Miss Spain Gets Promotion: Miss World

MSN ^ | December 19, 2015

[Steelfish]

Miss Spain Gets Promotion: Miss World

SANYA, China — Spain’s Mireia Lalaguna Royo was named the winner of the Miss World 2015 competition Saturday night in the southern Chinese island resort of Sanya, an event dogged by controversy over China’s refusal to allow Canada’s entrant to attend.

Sofia Nikitchuk of Russia was the runner-up and Indonesia’s Maria Harfanti took third place in the final following a lengthy competition featuring 114 women.

Each had won the right to represent their country in a series of local and regional competitions.

The victory marked the first-ever win for a Spanish contestant.

Lalaguna is a 23-year-old model from Barcelona with a degree in pharmacology who plans to pursue a master’s degree in nutrition. She placed first in the competition’s top model contest and appeared to impress the judges with her public speaking.

Not present was Miss Canada, Chinese-born Anastasia Lin, who had been prevented from boarding her connecting flight to Sanya from Hong Kong last month after China refused her a visa.

Lin is an outspoken critic of Chinese religious policy and a follower of the Falun Gong meditation practice, which was outlawed by China in 1999.

[Fungi]

no pictures?

[livius]

She looks a lot like the current Queen, Letizia, who is from Asturias (Northwestern Spain). La Laguna (her last name is Lalaguna) is in the Canary Islands. In any case, she’s very elegant looking.

[BenLurkin]

[iowamark]

Muy Bueno!

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

She is very pretty.I would be more impressed if she has a ME degree instead of nutrition.

[Fungi]

thanks, i’ll pass. Nice, but that is all.

[MHGinTN]

Oh my! What a beauty. And brains to boot! *sigh*

[Eagles6]

Ooh La La!

Oh wait, that's French.

Muy caliente!

[Macoozie]

“Please welcome, and say Hola! to Mireia Lalaguna Royo, or Mrs Donald Trump #4.”

[time4good]

“Please welcome, and say Hola! to Mireia Lalaguna Royo, or Mrs Donald Trump #4.”

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Nah - Trump will just make her either Barron’s Au Pair or better yet - Press Secretary.

[Kid Shelleen]

I vote for Miss Columbia.

[Vendome]

[EvilCapitalist]

How do you say “Not Guilty” in spanish?

[Mears]

Aaaaah,she’s not so hot.

(Extreme envy here.)

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[Migraine]

Can’t go wrong. Colombians in general are the prettiest people in the world.

[iowamark]

No culpable

[Steelfish]

Agree

[353FMG]

Would love her as my dietitian to lower my A1c.

[higgmeister]

I was hoping for Miss Portugal but I did not even think about watching it. I was stationed at Lajes Field in the Azores and that is where Miss Portugal is from.

EmÍlia AraÚjo recently graduated from medical school and is a doctor.