Miss Venezuela 2009 was the 56th
Miss Venezuela
Miss Venezuela (Spanish: ''Organización Miss Venezuela'') is the national beauty pageant of Venezuela, traditionally held in September. It is preceded by two or three months of preliminary events, with the awarding of corporate prizes. The fi ...
pageant
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, was held at the
Poliedro de Caracas
The Poliedro de Caracas ("Caracas Polyhedron Arena") is an indoor arena, indoor sports arena, located on the grounds adjacent to Hipodromo La Rinconada, in Caracas, Venezuela. It was designed by architect Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc., in ...
in
Caracas
Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...
,
Venezuela
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, on September 24, 2009.
Stefanía Fernández
Stefanía Fernández Krupij (born 4 September 1990) is a Venezuelan journalist, model and beauty queen who won the Miss Venezuela 2008 and Miss Universe 2009 titles. She earned a Guinness World Records by being the first Miss Universe winner w ...
,
Miss Venezuela 2008 and
Miss Universe 2009
Miss Universe 2009 was the 58th Miss Universe pageant, held at the Imperial Ballroom in Atlantis Paradise Island, Nassau, The Bahamas on August 23, 2009.
At the end of the event, Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela crowned Stefanía Fernández of Vene ...
, crowned Miss
Miranda,
Marelisa Gibson
Marelisa Gibson Villegas (born 26 August 1988) is a Venezuelan designer and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Venezuela 2009.
Early life
Gibson was born in Caracas, where she use to study architecture at the Central University of Venezue ...
, as her successor at the end of the event.
The Miss World Venezuela title went to Miss
Zulia
Zulia State ( es, Estado Zulia, ; Wayuu: ''Mma’ipakat Suuria'') is one of the 23 states of Venezuela. The state capital is Maracaibo. As of the 2011 census, it has a population of 3,704,404, the largest population among Venezuela's states. It ...
,
Adriana Vasini
Adriana Cristina Vasini Sánchez, (born July 30, 1987, in Maracaibo, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan model and beauty queen who won the titles of Miss World Venezuela 2009 and Reina Hispanoamericana 2009. She represented Venezuela in the Miss Worl ...
while
Elizabeth Mosquera
Ana Elizabeth Mosquera Gómez (born March 16, 1991) is a Venezuelan model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss International 2010, becoming the sixth woman from her Venezuela, country to capture the Miss International title.
Early life
Born in ...
, Miss
Trujillo, obtained the title of Miss Venezuela International. The 1st Runner Up
Mariángela Bonanni
Mariángela Bonanni is a Venezuelan beauty pageant titleholder and Fashion Model from San Cristóbal, Táchira, Venezuela, who started her career representing her native state Táchira in the Miss Venezuela 2009 pageant on 24 September 2009, an ...
was appointed as Miss Venezuela Earth.
It was on that year that the present MV anthem was sung for the first time, with a new melody replacing the iconic tune used for 34 years, with a slight change in lyrics.
Delegates
References
External links
Miss Venezuela official website
{{Miss Venezuela
2009 in Venezuela
2009 beauty pageants