Miss Earth 2019

Miss Earth 2019 was the 19th edition of the Miss Earth pageant, held at the Okada Manila in Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines, on October 26, 2019.

Miss Earth 2019
Nellys Pimentel
Date	October 26, 2019
Entertainment	Shontelle
Venue	Okada Manila, Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines
Broadcaster	Fox Life ABS-CBN Globovisión Telecaribe The Filipino Channel
Entrants	85
Placements	20
Debuts	Northern Marianas Papua New Guinea
Withdrawals	Bahamas Belize Cuba Curaçao Cyprus Egypt Greece Ireland Moldova Romania Samoa Sri Lanka Sweden Trinidad and Tobago
Returns	Botswana Canada Fiji Kazakhstan Kenya Mongolia South Sudan Slovak Republic US Virgin Islands Zimbabwe
Winner	Nellys Pimentel Puerto Rico
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Nguyễn Phương Khánh of Vietnam crowned Nellys Pimentel of Puerto Rico as her successor at the end of the event.^[1][2] This marks the first time Puerto Rico has won Miss Earth, becoming the first territory to win at least once in all of the Big Four beauty pageants.^[3][4][5]

In the same event, other elemental winners were also crowned: Emanii Davis of the United States won Miss Earth – Air, Klára Vavrušková of the Czech Republic as Miss Earth – Water, and Alisa Manyonok of Belarus as Miss Earth – Fire.^[6]

Results

Placements

Placement[7]	Contestants
Miss Earth 2019	Puerto Rico – Nellys Pimentel
Miss Earth – Air 2019	United States – Emanii Davis
Miss Earth – Water 2019	Czech Republic – Klára Vavrušková
Miss Earth – Fire 2019	Belarus – Alisa Manyonok
Top 10	Chile – Fernanda Méndez Tapia  Netherlands – Nikki Prein  New Zealand – Tashan Kapene  Nigeria – Modupe Susan Garland  Poland – Krystyna Sokołowska  Russia – Anna Baksheeva
Top 20	Colombia – Yenny Carrillo  England – Stephanie Wyatt ‡  Ghana – Abena Appiah  Guam – Cydney Shey Folsom  Guyana – Faydeha King  Japan – Yuka Itoku  Philippines – Janelle Tee  Portugal – Bruna Silva  Spain – Sonia Hernández Romeo  Thailand – Teeyapar Sretsirisuvarna §

Note: Placed in the Top 20 are two spots chosen by the People and Judges for the Best Eco-Video (‡) and Best Eco-Social Media (§) Awardees

Medalists

Events		Gold	Silver	Bronze
National Costume Competition[8]
	Asia & Oceania	Azzaya Tsogt-Ochir  Mongolia	Janelle Tee  Philippines	Hoàng Thị Hạnh  Vietnam
	America	Fernanda Méndez Tapia  Chile	Marianna Fuentes  Panama	Alexandra Caceres  Peru
	Africa	Susan Kirui  Kenya	Venus Mary Vlahakis  Zambia	Modupe Susan Garland  Nigeria
	Europe	Sonia Hernández  Spain	Klára Vavrušková  Czech Republic	Anastasia Lebediuk  Crimea
Evening Gown Competition[9]
	AIR Group	Abena Appiah  Ghana	Emanii Davis  United States	Bruna Silva  Portugal
	WATER Group	Tashan Kapene  New Zealand	Nellys Pimentel  Puerto Rico	Tejaswini Manogna  India
	FIRE Group	Michell Castellanos  Venezuela	Sonia Hernández  Spain	Teeyapar Sretsirisuvarna  Thailand
Swimsuit Competition
	AIR Group	Bruna Silva  Portugal	Janelle Tee  Philippines	Alisa Manyonok  Belarus
	WATER Group	Diana Shabas  Ukraine	Nellys Pimentel  Puerto Rico	Antonella Paz  Ecuador
	FIRE Group	Krystyna Sokołowska  Poland	Modupe Susan Garland  Nigeria	Nikki Prein  Netherlands
Beach Wear Competition
	AIR Group	Abena Appiah  Ghana	Janelle Tee  Philippines	Alisa Manyonok  Belarus
	WATER Group	Hoàng Thị Hạnh  Vietnam	Nera Nikolić  Croatia	Faydeha King  Guyana
	FIRE Group	Sonia Hernández  Spain	Michell Castellanos  Venezuela	Kristyna Losova  Germany
Talent Competition[9]
	AIR Group	Abena Appiah  Ghana	Janelle Tee  Philippines	Zaira Begg[10]  Fiji
	WATER Group	Tejaswini Manogna  India	Wentian Hu  China	Melanie Gassner  Austria
	FIRE Group	Azzaya Tsogt-Ochir  Mongolia	Sara Langtved  Denmark	Woo Hee-jun  South Korea
Miss Congeniality[9]
	AIR Group	Fernanda Méndez Tapia  Chile	Zaira Begg  Fiji	Sonate Terrassier  France
	WATER Group	Jociani Repossi  Paraguay	Ljubica Rajković  Serbia	Hoàng Thị Hạnh  Vietnam
	FIRE Group	Fernanda Vaca Pereira  Bolivia	Rippi Sargsyan  Armenia	Teeyapar Sretsirisuvarna  Thailand

Contestants

85 delegates competed for the title.

Country/Territory	Delegates	Age	Hometown	Elemental Group
Argentina	Florencia Barreto Fessler[11]	20	Posadas	FIRE
Armenia	Rippi Sargsyan[12]	25	Yerevan	FIRE
Australia	Susana Downes[13]	26	Sydney	FIRE
Austria	Melanie Gassner	23	Vienna	WATER
Belarus	Alisa Manyonok[14]	24	Baranavichy	AIR
Belgium	Caro van Gorp[15]	19	Turnhout	AIR
Bolivia	Fernanda Vaca Pereira	23	Litoral	FIRE
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Džejla Korajlić[16]	21	Zenica	AIR
Botswana	Modiane Seitshiro	21	Gaborone	AIR
Brazil	Maria Gabriela Batistela[17]	20	Ourinhos	WATER
Cambodia	Thoung Mala[18]	21	Kandal	WATER
Cameroon	Jessica Djoumbi[19]	24	Yaoundé	AIR
Canada	Mattea Henderson	24	Calgary	FIRE
Chile	Fernanda Méndez Tapia[20]	27	Los Vilos	AIR
China	Wentian Hu	24	Beijing	WATER
Colombia	Yenny Carrillo[21]	25	San Martín	AIR
Costa Rica	Linda Ávila[22]	23	San José	AIR
Crimea	Anastasia Lebediuk	26	Sevastopol	AIR
Croatia	Nera Nikolić	23	Zagreb	WATER
Czech Republic	Klára Vavrušková	20	Kostelec nad Orlicí	AIR
Denmark	Sara Langtved	24	Copenhagen	FIRE
Dominican Republic	Yasmín Evangelista[23]	22	Santo Domingo	FIRE
Ecuador	Antonella Paz Marin[24]	18	Esmeraldas	WATER
England	Stephanie Wyatt[25]	19	Poole	AIR
Fiji	Zaira Begg[26][27]	24	Suva	AIR
France	Sonate Terrassier[28]	21	Bayonne	AIR
Germany	Kristyna Losova[29]	20	Hamburg	FIRE
Ghana	Abena Appiah[30]	26	Accra	AIR
Guadeloupe	Marika Moutoussamy	21	Morne-à-l'Eau	WATER
Guam	Cydney Shey Folsom[31]	19	Santa Rita	AIR
Guatemala	María Regina Barco[32]	20	Jutiapa	WATER
Guyana	Faydeha King[33]	26	Corriverton	WATER
Haiti	Vitania Louissaint[34]	24	Port-au-Prince	AIR
Honduras	Rita Velasquez	23	Yoro	FIRE
Hungary	Tünde Blága	23	Budapest	FIRE
India	Tejaswini Manogna	25	Hyderabad	WATER
Indonesia	Cinthia Kusuma Rani	21	Pontianak	AIR
Israel	Reem Matar	23	Nazareth	WATER
Italy	Letizia Percoco	19	Roncadelle	WATER
Japan	Yuka Itoku	23	Oita	AIR
Kazakhstan	Altynay Assenova	21	Almaty	FIRE
Kenya	Susan Kirui	23	Nairobi	WATER
Korea	Woo Hee-jun	25	Busan	FIRE
Liberia	Georgia Bemah	24	Bong County	WATER
Malaysia	Nur Haziyah Fatin	22	Kuching	FIRE
Malta	Alexia Tabone	24	Tarxien	WATER
Mauritius	Gyanisha Ramah	22	Port Louis	AIR
Mexico	Hilary Islas	19	Compostela	AIR
Mongolia	Azzaya Tsogt-Ochir	24	Ulaanbaatar	FIRE
Montenegro	Nikoleta Rakočević	23	Tivat	FIRE
Myanmar	May Thadar Ko	22	Mandalay	AIR
Nepal	Riya Basnet	23	Kathmandu	FIRE
Netherlands	Nikki Prein	21	Doetinchem	FIRE
New Zealand	Tashan Kapene	19	Mount Maunganui	WATER
Nigeria	Modupe Susan Garland	21	Lagos	FIRE
Northern Ireland	Shannon McCullagh	22	Belfast	WATER
Northern Marianas Islands	Leisha Deleon Guerrero	19	Saipan	AIR
Panama	Marianna Fuentes	22	Panama City	WATER
Papua New Guinea	Pauline Tibola	23	Arawa	WATER
Paraguay	Jociani Repossi	25	Santa Rita	WATER
Peru	Alexandra Caceres	24	Cajamarca	AIR
Philippines	Janelle Tee[35]	28	Pasig	AIR
Poland	Krystyna Sokołowska	22	Bialystok	FIRE
Portugal	Bruna Silva	18	Braga	AIR
Puerto Rico	Nellys Pimentel	22	San Juan	WATER
Réunion Island	Anaïs Payet	21	Sainte-Marie	WATER
Russia	Anna Baksheeva	18	Chita	FIRE
Rwanda	Paulette Ndekwe	19	Kigali	WATER
Serbia	Ljubica Rajković	25	Novi Sad	WATER
Sierra Leone	N'jainatu Sesay[36]	22	Tokeh	FIRE
Singapore	Gerlyn Cheah	24	Singapore City	FIRE
Slovak Republic	Stanislava Lučková	26	Košice	WATER
Slovenia	Charnée Bonno	23	Velenje	WATER
South Africa	Nazia Wadee	22	Lenasia	FIRE
South Sudan	Asara Bullen Panchol	22	Juba	FIRE
Spain	Sonia Hernández Romeo	22	Avila	FIRE
Thailand	Teeyapar Sretsirisuvarna	27	Bangkok	FIRE
Tonga	Titania Matekuolava	24	Panmure	WATER
Ukraine	Diana Shabas	20	Novovolynsk	WATER
United States	Emanii Davis	25	Griffin	AIR
US Virgin Islands	Talisha White	24	Rex	FIRE
Venezuela	Michell Castellanos	26	Valencia	FIRE
Vietnam	Hoàng Thị Hạnh	27	Nghe An	WATER
Zambia	Venus Mary Vlahakis	20	Lusaka	AIR
Zimbabwe	Monalisa Chiredzero[37]	20	Harare	FIRE