Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss Universe 1999	Botswana - Mpule Kwelagobe Mpule Kwelagobe Mpule Keneilwe Kwelagobe of Gaborone, Botswana was crowned Miss Universe in May 1999 in Trinidad and Tobago. Since being crowned Miss Universe 1999, Mpule has been recognized and honored as a human health rights activist, especially for her fight against HIV/AIDS and advocacy for youth and women to...
1st runner-up	Philippines - Miriam Quiambao Miriam Quiambao Miriam Redito Quiambao is a television personality, TV/Film Actress and a former beauty queen from the Philippines.Born in Quezon City to Magdalena Redito of Oas, Albay and Medgardo Quiambao of Bacacay, Albay on May 20, 1975, she is the first of two children...
2nd runner-up	Spain - Diana Nogueira
Top 5	Venezuela - Carolina Indriago Carolina Indriago Lucbel Carolina Indriago Pinto is a Venezuelan show hostess and a pageant titleholder. She was born in Valencia, Venezuela on August 22, 1980. She is the first woman of noticeably black heritage to win the Miss Venezuela title...  South Africa - Sonia Raciti
Top 10	India - Gul Panag Gul Panag Gul Panag is an Indian actress, model, and former beauty queen who competed in the Miss Universe pageant. Her notable films include Dor, Dhoop, Manorama Six Feet Under, Hello, and Straight....  Mexico - Silvia Salgado Silvia Salgado Silvia Salgado Cavazos of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, won the national pageant Nuestra Belleza Mexico and represented her country and placed among the semi-finalists in the 1999 Miss Universe pageant, held in Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago, on May 26, 1999.-References:...  Puerto Rico - Brenda Liz Lopez Brenda Liz Lopez Brenda Liz López Ramos is a beauty pageant titleholder from Puerto Rico. Brenda previously held the title of Miss Puerto Rico Universe 1999 in which later on she placed at the Top 10 in Miss Universe 1999 and won the Miss Photogenic award. She currently work as an actress and radio host in Puerto...  Jamaica - Nicole Haughton  Ghana - Akuba Cudjoe

Semifinal Scores

Country	Interview	Swimsuit	Evening Gown	Average	Top 5 Finalists
	9.249 (2)	9.325 (2)	9.133 (7)	9.236 (1)	9.238 (5)
Venezuela	9.230 (3)	9.088 (6)	9.388 (3)	9.235 (2)	9.349 (4)
	8.904 (7)	9.338 (1)	9.450 (1)	9.231 (3)	9.644 (1)
	9.052 (5)	9.188 (4)	9.366 (4)	9.202 (4)	9.488 (2)
	8.787 (9)	9.325 (2)	9.428 (2)	9.180 (5)	9.446 (3)
	9.275 (1)	8.774 (10)	9.160 (6)	9.070 (6)
	8.616 (10)	9.143 (5)	9.238 (5)	8.999 (7)
	9.087 (4)	8.800 (8)	9.086 (8)	8.991 (8)
	9.000 (6)	8.875 (7)	8.754 (9)	8.876 (9)
	8.850 (8)	8.788 (9)	8.683 (10)	8.774 (10)

Winner

First Runner-up

Second Runner-up

Top 5 Finalist

Top 10 Semifinalist Rank in each round of competition

Special Awards

Telecast Judges

• Kylie Bax
  Kylie Bax
  Kylie Bax is a New Zealand born model and actress. She has appeared on international magazine covers, including Vogue and Marie Claire. Since 1999, Bax has appeared in several movies, including Get Over It .-Modelling career:...
  
   – New Zealand-born model and actress.
• Patrick Demarchelier
  Patrick Demarchelier
  Patrick Demarchelier is a French fashion photographer.-Life:Born near Paris in 1943 to a modest family, he spent his childhood in Le Havre with his mother and four brothers. For his seventeenth birthday, his stepfather bought him his first Eastman Kodak camera...
  
   – French fashion photographer.
• Melania Knauss – International model
• Charles Gargano – Former U.S. ambassador to Trinidad & Tobago.
• Sirio Maccioni
  Sirio Maccioni
  Sirio Maccioni is a restaurateur and author.He was awarded the Impresario del’ Anno award at Affreschi Toscani...
  
   – Le Cirque
  Le Cirque
  Le Cirque is a French restaurant in Manhattan owned and operated by Sirio Maccioni. It first opened at the Mayfair Hotel in 1974. It closed and reopened as Le Cirque 2000 at the Palace Hotel in 1997. The latest installation of Le Cirque opened in 2006 in the Bloomberg Tower building at One Beacon...
  
   restaurateur.
• Marcus Schenkenberg
  Marcus Schenkenberg
  Marcus Lodewijk Schenkenberg van Mierop better known as Marcus Schenkenberg, , is a Swedish model of Dutch and Indonesian descent. He was born in Solna and has dual citizenship of both Sweden and the Netherlands...
  
   – Swedish model.
• Bruce Smith – Former Buffalo Bills football player.
• Diane Smith – senior editor at Sports Illustrated, in charge of the annual Swimsuit Edition.
• Stephanie Seymour
  Stephanie Seymour
  Stephanie Michelle Seymour is an American model and actress. Seymour has modeled for many notable fashion magazines and designers, and has been photographed by several well-known photographers including Herb Ritts, Richard Avedon, Gilles Bensimon, and Mario Testino.-Career:Born in San Diego,...
  
   – American model and actress.
• Evander Holyfield
  Evander Holyfield
  Evander Holyfield is a professional boxer from the United States. He is a former undisputed world champion in both the cruiserweight and heavyweight divisions, earning him the nickname "The Real Deal"...
  
   – Professional boxer.

Significant features

• This was the first time in pageant history that two black women won the title two years in a row. Miss Trinidad & Tobago Wendy Fitzwilliam
  Wendy Fitzwilliam
  Wendy Fitzwilliam is a former Miss Trinidad & Tobago Universe, the third woman of African heritage to capture the Miss Universe crown and the second Miss Universe in history from Trinidad and Tobago.-Early life:...
  
   won the previous year. The year also showed a strong showing for African delegates, being the first time ever to have 3 of the 10 semifinalists. Ghana (marking its first placement ever) placed in the top ten, South Africa in the top five, with Botswana winning the crown.
• Miss Guam, Tisha Elaina Heflin, was disqualified before the prelims for allegedly being pregnant. Although the Miss Guam Universe Organization reported she had fallen ill, she still made the records by becoming the first Miss Guam to ever pull out of the pageant.
• In light of the pageant controversy surrounding Miss Guam's disqualification due to a rumored pregnancy, Miss Botswana Mpule Kwelagobe's final question on the night of the live telecast was whether she thought a Miss Universe who became pregnant should be allowed to continue her reign. Mpule enthusiastically responded that a pregnant Miss Universe should not relinquish her crown, but instead " celebrate her femininity!". Her frank, effortless and spontaneous answer to this controversial question that stumped the two other finalists (Philippines and Spain) would meet with the approval of the audience, as evidenced by the applause she received, and would earn her the title that night.
• This was the first year since 1976 that a candidate from the USA failed to make the semifinals.
• As in the year previous, the candidates from South Africa, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and India also made it into the top 10.
• Miss Northern Marianas Cherilyn Cabrera is now one of the directors for the Miss Marianas Universe Pageant.
• The Philippines placed its highest since Margarita Moran's win in 1973
  Miss Universe 1973
  Miss Universe 1973 was held at the 2,000-year-old amphitheatre of Odeon of Herodes Atticus, at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece on July 21, 1973...
  
  .

Contestant notes

• The candidates for Miss Philippines (1st Runner-Up) and Miss Spain
  Miss Spain
  Miss España is the main annual beauty pageant of Spain that selects the official representative to the Miss Universe pageant. Runners-up go to Miss World, Miss International and Miss Earth.-History:...
  
   (2nd Runner-Up) were not the original winners of their national pageants. Miriam Quiambao was originally selected to compete at the 1999 Miss World Pageant, but was bumped up to the Universe title after the original winner, Janelle Bautista was dethroned. Diana Noguera was 4th in her national pageant but became the representative for her country because the winner, Lorena Bernal
  Lorena Bernal
  Lorena Bernal Pascual is an actress and model with Argentine and Spanish nationality.-Early life:...
  
   was 17, the 1st runner up, Carmen Fernández, couldn't go to Miss Universe because her father was seriously sick, and the 2nd runner up, Inma Nadal had to participate in Miss Europe.
• Miss Universe Title winner, Mpule Kwelagobe, was Botswana's first-ever candidate to compete at Miss Universe Pageant. She also represented her country in the 1997 Miss World Pageant.
• Miss Philippines candidate Miriam Quiambao tripped on the stage during the evening gown preliminaries but eventually got into the Top 3 and won the first runner-up title.
• Two contestants from Miss Universe 1999 are deceased. Russia, Alexandra Petrova was shot and killed in 2000 by an unidentified gunman in her apartment at the Volga River city of Cheboksary
  Cheboksary
  -Twin towns/sister cities:Cheboksary is twinned with: Eger in Hungary Antalya in Turkey Santa Clara in CubaAlso Partnerships are shown with: Rundu in Namibia -External links:****...
  
  . Zambia, Esanju Kalopa was killed in a car accident in late October 2005.

Contestants

• - Egidia Torres
• - Elena Fournier
• - Irina Croes
• - Michelle Shead
• - Katja Giebner
• - Glennis Knowles
• - Olivia Harding
• - Tanja Dexters
  Tanja Dexters
  Tanja Dexters was crowned Miss Belgium 1998 and represented her country at Miss Universe 1999 and Miss World 1998....
  
  
• - Viola Jeffery
• - Susana Barrientos
•  Bonaire - Julina Felida
• - Mpule Kwelagobe
  Mpule Kwelagobe
  Mpule Keneilwe Kwelagobe of Gaborone, Botswana was crowned Miss Universe in May 1999 in Trinidad and Tobago. Since being crowned Miss Universe 1999, Mpule has been recognized and honored as a human health rights activist, especially for her fight against HIV/AIDS and advocacy for youth and women to...
  
  
• - Renata Fan
  Renata Fan
  Renata Bonfiglio Fan is a lawyer and journalist student who represented her country in the Miss Universe 1999 pageant...
  
  
• - Movel Lewis
• - Shannon McArthur
• - Gemma McLaughlin
• - Andrea Muñoz Sessarego
• - Marianella Maal Paccini
• - Tina Marie Vogel
• - Arianna Bolanos
• - Marijana Kuzina
• - Jouraine Ricardo
• - Valentina Dionysiou
• - Petra Faltynova
• - Luz Johanna García Marte
• - Carolina Alfonso
• - Engy Abdalla
• - Cynthia Cevallos
• - Triin Rannat
• - Vanessa Forsman
• - Mareva Galanter
  Mareva Galanter
  Mareva Galanter is a French actress and former beauty queen.Galanter won the 1998 "Miss World of Islands" and then the 1998 "Miss Tahiti" beauty contest that allowed her to compete for the Miss France 1999 crown, which she won.Galanter expanded her work into music and singing, releasing Ukuyéyé,...
  
  
• - Diana Drubig
• - Akuba Cudjoe
• ' - Cherie Pisani
• - Sofia Raptis
• - Monica Penedo
• - Morvinia Sobers
• - Sofia Guerrero
• - Anne Heung
  Anne Heung
  Anne Heung Hoi Lam, born 2 October 1974, is a Hong Kong actress for TVB. In 2008, she announced her retirement from the entertainment industry.-Biography:Anne often stars in action, comedic and political TVB drama series...
  
  
• - Anett Garami
• - Gul Panag
  Gul Panag
  Gul Panag is an Indian actress, model, and former beauty queen who competed in the Miss Universe pageant. Her notable films include Dor, Dhoop, Manorama Six Feet Under, Hello, and Straight....
  
  
• - Vivienne Doyle
• - Rana Raslan
  Rana Raslan
  Rana Raslan is an Arab Israeli from Haifa who was named Miss Israel in 1999. She was the first, and so far the only, Arab Israeli to win this title...
  
  

• - Gloria Bellicchi
• - Nicole Haughton
• - Satomi Ogawa
• ' - Choi Ji-Hyun
• - Clemence Achkar
• - Jeanette Ooi
• - Dorianne Muscat
• - Micaella L'Hortalle
• - Silvia Salgado
  Silvia Salgado
  Silvia Salgado Cavazos of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, won the national pageant Nuestra Belleza Mexico and represented her country and placed among the semi-finalists in the 1999 Miss Universe pageant, held in Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago, on May 26, 1999.-References:...
  
  
• - Vaanda Katjiuongua
• - Kristy Wilson
• - Liliana Pilarte Centeno
• - Angela Ukpoma
• ' - Cherilyn Cabrera
• - Yamani Saied
  Yamani Saied
  Yamani Esther Saied Calviño, born Ciudad de Panamá Panamá, is a Panamanian model and beauty pageant contestant winner of the Señorita Panamá 1998...
  
  
• - Carmen Morinigo
• - Fabiola Lazo
• - Miriam Quiambao
  Miriam Quiambao
  Miriam Redito Quiambao is a television personality, TV/Film Actress and a former beauty queen from the Philippines.Born in Quezon City to Magdalena Redito of Oas, Albay and Medgardo Quiambao of Bacacay, Albay on May 20, 1975, she is the first of two children...
  
  
• - Katarzyna Pakuła
• - Marisa Ferreira
• - Brenda Liz Lopez
• - Alexandra Petrova
• - Cheryl Marie Cordeiro
  Cheryl Marie Cordeiro
  Cheryl Marie Cordeiro was Singapore's delegate to the international Miss Universe pageant in 1999. In 1999 she held the title of Miss Singapore Universeand also won the subsidiary title of "Body Beautiful" in the local contest...
  
  
• ' - Aneta Kuklova
• - Sonia Raciti
• - Diana Nogueria
• - Serafya Niekoop
• - Emma Helena Nilsson
  Emma Helena Nilsson
  Emma Helena Nilsson, born 1975, in Östersund, Jämtland, Sweden. Formerly Miss Sweden and cross country skier. 34th place at Vasa Ski Marathon Race in the year of 2000....
  
  
• - Sonia Grandjean
• ' - Wan-Fei Wang
• - Apisamai Srirangsan
• ' - Nicole Simone Dyer
• - Oz Dursun
• ' - Shantell Stubbs
• - Zanna Pikhulya
• - Veronica Gonzales
•  United States - Kimberly Pressler
  Kimberly Pressler
  Kimberly Pressler is an entertainment presenter and former Miss USA. She is one of few women to win both the Miss New York Teen USA and Miss New York USA titles.-Pageant career:...
  
  
•  United States Virgin Islands - Sherece Smith
•  Venezuela - Carolina Indriago
  Carolina Indriago
  Lucbel Carolina Indriago Pinto is a Venezuelan show hostess and a pageant titleholder. She was born in Valencia, Venezuela on August 22, 1980. She is the first woman of noticeably black heritage to win the Miss Venezuela title...
  
  
• ' - Ana Karić
• - Esanju Kalopa

Replaced delegates

• - Janelle Bautista (Not a Philippine citizen)
• - Miriam Quiambao (Took her place)

Trivia

• The Parade of Nations is similar to 1998's, except that the contestants wore their national costumes this time.