Mister World 2007
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Mister World 2007, the 5th annual Mister World male pageant was held on March 31, 2007 in the tropical island of Sanya
, People's Republic of China
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Mister World 2007 was televised across the globe, with an estimated audience of over one billion people in over one hundred countries. The event was live from the Crown of Beauty Theater. Over the weeks of the competition, the men will be tested on their strength, perseverance, mental agility and determination, set against some of China’s most spectacular locations.
Sanya
Sanya is the southernmost city in China and is a part of Hainan Province. In 2006, it had a population of 536,000, making it, after the provincial capital , the second most populous city on the island. The city is renowned for its tropical climate and has emerged as a popular tourist destination,...
, People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
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Mister World 2007 was televised across the globe, with an estimated audience of over one billion people in over one hundred countries. The event was live from the Crown of Beauty Theater. Over the weeks of the competition, the men will be tested on their strength, perseverance, mental agility and determination, set against some of China’s most spectacular locations.
Placements
| Final Results | Contestant |
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| Mister World 2007 |
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| 1st Runner-up |
 Brazil - Lucas Gil |
| 2nd Runner-up |
 Mainland China - Lejun Tony Jiang |
| Finalists |
 Costa Rica - Alonso Fernández AlvarezAlonso Fernández Alvarez Alonso Fernández Alvarez is an international fashion model from San José, Costa Rica.-Mister World Model 2007:Alonso entered the Mister World Model 2007 pageant held on November 18, 2006 in Guatemala...  Chile - Patricio Laguna |
| Semi-finalists |
 Austria - Matthias Thaler India - Kawaljit Anand Singh Lebanon - Anthony Hakim Nigeria - Ikenna Bryan Okwara Puerto Rico - Romeo Quinonez South Africa - Dieter Voigt Ukraine - Ievgen Dudin |
Results
- This year is the second time that the host delegate made into the semi-finals.
- China is the only East AsiaEast AsiaEast Asia or Eastern Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms...
country to made into semi-finals. - Puerto Rico is the only CaribbeanCaribbeanThe Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
country to make the finals. - Nigeria and South Africa marks the first time an AfricaAfricaAfrica is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
country placed in the semi-finals. - Chile, Costa Rica, Nigeria, South Africa, and Ukraine placed for the first time.
- Brazil, China, and Lebanon placed in the last Mister World in 2003Mister World 2003The fourth edition of the Mister World male pageant was held at the Brewery Hall, London, England on August 9, 2003. Gustavo Narciso Gianetti from Brazil beats the other 37 contestants and became Mister World 2003.-Placements:-Judges:*Julia Morley*Azra Akin...
. - Brazil and Lebanon placed for the 3rd consecutive time in since 2000Mister World 2000The third edition of the Mister World male pageant was held in Crieff Hydro Hotel, Perthshire, Scotland at October 13, 2000.-Placements:-Contestants:*' - Jorge Nelson Dos Santos Clemente*' - Matias Beck*' - Neil Paris Dames...
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Contestants
| Country | | Contestant | Age | Height (cm) | Height (ft.) | |Hometown |
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| Ervin Pepaj | 20 | Tirana Tirana Tirana is the capital and the largest city of Albania. Modern Tirana was founded as an Ottoman town in 1614 by Sulejman Bargjini, a local ruler from Mullet, although the area has been continuously inhabited since antiquity. Tirana became Albania's capital city in 1920 and has a population of over... |
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| Harley von Moger | 21 | Geelong | |||
| Matthias Thaler | 21 | 188 | 6'2" | Innsbruck Innsbruck - Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus... |
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| Metellus Antoine Chipman | 188 | 6'2" | Nassau Nassau, Bahamas Nassau is the capital, largest city, and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The city has a population of 248,948 , 70 percent of the entire population of The Bahamas... |
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| Fabian McDowald | 19 | Bridgetown Bridgetown The city of Bridgetown , metropolitan pop 96,578 , is the capital and largest city of the nation of Barbados. Formerly, the Town of Saint Michael, the Greater Bridgetown area is located within the parish of Saint Michael... |
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| Matthew Phillips | Antwerp | ||||
| Julio Cesar Aguilera | Cochabamba Cochabamba Cochabamba is a city in central Bolivia, located in a valley bearing the same name in the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cochabamba Department and is the fourth largest city in Bolivia with an urban population of 608,276 and a metropolitan population of more than 1,000,000 people... |
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| ' | Nebojsa Malesevic | Banja Luka Banja Luka -History:The name "Banja Luka" was first mentioned in a document dated February 6, 1494, but Banja Luka's history dates back to ancient times. There is a substantial evidence of the Roman presence in the region during the first few centuries A.D., including an old fort "Kastel" in the centre of... |
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| Lucas Barboza Gil | 22 | 191 | 6'3.5" | Votuporanga Votuporanga Votuporanga is a municipality in the Northwest of the São Paulo state, Brazil. The city is located 520 km from São Paulo. The population of the city, according to the IBGE, is of 84,692 inhabitants.... |
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| Giorgi Zhekov | Sliven Sliven Sliven is the eighth-largest city in Bulgaria and the administrative and industrial centre of Sliven Province and municipality. It is a relatively large town with 89,848 inhabitants, as of February 2011.... |
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| Darren Storsley | 31 | 180 | 5'11" | Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,... |
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| Jose Patricio Laguna Gebauer | 29 | 190 | 6'3" | Santiago Santiago, Chile Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level... |
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| ' | Lejun Tony Jiang | Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010... |
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| Hugo Villegas | Bogota Bogotá Bogotá, Distrito Capital , from 1991 to 2000 called Santa Fé de Bogotá, is the capital, and largest city, of Colombia. It is also designated by the national constitution as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, even though the city of Bogotá now comprises an independent Capital district... |
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| Alonso Fernández Alvarez Alonso Fernández Alvarez Alonso Fernández Alvarez is an international fashion model from San José, Costa Rica.-Mister World Model 2007:Alonso entered the Mister World Model 2007 pageant held on November 18, 2006 in Guatemala... |
24 | 182 | 5'11.5" | San Jose San José, Costa Rica San José is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica. Located in the Central Valley, San José is the seat of national government, the focal point of political and economic activity, and the major transportation hub of this Central American nation.Founded in 1738 by order of Cabildo de León, San... |
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 Curaçao |
Henry Romero Rodriguez | 23 | 185 | 6'1" | Willemstad Willemstad Willemstad can refer to:*Willemstad, the capital of Curaçao*Willemstad , a town in Moerdijk, the Netherlands*Willemstad , a hamlet near Marum, the Netherlands*Willemstad , a hamlet in the Netherlands... |
| Brian Nonbo | 26 | Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region... |
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| Johaney Wilfredo Albor Linero | 25 | 185 | 6'1" | Santo Domingo Santo Domingo Santo Domingo, known officially as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population was 2,084,852 in 2003, and estimated at 3,294,385 in 2010. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River... |
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| Omar Awad | 25 | Cairo Cairo Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life... |
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| Warren Harvey | 24 | 200 | 6'7" | Bournemouth Bournemouth Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. According to the 2001 Census the town has a population of 163,444, making it the largest settlement in Dorset. It is also the largest settlement between Southampton and Plymouth... |
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| Mark Wilke | 35 | 189 | 6'2.5" | Munich Munich Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat... |
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| Nikitas Giannakos | Athens Athens Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state... |
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 Guadeloupe |
Siegfried Ventadour | 22 | Petit-Bourg Petit-Bourg Petit-Bourg is the seventh-largest commune in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe. It is located on the east side of the island of Basse-Terre, and is part of the metropolitan area of Pointe-à-Pitre, the largest metropolitan area in Guadeloupe.... |
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| ' | François Huynh Francois Huynh Francois Huynh previously won the title of Mr. Hong Kong in 2006, and is currently an actor with Hong Kong's TVB. Francois was born in Hong Kong, however, raised in France and returned to Hong Kong after finishing his studies. His parents are ethnic Teochew Chinese from Vietnam... |
21 | 178 | 5'10" | Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour... |
| Jon Gunnlaugur Viggosson | 24 | Reykjavik Reykjavík Reykjavík is the capital and largest city in Iceland.Its latitude at 64°08' N makes it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói Bay... |
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| Kawaljit Anand Singh | 26 | Assam Assam Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country... |
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| Simon Hales | 24 | 188 | 6'2" | Dublin | |
| Carlo Martellini | 24 | Leece Leece Leece is a village on the Furness peninsula of South Lakeland in Cumbria, England, situated between the towns of Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness... |
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| Gabbriel Omolo Ouma | 23 | Nairobi Nairobi Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi County. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters". However, it is popularly known as the "Green City in the Sun" and is... |
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| Arturs Mihailovs | 23 | 187 | 6'1.5" | Riga Riga Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,... |
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| Anthony El-Hakim | 25 | 187 | 6'1.5" | Beirut Beirut Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan... |
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| Emmett Massaquoi | 32 | Monrovia Monrovia Monrovia is the capital city of the West African nation of Liberia. Located on the Atlantic Coast at Cape Mesurado, it lies geographically within Montserrado County, but is administered separately... |
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| Gintaras Kuculis | 25 | Punskas | |||
| ' | Gjorgi Filipov | 20 | 189 | 6'2.5" | Skopje Skopje Skopje is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia with about a third of the total population. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre... |
| David Camenzuli | 21 | Sliema Sliema Tas-Sliema is a city located on the northeast coast of Malta. It is a centre for shopping, restaurants and café life. Tas-Sliema is also a major commercial and residential area and houses several of Malta's most modern hotels. Tas-Sliema, which means 'peace, comfort', was once a quiet fishing... |
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| Jorge Ivan Aceves Villalpando | 22 | 186 | 6'1.5" | Guadalajara Guadalajara Guadalajara may refer to:In Mexico:*Guadalajara, Jalisco, the capital of the state of Jalisco and second largest city in Mexico**Guadalajara Metropolitan Area*University of Guadalajara, a public university in Guadalajara, Jalisco... |
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| Quintin Colicchia | 29 | Amsterdam Amsterdam Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population... |
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| Ikenna Bryan Okwara Ikenna Bryan Okwara Ikenna Bryan Okwara is a Nigerian pageant contestant who won the title of Mr. Nigeria 2007 and reached the semi-finals in the Mister World 2007 competition for Nigeria. Okwara is Igbo.-References:... |
20 | Lagos Lagos Lagos is a port and the most populous conurbation in Nigeria. With a population of 7,937,932, it is currently the third most populous city in Africa after Cairo and Kinshasa, and currently estimated to be the second fastest growing city in Africa... |
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| Ross Lauder | 21 | 188 | 6'2" | Belfast Belfast Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly... |
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| Sivert Aassve | 19 | Steinkjer Steinkjer is a town and a municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Innherad region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Steinkjer, which is also the seat of the county government... |
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| Diego Alejandro Cedeño de Obaldia | 27 | 188 | 6'2" | Panama City Panama City Panama is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a population of 880,691, with a total metro population of 1,272,672, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of the same name. The city is the political and administrative center of the... |
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| Emmanuel Balon Mago | 26 | 190 | 6'3" | Manila Manila Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,... |
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| Daniel Madej | 25 | 191 | 6'3.5" | Żywiec Zywiec Żywiec is a town in south-central Poland with 32,242 inhabitants . Between 1975 and 1998, it was located within the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship, but has since become part of the Silesian Voivodeship.... |
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| Ariel Romeo Quiñonez Morales | 25 | 190 | 6'3" | San Juan San Juan, Puerto Rico San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of... |
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| Razvan Constantin Dobre | 26 | Bucharest Bucharest Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River.... |
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| Roman Demchenko | Moscow Moscow Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent... |
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| Reuben Kee En Rui Reuben Kee Reuben Kee En Rui Reuben Kee En Rui Reuben Kee En Rui (simplified Chinese: 纪恩锐; traditional Chinese: 紀恩鋭; pinyin: Ji En Rui; (July 9, 1984 - November 23, 2007) was a Singaporean dragon-boat paddler, composer and part-time model. He was also known for contributions within the M.U.G.E.N community,... † |
22 | 184 | 6'1" | Singapore Singapore Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the... |
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| Dieter Voigt | 29 | Mossel Bay Mossel Bay Mossel Bay is a harbour town of about 130,000 people on the Southern Cape of South Africa. It is an important tourism and farming region of the Western Cape Province... |
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| Juan García Postigo Juan García Postigo Juan García Postigo is a male beauty pageant contestant from Málaga, Spain. He was proclaimed Mister World 2007 on March 31, 2007, in Sanya, People's Republic of China... |
25 | 190 | 6'3" | Malaga Málaga Málaga is a city and a municipality in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Spain. With a population of 568,507 in 2010, it is the second most populous city of Andalusia and the sixth largest in Spain. This is the southernmost large city in Europe... |
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| Shibani Shaban Basiron | 19 | 188 | 6'2" | Colombo Colombo Colombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital of Sri Lanka. Colombo is often referred to as the capital of the country, since Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is a satellite city of Colombo... |
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| Ertem Eser | 23 | Istanbul Istanbul Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and... |
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| Ievgen Dudin | 25 | 184 | 6'0" | Sebastopol Sebastopol Sebastopol is a former spelling and frequent variant of Sevastopol, the port on the Crimean peninsula.Sebastopol may refer to the following:Places:* Sebastopol, California, USA* Sebastopol, Mississippi, USA... |
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| Travis Alexander Kraft | 27 | 183 | 6'0" | Bismarck Bismarck - People :* Bismarck family, a German noble family descending from Herebord von Bismarck* Otto von Bismarck , German statesman of the 19th century* Herbert von Bismarck , Secretary of State, son of Otto von Bismarck... |
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| Vito Ernesto Gasparrini Domínguez Vito Gasparrini Vito Ernesto Gasparrini Domínguez is a Venezuelan model who was won the title of Mister Venezuela on 2006. He was also represented Mérida state in Mister Venezuela 2003. He was the official representative of Venezuela in the Mister World 2007 pageant in Sanya, China.-External links:*... |
31 | 192 | 6'3.5" | Caracas Caracas Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range... |
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| Hồ Đức Vĩnh | Hồ Chí Minh City Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City , formerly named Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam... |
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| Leigh Brookman | 23 | Pontypridd Pontypridd Pontypridd is both a community and a principal town of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales and is situated 12 miles/19 km north of the Welsh capital city of Cardiff... |
Contestant notes
- Costa Rica: Alonso Fernández AlvarezAlonso Fernández AlvarezAlonso Fernández Alvarez is an international fashion model from San José, Costa Rica.-Mister World Model 2007:Alonso entered the Mister World Model 2007 pageant held on November 18, 2006 in Guatemala...
competed in Manhunt International 2007Manhunt International 2007The 2007 Manhunt International World Final was held at the new Kangwonland International Convention Centre, Korea on Saturday 10 February 2007 with the participation of 48 countries...
, where he finished as a Top 16 semifinalist and won Mr. Photogenic. - Brazil: Lucas Gil competed in International Man 2007International Man 2007International Man 2007 was the inaugural year of the International Man male beauty pageant. It took place in Bali, Indonesia and was won by Taro Alexander Nordmark from Sweden...
and placed 2nd runner-up.