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{{short description|1st Miss Earth pageant}}
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{{Infobox beauty pageant
| winner = [[Catharina Svensson]]
| represented = Denmark
| congeniality = Misuzu Hirayama, Japan
| best national costume = [[Shamita Singha]], India
| photogenic = [[Daniela Stucan]], Argentina
| image =  Catharina Svensson, Miss Earth 2001.jpg
| image size = 180
| caption = Catharina Svensson
| date = October 28, 2001
| entrants = 42
| placements = 10
| venue = [[University of the Philippines]] Theater, [[Quezon City]], [[Metro Manila]], Philippines
| broadcaster = {{hlist|[[Radio Philippines Network|RPN]]|[[GMA Network]]|[[The Filipino Channel]]|[[Star World]]}}
| presenters = {{hlist|[[Worarat Suwannarat|Emma Suwannarat]]|Jaime Garchitorena|Asha Gill}}
| debuts = {{hlist|Argentina|Australia|Bolivia|Brazil|Canada|Colombia|Croatia|Denmark|Dominican Republic|El Salvador|Estonia|Ethiopia|Finland|Gibraltar|Guatemala|Hungary|India|Italy|Japan|Kazakhstan|Kenya|Latvia|Lebanon|Malaysia|Netherlands|New Zealand|Nicaragua|Panama|Peru|Philippines|Puerto Rico|Russia|Singapore|South Africa|Spain|Taiwan|Tanzania|Thailand|Turkey|United States|Venezuela|Zanzibar}}
| next = [[Miss Earth 2002|2002]]
}}
'''Miss Earth 2001''' was the first edition of the [[Miss Earth]] pageant, held at the [[University of the Philippines]] Theater in [[Quezon City]], [[Metro Manila]], Philippines, on October 28, 2001.<ref>{{cite news|title=Danish law student is Miss Earth|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79263990.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022221055/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79263990.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 22, 2012|publisher=Filipino Reporter|date=November 8, 2001|access-date=January 7, 2008}}</ref><ref name=Missindiaearth2001>{{cite news|last=Lo|first=Ricardo F.|title=In fairness to Sherilyn|url=http://www.philstar.com/funfare/Article.aspx?articleId=138037&publicationSubCategoryId=70|access-date=June 11, 2011|work=The Philippine Star|date=October 27, 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210100557/http://www.philstar.com/funfare/Article.aspx?articleId=138037&publicationSubCategoryId=70|archive-date=February 10, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Miss Tierra vive su fase final |url=http://www.eldeber.com.bo/anteriores/20011025/sociales_8.html |access-date=June 11, 2011 |newspaper=El Deber |date=October 25, 2001 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029201827/http://www.eldeber.com.bo/anteriores/20011025/sociales_8.html |archivedate=October 29, 2013 }}</ref> 

At the end of the event, [[Catharina Svensson]] of Denmark was crowned as Miss Earth 2001.<ref name="opolis-earth">{{cite news |last=West |first=Donald |date=December 18, 2007 |title=Miss Earth History |publisher=Pageantopolis |url=http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/earth.htm |url-status=usurped |access-date=January 7, 2008 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071216024953/http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/earth.htm |archivedate=December 16, 2007}}</ref><ref name="highbeam-79510645">{{cite news |last=Barawid |first=Rachel |date=October 30, 2001<!-- |access-date=2009-01-03 --> |title=Danish student wins 1st Miss Earth title |work=Manila Bulletin}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=October 29, 2001 |title=Newly crowned |pages=C6 |work=Sun Journal |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Lo5GAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XfMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3796%2C5083357 |access-date=October 18, 2023 |via=[[Google News Archive]]}}</ref>

Contestants from forty-two countries and territories participated in this year's pageant. The pageant was hosted by Emma Suwannarat, Jaime Garchitorena, and Asha Gill.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 24, 2001 |title=Miss Earth adds touch of green to beauty tilts |pages=A27 |newspaper=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Q6hjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hiUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1093%2C39755426 |access-date=October 18, 2023 |via=[[Google News Archive]]}}</ref>

== Background ==
[[File:University of the Philippines (UP Campus) - University Theater (Diliman, Quezon City; 2015-01-22).jpg|thumb|240px|University of the Philippines Theater, the venue]]

=== Location and date ===
After the contract of [[Carousel Productions]] to stage the [[Mutya ng Pilipinas]] and [[Miss Asia Pacific International]] pageants was not renewed in the year 2000,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Valera |first=Nini |date=November 19, 2000 |title=The last 'Mutya' |pages=A23 |newspaper=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=plg1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=gSUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2013%2C25131691 |access-date=October 18, 2023 |via=[[Google News Archive]]}}</ref> the production company, led by Ramon Monzon and [[Lorraine Schuck]], has decided to come up with their own pageants, with the help of former beauty queens from Mutya ng Pilipinas. These pageants are eventually named as Miss Philippines (which eventually became Miss Philippines Earth), and Miss Earth, which focuses on environmental consciousness.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Salterio |first=Leah |date=April 6, 2001 |title=After losing mutya and Miss Asia, ex-beauty queen puts up her own contests |pages=A26 |newspaper=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4VQ1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=bSUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=812%2C17536233 |access-date=October 18, 2023 |via=[[Google News Archive]]}}</ref>

Miss Earth was formally launched in a press conference on April 3, 2001, along with the search of [[Miss Philippines Earth|Miss Philippines]] to represent Philippines in the international competition.<ref name="google-abigail">{{cite news |last=Brizuela |first=Jayson B. |date=October 19, 2001 |title=Our planet is so Beautiful, so is Miss Earth: 42 women form around the world vie for the title |publisher=Manila Standard Publishing Corporation |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mZQVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mQsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2930,2215762&dq=abigail+royce&hl=en |access-date=January 7, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Lo |first=Ricardo F. |date=April 3, 2001 |title=Two new RP Beauty Contests Coming Up |publisher=Philippine Headline News/Philippine Star |url=http://www.newsflash.org/2001/04/sb/sb001641.htm |access-date=January 7, 2008 |archive-date=November 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129020454/http://www.newsflash.org/2001/04/sb/sb001641.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Likewise, the pageant tied up with the Philippine government agencies such as the [[Department of Tourism (Philippines)|Philippine Department of Tourism]] (DoT), [[Department of Environment and Natural Resources]] (DENR), the [[Metropolitan Manila Development Authority]] (MMDA), and at least two international environmental groups such as the [[United Nations Environment Programme]] (UNEP) and the American Global Release to further its environmental advocacy.<ref>{{cite news |last=Xinhua News |first=Online |date=August 29, 2001 |title=Philippines to Host Miss Earth 2001 Beauty Contest |publisher=Xinhua News Agency |url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20010829/446455.htm |url-status=dead |access-date=January 7, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830010453/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20010829/446455.htm |archive-date=August 30, 2009}}</ref><ref name="highbeam-79048204">{{cite news |last=Barawid |first=Rachel Castro |date=October 11, 2001 |title=35 beauties vying for Miss Earth title |work=Manila Bulletin |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-79048204.html |url-status=dead |access-date=October 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106001439/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-79048204.html |archive-date=November 6, 2013}}</ref>

=== Selection of participants ===
Contestants from forty-two countries and territories were selected to compete in the pageant. There were originally sixty countries that will compete in this edition, but was trimmed down to fifty-two after the [[September 11 attacks]] that happened in New York and Washington, United States. The number of contestants was further whittled to forty-two following the air-strikes on Afghanistan by the coalition led by the United States. Some countries who withdrew due to the aforementioned events include Costa Rica, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Malawi, Nepal, Switzerland, Uruguay, and Vietnam.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Burgonio |first=TJ |date=October 12, 2001 |title=Beauties back out |pages=A25, A27 |newspaper=[[Philippine Daily Inquirer]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HqhjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hiUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=793%2C19471138 |access-date=October 18, 2023 |via=[[Google News Archive]]}}</ref>

==Results==
===Placements===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
! Placement
! Contestant
|-
| Miss Earth 2001
|
* {{flagu|Denmark}} – [[Catharina Svensson]]<ref name=elemental-beauties>{{Cite news|title=Elemental beauties: Up close with the Miss Earth winners|url=https://www.philstar.com/2002/04/20/157954/elemental-beauties-close-miss-earth-winners|first=Kym A.|last=Sanchez|date=April 20, 2002|work=The Philippine Star|access-date=June 2, 2020}}</ref>
|-
| Miss Earth – Wind 2001
|
* {{flagu|Brazil}} – Simone Régis<ref name=elemental-beauties/>
|-
| Miss Earth – Water 2001
|
* {{flagu|Kazakhstan}} – [[Margarita Kravtsova]]<ref name=elemental-beauties/>
|-
| Miss Earth – Fire 2001
|
* {{flagu|Argentina}} – [[Daniela Stucan]]<ref name=elemental-beauties/>
|-
| Top 10
|
* {{flagu|Bolivia}} – Catherine Villarroel
* {{flagu|Estonia}} – Evelyn Mikomägi
* {{flagu|India}} – [[Shamita Singha]]
* {{flagu|Latvia}} – Jelena Keirane
* {{flagu|Philippines}} – [[Carlene Aguilar]]
* {{flagu|United States}} – Abigail Royce
|}

===Special awards===
====Major awards====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
! Awards
! Contestant
|-
| Miss Friendship
|
* {{flagu|Japan}} – Misuzu Hirayama
|-
| Miss Photogenic
|
* {{flagu|Argentina}} – Daniela Stucan
|-
| Miss Talent
|
* {{flagu|Latvia}} – Jelena Keirane
|-
| Best in National Costume
|
* {{flagu|India}} – Shamita Singha<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 16, 2001 |title=Down to Earth |work=[[The Times of India]] |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/lucknow-times/down-to-earth/articleshow/400396281.cms |access-date=October 18, 2023 |issn=0971-8257}}</ref>
|-
| Best in Evening Gown
|
* {{flagu|Philippines}} – Carlene Aguilar
|-
| Best in Swimsuit
|
* {{flagu|Kazakhstan}} – Margarita Kravtsova
|}

====Minor/Sponsor awards====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
! Awards
! Contestant
|-
| Miss Avon
|
* {{flagu|India}} – Shamita Singha
|-
| Miss Close-up
|
* {{flagu|Philippines}} – Carlene Aguilar
|-
| Miss Creamsilk
|
* {{flagu|Argentina}} – Daniela Stucan
|-
| Miss Lux
|
* {{flagu|India}} – Shamita Singha
|-
| Miss Ponds
|
* {{flagu|Estonia}} – Evelyn Mikomägi
|}

==Contestants==
[[File:Miss Earth 2001 Map.PNG|thumb|250px|Countries and territories which sent delegates and results]]Forty-two contestants competed for the title.<ref>{{cite news|title=Miss Earth 2001 |url=http://womanoftheearth.tv/essentials/2001.html |publisher=Woman of the Earth News |first=John |last=Soul |date=October 28, 2001 |access-date=December 27, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100405055652/http://www.womanoftheearth.tv/essentials/2001.html |archivedate=April 5, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Castro Barawid|first=Rachel|title=35 beauties vying for Miss Earth|url=http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/manila-bulletin/mi_7968/is_2001_Oct_12/35-beauties-vying-earth-title/ai_n32948962/|access-date=June 12, 2011|work=Manila Bulletin|date=October 12, 2001}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%;"
!Country/Territory
!Contestant
!Age{{efn|Ages at the time of the pageant|name=A}}
!Hometown
|-
|{{flagicon|ARG}} [[Miss Argentina|Argentina]]
|[[Daniela Stucan]]
|22
|[[Ensenada, Buenos Aires|Ensenada]]
|-
|{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Miss Earth Australia|Australia]]
|Christy Anderson
|–
|[[Sydney]]
|-
|{{flagicon|BOL}} [[Miss Bolivia|Bolivia]]
|Catherine Villarroel<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 19, 2023 |title=Catherine Villarroel: "El título de madre te lo da tu hijo y los otros adjetivos te los da la sociedad" |trans-title=Catherine Villarroel: “The title of mother is given to you by your child and the other adjectives are given to you by society” |url=https://eldeber.com.bo/sociales/catherine-villarroel-el-titulo-de-madre-te-lo-da-tu-hijo-y-los-otros-adjetivos-te-los-da-la-sociedad_325680 |access-date=October 18, 2023 |website=El Deber |language=es-ES |archive-date=October 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231023053630/https://eldeber.com.bo/sociales/catherine-villarroel-el-titulo-de-madre-te-lo-da-tu-hijo-y-los-otros-adjetivos-te-los-da-la-sociedad_325680 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|19
|[[Santa Cruz de la Sierra]]
|-
|{{flagu|Brazil}}
|Simone Régis<ref name="google-abigail" />
|22
|[[Santa Catarina (state)|Santa Catarina]]
|-
|{{flagu|Canada}}
|Michelle Weswaldi
|24
|[[Woodbridge, Ontario|Woodbridge]]
|-
|{{flagu|Colombia}}
|Natalia Botero<ref name="google-abigail" />
|21
|[[Cesar Department|Cesar]]
|-
|{{flagu|Croatia}}
|Ivana Galesic<ref name="google-abigail" />
|–
|[[Zagreb]]
|-
|{{flagu|Denmark}}
|[[Catharina Svensson]]
|19
|[[Copenhagen]]
|-
|{{flagu|Dominican Republic}}
|Catherine Núñez
|–
|[[Elías Piña Province|Elías Piña]]
|-
|{{flagu|El Salvador}}
|Grace Marie Zabaneh<ref name="google-abigail" />
|22
|[[San Salvador]]
|-
|{{flagu|Estonia}}
|Evelyn Mikomägi<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jahilo|first=Valdo|date=August 28, 2001|title=Evelyn Mikomägi lubab missivõistlustega lõpu teha|trans-title=Evelyn Mikomägi promises to put an end to pageants|url=https://www.ohtuleht.ee/110777/evelyn-mikomagi-lubab-missivoistlustega-lopu-teha|access-date=October 18, 2023|website=[[Õhtuleht]]|language=et}}</ref>
|21
|[[Tallinn]]
|-
|{{flagu|Ethiopia}}
|Nardos Tiluhan Wondemu<ref name="google-abigail" />
|21
|[[Addis Ababa]]
|-
|{{flagu|Finland}}
|[[Martina Aitolehti]]<ref name="city">{{cite news |author=Maria Pettersson |date=April 2009 |title=Martina Aitolehti. Miten myy tuote Martina Aitolehti |work=[[City (magazine)|City]] |url=http://www.city.fi/artikkeli/Martina+Aitolehti/2972/ |accessdate=April 14, 2012}}</ref>
|19
|[[Helsinki]]
|-
|{{flagu|Gibraltar}}
|Charlene Ann Figueras<ref name="google-abigail" />
|21
|[[Gibraltar]]
|-
|{{flagu|Guatemala}}
|Carmina Elizabeth Paz
|–
|[[Guatemala City]]
|-
|{{flagu|Hungary}}
|Krisztina Kovacs
|–
|[[Budapest]]
|-
|{{flagu|India}}
|[[Shamita Singha]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gujare|first=Mrinal|date=April 22, 2015|title=Stunning beauty queens share their thoughts about 'Earth Day'|url=https://beautypageants.indiatimes.com/miss-earth/stunning-beauty-queens-share-their-thoughts-about-earth-day/articleshow/47015984.cms|access-date=October 18, 2023|website=[[The Times of India]]|language=en}}</ref>
|22
|[[Mumbai]]
|-
|{{flagu|Italy}}
|Monica Rosetti
|19
|[[Milan]]
|-
|{{flagu|Japan}}
|Misuzu Hirayama
|–
|Tokyo
|-
|{{flagu|Kazakhstan}}
|[[Margarita Kravtsova]]<ref name="google-abigail" />
|20
|[[Astana]]
|-
|{{flagu|Kenya}}
|Aqua Bonsu<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 21, 2020 |orig-date=November 28, 2008 |title=Life after the runway |url=https://nation.africa/kenya/life-and-style/saturday-magazine/life-after-the-runway--569880 |access-date=October 18, 2023 |website=Daily Nation |language=en}}</ref>
|–
|[[Nairobi]]
|-
|{{flagu|Latvia}}
|[[Jelena Keirane]]<ref name="google-abigail" />
|21
|[[Riga]]
|-
|{{flagu|Lebanon}}
|Adelle Raymond Boustany
|–
|[[Beirut]]
|-
|{{flagu|Malaysia}}
|Joey Tan<ref name="google-abigail" />
|24
|[[Penang]]
|-
|{{flagu|Netherlands}}
|Jamie-Lee Huisman
|–
|[[North Holland]]
|-
|{{flagu|New Zealand}}
|Abbey Flynn
|–
|[[Auckland]]
|-
|{{flagu|Nicaragua}}
|Karla José Leclair<ref name="google-abigail" />
|–
|[[Matagalpa]]
|-
|{{flagu|Panama}}
|Aliana Khan<ref name="google-abigail" />
|–
|[[Panama City]]
|-
|{{flagu|Peru}}
|Paola Barreda
|–
|[[Lima]]
|-
|{{flagu|Philippines}}
|[[Carlene Aguilar]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Lo |first=Ricardo F. |date=April 28, 2001 |title=1st Miss Philippines picked tonight |work=[[The Philippine Star]] |url=https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2001/04/28/94340/1st-miss-philippines-picked-tonight-funfare-ricardo-f-lo |access-date=October 18, 2023}}</ref>
|19
|[[Quezon City]]
|-
|{{flagu|Puerto Rico}}
|Amaricelys Reyes
|–
|[[Isabela, Puerto Rico|Isabela]]
|-
|{{flagu|Russia}}
|Victoria Bonya
|–
|[[Krasnokamensk, Zabaykalsky Krai|Krasnokamensk]]
|-
|{{flagu|Singapore}}
|Calista Ng<ref name="google-abigail" />
|23
|Singapore
|-
|{{flagu|South Africa}}
|Inecke van der Westhuizen
|–
|[[Gauteng]]
|-
|{{flagu|Spain}}
|Noemi Caldas
|–
|[[Madrid]]
|-
|{{flagu|Republic of China|name=Taiwan}}
|Hsiu Chao-Yun
|–
|[[Taipei]]
|-
|{{flagu|Tanzania}}
|Hilda Bukozo
|–
|[[Dar es Salaam]]
|-
|{{flagu|Thailand}}
|Victoria Wachholz
|–
|[[Chiang Mai]]
|-
|{{flagu|Turkey}}
|Gozde Bahadir
|–
|[[Istanbul]]
|-
|{{flagu|United States}}
|[[Abigail Royce]]<ref name="google-abigail" />
|25
|[[San Diego]]
|-
|{{flagu|Venezuela}}
|Lirigmel Ramos<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lo|first=Ricky|date=October 27, 2001|title=In fairness to Sherilyn|url=https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2001/10/27/138035/fairness-sherilyn|access-date=October 18, 2023|website=[[Philippine Star]]|language=en}}</ref>
|–
|[[Caracas]]
|-
|{{flag|Zanzibar}}
|Sheena Nanty
|–
|[[Zanzibar City]]
|}

==Notes==
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==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.missearth.tv/}}
* [http://www.missearthfoundation.org/ Miss Earth Foundation]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090106044648/http://www.kids.missearthfoundation.org/ Miss Earth Foundation Kids' I Love My Planet]
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