Top Model of the World

The Top Model of the World is an international search for the ultimate model. The event started in 1993 in Miami, organised by the Globana Group.^[1] It is now owned and managed by the World Beauty Organization.^[2]

The current Top Model of the World for 2024 is Maria Katren Varzaru from Romania.

Winners

Top Model of the World 2006, Natália Guimarães of Brazil

Year	Winner	Country/Territory	Venue	Entrants
2024	Maria Katren Varzaru	Romania	Ain Sokhna, Egypt	38
2023	Mariana Macias[3]	Mexico	Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt	41
2022	Natalie Kocendova	Czech Republic	Hurghada, Egypt	47
2020	Pierinna Patino	Peru		35
2019	Nicole Menayo	Spain		35
2018	Janet Leyva	Peru		41
2017	Julya Gershun	Ukraine	El Gouna, Egypt	41
2016	Margo Cooper [4]	Bulgaria	Bremen, Germany	41
2015	Elena Kosmina[5]	Ukraine	Red Sea, Egypt	49
2014	Tania Valencia [6]	Colombia	Red Sea, Egypt	41
2013	Monica Palacios	Caribbean (Colombia)	Red Sea, Egypt	47
2012	Luna Voce	Italy	Dortmund, Germany	43
2011	Loredana Salanță	Romania	Usedom, Germany	44
2010	Carolina Rodríguez Ferrero	Colombia	Dortmund, Germany	40
2008	Débora Lyra	Brazil	Berlin, Germany	41
2007	Alessandra Alores	Germany	Hurghada, Egypt	41
2006	Natália Guimarães	Brazil	Kunming, China	64
2005	Dominika van Santen	Venezuela	Humen, China	68
2004	Sun Na	China	Karlsruhe, Germany	34
2003	Nihan Akkuş	Turkey	Aachen, Germany	38
2002	Natascha Börger	Germany	Aachen, Germany	33
2001	Renata Janetkova	Czech Republic	Kaiserslautern, Germany	28
2000	Yeliz Çalışkan	Turkey	Vreden, Germany	30
1999	Suzana Fabriova	Slovak Republic	Frankfurt, Germany	unknown
1998	Michelle Khan	Trinidad and Tobago	Magdeburg, Germany	28
1997	Franzisca Schaub	Germany	Legden, Germany	45
1996	Selinée Méndez	Dominican Republic	Koblenz, Germany	26
1995	Jacqueline Aguilera	Venezuela	Moscow, Russia	36
1994	Claudine Obert	France	Miami, United States	24
1993	Francesca Bologna	Italy	Miami, United States	unknown

• Natália Guimarães, winner of the 2006 edition, resigned her title as she represented Brazil in Miss Universe 2007. She was replaced by Michele de Leon (Philippines) and 1st runner-up.

By number of wins

Country	Titles	Winning Years
Colombia	3	2009, 2013, 2014
Germany		1997, 2002, 2007
Romania	2	2011, 2024
Turkey		2000, 2003
Italy		1993, 2011
Brazil		2006, 2008
Peru		2018, 2020
Mexico	1	2023
Czech Republic		2022
Spain		2019
Bulgaria		2016
Ukraine		2015
Margarita Island (Venezuela)		2005
China		2004
Czech Republic		2001
Slovak Republic		1999
Trinidad and Tobago		1998
Dominican Republic		1996
Venezuela		1995
France		1994

List of runners-up

Year	1st Runner-up	2nd Runner-up	3rd Runner-up	4th Runner-up
1994	Pinar Tezcan  Turkey	Mariya Sukhareva  Belarus	not awarded
1995	Paula Andrea Betancourt Arroyave  Colombia	Leen Ragis  Kenya	Lorena de Leon Pangan  Philippines	not awarded
1996	Jana Festova  Czech Republic	Andrea Deak  Hungary	Anja Haertel  Germany	Vierushka Algandona Viera  Panama
1997	Cris Tomaszeck  Brazil	not awarded
1998	Tanisha Drummond  Panama	Agnes Nagy  Hungary	Dania Patricia Prince Méndez  Honduras	Jonna Kauppila  Finland
1999	Monica Elizabeth Escolar Danko  Colombia	Dayanarah Zulay del Carmen Roozendaal  Curaçao	not awarded
2000	Nina Kavecevic  Yugoslavia	Jerika de los Angeles Hoffman Leal  Venezuela
2001	Jenny Díaz Batista  Dominican Republic	Mónica Caicedo Valencia  Colombia	Zornitsa Hristova  Bulgaria	Basak Sahin  Turkey
2002	Nikki Formann  United States	Kristina Tudikova  Slovak Republic	Adanelli Nuñez  Mexico	Justine Vinluan Gabionza  Philippines
2003	Daniela Scholz  Germany	Huan Lulu  China	Desirée Virginia Pallotta Peña  Venezuela	Lorena Irene Velarde Briceño  Mexico
2004	Yordanos Teshager Bitew  East Africa (Ethiopia)	Mirjana Gmitrovic  Serbia and Montenegro	Viktoria Stadtlander  Germany	Irina Stikanova  Estonia
2005	Maria Joseph Kidumbuyo  Tanzania	Katarzyna Blazko  Poland	not awarded
2006	Michelle de Leon  Philippines	Tatyana Dmitrivenko  Kazakhstan
2007	Yelena Aladko  Belarus	Lobna Amin  Egypt	Luciana de Oliveira Pinheiro  Brazil	Yuliya Andrushchenko  Ukraine
2008	Yolimar Sánchez  United States	Diana Ivancheva  Bulgaria	Whulandary Herman[7]  Indonesia	not awarded
2010	Gabriela Nidioska Concepción Guzmán  Venezuela	Muriel Susana Viera  United States	Xenia Lamber  Ukraine	Daniela Arkenberg  Germany
2011	Katerina Fedosejeva  Baltic Sea (Latvia)	Vanessa Gayle Sibanda  Zimbabwe	Zuzanna Brzezińska  Poland	Yasmine Ouchene  Algeria
2012	Malaika Maidei Mushandu  Zimbabwe	Melina Ramirez Serna  Colombia	Maria de Luz Da Silva dos Santos  Denmark	Maria de Luz Da Silva dos Santos  Venezuela
2013	Inara Anthonia Isaiah Gulf of Guinea	Burcu Taynaz  Turkey	Savanagh-Ray Walker  Canada	Ganna Oleksiyivna Zhadan  Ukraine
2014	Jailenne Rivera Rodríguez  Puerto Rico	Anrónet Ann Roelofsz  South Africa	Niler Bernard Mruma  Tanzania	Giulia Campesi  Italy
2015	Celeste Marshall  Bahamas	Irene Valeria Velásquez  Venezuela	Stephany Souza Silva  Brazil	Madison Anderson Berrios  Puerto Rico
2016	Franceska Marisabel Toro Medina  Puerto Rico	Paththage Visna Kaumini Fernando  Sri Lanka	Emanuelle de Maria Costa Assunção  Brazil	Anchana Artklom  Thailand
2017	María Camila Medrano Camargo  San Andrés (Colombia)	Norhely Celaya Bracamontes  Mexico	Naomy Dennisia  Seychelles	not awarded
2018	Harini Silva  Sri Lanka	Natalia La Torre Santana  Puerto Rico	not awarded
2019	Vishakha Tania René  Mauritius	Carmen Sofia Maury Atencia  Colombia
2020	Priscila Moreno Valverde  Mexico	Giselle Archbold Davis  Colombia
2022	Nicole Zambrano  Ecuador	Dayana Cardenas  Colombia
2023	Leicy Rivas Moreno  Colombia	Sandani Peiris  Sri Lanka
2024	Geysel Vaillant  Cuba	Sarah Sherwood  United States

Continental Top Model

Year	Top Model of Africa	Top Model of Asia	Top Model of Central & North America	Top Model of Europe	Top Model of Oceania	Top Model of South America
2007	Lobna Amin  Egypt	Chang Hsin-Chin  Taiwan	Maridelys Valdez Caribbean islands	Sandra Obradovic  Serbia	Sally Anne Arnott  Australia	Luciana de Oliveira Pinheiro  Brazil

See also

• List of beauty contests

References

1. "Celeste Marshall named first runner-up at Top Model of the World competition". The Nassau Guardian.
2. Yu, Florence Pia G (August 24, 2016). "Dubai resident to compete in Top Model of the World in Germany". Gulf News. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
3. "Caribbean Queens shine at Top Model of the World 2023". Loop News. 5 March 2023. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
4. "Sri Lanka placed third". The Island. September 7, 2016. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
5. "Celeste Marshall wins Best Costume and 1st Runner up at Top Model of the World". The Bahamas Weekly. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
6. "La caleña Tania Valencia ganó por Colombia el concurso Top Model of the World". El País (in Spanish). April 11, 2014. Retrieved September 12, 2016.
7. "Suspicious Netizens' Attention, Take A Peek At 7 Beautiful Portraits Of WHulandary Herman Who Responded Comments With Miss Israel". VOI. 2 November 2023. Retrieved 2 November 2023.

Further reading

• "Malaika heads for Miss Top Model of the World". News Day.
• "Christina is 'Top Model of the World' Zambia". Zambia Daily Mail.
• "Pushpika Sandamali brimming with confidence". Sunday Observer
• "Pushpika to Make a Dream Debut". Archived from the original on 2018-11-17.
• "Yuen proves she's the next top model".^{[dead link]}
• "Baci represents Ghana at the Top Model of the World Pageant".
• Abigail O'Leary (16 August 2015). "Aigburth model jetting to Egypt for Top Model of the World competition". Liverpool Echo.
• "Jade eyes up model trophy ..." Archived from the original on 2018-11-15.
• "Bahamas' Celeste Marshall begins stay in Egypt for Top Model of the World".
• "Zimbabwe: Zim in World's Next Top Model Pageant". AllAfrica.