Early Birds (From L-R): Misters Ireland, Montenegro, New Zealand and Germany
The candidates for the Mr. World 2010 pageant have started to arrive since yesterday in Incheon, Korea.
The first contestants to arrive were Mr. Germany Michael Piechler, Mr. Ireland Kamal Ibrahim, Mr. Montenegro Predrag Pavlicic and Mr. New Zealand Arnold Du Toit.
Mr. USA Ivan Rusilko is also now in Korea and will try his luck once more in a male pageant after he placed 11th in the Mister International 2008 pageant held in Taiwan (ROC).
Mister Croatia 2009 Bruno Orešković will not be representing his country in the pageant. Instead, it's Mister Croatia 2008 Dino Bubicic who's been sent to represent Croatia.
The youngest contestants this year are from Georgia and Poland (both 18) while the oldest is the candidate from Germany, who's 32 years old.
Mr. Vietnam Lê Xuân Vinh Thuy, who competed in the Mister International 2009 pageant where he placed in the Top 15 and named Mr. Photogenic, was asked to compete in Mr. World 2010 but he begged off because of conflicts in his schedule. The Vietnamese supermodel is reportedly busy shooting for a film in Vietnam.
Mr. Romania Voicu Ruslan Panzar is a popular personality in his country where he is fondly called as "The Ricky Martin of Romania".
Mr. Swaziland (at 6'5.5") is the tallest delegate while Mr. Malta and Mr. Singapore are the shortest, at 5'9" (still tall).
The finals is scheduled on the 27th of March.
Here's the list of more than 70 candidates who are expected to compete in the 2010 Mr. World pageant:
ANGOLA, Jorge FERREIRA MARTINS
AUSTRALIA, Tim BOULENGER
AZERBAIJAN, Hafiz AGHAYEV
BAHAMAS, Kendrick Andrew KEMP
BELARUS, Mihail BARANOV
BELGIUM, Willem Lieve Hendrick VERMUYTEN
BOLIVIA, Jonatan FISCHER VARGAS
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA, Dejan RADOVIC
BRAZIL, Jonas SULZBACH
BULGARIA, Martin MARTINOV
CANADA, Ron WEAR
CHINA PR, Lei ZHAO
COLOMBIA, Camilo TOCANCIPA GARCIA
COSTA RICA, Eduardo ESQIVEL CUBERO
CROATIA, Dino BUBICIC
CYPRUS, Christos CHRISTODOULIDES
CZECH REPUBLIC, Josef KARAS
DENMARK, Kevin SKRODER
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, Ramón Alberto UYOLA
EGYPT, Tarek Mohammed Naguib Abdel GAWAD
ENGLAND, Andreas KATTOU
ETHIOPIA, Matewos YILMA JIGSA
FRANCE, Mohammed AL MAIMAN
GEORGIA, Giorgi ORBELADZE
GERMANY, Michael PICHLER
GREECE, Lampros DANAS
GUADELOUPE, Emmanuel BINGA
GUYANA, Max CHUNG
HONDURAS, Carlos Saúl ORANTES
HONG KONG, Wesley LEE
INDIA, Inder BAJWA
INDONESIA, Todi PANDAPOTAN
IRELAND, Kamal Orlando IBRAHIM
ITALY, Paolo COSI
JAPAN, Hareruya KONNO
KAZAKHSTAN, Roman MIRONOV
KENYA, Linanda Jawar KOTENGO
KOREA, Ji-Kwang YOO
LATVIA, Kristaps PUNCULIS
LEBANON, Abdel Rahman BALAA
LUXEMBOURG, Carlo MARINO
MACEDONIA FYRO, Ivan NIKSIK
MALAYSIA, David LIAN
MALTA, Mark Borg SPITERI
MARTINIQUE, Kévin BELLEGARDE
MEXICO, Alvaro ALVAREZ SEPULVEDA
MONGOLIA, Galbadrakh BADARCH
MONTENEGRO, Predrag PAVLICIC
NETHERLANDS, Honza Jan FILIPI
NEW ZEALAND, Arnold Arthur DU TOIT
NIGERIA, Kenneth OKOLIE
NORTHERN IRELAND, Matthew Christopher POOLE
NORWAY, Chris Andre EILENG
PANAMA, Hector Javier VILLARREAL FRANCO
PARAGUAY, Diego Andres TUMA BOGADO
PERU, Manuel ILLICH
PHILIPPINES, Alvin DE JOYA
POLAND, Maksymilian LEWANDOWSKI
PUERTO RICO, Joshua Louis DALMAU
ROMANIA, Voicu Ruslan PANZAR
RUSSIA, Sergey KOLENCHIKOV
SERBIA, Vasa NESTOROVIC
SINGAPORE, Hanxiong HU
SOUTH AFRICA, Jaco DE BRUYN
SPAIN, Guillermo GARCIA BECERRIL
SRI LANKA, Hemal Sachindra RANA
SWAZILAND, Phakeme Okwakhe DLAMINI
SWEDEN, Alexander Siamak SHIRPEY
THAILAND, Rattasart RUNGSIRITHIP
TURKEY, Alper Hasan ASLANOGL
UKRAINE, Iurii BOGISH
USA, Ivan RUSILKO
VENEZUELA, Jose Manuel FLORES SANCHEZ
WALES, Jonny REES
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