Miss Switzerland 2008

The Miss Switzerland 2009 pageant was held on 26 September 2008. There were 16 candidates representing the cantons of the country that were competing for the national crown. The winner will enter in Miss Universe 2009 and Miss World 2009. Not all the contestants came from the canton they were originally from.

Miss Switzerland 2008
Date	26 September 2008
Entertainment	Giusy Ferreri, Garou and Gabriella Cilmi
Broadcaster	La 1, Télévision Suisse Romande and SRG SSR idée suisse
Entrants	16
Winner	Whitney Toyloy[1] Vaud

Candidates

Canton	Contestant	Age	Height	Hometown
Aargau	Stefanie Frei[2]	22	1.80	Brugg
Ticino	Lisa Panigada[3]	22	1.68	Sementina
Basel-Stadt	Alessia Novak[4]	21	1.81	Basel
Bern	Emilie Lindblom[5]	21	1.71	Bern
Fribourg	Céline Roscheck[6]	25	1.83	Villars-sur-Glâne
Geneva	Fiona Fariña[7]	20	1.72	Geneva
Grisons	Nathalie Schillinger[8]	22	1.73	Schiers
Lucerne	Selver Yavuz[9]	20	1.70	Windisch
Neuchâtel	Katja Diethelm[10]	24	1.70	Zürich
Solothurn	Diana Knezevic[11]	22	1.76	Grenchen
Thurgau	Dominique Knill[12]	21	1.82	Frauenfeld
Ticino	Lucile Epper[13]	24	1.80	Cademario
Valais	Alexandra Feybli[14]	19	1.75	Zürich
Vaud	Whitney Toyloy[15]	18	1.77	Yverdon
Zug	Nancy Kabika[16]	24	1.76	Geneva
Zürich	Rekha Datta[17]	20	1.72	Winkel