Brisbane woman pipped for Miss World title
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Miss Peru, Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, has been named as Miss World 2004, at the beauty pageant held in China. Miss Mantilla Garcia, 20, beat 14 other finalists which included 22-year-old Brisbane resident Sarah Davies.
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Cristiane scored in the 75th minute to give Brazil a 3-2 victory against Australia on Sunday. Brazil advanced to its first berth in the semifinals of the womenâs World Cup.
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Chicago - She won early and often, and often by overwhelming margins. She won on four continents - in Australia, Sweden and Japan and in six of the 50 United States.
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Underdogs Port Adelaide won their first Australian rules football title, beating Brisbane Lions by 40 points in the Grand Final at the MCG.
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Miss Peru, Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, an aspiring high school teacher, was crowned Miss World 2004 on Saturday night in this southern Chinese beach resort.
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Miss Peru beats off more than 100 beauty contestants to win the Miss World competition in China.
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A 20-year-old dancer from Japan was crowned Miss Universe 2007 on Monday night, marking only the second time her country has won the world beauty title.
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Molik, who beat Sharapova in the final, was Australia&#39;s first champion of a WTA Tier I event and proved that you can be 20-something and breakthrough.
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Twenty-year-old Miss Peru was crowned Miss World on Saturday in a southern Chinese resort town, as China looks to become the regular host of an event that would have once been deemed heretical by its Communist leaders.
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Miss Czech Republic, an 18-year-old high school student, took the Miss World crown on Saturday in Poland's capital Warsaw.
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Makybe Diva became the first mare to win the Melbourne Cup twice, successfully defending her title Tuesday in Australia&#39;s most famous race.
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A textiles graduate from Edinburgh has missed out on glory after competing in the 54th Miss World contest. Lois Weatherup, 21, was Scotland&#39;s contender in the beauty pageant held on south China&#39;s Hainan Island.
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The Winnipeg native won her third gold medal of the Games on Wednesday, finishing first in the women&#39;s 100-metre freestyle event for visually impaired athletes in a time of one minute 1.74 seconds.
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Chantelle Newbery became the first Australian to win the Olympic women&#39;s platform diving title with a clearcut victory in the final on Sunday.
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MISS World, complete with her sparkling crown, bouquet of flowers and elegantly cut ball gown, is like a Barbie doll fitted with Duracell batteries.
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ALICIA Molik has become the first Australian in 17 years to win consecutive WTA Tour titles, defeating Russia&#39;s Dinara Safina in the final of the Luxembourg Open.
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Lindsay Davenport defeated second-seeded Daniela Hantuchova yesterday at the Bali Open in Nusa Dua, Indonesia, to claim her first singles title after an absence of almost one year.