Miss International 1998

Miss International 1998
Date	September 26, 1998
Presenters	Masumi Okada
Venue	Koseinenkin Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Broadcaster	TV Tokyo
Entrants	43
Debuts	Latvia
Withdrawals	Brazil, Guatemala, Lebanon, Macau, Malta, Puerto Rico, Russia, Ukraine
Returns	Cyprus, Iceland, Macedonia, Holland, Norway, Panama, Senegal, Togo
Winner	Lía Borrero Panama

Miss International 1998, the 38th Miss International pageant, took place on 26 September 1998 at the Koseinenkin Hall in Tokyo, Japan. It was won by Lía Victoria Borrero González of Panama.

Results

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss International 1998	Panama - Lía Victoria Borrero González
1st runner-up	Venezuela - Daniela Kosán Montcourt
2nd runner-up	India - Shvetha Jaishankar
Semi-finalists	Bolivia - Liliana Peña Guachalla Colombia - Adriana Hurtado Novella Czech Republic - Petra Faltynova Finland - Piia Hartikainen France - Patricia Spéhar Japan - Megumi Taira Korea - Cho Hye-young Macedonia - Ana Binovska Philippines - Colette Centeno Glazer Poland - Agnieszka Osinska Spain - Vanessa Romero Torres Tunisia - Nejla Kouniali

Contestants

• Argentina - Maria Fernanda Ortiz
• Aruba - Anushka Sheritsa Lew Jen Tai
• Australia - Katherine Louis O'Brien
• Bolivia - Liliana Peña Guachalla
• Britain - Melanie Devina Jones
• Colombia - Adriana Hurtado Novella
• Curaçao - Santa Indris Tokaay
• Cyprus - Marianna Panayiotou
• Czech Republic - Petra Faltynova
• Dominican Republic - Sorangel Fersobe Matos
• Finland - Piia Hartikainen
• France - Patricia Spéhar
• Germany - Fiona Ammann
• Greece - Eleni Pliatsika
• Hawaii - Lori-Ann Lee Medeiros
• Honduras - Wendy Suyapa Rodríguez
• Hong Kong - Natalie Ng Man-Yan
• Iceland - Gudbjörg Sigridur Hermannsdóttir
• India - Shvetha Jaishankar
• Israel - Galia Abramov
• Japan - Megumi Taira
• Korea - Cho Hye-young

• Latvia - Liga Graudumniece
• Macedonia - Ana Binovska
• Mexico - Karina Patricia Mora Novelo
• Holland - Ilona Marilyn van Veldhuisen
• Northern Marianas - Sonya Palacios Pangelinan
• Norway - Bjorg Sofie Lovstad
• Panama - Lía Victoria Borrero González
• Paraguay - Maria Fabiola Roig Escandriolo
• Peru - Melissa Miranda Quiñones
• Philippines - Colette Centeno Glazer
• Poland - Agnieszka Osinska
• Portugal - Icilia Silva Berenguel
• Senegal - Maimouna Diallo
• Singapore - Sudha Menon
• Slovak Republic - Martina Kalmanova
• Spain - Vanessa Romero Torres
• Togo - Manuella Nadou Lawson-Body
• Tunisia - Nejla Kouniali
• Turkey - Senay Akay
• United States - Susan Paez
• Venezuela - Daniela Kosán Montcourt

Notes

Did not compete

• Bonaire - Geraldine Juliet
• Brazil - Luizeani Altenhofen

• Puerto Rico - Jacqueline Negron
• Malta - Roberta Nicholls