Top 40 Beach Beauties in the Miss World 2010 pageant

The Top 40 semi-finalists for the Beach Beauty fast-track event of Miss World 2010 have been announced.

Miss Norway Mariann Birkedal, who is currently among Mykiru's top favorites for the crown (at #7), is among the Top 40 Beach Beauty semi-finalists along with other top faves such as Botswana, Russia, India, Thailand, St. Lucia and more.

Missing on the list are other strong bets like Venezuela, South Africa, Philippines, Ireland, Brazil, Mexico and Slovakia.


The Top 40:

ARGENTINA, Mariana Arambarry
AUSTRALIA, Ashleigh Francis
BAHAMAS, Braneka Bassett
BARBADOS, Danielle Bishop
BOLIVIA, Maria Teresa Roca Cordova
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA, Snežana Prorok
BOTSWANA, Emma Wareus
CAPE VERDE, Joseline Fontes
CAYMAN ISLANDS, Cristin Joy Alexander
CHINA PR, Xiao Tang
CZECH REPUBLIC, Veronika Machova
FRANCE, Virginie Dechenaud
FRENCH POLYNESIA, Mihilani Teixeira
GHANA, Mimi Areme
GUADELOUPE, Ericka Aly
HONG KONG, Sau Man Cheung
HUNGARY, Jennifer Kalo
INDIA, Manasvi Mamgai
ISRAEL, Shavit Wiesel
ITALY, Giada Pezzaioli
LITHUANIA, Gritė Maruškevičiūtė
LUXEMBOURG, Shari Thuyns
MARTINIQUE, Tully Fremcourt
MOLDOVA, Daria Zaiteva
MONGOLIA, Sarnai Amar
NETHERLANDS, Desiree van den Berg
NEW ZEALAND, Cody Yerkovich
NORWAY, Mariann Birkedal
PARAGUAY, Egni Eckert
PUERTO RICO, Yara Lasanta Santiago
RUSSIA, Irina Sharipova
SCOTLAND, Nicola Mimnagh
SRI LANKA, Fallon Ranasinghe Dona
ST. LUCIA, Aiasha Gustave
THAILAND, Yuwaret Sirirat Rueangsri
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, Davia Chambers
TURKEY, Gizem Memic
UKRAINE, Ekaterina Zakharchenko
UNITED STATES, Alexandria Mills
ZIMBABWE, Samantha Tshuma

The Top 40 will compete in the Beach Beauty finals tomorrow, October 16, and the winner will earn an automatic Top 15 semi-final slot during the pageant finale on October 30, 2010.

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Photo courtesy of MWO

Miss World 2010 contestants in swimsuit

The 115 contestants of Miss World 2010 were in their swimsuit yesterday as they filmed a video for the Beach Beauty competition and for the finals as well.

Misses Zimbabwe Samantha Tshuma, Poland Agata Szewiola, Thailand Yuwaret Sirirat, Sierra Leone Neyorlyn Williams

It was their 2nd day in Sanya and for today, they have rehearsals for the final show and for the nearing fast track events.

The past 3 days were actually loaded with many activities.

Last Sunday, their last day in Shanghai, they attended the 39th China Cultural Forum and 10 contestants were chosen to speak up onstage about the beauty and brilliance of expo in a multi-cultural society. The chosen 10 were Misses Australia, Botswana, China, Egypt, England, Netherlands, South Africa, St. Lucia, USA and Venezuela. Then they had shopping and went on a luxury cruise later on that day.

Last Monday, their day 1 in Sanya, a welcome parade and reception were prepared for them. The next day, they had a swimsuit photoshoot, rehearsals and were later treated with a welcome gala dinner by the city government of Sanya.

Check out the random pics of the contestants during the last 3 days:

Turkey (Gizem Memic), Philippines, Netherlands (Desiree van den Berg)


Bahamas (Braneka Bassett), Jamaica (Chantal Raymond), Trinidad & Tobago (Davia Chambers), St. Lucia (Aiasha Gustave)


Botswana (Emma Wareus), Egypt (Sara Khouly), Cyprus (Andrea Kkolou), Canada (Denise Garrido)


Brazil (Kamilla Salgado), Egypt, Lebanon (Rahaf Abdallah)


Cayman Islands (Cristin Joy Alexander), Barbados (Danielle Bishop), Bahamas, Belgium (Cilou Annys), Bulgaria (Romina Andonova)


Egypt, Korea (Hye-young Kim), Nepal (Sadichha Shrestha), Japan (Hiroko Matsunaga), Hong Kong (Sammy Cheung), Macau (Cherry Ng)


Ethiopia (Assefa Tesfaye) & Martinique (Tully Fremcourt)


Philippines (Czarina Gatbonton), Korea, Mongolia (Sarnai Amar), Panama (Paola Vaprio), Macedonia FYRO (Stefani Borsova), Montenegro (Milica Milatovic)

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Photos courtesy of GlobalBeauties, MWO & delegations from Egypt, Bahamas & Philippines