Professionally known as Shawn Lin, Lin Yu Hsiang Lin represented Taiwan at Mister Cosmopolitan 2025 and competed against 17 other candidates at Siam Fantasy in Bangkok, Thailand on September 7, 2025. He won the title.
On September 9, 2026, Lin crowned his successor John Eriq Bonifacio of the Philippines in Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam. The latter made history as the first Filipino winner of the international beauty pageant based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia..
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Mister Cosmopolitan 2026 results
| beauty pageant: Mister Cosmopolitan |
| edition: 4th date: September 12, 2026 venue: Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam candidates: 20 |
| host: performers: |
WINNERS
| PLACEMENT | 2026 | 2025 |
| Mister Cosmopolitan | John Eriq Bonifacio Philippines | Shawn Lin Taiwan |
| 1st runner-up | Nkosikhona Roro South Africa | Kenneth Marcelino Philippines |
| 2nd runner-up | Tong Sanchai Manimon Thailand | Christo Sandile Gama South Africa |
| 3rd runner-up | Enes Çetinkaya Turkiye | Dinh Sy Tu Vietnam |
| 4th runner-up | Fran Caceres Spain | Eddy Joblon France |
FINALISTS
| PLACEMENT | NAME (COUNTRY) |
| Top 5 | John Eriq Bonifacio (Philippines) Nkosikhona Roro (South Africa) Fran Caceres (Spain) Tong Sanchai Manimon (Thailand) Enes Çetinkaya (Turkiye) |
| Top 8 | Evin Hsieh (Taiwan) Allain Joshua del Rosario (United Kingdom) Nguyen Hai Anh (Vietnam) |
| Top 13 | Gladstone Johnson (Jamaica) Hein Htet Zaw (Myanmar) Siddhartha Sanjyal (Nepal) Akesh Munasinghe (Sri Lanka) David Torres (United States) |
| Top 20 | Thi Theara (Cambodia) Sanjib Singha Roy (India) Ahmad Sandy (Indonesia) Akira Yamaguchi (Japan) Richard Wong (Malaysia) Shane Tyler Lim (Singapore) Lee Seungjae (South Korea) |
SPECIAL AWARDS
| AWARD | CANDIDATE |
| Mister Congeniality | |
| Mister Photogenic | |
| Mister Popular | Allain Joshua del Rosario United Kingdom |
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