Miss Asia Pacific International

Miss Asia Pacific International is one of the oldest international beauty pageants, based in Manila, Philippines. It was founded in 1965 as Miss Asia and later renamed Miss Asia Pacific in 1984, followed by Miss Asia Pacific Quest in 1985 when Latin American and Pacific countries were included. In 2005, it was renamed to its current title, Miss Asia Pacific International.

Miss Asia Pacific International

Formation	4 December 1965; 59 years ago (1965-12-04)
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Manila
Location	Philippines
Official language	English
President	Atty. Eva Psychee Patalinjug
General Manager	Kristine Caballero Aplal
Website	Official website
Formerly called	Miss Asia Miss Asia Pacific Miss Asia Pacific Quest

The current titleholder is Janelis Leyba of the United States, who was crowned Miss Asia Pacific International 2024 on 7 October 2024 at Newport Performing Arts Theater in Pasay, Philippines.^[1] She is the first American to win the title, marking the comeback of the pageant.^[2]

History

The pageant was established in 1965 as the Miss Asia contest. The first titleholder was Angela Filmer from Malaysia.^[3][4] She was crowned by incoming first lady Imelda Marcos on December 4, 1965. The initial edition of the contest included participants from 18 countries.^[5]

The pageant's name was changed to Miss Asia Pacific in 1984 and Miss Asia Pacific Quest in 1985 when participants from the Americas and the Pacific region were included. In 2005, it was renamed Miss Asia Pacific International to allow participants from all countries. The pageant was not held in 1990 due to the Luzon earthquake, in 1991 due to the Mount Pinatubo eruption, in 2004, from 2006 to 2015, and from 2020 to 2023.^[5]

In 2005, Leonora Jimenez Monge from Costa Rica was dethroned after participating in the Miss World contest. The title was then passed to the first runner-up, Yevgeniya Lapova from Russia.^[6] The pageant was then suspended after the conclusion of the 2005 edition.^[7] It resumed 12 years later in 2016, with Tessa le Conge from the Netherlands winning the title.^[8]

The last titleholder before the hiatus was Chaiyenne Huisman from Spain, who was crowned on October 9, 2019.^[9]

Due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, no competitions were held from 2020 to 2023. The pageant returned in October 2024, with Eva Patalinjug as the new President^[10] and Kristine Caballero-Aplal as General Manager.^[11][12][13]

Titleholders

Year	Edition	Country/Territory	Miss Asia Pacific International	Location	Entrants	Ref.
1965	1st	Malaysia	Angela Filmer	Manila, Philippines	18
1968	2nd	Taiwan	Macy Shih	Quezon City, Philippines	12	[14]
1969	3rd	South Korea	Seo Won-kyoung		13	[15]
1970	4th	India	Zeenat Aman		15
1971	5th	Guam	Flora Baza		15
1972	6th	Australia	Janet Coutts		14
1973	7th	India	Tara Anne Fonseca	Manila, Philippines	14
1974	8th	Australia	Susie Currie		16
1975	9th	Papua New Guinea	Eva Regina Arni		18
1976	10th	Singapore	Jacqueline Stuart		17	[16]
1977	11th	Indonesia	Linda Emran		17	[17]
1978	12th	Thailand	Siriporn Savanglum		15
1979	13th	Turkey	Ayla Altas		15
1980	14th	Australia	Lorraine Gaye McGrady		16
1981	15th	Sri Lanka	Bernadine Rose Ramanayake	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	16
1982	16th	Philippines	Maria del Carmen Ines Zaragoza		14
1983	17th	Philippines	Gloria Dimayacyac	Manila, Philippines	14
1984	18th	Turkey	Melek Gurkan	Christchurch, New Zealand	19
1985	19th	Israel	Nurit Mizrachi	Wan Chai, British Hong Kong	31	[18]
1986	20th	New Zealand	Helen Mary Crawford	Hung Hom, British Hong Kong	32	[19]
1987	21st	Panama	Cilinia Prada	Wanchai, British Hong Kong	30
1988	22nd	Thailand	Preeyanuch Panpradub	Hung Hom, British Hong Kong	32	[20]
1989	23rd	Philippines	Lorna Legaspi	Tsim Sha Tsui, British Hong Kong	31	[21]
1992	24th	Israel	Tali Ben-Harush	Manila, Philippines	24
1993	25th	Philippines	Michelle Aldana	Pasay, Philippines	23
1994	26th	Peru	Jessica Guiulfo Tapia	Cebu, Philippines	26
1995	27th	South Korea	Yoon Mi-jung	Benguet, Philippines	27
1996	28th	Costa Rica	Gabriela Aguilar	Subic, Zambales, Philippines	27
1997	29th	Thailand	Worarat Suwannarat	Davao City, Philippines	25
1998	30th	Costa Rica	Kisha Alvarado	Pampanga, Philippines	25
1999	31st	Colombia	Juliana Andrea Arango	Quezon City, Philippines	25
2000	32nd	India	Diya Mirza Handrich		23	[22]
2001	33rd	Peru	Luciana Luisa Farfán	Makati, Philippines	19
2002	34th	South Korea	Kim So-yoon	Manila, Philippines	25
2003	35th	Russia	Tatyana Nikitina	Pasay, Philippines	25
2005	36th	Costa Rica	Leonora Jiménez (Dethroned)	Guangzhou, China	51
		Russia	Yevgeniya Lapova (Assumed)[6]
2016	37th	Netherlands	Tessa Helena le Conge	Palawan, Philippines	40	[23]
2017	38th	Brazil	Francielly Ouriques	Pasay, Philippines	42	[24]
2018	39th	Philippines	Sharifa Akeel[25]		51	[25]
2019	40th	Spain	Chaiyenne Huisman		54	[9]
2024	41st	United States	Janelis Leyba		33	[1]

Countries/Territories by number of wins

Countries/Territories	Titles	Year(s)
Philippines	5	1982, 1983, 1989, 1993, 2018
South Korea	3	1969, 1995, 2002
India		1970, 1973, 2000
Thailand		1978, 1988, 1997
Costa Rica		1996, 1998, 2005A
Australia		1972, 1974, 1980
Peru	2	1994, 2001
Turkey		1979, 1984
Russia		2003, 2005B
Israel		1985, 1992
United States	1	2024
Spain		2019
Brazil		2017
Netherlands		2016
Colombia		1999
Panama		1987
New Zealand		1986
Sri Lanka		1981
Indonesia		1977
Singapore		1976
Papua New Guinea		1975
Guam		1971
Taiwan		1968
Malaysia		1965

List of runner-ups

Year	Runner-ups
	First	Second	Third	Fourth
1965	Ester Cheryl da Silva  Ceylon	Resurreccion Vianzon  Philippines	Not awarded
1968	Cassandra Stiles  Australia	Atsumi Ikeno  Japan	Jane Mozo de Goya  Philippines	Valisra Trungvachirachi  Thailand
1969	Shirley Sha  Taiwan	Sandra Jacqueline Van Geyzel  Malaysia	Julie Ann Hodge  Australia	Frances Margaret Carrick  New Zealand
1970	Alice Tiongson Crisostomo  Philippines	Yvonne Haunani Young  Hawaii	Carolyn Dartnell  Australia	Geraldine Welford  New Zealand
1971	Carolyn Gomara Masibay  Philippines	Hong Jung Ja  South Korea	Gayah Tehetchik  Israel	Sandra Van Loon  Australia
1972	Yvette Marie Alfon  Philippines	Dorit Bar  Israel	Vivienne Hamilton  New Zealand	Srungya Krachangsuk  Thailand
1973	Nehama Fass  Israel	Lely Herawati Soendoro  Indonesia	Chung Kum Ok  South Korea	Deborah Seccounbe  Australia
1974	Ethel Lau Wai Tak British Hong Kong	Paripola Penson  Philippines	Liza Sindoro  Indonesia	Debra Josephine De Souza  Singapore
1975	Bernadette Paille  Tahiti	Jane Reilly  Australia	Darlene Schwenkey  Samoa	Linda Kaur  Malaysia
1976	Maea Atger  Tahiti	Anna Adrianne Bredemeyer  India	Anna Luisa Delgado  Philippines	Michelle Ann Glass  Australia
1977	Marianne De Souza  India	Helen Ng  Singapore	Yifat Netzer  Israel	Rio Diaz  Philippines
1978	Epifania Lagman  Philippines	Hannah Ekerling  Israel	Julie Ann Croft  Australia	Hisako Tanaka  Japan
1979	Maureen Mary Lestourgeon  India	Lorraine Espiridon Schuck  Philippines	Lajiah P. R. Sharma  Singapore	Tracy Christopherson  Australia
1980	Rose Maria de Vera  Philippines	Annie Chen Chiau Chuin  Singapore	Cara Pollock  New Zealand	Mina Coldas  Turkey
1981	Kimberly Ann Carey  Guam	Corrine Gail Carvalho  Hawaii	Kang Hae Suk  South Korea	Beatrice Hawkins  Malaysia
1982	Rosa Maria Misa  New Zealand	Tippawan Aukkraphun  Thailand	Sharon de Jong  Sri Lanka	Mi Il Kim  South Korea
1983	Dorit Kadosh  Israel	Nazan Satchi  Turkey	Joanna Johns  New Zealand	Siriwan Wangwilai  Thailand
1984	Gayle Ann Jones  New Zealand	Elsie Oh Swee Ping  Singapore	Rinat Hadashi  Israel	Suzanne Hoffman  United States
1985	Lin Ji Yeon  South Korea	Liliana Tapia Castillo  Peru	Eva Lai British Hong Kong	Perla Pereira Fruthwirth  Guatemala
1986	Lim Suet Kwee  Singapore	Sararat Rumruangwong  Thailand	Not awarded
1987	Ana Corina Burgos del Rio  Mexico	Toni Jean Frances Peters  Australia	Choi Eun-hee  South Korea	Niril Elyovich  Israel
1988	Elsy Guadelupe Aceves Gurrola  Mexico	Revital Mor  Israel	Fatma Anil  Northern Cyprus	Mi Rim Kim  South Korea
1989	Myriam Tuheiava  Tahiti	Galit Farber  Israel	Gloria Petrovic  Canada	Anne Seekaew  Thailand
1992	Chutima Nirunsitirat  Thailand	Mutya Laxa  Philippines	Ingrid Matie Mole  New Zealand	Kissarne Watson  Australia
1993	Namrata Shirodkar  India	Monica Reyes  Chile	Maria Teresa Aragon  Mexico	Lavianna Tan Poh Ling  Malaysia
1994	Karla Contreras Estrada  Mexico	Ozlem Mete  Turkey	Nathalie Cohen  Israel	Vaihere Lehartel  Taiwan
1995	Ruchitra Malhotra  India	Hsiao-Ping Chen  Taiwan	Rocio del Pilar Abed  Peru	Previtha Thiyagarajah  Malaysia
1996	Marilyn Maristela  Philippines	Mirna Sommers  Tahiti	Mariel Ocampo  Peru	Kenia Melais  Panama
1997	Divya Chauhan  India	Nancy Veronica Peoma Agnieray  Tahiti	Kerry Anita Lucas  Australia	Gabriela dela Luz de Heeckeren Lagos  Chile
1998	Lourdes Lewis  Panama	Priya Nair  Fiji	Klara Lisy  Australia	Metua Heimoana  Tahiti
1999	Anna Tatarintseva  Russia	Amy Trott  Australia	Wan Wang-Fei  Taiwan	Leanne Catherine Sorby  New Zealand
2000	Marianela Salazar Guillen  Panama	Winter Noel Washington  Australia	Alexandra Maria Rivas  El Salvador	Kanueng-nit In-orng  Thailand
2001	Lisette Villanueva Jiménez  Mexico	Wanvisa Kham-daeng-yai  Thailand	Karol Inés de la Torre Pinilla  Colombia	Darlene Carbungco  Philippines
2002	Ksenia Volkova  Russia	Tina Chhatwal  India	Miriam San Jose Chui  Philippines	Aishwarya Sukhdeo  Fiji
2003	Shonal Rawat  India	Andrea Ovares López  Costa Rica	Tracy Freundt  Peru	Samantha Wong Wye Yeng  Malaysia
2005	Evgeniya Lapova  Russia (Resigned)	Zhang Li Yu  China (Resigned)	Claudia Ortiz de Zevallos  Peru (Resigned)	Jedah Hernandez  Philippines (Resigned)
	Zhang Li Yu  China (Assumed)	Claudia Ortiz de Zevallos  Peru (Assumed)	Jedah Hernandez  Philippines (Assumed)	Not awarded
2016	Shawanya Tanhomwong  Thailand	Ganiel Akrisha Atun Krishnan  Philippines	Felicia George  Cook Islands	Kim So-yeon  South Korea
2017	Acacia Walker  New Zealand	Valeria Cardona  Honduras	Morgan Doelwijt  Netherlands	Ilene De Vera  Philippines
2018	Gabriela Palma  Brazil	Melania Gonzales  Costa Rica (Dethroned)	Misheelt Narmandakh  Mongolia (Resigned)	Mariani Nataly Chacón  Venezuela (Resigned)
		Misheelt Narmandakh  Mongolia (Assumed)	Mariani Nataly Chacón  Venezuela (Assumed)	Raquel Van Gool  Netherlands (Assumed)
2019	Eoanna Constanza  Dominican Republic	Jessica Victoria Cianchino  Canada	Carolina Schuler  Brazil	Fiorella Cortez Arbenz  Costa Rica
2024	Karen Sofia Nuñez  Mexico	Selena Ali  Belgium	Blessa Ericha Figueroa  Philippines	Jennifer Prokop  Germany

Continental Queens

Edition	Africa	Americas	Asia	Europe	Oceania
2019	Michele-Ange Minkata  Cameroon	Jessica Cianchino  Canada	Klyza Castro  Philippines	Lauralyn Vermeersch  Belgium	Chelsea Martin  New Zealand
2024	Chizuruoke Sufficient Arua  Nigeria	Gabriela De Paiva Padilla  Bolivia	Sophiya Singh  India	Selena Ali  Belgium	Keshia Lee Llarenas  Guam

See also

• List of beauty pageants

References

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External links

• Official website