USA East Wins Manhunt International 2006
April 20, 2006 by cd | 1,037 Views
26-year old Jaime Augusto Mayol representing the USA-East won the 11th annual Manhunt International contest held in the Chinese city of Jin Jiang on April 19th. Jaime is 1.88 m tall and works in the field of sales and marketing.
The 1st runner-up was favorite Fabien Hauquier from Belgium, while the 2nd runner-up was from the host country, China; 3rd and 4th runner-ups were the contestants from Turkey and Spain, respectively.
54 men competed in this version of the popular male contest, organized by Alex Liu. This year’s show was televised live to the region through a local Jin Jiang network.
OFFICIAL RESULTS
Manhunt International 2006: USA EAST, Jaime Mayol
1st Runner-up: BELGIUM, Fabien Hauquier
2nd Runner-up: CHINA
3rd Runner-up: TURKEY, Gokhan Keser
4th Runner-up: SPAIN, Jose Mendez
Top 15 Semifinalists:
BRAZIL, Alexander de Assis
CANADA, Ryan Pugsley
COSTA RICA, Gabriel Garro
GREECE, Christos Kousouris
INDIA, Aryan Baruah
INDONESIA, Rangga Raditya
PANAMA, Harry Duncan
PERU, Richard Chikhani
PHILIPPINES, Iago Lagapa Raterta
VENEZUELA, Miguel Brito
Special Awards
Mr. Photogenic: COSTA RICA
Mr. Personality: USA WEST
Best Physique: AUSTRALIA
Best Model: CHINA
Mr. Internet: SINGAPORE
Fitness Award: MALAYSIA
Media’s Choice: TAIWAN
USA East has Puerto Rican roots while USA West has Filipino roots. 11 from our 15 choices made it to the semi-finals. The inclusion of Spain, Venezuela, Indonesia and Brazil were quite a surprise and the non-placement of Costa Rica was a little disappointing but at least he made it to the semi-finals and won the Mr. Photogenic award. USA East is no. 7 on our list and we are happy that he won. We are also happy that 4 Asians made it to the Top 15, we only predicted 3.
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April 20th, 2006 at 11:27 am
China’s placement as 2nd runner-up is a little controversial. Is it because the pageant was held there and most of the judges are Chinese? In my opinion, it should have been Gabriel Garro of Costa Rica who get the slot. Anyway, China has 2 contestants in this competition just like USA. North and South for China, East and West for USA. Wait, the US also have a representative from its Island states Hawaii and Guam so that makes them 4 Americans. Although the winner represents USA East, he is technically a Puerto Rican who is a US citizen. Mr. USA West is Filipino American and Mr. Hawaii is Filipino who is a Hawaiian/US citizen.
So what’ s with manhunt having more than 1 representative from one country anyway? Maybe they want to enlarge the competition by attracting more contestants (or by splitting a large country into 2). I’ve heard another Manhunt pageant is scheduled later this year…
April 21st, 2006 at 9:40 am
I agree. Malaysia is better than the Chinese delegate
June 24th, 2006 at 10:48 am
gwapo si lee dong hook