puerto Rico: Telemundo PR
•  Russia: CTC
•  Singapore – MediaCorp Channel 5
•  Thailand – Channel 7 (Thailand)
•  USA – NBC
•  Venezuela – Venevision
•  Vietnam – VTV2

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External links

• Official Miss Universe website

• Miss Universe
• 2011 beauty pageants
• 2011 in Brazil
• Beauty pageants in Brazil