Señorita Panamá 1998, the 16th Señorita Panamá pageant and 33rd celebration of the ''Miss Panamá'' contest, was held in
Teatro Anayansi Centro de Convenciones Atlapa,
Panama City
Panama City ( es, Ciudad de Panamá, links=no; ), also known as Panama (or Panamá in Spanish), is the capital and largest city of Panama. It has an urban population of 880,691, with over 1.5 million in its metropolitan area. The city is locat ...
,
Panama
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cos ...
, on Saturday, September 5, 1998, after weeks of events. The winner of the pageant was
Yamani Saied
Yamani Esther Saied Calviño (born May 12, 1978, in Ciudad de Panamá Panamá) is a Panamanian model and beauty pageant contestant winner of the Señorita Panamá 1998. She also represented Panama in the Miss Universe 1999, the ''48th Miss Univer ...
.
The pageant was broadcast live on
RPC-TV
RPC-TV is a television network, and is headquartered in Panama City, Panama
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part ...
Panamá
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cost ...
. About 14 contestants from all over Panamá competed for the prestigious crown. At the conclusion of the final night of competition, outgoing titleholder
Tanisha Tamara Drummond Jonhson of
Colon crowned
Yamani Esther Saied Calviño of
Panama Centro as the new Señorita Panamá.
In the same night was celebrated the election of the "Señorita Panamá World", was announced the winner of the Señorita Panamá Mundo title.
Señorita Panamá World 1997 Patricia Aurora Bremner Hernández of
Panama Centro crowned Lorena del Carmen Zagía Miró of
Panama Centro as the new
Señorita Panamá World. Also was selected the representative for the Miss Asia Pacific pageant Abimelec Rodríguez Fernández of
Panama Centro was crowned by Iris Avila Moreno ''Nuestra Belleza Internacional Panamá 1997'' of
Panama Centro.
Saied competed in the 48th edition,
Miss Universe 1999 pageant, held at the Chaguaramas Convention Centre,
Chaguaramas,
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous much smaller islands, it is situated south of ...
on May 26, 1999.
In other hands Zagía Miró competed in
Miss World 1998
Miss World 1998, the 48th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 26 November 1998 at the Lake Berjaya Mahé Resort in Mahé Island, Seychelles. 86 delegates from around the world competed for the crown. Ronan Keating, then lead singer ...
, the 48th edition of the
Miss World
Miss World is the oldest existing international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951. Since his death in 2000, Morley's widow, Julia Morley, has co-chaired the pageant. Along with Miss Universe, Miss Int ...
pageant, was held on 26 November 1998 at the Lake Berjaya Mahé Resort in
Mahé Island Mahe, Mahé, Mähe, or MAHE may refer to:
Places
China
* Mahe Township (, lit. "Horse Creek Village") in Li County in Gansu
Estonia
* Mähe, a subdistrict of Tallinn, Estonia
India
* Mahé, India, a municipality in Mahé distric ...
,
Seychelles
Seychelles (, ; ), officially the Republic of Seychelles (french: link=no, République des Seychelles; Creole: ''La Repiblik Sesel''), is an archipelagic state consisting of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city, V ...
. Rodríguez competed in Miss Asia Pacific 1999 pageant, the 29th edition of Miss Asia Pacific Pageant held on December 11, 1999 in Quezon City
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
, where she won the Best National Costume.
Final result
Special awards
Contestants
These are the competitors who have been selected this year.
Election schedule
*Saturday September 5 Final night, coronation Señorita Panamá 1998
Candidates notes
Yamani Saied considered one of the most delicate and beautiful Señorita Panama.
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Historical significance
*Panamá Centro won Señorita Panamá for 19th time.
References
External links
Señorita Panamá official website
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Señorita Panamá
1998 beauty pageants