Miss Venezuela 2000 Explained

Winner:	Eva Ekvall †
Represented:	Apure
Date:	September 8, 2000
Venue:	Poliedro de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
Broadcaster:	Venevision
Entrants:	26
Before:	MRBV
Next:	2001
Placements:	10
Photogenic:	Eva Ekvall† (Apure)
Congeniality:	Ainett Stephens (Bolívar)
Miss Internet:	Eva Evall† (Apure)

Miss Venezuela 2000 was the 47th Miss Venezuela pageant. It was held in Caracas, Venezuela, on September 8, 2000, after weeks of events. The winner of the pageant was Eva Ekvall, Miss Apure.

The pageant was broadcast live on Venevision from the Poliedro de Caracas in Caracas, Venezuela. At the conclusion of the final night of competition, outgoing titleholder Martina Thorogood crowned Eva Ekvall of Apure as the new Miss Venezuela.^[1]

Results

Placement	Contestant
Miss Venezuela 2000	– Eva Mónica Anna Ekvall †
Miss Venezuela International 2000	– Vivian Inés Urdaneta
Runner-Up	– Ligia Petit
Top 10	– Victoria López-Pando – Ainett Stephens – Astrid Carati – Dahilmar Toledo – Zonia El Hawi Península Goajira – Daniela Monzant – Cecilia Villegas

Miss Photogenic (voted by press reporters) – Eva Ekvall (Miss Apure)
Miss Internet (voted by www.missvenezuela.com viewers) – Eva Ekvall (Miss Apure)
Miss Congeniality (voted by Miss Venezuela contestants) – Ainett Stephens (Miss Bolívar)
Miss Figure – Verónica Hernández (Miss Monagas)
Best Smile – Zonia El Hawi (Miss Nueva Esparta)
Best Face – Felisa Gómez(Miss Lara)
Best Skin – Verónica Leal (Miss Trujillo)
Best Runway – Bianca Urdaneta (Miss Mérida)
Miss Integral – Isis Durán (Miss Táchira)

The Miss Venezuela 2000 delegates are:

State	Contestant	Age	Hometown
Amazonas	Leidy Gisela Moncada	18	San Cristóbal
Anzoátegui	Victoria Eugenia López-Pando Noboa	19	Puerto La Cruz
Apure	Eva Mónica Anna Ekvall Johnson †	17	Caracas
Aragua	Adriana Alcibel Steinkopf Torres	18	Valencia
Barinas	Kelin Yosselin Peña	18	San Cristóbal
Bolívar		18	Ciudad Guayana
Carabobo	Mariangélica García López	18	Valencia
Cojedes	Astrid Eyleen Carati Del Nogal	21	Ciudad Guayana
Costa Oriental		21	Maracaibo
Delta Amacuro	Paola Andrea Cevallos Zuluaga	20	La Victoria
Distrito Capital	Dahilmar del Valle Toledo Moreno	17	Valencia
Falcón	Anaís María Franco Millán	23	Cabimas
Guárico	Ligia Fernanda Petit Vargas	18	Maracay
Lara	Felisa Elena Gómez Perdomo	22	Barquisimeto
Mérida	Bianca Rosanna Urdaneta García	18	Maracaibo
Miranda	Susana Stephany de Fazio Bracutto	17	Caracas
Monagas	Verónica María Hernández Osborn	20	Caracas
Nueva Esparta	Zonia Hassan El Hawi Musa	20	Porlamar
Península Goajira	Daniela Ysabel Monzant Valencia	18	Maracaibo
Portuguesa	Sabrina Daneri	21	Caracas
Sucre	Reyna Fabiola Borges Noguera	19	Valencia
Táchira	Isis Yumali Durán Moreno	21	Ureña
Trujillo	Verónica Leal Prieto	19	Maracaibo
Vargas	Ana Belén Abreu Toledo	18	Maracay
Yaracuy	Natascha Vanessa Börger Sevilla	19	Caracas
Zulia	Cecilia Villegas Arteaga	24	Maracaibo

Eva Ekvall placed as 3rd runner-up in Miss Universe 2001 in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. She died on December 17, 2011, victim of breast cancer.
Vivian Urdaneta won Miss International 2000 in Tokyo, Japan.
Ligia Petit won Reina Sudamericana 2000 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, and later won Miss Intercontinental 2001 in Coburg, Germany. She also placed as 1st runner up in Miss Atlántico Internacional 2001 in Punta del Este, Uruguay.
Mariangélica García placed as semifinalist in Miss Tourism World 2002 in Antalya, Turkey.
Natascha Borger won Miss Germany 2002 and placed as semifinalist in Miss Universe 2002 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She also placed as semifinalist in Miss International 2004 in Beijing, China (she represented Germany). She also was 1st. runner-up in Miss Europe 2002.
Fabiola Borges previously placed as 2nd runner up in Miss Intercontinental 2000 in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Web site: El Universal. Coronada Miss Venezuela 2000 Eva Ekvall. 2007-10-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20090903101912/http://buscador.eluniversal.com/2000/09/09/cul_art_09314D2.shtml. 2009-09-03. dead.