Meet Miss World 2011 Candidates

Here's another treat for beauty pageant followers. The 61st edition of the Miss World pageant is scheduled to take place at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre on November 6, 2011 in London. Alexandria Mills of the United States will crown her successor at the end of the event.

Gwendoline Ruais from Muntinlupa City who was crowned at the Philippine International Convention Center in Manila on September 18, 201 will represent Philippines in the Miss World 2011 at the Earls Court, in London , England on November 6, 2011. Gwendoline  is 21 years old, stands 5 feet, 11 inches tall with a vital statistics of 36-26-36.

Fil-Canadian Riza Santos will represent Canada. During her participation with Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition 2, she played for Bantay Bata, ABS-CBN Foundation's charitable institution. On Day 84, she was proclaimed the second place winner of the show. In 2008 and 2009, she hosted the Asian Poker Tour.

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Here's the lists of contestants on Miss World 2011- As of October 2, 2011, 117 delegates have been selected:

Country/Territory Contestant Age Height Hometown

• Albania- Isi Topçiu-Ulaj  18 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) Tirana
• Angola- Edmilza dos Santos 20 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Malanje
• Argentina Antonella- Kruger 19 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Buenos Aires
• Aruba- Gillain Berry 24 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Oranjestad
• Australia Amber- Greasley 18 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)Brisbane
• Austria- Julia Hofer 19 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Mayrhofen
• Bahamas- Sasha Joyce 23 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Freeport
• Barbados- Taisha Carrington 18 1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in) Bridgetown
• Belgium- Justine De Jonckheere 19 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Wevelgem 
• Belize- Kadejah Tunn
• Bermuda- Jana Lynn Outerbridge 22 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) St. George's
• Bolivia- Yohana Vaca 23 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Santa Cruz
• Bonaire- Benazir Charles 19 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Kralendijk
• Bosnia & Herzegovina- Snežana Kuzmanović 16 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Laktaši
• Botswana- Karabo Sampson 20 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Tsabong
• Brazil- Juceila Bueno 22 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Vera Cruz
• Bulgaria- Vania Peneva 23 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Kazanlak
• Canada- Riza Santos 23 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Calgary
• Cape Verde- Dirce Évora 19 Santa Maria
• Cayman Islands- Lindsay Japal 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Georgetown
• Chile- Gabriela Pulgar 22 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Santiago
• China- PR Liu Chen 25 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Harbin
• Colombia- Monica Restrepo 21 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Bogotá
• Costa Rica- Paola Chaverri 19 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Heredia
• Côte d'Ivoire- Betty Kouadio 18 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Gagnoa
• Croatia- Katarina Prnjak 20 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Šibenik
• Curacao- Monifa Jansen 18 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Willemstad
• Cyprus- Orthodoxia Panagi  19 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Nicosia
• Czech Republic- Denisa Domanská 19 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Koryčany
• Denmark- Maya Padillo Olesen 20 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Christiansfeld
• Dominican Republic- Marianly Tejeda 19 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) San Francisco de Macorís
• Ecuador María- Verónica Vargas 21 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Guayaquil
• Egypt- Donia Hamed 23 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) Cairo
• El Salvador- Marcela Castro 17 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) San Salvador
• England- Alize Lily Mounter 22 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) London
• Ethiopia- Melkam Endale 21 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Addis Ababa
• Finland- Sara Sieppi 19 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Oulu
• France- Clémence Oleksy 20 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Vichy
• Georgia- Janeta Kerdicoshvilli 19 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Tbisili
• Germany Sabrina-Nathalie Reitz[67] 21 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Frankfurt
• Ghana- Stephanie Karikari 18 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Atwima
• Gibraltar-Michelle Pedersen 23 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Gibraltar
• Guadeloupe- Frédérique Grainville 20 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Saint-Claude
• Guam Siera Robertson 21 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Yona
• Guatemala- Lourdes Figueroa 23 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Guatemala City
• Guyana- Arti Cameron 22 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) Georgetown
• Honduras- Beatriz Ochoa 17 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Choloma
• Hong Kong- China Hyman Chu 24 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)Hong Kong
• Hungary- Linda Szunai 18 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Nagykovácsi
• Iceland- Sigrún Eva Ármannsdóttir 18 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Akranes
• India- Kanishtha Dhankar 22 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Mumbai
• Indonesia- Astrid Ellena 21 1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in) Surabaya
• Ireland -Holly Carpenter 19 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Dublin
• Israel- Ella Ran 21 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Herzliya
• Italy- Tania Bambaci 21 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto
• Jamaica- Danielle Crosskill 26 1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in) Kingston
• Japan- Midori Tanaka 22 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Okayama
• Kazakhstan- Zhanna Zhumaliyeva24 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) Uralsk
• Kenya- Susan Onyango 19 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Nairobi
• Korea- Kyeong Min Doe 20 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
• Kyrgyzstan- Nazira Nurzhanova 24 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Bishkek
• Latvia- Alise Miškovska 23 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Daugavpils
• Lebanon- Yara Khoury-Mikhael19 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Beirut
• Lesotho- Nomasondo Mphakisoane 24 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Maseru
• Liberia- Meenakshi Subramani 23 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Monrovia
• Lithuania- Ieva Gervinskaité 21 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Skuodas
• Luxembourg- Stephanie Ribeiro 22 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Luxembourg
• Macedonia FYRO- Vesna Jakimovska 20 Skopje
• Malawi- Faith Chibale 21 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Lilongwe
• Malaysia- Chloe Chen 21 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
• Malta- Claire Marie Busuttil 22 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)Valletta
• Martinique- Axelle Perrier 19 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Fort de France
• Mauritius- Joelle Nagapen 22 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) St. Pierre
• Mexico- Gabriela Palacio 22 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Aguascalientes
• Moldova- Veronica Popovici 21 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Chişinău
• Mongolia- Buyankhishig Unurbayar 21 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
• Montenegro- Maja Maraš 20 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Podgorica
• Namibia- Luzaan van Wyk 24 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in)}Windhoek
• Nepal- Malina Joshi 23 1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in) Dharan
• Netherlands- Jill Lauren De Robles 22 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Drenthe
• New Zealand- Mianette Broekman 22 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Auckland
• Nigeria- Sylvia Nduka 20 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Taraba
• Northern Ireland- Finola Guinnane 22 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Drumbo
• Norway- Anna Zahl 23 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Sortland
• Panama- Irene Núñez 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)Veraguas
• Paraguay- Nicole Huber 21 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Asunción
• Peru- Odilia Garcia 24 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) Lima
• Philippines- Gwendoline Ruais  22 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Muntinlupa City
• Poland- Angelika Ogryzek 19 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Szczecin
• Portugal- Barbara Franco 19 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
• Puerto Rico- Amanda Vilanova 19 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) San Juan
• Romania- Alexandra Stanescu 21 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Bucuresti
• Russia- Natalia Gantimurova 19 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Moscow
• Saint Barthelemy- Johanna Sansano 21 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) Gustavia
• Scotland- Jennifer Reoch 22 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Glasgow
• Serbia- Milica Tepavac 3 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Sombor
• Sierra Leone Swadu- Natasha Beckley 22 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Freetown
• Singapore- May Hsu 21 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Singapore
• Slovakia- Michaela Ňurciková 20 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Nové Zámky
• Slovenia- Lana Mahnič Jekoš 21 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Grosuplje
• South Africa- Bokang Montjane 24 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Johannesburg
• Spain- Carla García 20 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Las Palmas
• Sri Lanka- Pushpika De Silva 21 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)Colombo
• Suriname- Stefanie Grace Gentle 21 Nieuw Nickerie
• Sweden- Nicoline Artursson 18 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Halmstad
• Tanzania- Salha Israel 18 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
• Thailand- Pacharida Rodkongka 20 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Bangkok
• Trinidad & Tobago- Lee-Ann Forbes 21 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) St. James
• Turkey Gizem Karaca- 18 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Istanbul
• Uganda Sylvia Namutebi- 23 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
• Ukraine Yaroslava Kuryacha- 19 1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) Vinnytsia
• Uruguay Belen Sogliano- 18 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) Montevideo
• United States Virgin Islands- Esonica Veira 22 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) St. Thomas
• Venezuela- Ivian Sarcos 22 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Ospino
• Vietnam- Victoria Phạm Thuý Vy 21 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) California
• Wales- Sara Manchipp 21 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) Port Talbot
• Zimbabwe- Malaika Mushandu19 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Harare

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