Czech Republic's Tatana Kucharova Wins Miss World 2006 Beauty Contest

Foxnews ^ | 09/30/2006

[Panerai]

WARSAW, Poland — Tatana Kucharova, an 18-year-old student from the Czech Republic, won the Miss World 2006 beauty contest on Saturday.

Kucharova defeated 103 other women in voting by a panel of judges and television viewers around the world during a two-hour finals ceremony in the Polish capital.

First runner-up in the 56th edition of the annual beauty pageant was Joana Valentina Boitor, a 17-year-old from Romania. Australia's Sabrina Houssami, 20, was third.

Wearing a long white dress, a teary Kucharova blew kisses to the 2,500 audience members in Warsaw's Congress Hall after she received her diamond crown from Miss World 2005, Unnur Birna Vilhjalmsdottir of Iceland.

Kucharova, a tall high-school student with long blond hair, was born in Trnava and grew up in the town of Opocno. She told the judges she wants to attend university and then become a model. She likes tennis and horse riding and her personal motto is "Always be an optimist."

[Southack]

[stultorum]

Czeck women are some of the most beautiful women in the world.

I was just discussing this last week with a friend and now this news.

[NRA2BFree]

She's a beautiful young girl. :o)

[stultorum]

Me think she would look even more beautiful w/o all that heavy makeup. She doesn't need it. She's a natural.

[Panerai]

1st Runner-up Joana Valentina Boitor of Romania.

[stultorum]

I think the winner is better looking than the runner-up.

Anybody remember Nadia Comanechi and Olga Korbut?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Homina homina homina....

[AlexW]

"Czeck women are some of the most beautiful women in the world."

Living here in Slovakia, I know all about it :))))))))

[llevrok]

"I'll pick up the Czech".

[stultorum]

God is she beautiful!

And young to boot.

She's got the whole world in the palm of her hand.

God bless her.

[indcons]

[Polak z Polski]

I really liked the ones from Kazachstan, Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine, Bialorus, Bosnia and Czarnogora, and of course, Poland.

[ken5050]

FYI

[knarf]

"Anybody remember Nadia Comanechi and Olga Korbut?"

Hell, yeah. I thought I was a pedaphile for a while there ...

[Pyro7480]

Here's Nadia from about a year ago with Secretary Rice (to her left).

[lizol]

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[dfwgator]

Now that's one Czech that I would accept. * rimshot *

[1rudeboy]

LOL I'd bounce that Czech.