Miss Earth 2015
Miss Earth 2015, the 15th Miss Earth pageant, was held on December 5, 2015 at Marx Halle in Vienna, Austria. Angelia Ong of the Philippines crowned her successor Jamie Herrell of the Philippines at the end of the event. It was the first time the pageant was held in Europe outside of Asia. It was also the first back-to-back victories in Miss Earth history.
At the end of the night, Australia got its highest placement to date through Dayanna Grageda's finish as Miss Earth-Air 2015 where she was crowned by Andrea Neu, Miss Earth-Air 2014 from United States; Brittany Payne of United States was crowned Miss Earth-Water 2015, and Thiessa Sickert of Brazil was crowned as Miss Earth-Fire 2015 and she was crowned by Anastasia Trusova, Miss Earth-Fire 2014 from Russia.
The theme of this year's pageant was the promotion of environmental awareness by focusing on the Climate Change campaign thru the 5R's : Re-think, Reduce, Re-use, Recycle and Respect.
Results
Placements
Order of announcements
Top 16
- Hungary
- USA
- Ukraine
- Australia
- Czech Republic
- Brazil
- Mongolia
- Philippines
- Mauritius
- Scotland
- Austria
- Chile
- Colombia
- Venezuela
- France
- Guam
Top 8
- USA
- Australia
- Brazil
- Philippines
- Austria
- Chile
- Colombia
- Venezuela
Winning Answer
Judges
Pre-pageant activities
Medal tally
Challenge Events
Best Eco Video
Photogenic Award (Online Voting)
Swimsuit Competition
Miss Friendship
National Costume Competition
Cocktail Wear Competition
Charity Givers
Sports Competition
Talent Competition
Evening Gown Competition
Tree Planting
Darling of the Press
Snowman Building Competition
Special Activity Awards
Presenters
- Oli Pettigrew
- Joey Mead-King
- Katia Wagner
Music
- Opening: "Flawless" by Beyoncé
- Top 16 Announcement: "Confident" by Demi Lovato
- Swimsuit Competition: "Sparks" by Hilary Duff
- Evening Gown Competition: "Lean On" by Major Lazer and DJ Snake ft. MØ
- Top 8 Announcement: "Masterpiece" by Jessie J
Contestants
| Country/Territory | Contestant | Age | Hometown |
| ' | Julieta Fernandez | 26 | Tucumán |
| ' | Lilit Martirosyan | 26 | Yerevan |
| ' | Kimberly Wever | 21 | San Nicolaas |
| ' | Dayanna Grageda | 25 | Sydney |
| ' | Sophie Totzauer | 23 | Vienna |
| ' | Daronique Young | 25 | Nassau |
| ' | Elizabeth Dwomoh | 19 | Brussels |
| ' | Christine Syme | 19 | San Pedro Town |
| ' | Vinka Nemer | 24 | La Paz |
| ' | Adna Obradović | 23 | Čapljina |
| ' | Thiessa Sickert | 22 | Uberaba |
| ' | Tatiana Maranhão | 19 | Leamington |
| ' | Natividad Leiva | 22 | Santiago |
| ' | Serena Pan | 23 | Shanghai |
| ' | Estefania Muñoz | 22 | Medellín |
| ' | Cristelle Lohembe | 25 | Kinshasa |
| ' | Andrea Rojas | 23 | Palmares |
| ' | Daria Zeleneva | 20 | Simferopol |
| ' | Ana Marija Jurišić | 23 | Kiseljak |
| ' | Marcella Constantinou | 22 | Nicosia |
| ' | Karolína Mališová | 18 | Otice |
| ' | Turið Elinborgardóttir | 20 | Tórshavn |
| ' | Alexandra Parker | 20 | Guayacanes |
| ' | Ángela Bonilla | 22 | Ibarra |
| ' | Imaj Ahmed Hassan | 22 | Cairo |
| ' | Pamela Valdivieso | 26 | San Salvador |
| ' | Katrina Kendall | 25 | London |
| ' | Shyla Angela Prasad | 20 | Suva |
| ' | Alyssa Wurtz | 25 | Drusenheim |
| ' | Melanie Sofia Bauer | 21 | Halle |
| ' | Silvia Commodore | 22 | Accra |
| ' | Anais Localmontie | 21 | Basse-Terre |
| ' | Skye Celine Baker | 18 | Barrigada |
| ' | Sara Guerrero | 19 | Guatemala City |
| ' | Nadia Morales | 18 | Colón |
| ' | Dorina Lepp | 21 | Budapest |
| ' | Aaital Khosla | 20 | Chandigarh |
| ' | Belinda Pritasari | 21 | Jakarta |
| ' | Joelle Curoe | 21 | Dublin |
| ' | Shams Touraani | 19 | Tel Aviv |
| ' | Aurora Pianegonda | 18 | Zanè |
| ' | Ayano Yamada | 24 | Gunma Prefecture |
| ' | Linda Gatere | 23 | Nairobi |
| ' | Ho-jeong Han | 24 | Seoul |
| ' | Kaltrina Neziri | 20 | Pristina |
| ' | Joudy Hennawi | 19 | Beirut |
| ' | Danielle Wong | 22 | Melaka |
| ' | Alexia Fenech | 25 | Sliema |
| ' | Katia Moochooram | 25 | Port Louis |
| ' | Gladys Flores | 22 | Puebla |
| ' | Bayartsetseg Altangerel | 24 | Ulaanbaatar |
| ' | Eaint Myat Chal | 22 | Chaungzon |
| ' | Dibyata Vaidya | 23 | Kathmandu |
| ' | Leena Asarfi | 24 | Amsterdam |
| ' | Julia Roquigny | 22 | Nouméa |
| ' | Anna-Lisa Christiane | 19 | Auckland |
| ' | Dearbhlá Walsh | 21 | Derry |
| ' | Britt Roselyn Rekkedal | 23 | Fosnavåg |
| ' | Carmen Jaramillo | 20 | La Chorrera |
| ' | Andrea Melgarejo | 21 | Asunción |
| ' | Zully Barrantes | 20 | Pucallpa |
| ' | Angelia Ong | 25 | Manila |
| ' | Magdalena Ho | 20 | Warsaw |
| ' | Berth Elouga | 21 | Lisboa |
 Réunion Island | Jade Soune-Seyne | 25 | Saint-André |
| ' | Anca Neculaiasa-Pavel | 20 | Buzau |
| ' | Maria Chudakova | 21 | Murmansk |
| ' | Amy Meisak | 21 | Hamilton |
| ' | Tiara Hadi | 21 | Singapore |
| ' | Anita Polgáriová | 22 | Rožňava |
| ' | Laura Škvorc | 21 | Zreče |
| ' | Carla Viktor | 25 | Hartbeespoort |
| ' | Dolores Ortega Martinez | 18 | Canary Island |
| ' | Visna Fernando | 24 | Negombo |
| ' | Giselle Reinbergs | 18 | Paramaribo |
| ' | Maria Taipaleenmäki | 19 | Halmstad |
| ' | Corinne Schädler | 22 | St. Gallen |
| ' | Chavika Watrsang | 19 | Phuket |
| ' | Danielle Dolabaille | 21 | Port of Spain |
| ' | Şevval Ayvaz | 20 | Trabzon |
| ' | Sandra Akello | 19 | Kampala |
| ' | Viktoria Orel | 24 | Sumy |
| ' | María Belén Cabrera | 20 | Paysandú |
| ' | Brittany Payne | 23 | Tehachapi |
| ' | Andrea Rosales | 24 | Maracay |
| Lara Stephen | 22 | Powys |
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Designations
- ': Lilit Martirosyan has been appointed as the first Miss Earth Armenia for 2015. She was Top Model of the World for Armenia in 2015.
- ': Sophie Totzauer has been appointed as Miss Earth Austria for 2015 by the national director of Miss Earth Austria, Sina Schmid.
- ': Thiessa Sickert has been appointed as Miss Earth Brazil 2015 by Miss Earth Brazil Organization. She was Miss Universe Brasil 2012 2nd Runner-up.
- ': Estefania Muñoz has been appointed as Miss Earth Colombia 2015 by Miss Earth Colombia Organization. The next Miss Earth Colombia pageant would be held in early 2016.
- ': Daria Zeleneva has been appointed as Miss Earth Crimea for 2015. Crimea appointed Zeleneva as there was no national pageant held and highly possible to be held the following year due to the recent conflict in Crimea.
- ': Ana Marija Jurišić has been appointed as Miss Earth Croatia 2015 by the national director of Miss Earth Croatia. Jurišić competed and won the "No1 Model of the World 2015" competition held in Serbia where she represented Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- ': Marcella Marina Constantinou has been appointed as Miss Earth Cyprus 2015. She won the Star Cyprus 2014 pageant.
- ': Angela Bonilla has been appointed as Miss Earth Ecuador 2015 by its national director, José Hidalgo León. The national pageant for Miss Earth was postponed and would be materialized the next year. Bonilla participated at Miss Ecuador 2015 and Miss World Ecuador 2013 where she both went unplaced.
- ': Imaj Ahmed Hassan has been appointed to represent Egypt by Youssef Spahi, national director of Miss Egypt after the pageant was postponed until spring of the following year. Hassan was a Miss Egypt 2014 Top 10 finalist.
- ': Shyla Angela Prasad has been appointed as Miss Earth Fiji 2015. Shyla was a finalist at Miss World Australia.
- ': Alyssa Wurtz has been appointed as Miss Earth France 2015 by Miss France Organization. She is Miss France 2015 Fourth Runner-up.
- ': Melanie Sofia Bauer has been appointed as Miss Earth Germany 2015 by Sina Schmid, the national director of Miss Earth for Germany. Melanie was a contestant at Miss Earth Austria 2015.
- ': Sara Guerrero has been appointed as Miss Earth Guatemala 2015 by Miss Guatemala Latina. She was Miss International Guatemala 2013.
- ': Joelle Curoe was appointed as Miss Earth Ireland 2015 by the national director. Joelle also competed at Miss Earth Northern Ireland 2015 and finished as Miss Earth – Air 2015.
- ': Shams Touraani has been appointed as Miss Earth Israel 2015 by the Miss Earth director in Israel, Lilac Magazine.
- ': Aurora Pianegonda was appointed by the national director, Channel, as Miss Earth Italy 2015. Aurora is the Miss Lady Veneto 2015.
- ': Kaltrina Neziri has been appointed to represent Kosovo by Agnesa Vuthaj, national director of Miss Earth Kosovo. Neziri was crowned as Miss Earth Kosovo 2014 and was supposed to compete the previous year. However, she was not able to compete because her visa application was denied.
- ': Bayartsetseg Altangerel was appointed as Miss Earth Mongolia 2015 by the national director, Miss Mongolia Tourism Association. Bayartsetseg competed at Miss International 2014. This year, she competed at Miss World Mongolia 2015, and placed 1st Runner-up.
- ': Leena Asarfi has been appointed as Miss Earth Netherlands 2015 by 12 Months of Beauty organization.
- ': Carmen Jaramillo was chosen to compete as Miss Earth Panama 2015 by the national director, Cesar Añel after being granted to him the franchise. Miss Earth Panama would hold its first national pageant for the following year. Carmen is also the Miss Reina Hispanoamericana Panama 2015.
- ': Magdalena Ho was appointed as Miss Earth Poland 2015 by its new national director, Serafina Ogończyk-Mąkowska of Miss Egzotica. Magdalena won as Miss Egzotica 2014.
- ': Anca Neculaiasa-Pavel was appointed as Miss Earth Romania 2015. She was Miss International Romania 2015
- ': Danielle Dolabaille has been appointed as Miss Earth Trinidad and Tobago 2015 after series of casting calls.
- ': Şevval Ayvaz has been appointed as Miss Earth Turkey 2015 by the national director, Elidor Miss Turkey. During the finals night, Sevval was proclaimed as Miss International Turkey but turned out wrong as she finished only as a finalist.
- : Chavika Watrsang has been appointed as Miss Earth Thailand 2015 by Miss Universe Thailand organization after the said organization got the license back. Chavika is the Miss Universe Thailand 2015 First Runner-up.
Replacements
- ': Vinka Nemer Drpic, the Miss World Bolivia 2015 1st runner up, became the Miss Earth Bolivia 2015 after Jazmin Duran withdraws as Miss Earth Bolivia 2015 due to health reasons.
- ': Cristelle Lohembe replaced Jessica Bossekota as Miss Earth Congo DR 2015 for undisclosed reasons.
- ': Claudia Martínez was replaced by Pamela Valdivieso for undisclosed reasons. Pamela Valdivieso is the Miss Earth El Salvador 2015 and would have been competed the following year.
- ': Britt Roselyn Rekkedal replaced Dina Nielsen as Miss Earth Norway 2015 for undisclosed reasons.
- ': Andrea Melgarejo replaced Myriam Arévalos as Myriam has been assigned to participate in Miss Universe 2015 after Laura Garcete was dethroned for being pregnant.
- ': Andrea Panocchia was replaced by Dolores Ortega Martinez as Miss Earth Spain 2015 for undisclosed reasons. Martinez is the Miss Earth Spain 2015 First Runner-up.
- : Sandra Akello replaced the original winner, Pearl Asasira, as Miss Earth Uganda 2015 for undisclosed reasons. Sandra is the Miss Earth Uganda 2015 1st runner up.
Controversies
- Miss Taiwan R.O.C. Wen-Yin Ting was ejected from the competition due to her refusal to exchange her initial sash that said "Taiwan R.O.C." for one that said "Chinese Taipei" after China pressured the organization to make the change.
- Miss Earth India Aaital Khosla has garnered a lot of negative criticism after Miss Earth India's eco-video showed parts of Nepalese landscapes as one of her own nation. The video showcased the hills and mountain ranges including Mount Everest and the traffic scenes of Nepal's cities. It also indicated that the Miss Earth India organization failed to cross check the facts, plagiarized the video clips, completing the eco-video in haste without any prior responsibility. Amid much criticism, Miss Earth India Organization, owned by Glamanand Super Model India, together with Aaital Khosla then apologized to the Nepalese citizens and the world.
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