We have seen them and read about them on social media. We have watched them exhibit their respective national costumes.
The Miss Universe 2018 coronation night is five days away and beauty pageant fans are letting each other know who they are rooting for. I painstakingly checked their lists of favorites and I must admit, many of the lists are very different from mine.
However, there are several Miss Universe 2018 candidates who repeatedly appear in the lists of predictions and early favorites. Disregarding who I root for and who I think will win, I listed and ranked the 30 women most beauty pageant experts and fans want to win the Miss Universe 2018 crown:
- Miss Mexico Andrea Toscano
- Miss Philippines Catriona Gray
- Miss Spain Angela Ponce
- Miss Venezuela Sthefany Gutierrez
- Miss Brazil Mayra Dias
- Miss Colombia Valeria Morales
- Miss India Nehal Chudasama
- Miss Costa Rica Natalia Carvajal
- Miss Thailand Sophida Kanchanarin
- Miss USA Sara Rose Summers
- Miss South Africa Tamaryn Green
- Miss Australia Francesca Hung
- Miss Ecuador Virginia Limongi
- Miss Vietnam H’Hen Nie
- Miss Canada Marta Stepien
- Miss Japan Yuumi Kato
- Miss France Eva Colas
- Miss Great Britain Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers
- Miss El Salvador Marisela De Montecristo
- Miss Costa Rica Natalia Carvajal
- Miss Panama Rosa Iveth Montezuma
- Miss Indonesia Sonia Fergina Citra
- Miss Ecuador Virginia Limongi Silva
- Miss Lebanon Maya Reiady
- Miss Albania Trejsi Sejdini
- Miss Russia Yulia Polyachikhina
- Miss Jamaica Emily Maddison
- Miss Aruba Kimberly Julsing
- Miss Malta Francesca Mifsud
- Miss Angola Ana Liliana Avião
Currently, USA has the most Miss Universe crowns with eight titleholders followed by Venezuela with seven, Puerto Rico with five and the Philippines and Sweden with three. There are 12 countries with two crowns each namely South Africa, France, Colombia, Mexico, Japan, Canada, Australia, India, Trinidad and Tobago, Thailand, Finland and Brazil.
On December 10, 2018, the 94 Miss Universe 2018 candidates walked the runway in a very exciting national costumes show in Nong Nooch Tropical Garden in Pattaya, Thailand. Watch it here:
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