Miss International 2002 Explained

Winner:	Christina Sawaya^[1]
Represented:	Lebanon
Date:	September 30, 2002
Presenters:	Masumi Okada
Venue:	Century Hyatt, Tokyo, Japan
Broadcaster:	TV Tokyo
Entrants:	47
Placements:	12
Withdraws:	Argentina, Chile, Croatia, Iceland, Latvia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Palau, San Marino, Ukraine
Returns:	China, Ecuador, Lebanon, Moldova, Senegal
Before:	2001
Next:	2003

Miss International 2002, the 42nd Miss International pageant, was held on 30 September 2002 in Tokyo, Japan at the Century Hyatt. Małgorzata Rożniecka of Poland crowned her successor Christina Sawaya of Lebanon at the end of the event.^[1]

This edition also saw the crowning of the first-ever woman of Middle Eastern descent to win Miss International, Christina Sawaya representing Lebanon.^[2] ^[3]

Results

Placements

Placement	Contestant
Miss International 2002	Lebanon – Christina Sawaya
1st Runner-up	France – Emmanuelle Jagodsinski
2nd Runner-up	Japan – Hana Urushima

Notes

Withdrawals

Pakistan – Neelam Voorani (forced by her Islamic government to withdraw from the pageant 3 days before the finals)

Further reading

Web site: Rehman . I.A. . Features; October 12, 2002 . . October 12, 2002 . January 3, 2016.

Notes and References

Web site: Newly-elected Miss International 2002, 22-year-old Lebanese Christina Sawaya . Getty Images . October 10, 2002 . January 3, 2016.
Web site: Pageant Almanac. https://web.archive.org/web/20060711184803/http://www.pageant-almanac.com/miss-international/former-titleholders.php. usurped. July 11, 2006. Retrieved on 11 Apr 2008.
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