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Chidimma Vanessa Onwe Adetshina (born 6 June 2001) is a Nigerian beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Universe Nigeria 2024. [2] [3] She represented Nigeria at the Miss Universe 2024 pageant in Mexico and finished as the first runner-up. [4]
Miss Universe 2024 was the 73rd Miss Universe pageant, held at the Arena CDMX in Mexico City, Mexico, on 16 November 2024. [ 1 ] Sheynnis Palacios of Nicaragua crowned Victoria Kjær Theilvig of Denmark as her successor at the end of the event.
The 2008 pageant was originally to be held in Kyiv, Ukraine, but was relocated to South Africa after a diplomatic crisis between Russia and Georgia. Three countries have achieved back-to-back wins: Sweden in 1951 and 1952, United Kingdom in 1964 and 1965, and India in 1999 and 2000.
The three-hour 71 st Miss World 2024 Final will be broadcast on Saturday, March 9 at 7 p.m. ET in the U.S. on The Africa Channel. Next, Meet the New Miss America 2024 and the 50 Lovely Ladies Who ...
The Miss Universe first runner-up, Chidimma Adetshina, earned the highest-ever placement for Nigeria. She previously competed at Miss South Africa but withdrew following online attacks on her ...
After the furore in South Africa, and the doubts about her nationality, she competed in the Miss Nigeria competition, which she won to qualify for the Miss Universe contest held in Mexico City.
Miss Israel 1976: 11 July 1976 72 1977 Trinidad and Tobago: Janelle Commissiong [27] 24 Port of Spain: Miss Trinidad and Tobago 1977: 16 July 1977 80 1978 South Africa: Margaret Gardiner [28] 18 Cape Town: Miss Republic of South Africa 1978: 24 July 1978 75 1979 Venezuela: Maritza Sayalero [29] 18 Caracas: Miss Venezuela 1979: 20 July 1979 1980 ...
She represented Uganda at Miss World 2018 in China and was crowned Miss World Africa 2018. [2] At the Miss World 2018 contest, Abenakyo was a winner in the head to head challenge portion of the contest, and she placed in the Top 5 overall. She is the first Ugandan to place this high in this annual pageant.