Reviewing the achievements of Vietnamese beauties at international beauty contests

Over the past 10 years, more and more Vietnamese beauties have achieved high results in international beauty contests. In 2018, Phuong Khanh won the highest position at the Miss Earth 2018 contest. In 2021, Vietnamese and Asian media were shocked by the news that beauty Nguyen Thuc Thuy Tien won the Miss Peace crown.

Following Thuy Tien's success, Vietnamese beauties sent to compete in international beauty contests in 2022 also received great support and attention from fans.

Le Nguyen Bao Ngoc (middle) won the title of Miss Intercontinental 2022 (Photo: MI).

After nearly 2 years of being affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, in 2022, many international beauty pageants such as Miss Earth, Miss International, Miss Grand International, Miss Supranational, Miss Intercontinental will return to their traditional form.

The world's two largest beauty pageants, Miss Universe and Miss World, are expected to be postponed until early 2023. Miss Universe is scheduled to take place in the US in January 2023, while Miss World has no specific schedule.

Le Nguyen Bao Ngoc crowned Miss Intercontinental 2022

In October 2022, Le Nguyen Bao Ngoc won the Miss Intercontinental 2022 crown. This is currently the only crown of a Vietnamese beauty queen at the international beauty arena in 2022. After being crowned, Bao Ngoc was allowed by the organizing committee to bring the crown worth 8 billion VND back to Vietnam.

Bao Ngoc is the first Vietnamese contestant to win this contest after Le Au Ngan Anh won the title of 4th Runner-up (in 2018). Some other faces who competed in Miss Intercontinental are Tran Hoang Ai Nhi, Tuong Linh, Ha Thu but did not make it to the Top.

Bao Ngoc is the Vietnamese representative with the best achievements at the international beauty pageant in 2022 (Photo: Instagram).

The Miss Intercontinental pageant was born in Egypt and has been around for 50 years. In terms of coverage, influence, organization and communication, the pageant is not as popular as the beauty pageants in the Top 5. However, the pageant still attracts a large number of contestants. This year's pageant has more than 70 contestants.

Bao Ngoc's victory was well-deserved. She is 1m85 tall, has a beautiful body, IELTS 8.0 English proficiency and is a good communicator. With good English skills, Bao Ngoc is confident in communication and many other activities. She scored 9.2 points in the interview round with the judges.

During the final round of the final round, Bao Ngoc said: "At this moment, what I want to conquer most is the title of Miss Intercontinental 2022. I promised everyone that I would become an ambassador to spread the message of the contest, the power of beauty and love. I am ready. The moment has come and Vietnam is ready for the title of Miss Intercontinental. Thank you."

Bao Ngoc possesses impressive height and good communication skills, knowing how to shine at the right time (Photo: Sen Vang).

Series of runner-up titles of Vietnamese representatives at international competitions

In early 2022, Nguyen Huynh Kim Duyen impressed with the 2nd Runner-up award at the Miss Supranational 2022 contest held in Poland. Before that, she tried her hand at the Miss Universe 2021 arena and stopped at the Top 16.

Compared to the average contestant, Kim Duyen is in the group of candidates who stand out in both appearance and catwalk skills. Before the final, she was awarded the Supra Model of Asia and is always on the prediction list of beauty pageant websites.

Kim Duyen (second from left) won 2nd runner-up at the final of Miss Supranational 2022 (Photo: Missosology).

In the top 5's response, Kim Duyen received the question "In your opinion, is striving to be perfect positive or negative?". She answered in English: "I think this is an interesting question. Everything has two sides, positive and negative. I always try to practice to become the best version of myself. And that is the positive direction."

Before Kim Duyen, many Vietnamese beauties participated in the Miss Intercontinental contest. In the last two seasons, Minh Tu and Ngoc Chau both stopped in the Top 10. Therefore, Kim Duyen is currently the Vietnamese contestant with the best results in the Miss Intercontinental arena.

In October 2022, Vietnamese representative Lam Thu Hong also won the title of 4th Runner-up of the Miss Globe 2022 contest. The final night was a competition of more than 50 contestants from countries and territories.

Lam Thu Hong won the 4th runner-up position at Miss Globe 2022 (Photo: MG).

Despite not receiving much attention from the media and audience during the competition, Lam Thu Hong still tried her best. Sharing after winning the prize, she said: "I really couldn't believe the achievements I had made, after the incidents I encountered during the competition. After losing my luggage which took up half of the competition time, I no longer put too much emphasis on the results I dreamed of before going to the competition, but always reminded myself to "fight" with all my might, compete with 200% of my strength to contribute to building the most beautiful images of the country and Vietnamese people in the eyes of international friends".

A Vietnamese representative who achieved a high ranking was beauty Le Thi Huong Ly, who was the second runner-up at the Miss Tourism World 2022 contest held in Vietnam in December 2022.

Regrettable results of Vietnamese beauty

Besides the successes, some Vietnamese faces made the audience regret when participating in the international beauty arena in 2022. The first is Doan Thien An, the representative of Vietnam at Miss Grand International 2022.

Thien An stopped at the Top 20 Miss Grand 2022 (Photo: MGV).

Doan Thien An was forced to stop at Top 20 even though she had previously won many secondary awards such as Top 10 Miss National Costume Performance, Top 10 Miss Swimsuit Performance and the Power of the Country award (voting award). On beauty forums, before the final, Thien An was the contestant predicted by the specialized pages to win the top position.

Thach Thu Thao is the representative of Vietnam at Miss Earth 2022. The beauty was unlucky to encounter many incidents at the contest and was not among the outstanding contestants throughout the journey to compete in the Philippines.

Thu Thao stopped at the Top 20 of Miss Earth 2022 (Photo: Miss Earth).

The Miss Earth 2022 contest will take place in both live and online formats. In the online competition, Thu Thao was highly appreciated by the websites.

However, during nearly 3 weeks in the Philippines, the Vietnamese representative was quite quiet and did not win any secondary awards. In the final night, she stopped at the Top 20.

Phuong Anh is the last Vietnamese beauty to participate in international beauty contests in 2022. She left for Japan to compete in Miss International 2022 in early December 2022. Before and during the competition, Phuong Anh was always in the group of outstanding contestants, attracting the attention of specialized pages.

In addition to her bright, gentle face that meets the contest criteria, Phuong Anh has the advantage of being fluent in four languages. She can converse in English, French and Japanese. The beauty also had nearly two years to prepare for the contest and went to Japan with a confident mindset, determined to win the crown.

However, at the Miss International 2022 final, Phuong Anh shocked fans when she could not make it into the Top 15. The Philippines was the only Asian representative to advance and had to stop at the Top 8. Missosology and Sash Factor both said that the absence of the Vietnamese representative from the Top 15 was a surprise of this year's season.

Despite receiving high expectations and being well prepared, Phuong Anh could not make it into the Top 15 of Miss International 2022 (Photo: Instagram).

Vietnam still has two hopes in the international beauty arena.

Currently, Vietnam still has two representatives participating in Miss World 2022 and Miss Universe 2022.

Mai Phuong represents Vietnam at Miss World 2022. The 23-year-old beauty is 1m7 tall, with measurements of 82-63-92 cm. Mai Phuong has good performance and expressive skills in front of the camera, and good foreign language skills. Her strengths lie in communication and behavior skills. The beauty site Crown Talk predicts that Mai Phuong will be in the Top 7.

Mai Phuong is Vietnam's representative at Miss World 2022 (Photo: Instagram).

Ngoc Chau is the representative of Vietnam at Miss Universe 2022. Ngoc Chau is 1m74 tall, has a beautiful and sexy appearance, suitable for the Miss Universe arena. To prepare for the journey to conquer the crown, Ngoc Chau went to the Philippines, practiced catwalk, and communication skills with a famous coach. She continued to go to the US to practice at the end of December.

The beauty from Tay Ninh was predicted by the beauty website Reinasgrandslams to win this year's contest. Meanwhile, the website Missosology ranked the Vietnamese representative in the Top 10 and the website Crowntalk put Ngoc Chau of Vietnam in the Top 5.

Ngoc Chau is the hope of Vietnamese beauty at Miss Universe 2022 (Photo: MU).

Mi Van