Miss Earth 2011

Miss Earth 2011, the 11th edition of the Miss Earth pageant, was held on December 3, 2011 at the University of the Philippines Theater, inside the campus of the University of the Philippines Diliman in Quezon City, Philippines.^[2] Nicole Faria of India crowned her successor Olga Álava of Ecuador at the end of the event.^[3][4] The show was aired live by Channel V at 8:00 pm, while Star World broadcast on Sunday, 4 December at 6:00 pm, ABS-CBN and Studio 23 broadcast on the same day at 10:30 pm. There was also a delayed telecast of the show on The Filipino Channel and on the television stations of other participating countries.^[5]

Miss Earth 2011
University of the Philippines Theater, the venue for Miss Earth 2011
Date	December 3, 2011
Presenters	Jason Godfrey Sonia Couling
Entertainment	Christian Bautista
Venue	UP Theater, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Broadcaster	ABS-CBN Studio 23 The Filipino Channel Star World Channel V
Entrants	84[1]
Placements	16
Debuts	Aruba Austria Sri Lanka
Withdrawals	Cameroon Cayman Islands Costa Rica Egypt French Polynesia Guyana Jamaica Kenya Malta Mauritius Mongolia Nicaragua Poland Samoa Serbia South Sudan Tonga
Returns	Belize El Salvador Estonia Honduras Hungary Israel Pakistan Paraguay Portugal Spain Sweden Trinidad and Tobago United States Virgin Islands Zimbabwe
Winner	Olga Álava Ecuador
Congeniality	Sanober Hussain Pakistan
Best National Costume	Tomoko Maeda Japan
Photogenic	Cherry Liu Taiwan
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The pageant was originally scheduled to be held at the Impact, Muang Thong Thani in Bangkok, Thailand,^[6][7] however the pageant organizers decided to move the pageant back to the Philippines due to the 2011 Thailand floods.^[2][8][9]

The three "elemental titles", which have equal ranking, were awarded to Miss Brazil Driely Bennettone as Miss Earth-Air 2011, Miss Philippines Athena Imperial as Miss Earth-Water 2011 title, and Caroline Medina of Venezuela as Miss Earth-Fire 2011.^[10][11][12]

Results

Miss Earth 2011 participating countries and territories and results

Placements

Placement	Contestant
Miss Earth 2011	Ecuador – Olga Álava
Miss Earth – Air 2011	Brazil – Driely Bennettone
Miss Earth – Water 2011	Philippines – Athena Imperial
Miss Earth – Fire 2011	Venezuela – Caroline Medina
Top 8	Bosnia and Herzegovina – Aleksandra Kovačević  Crimea – Nina Astrakhantseva  Mexico – Casandra Becerra  Zimbabwe – Thandi Muringa
Top 16	Japan – Tomoko Maeda  Paraguay – Nicole Huber  Portugal – Susana Nogueira  Slovenia – Rebecca Kim Lekše  Sweden – Renate Cerljen Taiwan – Cherry Liu  Thailand – Niratcha Tungtisanont  Ukraine – Kristina Oparina

Special awards

Major awards

The following special awards were given:^[13]

Awards	Contestant
Miss Friendship	Pakistan – Sanober Hussain
Miss Photogenic	Taiwan – Cherry Liu
Miss Talent	South Africa – Dominique Mann
Best in National Costume	Japan – Tomoko Maeda
Best in Evening Gown	Mexico – Casandra Becerra
Best in Swimsuit	Czech Republic – Šárka Cojocarová

Order of announcements

Top 16  Ukraine  Paraguay  Japan  Portugal  Sweden  Brazil  Venezuela Taiwan  Crimea  Zimbabwe  Thailand  Slovenia  Mexico  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Ecuador  Philippines

Top 8  Crimea  Ecuador  Mexico  Philippines  Venezuela  Zimbabwe  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Brazil

Top 4  Ecuador  Brazil  Venezuela  Philippines

Winning answer

Final Question in Miss Earth 2011: "Why the candidates chose education as the environmental initiative that world leaders should prioritize?"^[14]

Answer of Miss Earth 2011: "Education is the best solution for the environment because children are those who have to preserve the Earth for future generations." – Olga Álava, represented Ecuador.^[15]

Background music

• Opening: "The Beautiful People" by Christina Aguilera and "Papi" by Jennifer Lopez
• Swimswit Competition: "Sexy and I Know It" by LMFAO
• Evening Gown Competition: "Sunshiner (A)" by Matthew Cang
• Final Look: "Just the Way You Are" of Bruno Mars (by Christian Bautista) (Live)

Judges

The board of judges during the final competition were consisted of the following personalities:^[16][17]

No.	Judge	Background
1	Zubin Gandevia	Television producer, chief operating officer of Fox International Channels in Asia Pacific & Middle East
2	Jean-Pierre Grivory	Perfumer, President Director General at Cofinluxe S.A. in France, creator of the world-famous Salvador Dalí perfumes
3	Philippe Charriol	Designer, Founder and CEO of the Charriol Group, makers of Philippe Charriol watches
4	Cong Khe Nguyen	Newspaper editor, Chairperson of Thanh Nien Media Corporation, Director of the Nguyen Thai Binh Scholarship, chairperson and founder of the Vietnam Talent Fund
5	Jacinto Ng Jr	Entrepreneur, Director of Quantuvis Resources Corp.
6	Luis Crisologo Singson	Politician, Governor of the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines
7	Daniele Ponzi	environment specialist of Asian Development Bank
8	Vivien Tan	Singer from Singapore, Host of Star Asia Travel, an Asia wide travel program for STAR TV
9	Vivienne Tan	Environment advocate, educator, and social worker
10	Patrick Durst	Senior forestry officer for Asia and the Pacific of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
11	Dave Semerad	Ateneo de Manila University basketball player
12	Anthony Semerad	Ateneo de Manila University basketball player

Contestants

84 delegates competed for the title

Country/Territory	Contestant	Age	Height	Hometown
Aruba	Melissa Laclé	25	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	Oranjestad
Australia	Deedee Zibara	20	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	West Ryde
Austria	Elisabeth Hanakamp	20	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Vienna
Bahamas	Kerel Pinder	26	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)[18]	Grand Bahama
Belgium	Aline Decock[citation needed]	23	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[19]	Brussels
Belize	Kimberly Robateau[20]	22	1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)[20]	Belize City
Bolivia	Valeria Avendaño	23	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)	La Paz
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Aleksandra Kovacevic	21	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[21]	Sarajevo
Botswana	Messiah Jackson[22]	24	1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)[22]	Gaborone
Brazil	Driely Bennettone[1]	21	1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)[23]	São Paulo
Canada	Ashlea Moor[citation needed]	25	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)[24]	Lethbridge
Chile	Camila Stuardo	23	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[25]	Temuco
China	Liu Yujun	22	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[26]	Nanjing
Colombia	Andrea DeVivo[citation needed]	23	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	La Guajira
Crimea	Nina Astrakhantseva[27]	21	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)[27]	Simferopol
Curaçao	Miluska Willems[1]	24	1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)	Willemstad
Czech Republic	Šárka Cojocarová[1]	21	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[28]	Svobodné Heřmanice
Denmark	Cecilia Iftikhar[1]	24	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[29]	Kokkedal
Dominican Republic	Sarah Féliz[citation needed]	24	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[30]	Neiba
Ecuador	Olga Álava[citation needed]	23	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Guayaquil
El Salvador	Anita Puertas[1]	22	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	San Salvador
England	Roxanne Smith[31]	22	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[32]	Birmingham
Estonia	Ksenia Lihhatševa[1]	21	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[33]	Tallinn
France	Mathilde Florin[1]	21	1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)[34]	Lille
Germany	Manou Volkmer	18	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[35]	Berlin
Ghana	Patricia Amoah Anti[36]	21	1.56 m (5 ft 1+1⁄2 in)[36]	Accra
Guadeloupe	Mitchelle Malezieu[1]	18	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)[37]	Basse-Terre
Guam	Anna Calvo[1]	25	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[38]	Dededo
Guatemala	Ana Luisa Montúfar[1]	18	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[39]	Guatemala City
Honduras	Stephany Martínez[40]	19	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[41]	Roatan
Hong Kong	Luo Wenxi[1]	18	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[42]	Hong Kong
Hungary	Dora Szabó[citation needed]	24	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)[43]	Budapest
India	Hasleen Kaur[1]	22	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)[44]	New Delhi
Indonesia	Inez Elodhia Maharani[45]	22	1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in)[45]	Jakarta
Ireland	Rachelle Liggett[31]	20	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[46]	Dublin
Israel	Huda Naccache[1]	21	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[47]	Haifa
Italy	Angelica Parisi[1]	23	1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)[48]	Torino
Japan	Tomoko Maeda[1]	24	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[49]	Tokyo
Kosovo	Nora Asani[1]	24	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[50]	Pristina
Latvia	Sanda Mezecka[51]	26	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)[51]	Riga
Lebanon	Nathaly Farraj[1]	22	1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)[52]	Beirut
Luxembourg	Natascha Bintz[53]	21	1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)[54]	Luxembourg City
Macau	Cherry Ng[1]	24	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[55]	Macau
Madagascar	Volamiandoha Ratsimiahotrarivo[1]	18	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Antsirabe
Malaysia	Joyce Tay[1]	24	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)	Malacca
Martinique	Coralie Leplus[citation needed]	21	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Fort-de-France
Mexico	Casandra Becerra[56]	23	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[57]	Guadalajara
Nepal	Anupama Aura Gurung[1]	23	1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in)	Chitwan
Netherlands	Jill Duijves[58]	23	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Diemen
New Zealand	Alexandra Scott[citation needed]	22	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)	Auckland
Nigeria	Munachi Uzoma[1]	21	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[59]	Abuja
Northern Ireland	Alixandra Halliday[31]	19	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[60]	Derry
Norway	Marion Dyrvik[1]	22	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)[61]	Trondheim
Pakistan	Sanober Hussain[citation needed]	23	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[62]	Lahore
Panama	Marelissa Him[1]	22	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[63]	Panamá City
Paraguay	Nicole Huber[1]	21	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)	Asunción
Peru	Maria Gracia Figueroa[1]	21	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)	Lima
Philippines	Athena Imperial[1]	24	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[64]	Casiguran
Portugal	Susana Nogueira[65]	20	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Lisbon
Puerto Rico	Agnes Benítez[1]	25	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Cataño
Romania	Jihan Shanabli[66]	26	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[66]	Bucharest
Russia	Alena Kuznetsova[67]	25	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	Moscow
Scotland	Amanda Quinn[31]	25	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[68]	Glasgow
Singapore	Felicia Orvalla[1]	23	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[69]	Singapore
Slovak Republic	Romana Procházková[1]	23	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[70]	Bratislava
Slovenia	Rebecca Kim Lekše[71]	20	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[71]	Ljubljana
South Africa	Dominique Mann[72]	25	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)[72]	Cape Town
South Korea	E-seul Kim[1]	26	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)[73]	Seoul
Spain	Veronica Doblas[53][74]	21	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[75]	Madrid
Sri Lanka	Poojani Wakirigala[76]	24	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[76]	Colombo
Sweden	Renate Cerljen[1]	22	1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)	Staffanstorp
Switzerland	Irina de Giorgi[1]	21	1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)[77]	Zurich
Taiwan	Cherry Liu[1]	18	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[78]	Taipei
Tanzania	Nelly Kamwelu[79]	19	1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)	Dar Es Salaam
Thailand	Niratcha Tungtisanont[80]	22	1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)[81]	Bangkok
Trinidad and Tobago	Melanie George-Sharpe[1]	24	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[82]	Port of Spain
Turkey	Merve Saribas[1]	20	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[83]	Istanbul
Ukraine	Kristina Oparina[citation needed]	19	1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)[84]	Kharkiv
United States	Nicole Kelley[1]	22	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[85]	Daytona Beach
United States Virgin Islands	Kara Williams[citation needed]	22	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[86]	St. Croix
Venezuela	Caroline Medina[1]	19	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[87]	Maracay
Vietnam	Phan Thị Mơ[88]	21	1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)	Tien Giang
Wales	Emma Franklin[31]	24	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[89]	Cardiff
Zimbabwe	Thandi Muringa[citation needed]	23	1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)[90]	Harare

Notes

Debuts

• Aruba
• Austria
• Sri Lanka

Returns

• Last competed in 2005:
  • Estonia
  • Portugal
• Last competed in 2007:
  • Belize
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • United States Virgin Islands
• Last competed in 2009:
  • El Salvador
  • Honduras
  • Hungary
  • Israel
  • Pakistan
  • Paraguay
  • Spain
  • Sweden

Withdrawals

• Cameroon
• Cayman Islands
• Costa Rica
• Egypt
• French Polynesia
• Guyana
• Kenya
• Malta
• Mauritius
• Mongolia
• Nicaragua
• Poland
• Samoa
• Serbia
• South Sudan
• Tonga

Did not compete

• Jamaica - Kerry Moxam

Replacement

• Vietnam - Nguyễn Thái Hà has been confirmed as a candidate to represent Vietnam this year. However, one day before leaving, she withdrew because of the family's emergency work. After Trương Thị May - expected representative of Vietnam in Miss Earth 2009 but did not attend because she was injured - refused because she was participating in the drama "Chau sa", supermodel Phạm Ngọc Thạch qualified to participate, Phan Thị Mơ, Top 5 Miss Vietnam World 2010 was granted permission to attend last minute.