Mister World 1998

Mister World 1998 was the second Mister World competition, held at the Tróia Peninsula in Grândola, Portugal, on September 18, 1998. Tom Nuyens of Belgium crowned Sandro Finoglio of Venezuela at the end of the event.

Mister World 1998
Tróia Peninsula, host region for Mister World 1998
Date	September 18, 1998
Presenters	Júlia Pinheiro
Entertainment	Fafá de Belém
Venue	Tróia Peninsula, Grândola, Portugal
Broadcaster	SIC
Entrants	43
Placements	12
Debuts	Egypt Malta Peru Portugal Sri Lanka Uruguay
Withdrawals	Aruba Botswana Bulgaria Canada Dominican Republic Estonia Macedonia FYRO South Africa Swaziland Sweden Thailand Trinidad and Tobago
Winner	Sandro Finoglio  Venezuela
Personality	Dimitri Drabakoulos  Greece
Photogenic	Rubim Fonseca  Portugal
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Results

Placements

Placement	Contestant
Mister World 1998	Venezuela – Sandro Finoglio Speranza
1st Runner-Up	Puerto Rico – Germán Cardoso Méndez
2nd Runner-Up	France – Gregory Rossi
Top 6	Jamaica – Kinte Thelwell  Spain – Enrique Miranda García  United States – Daniel Weaver
Top 12	Australia – Joel Williams  Belgium – Franck Clemente  Latvia – Gatis Didrihsons  Norway – Espen Engtroe  United Kingdom - Brett Phippen Yugoslavia – Darko Marojević

Special Awards

Award	Contestant
Mister Personality	Greece – Dimitri Drabakoulos
Mister Photogenic	Portugal – Rubim Fonseca

Contestants

Country	Contestant	Age	Height	Hometown
Argentina	Mariano Fernández[1]	25	1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)	Macachín
Australia	Joel Williams[2]	25	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	Gold Coast
Austria	Andreas Sappl[3]	28	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	Breitenbach am Inn
Belgium	Franck Clemente[4]	27	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	Liège
Bolivia	Steven Aras Zallio[5]	21	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Brazil	Edilson Leite Ferreira[6]	23	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	Brasília
Colombia	Felipe Arturo Barbosa Carrasco[7]	25	1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)	Barranquilla
Croatia	Leonid Holjar[8]	20	1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in)	Rijeka
Egypt	Hani Salama[9]	20	1.97 m (6 ft 5+1⁄2 in)	Cairo
France	Gregory Rossi[10]	22	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	Cassis
Germany	Adrian Virgil Ursache[11]	23	1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in)	Berlin
Greece	Dimitri Drabakoulos[12]	22	1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in)	Athens
Holland	Richard van Bokkum[13]	24	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	Rotterdam
Hungary	Kristian Chis[14]	23	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	Eger
India	Sachin Khurana[15]	22	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	Delhi
Ireland	Brian Guidera[16]	23	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	Dublin
Israel	Elad Madany[17]	22	1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)	Tel Aviv
Italy	Matteo Mammì[18]	22	1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in)	Milan
Jamaica	Kinte Thelwell[19]	23	1.94 m (6 ft 4+1⁄2 in)	Kingston
Latvia	Gatis Didrihsons[20]	24	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	Ventspils
Lebanon	Ghassan Mawla[21]	20	1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in)	Beirut
Malaysia	Yap Leong Chai[22]	26	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	Kuala Lumpur
Malta	Nikovich Sammut[23]	21	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	Bugibba
Mexico	Eduardo Rodríguez Álvarez[24]	24	1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)	San Luis Potosí
Norway	Espen Engtroe[25]	23	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	Kristiansund
Peru	Jean Pierre Vismara[26]	23	1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in)	Callao
Philippines	Rico Lee Miguel[27]	21	1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)	Batangas City
Poland	Robert Koszucki[28]	21	1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in)	Kraków
Portugal	Rubim Fonseca[29]	25	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	Lisbon
Puerto Rico	Germán Cardoso Méndez[30]	22	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	San Juan
Russia	Aleksey Korolev[31]	24	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	Moscow
Singapore	Alvin Tan Wei Jin[32]	21	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)	Singapore
Slovakia	Matúš Haňo[33]	22	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	Vranov nad Topľou
Slovenia	Eduard Žalar[34]	22	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	Maribor
Spain	Enrique Miranda García[35]	27	1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in)	Cádiz
Sri Lanka	Tariq Saleem[36]	22	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	Colombo
Turkey	Bora Erdem[37]	29	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	İzmir
Ukraine	Ihor Skrypnychenko[38]	17	1.92 m (6 ft 3+1⁄2 in)	Odesa
United Kingdom	Brett Phippen[39]	26	1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)	Swansea
United States	Daniel Weaver[40]	29	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	Los Angeles
Uruguay	Mauro Ramírez del Puerto[41]	24	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	Montevideo
Venezuela	Sandro Finoglio Speranza[42]	25	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	Caracas
Yugoslavia	Darko Marojević[43]	25	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	Belgrade