Miss Earth 2007
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Miss Earth 2007
Miss Earth 2007 court (Water, Earth, Air and Fire)
Date:	11 November 2007
Presenters:	Utt Panichkul, with Priscilla Meirelles & Ginger Conejero
Venue:	UP Theater, Quezon City, Philippines
Broadcaster:	ABS-CBN, The Filipino Channel, Star World
Entrants:	88
Winner:	Jessica Trisko
Represented:	Canada

Miss Earth 2007 Top 4

Miss Earth 2007 Top 8

Miss Earth 2007 Special Awards

Countries and territories that sent delegates and results.

Miss Earth 2007, the 7th Miss Earth pageant took place on November 11, 2007 at the University of the Philippines Theater in Quezon City, Philippines. The delegates also visited Nha Trang, Vietnam. Eighty- eight delegates competed for the title, held by Hil Hernández of Chile, making 2007 the largest edition of contestants for Miss Earth. The pageant was hosted by MTV Asia VJ Greg "Utt" Panichkul. Canadian Jessica Trisko was crowned Miss Earth in the seventh edition of the environmentally-conscious beauty pageant held Sunday night.

Pooja Chitgopekar won India's second consecutive Miss Earth-Air title. Silvana Santaella of Venezuela won Best in Swimsuit and Best in Long Gown and was proclaimed Miss Earth-Water.^[1][2]

Spain was represented by Angela Gomez finished fourth as Miss Earth-Fire. Semifinalist Bokang Montjane of South Africa received the Beauty for a Cause award.^[3]

Results

Placements

• Miss Earth 2007 - Jessica Trisko (Canada)
  • Miss Earth Air (1st Runner-up) - Pooja Chitgopekar (India)
  • Miss Earth Water (2nd Runner-up) - Silvana Santaella (Venezuela)
  • Miss Earth Fire (3rd Runner Up) - Ángela Gómez Durán (Spain)

• Finalists: Nanka Mamasakhlisi (Georgia), Odilia Pineda (Peru), Stefanie Gossweiler (Switzerland), Jiraporn Sing-ieam (Thailand)

• Semi-finalists: Eva Čerešňáková (Czech Republic), Themys Febriel (Dominican Republic), Amale Al-Khoder (Lebanon), Elodie Delor (Martinique), Stacey Garvey (Nigeria), Alina Gheorge (Romania), Bokang Montjane (South Africa), Ivana Gagula (Sweden)

Awards

• Beauty For A Cause Award - Bokang Montjane (South Africa)
• Miss Friendship - Amale Al-Khoder (Lebanon)
• Miss Talent - Monica Baliunaite (Lithuania)
• Best in National Costume - Jiraporn Sing-ieam (Thailand)
• Best in Long Gown - Silvana Santaella (Venezuela)
• Best in Swimsuit - Silvana Santaella (Venezuela)
• Miss Photogenic - Jeanne Angeles Harn (Philippines)

Minor Awards Given in Vietnam

• Best in Ao Dai: Patrícia Andrade (Brazil)
• Miss Fashion: Truc Diem Truong (Vietnam)
• Miss Fitness: Odilia Pineda (Peru)
• Miss Charm: Ji-Eun Yoo (Korea)

Minor Awards Given in the Philippines

• Miss Psalmstre Placenta: Silvana Santaella (Venezuela)
• Miss Fontana: Ji-Eun Yoo (Korea)
• Gandang Ricky Reyes Award: Silvana Santaella (Venezuela)
• Prinsesa Ng Kalikasan (Environmental Award): Jessica Trisko (Canada)
  • Top 5 runners-up: Bolivia, Belize, Colombia, and Cuba
• Miss Eco-Tourism: Ariana Barouk (Cuba)

Winning Answer

Final Question in Miss Earth 2007: How would you describe the beauty of Mother Earth to a blind child?

Answer of Miss Earth 2007: “I would say that the beauty of Mother Nature smells as sweet as the sweetest rose... that the beauty of Mother Nature feels as soft as the softest leaves... and, that the beauty of Mother Nature sings like the birds in the trees." - Jessica Nicole Trisko, represented Canada^[4]

Hosts

Greg Uttsada Panichkul

• Greg Uttsada Panichkul (known as VJ Utt), Main Host
• Priscilla Meirelles (Miss Earth 2004), Anchorperson
• Ginger Conejero (Miss Philippines-Air 2006), Color Commentator

Judges

• Andrea Mastellone - GM Traders Hotel Manila
• Nguyen Cong Khe - Editor-in-Chief, Thanh Nien News
• Jose Ramon Olives - Head, Cable Channels, ABS-CBN
• Arch. Nestor Mangio - Chairman Clark International Airport Corporation
• Hong Jin - Regional Manager, Korean Air
• Crystal Jacinto - Honorable Chairwoman, Kalikasan Fun Bike and President of the Philippines Foundation for Tomorrow's Good Children Inc.
• General Manuel Roxas, PAGCOR
• Tiziano Ceccarani - Head, OE mergers and Acquisitions
• Dawn Zulueta - Award-winning Movie and TV actress
• Purissima Benitez Jahannot- Deputy Director and Chief Curator

Contestants

Country	Contestant	Age	Height (cm)	Hometown
Albania	Shpresa Vitia	19	183	Tirana
Argentina	Maria Antonella Tognolla Sanvitale	21	170	Corrientes
Australia	Victoria Louise Stewart	21	173	Canberra
Bahamas	Sharon Eula Rolle	21	168	Nassau
Belgium	Melissa Cardaci	19		Tessenderlo
Belize	Leilah Anne Magdalena Pandy	26	175	Belize City
Bolivia	Carla Loreto Fuentes Rivero	19	180	Villamontes
Bosnia & Herzegovina	Dzenita Dumpor	18	180	Sarajevo
Botswana	Millicent Ollyn	18	168	Iwaneng
Brazil	Patrícia Silva Ferreira Andrade	22	180	Belo Horizonte
Canada	Jessica Nicole Trisko	22	178	Vancouver
Cameroon	Pauline Marcelle Kack	23	168	Douala
China	Yu Pei Pei		175	Anhui Province
Colombia	Mileth Johana Agámez López	22	173	Sincelejo
Congo	Maurielle Nkouka Massamba	20	174	Brazzaville
Costa Rica	Natalia Salas Mattey	25	175	Heredia
Cuba	Ariana Barouk	24	175	Miami
Czech Republic	Eva Čerešňáková	21	175	Prague
Denmark	Trine Lundgaard Nielsen	20	177	Billund
Dominican Republic	Themys Aleska Febriel Tatis	18	183	Azua
Ecuador	Verónica Ochoa Crespo	21	177	Cuenca
El Salvador	Julia Iris Ayala Regalado	22	172	San Salvador
England	Clair Cooper	25	173	London
Ethiopia	Nardos Desta Tafese	19	172	Addis Ababa
Fiji	Minal Maneesha Ali	23	170	Suva
Finland	Anna Pohtimo	25	179	Helsinki
France	Alexandra Gaguen	19	173	Paris
Georgia	Nanka Mamasakhlisi	20	175	Tbilisi
Germany	Sinem Ramazanoglu	24	170	Cologne
Ghana	Diana Naa Blankson	21	170	Accra
Guadeloupe	Virgine Mulia	19	172	Basse-Terre
Guatemala	Jessica María Scheel Loyola	18	170	Guatemala City
Hong Kong	Fan Miao Meng	20	175	Hong Kong
Iceland	Katrín Dögg Sigurdardóttir	21	179	Seltjarnarnes
India	Pooja Chitgopekar	21	175	Mumbai
Indonesia	Artri Aldoranti Sulistyowati	25	173	Surabaya
Israel	Mor Donay	21	173	Tel Aviv
Italy	Bernadette Mazzù	22	173	Messina
Japan	Ryoko Tominaga	22	170	Tokyo
Kazakhstan	Zhazira Nurkhodjaeva	23	169	Semey
Kenya	Volen Auma Owenga		181	Nairobi
South Korea	Ji-Eun Yoo	21	170	Seoul
Latvia	Ilze Jankovska	20	175	Riga
Lebanon	Amale Al Khoder	25	173	Beirut
Liberia	Telena Cassell	25	173	Freetown
Lithuania	Monika Baliunaite	18	173	Vilnius
Macau	Zhang Xiao Yu	22	175	Macau
Malaysia	Dorkas Cheok Huai Yee	20	168	Kuala Lumpur
Martinique	Elodie Delor	18	182	Fort de France
Mexico	María Fernanda Cánovas Leal	21	177	Ciudad Victoria
Nepal	Bandana Sharma	23	165	Lalitpur
Netherlands	Milou Verhoeks	21		Zoetermeer
New Zealand	Claire Kirby	19	175	Manawatu
Nicaragua	Iva Karlos Grijalva Pashova	21	173	Managua
Nigeria	Stacey Garvy	19	182	Port Harcourt
Niue	Shevalyn Ligovai Poimafiti Maika	18	168	Alofi
Northern Ireland	Aine Gormley	25	170	Fermanagh
Norway	Margaret Paulin Hauge	18	173	Fana
Paraguay	Griselda Monserrat Quevedo Chávez	22	180	Asunción
Peru	Odilia Pamela García Pineda	20	180	Lima
Philippines	Jeanne Angeles Harn	25	169	Rodriguez
Poland	Barbara Tatara	23	175	Lodz
Romania	Alina Gheorge	25	173	Bucharest
Sierra Leone	Theresa Turay	24	166	Antigonish
Singapore	Chen Nicole Lin	21	170	Singapore City
Slovakia	Barbora Palovičová	26	175	Banská Bystrica
Slovenia	Tania Trobec	19	175	Ljubljana
South Africa	Bokang Ramaredi Montjane	21	172	Johannesburg
Spain	Ángela Gómez Durán	22	175	Cantabria
Saint Lucia	Oneka McKoy	20	170	Castries
Suriname	Safyra Rachida Duurham	23		Paramaribo
Sweden	Ivana Gagula	18	175	Umeå
Switzerland	Stephanie Gossweiler	19	175	Bachs
Taiwan	Sonya Lee		168	Taipei
Tanzania	Angel Delight Kileo	22		Kilimanjaro
Thailand	Jiraporn Sing-ieam	20	170	Bangkok
Tibet	Tenzin Dolma	21	172	Mcleod Ganj
Trinidad & Tobago	Carleen Ramlochansingh	25	169	San Fernando
Turks & Caicos	Tameka Teshan Deveaux	22	164	Freeport
Uganda	Hellen Karungi	24	172	Kampala
Ukraine	Galyna Andreeva	22	175	Odessa
USA	Lisa Marie Forbes	25	177	Overland Park
US Virgin Islands	Je T'aime Cheree Cerge	23	170	St. Thomas
Venezuela	Silvana Santaella Arellano	24	175	Caracas
Vietnam	Truc Diem Truong	20	172	Ho Chi Minh City
Wales	Sarah Michelle Sairandhri Fleming	18	174	Brecon
Zambia	Sphiwe Mutale Benasho	20	170	Lusaka
Zimbabwe	Nyome Omar	22	175	Masvingo

Debuts and Withdrawals

• The following countries competed for the first time: Belize, Congo, Cuba, Fiji, Iceland, Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, Surinam, US Virgin Islands, Zimbabwe
• The following countries were expected to send delegates but did not: Armenia, Aruba, Curacao, Moldova, Pakistan, St Martin, Tunisia.
• The following countries returned after a hiatus: Kazakhstan (2001), Uganda (2002), Slovenia (2003), Trinidad and Tobago (2004), and Cameroon, Colombia, Hong Kong, Israel, Latvia, Macau, Niue Island, & Zambia (2005).
• Countries that sent delegates last year but not this year: Cayman Islands, Chile, Curacao, Egypt, Greece, Haiti, Ireland, FYR Macedonia, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Russia, Samoa, Serbia & Montenegro*, & Tahiti.
• Countries who did not participate this year are: Afghanistan, Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Bulgaria, Cayman Islands, Chile, Croatia, Egypt, Estonia,Gibraltar, Greece, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Ireland, Jamaica, Macedonia, Mauritius, Mongolia, Panama, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russia, Samoa, Serbia and Montenegro, Tahiti, Turkey, Uruguay.

Contestant notes

Contestants on stage in swimsuit

• Tanzania's Angel Delight Kileo was a replacement for Kelly Kampton, the original winner. Kileo had competed in Miss International 2006 in Tokyo, Japan and Beijing, China where she was unplaced.
• Miss Earth 2007 winner, Jessica Nicole Trisko who represented Canada, has Russian, Ukrainian, and Filipino descent. Prior to the competition she competed at Miss Universe Canada 2007 where she made the top 10.
• Miss US Virgin Islands, Je T'aime Cerge, was a contestant in Miss Universe 2006 held in Los Angeles, USA.
• Miss Wales, Sarah Fleming, also represented her country in Miss World 2006 held in Warsaw, Poland.
• Miss Denmark, Trine Lundgaard, competed in Miss World 2005. The pageant was won by Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir of Iceland.
• Miss Belize, Leilah Pandy, also participated in Miss Universe 2004. Miss Australia Jennifer Hawkins won the said pageant.
• Prior to the Miss Earth 2007 competition, the representatives of Fiji, France, and Niue Island participated in the Miss Tourism Queen International 2007 pageant held July 7, 2007 to August 2, 2007.^[5]

References

External links

• Miss Earth official website