Mister Venezuela

Mister Venezuela
Formation	1996
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Caracas
Location	Venezuela;
Membership	Mister World; Mister International; Manhunt International
Official language	Spanish
President	Osmel Sousa
Website	Official site

Mister Venezuela is an annual male pageant held in Venezuela. The winner and finalists from the contest go on to represent Venezuela in many international pageants. The Mister Venezuela pageant was started under the guardianship of Osmel Sousa and María Kallay with the intent of creating a male contest with the same discipline, quality and success as its female counterpart (Miss Venezuela). The first contest aired July 17, 1996 and the winner was contestant number 20, José Gregorio Faría.

In the fifth edition, aired November 22, 2000, 26 men represented every state and region in Venezuela; they wore scarfs rather than the sashes used in female pageants. Due to political issues in 2002, the seventh pageant was postponed and held in 2003.

In 2012, during a private ceremony hosted by Osmel Sousa, the President of Mister and Miss Venezuela Organization; Jesús Zambrano was elected as the new Mister Venezuela 2012.^[1]

Titleholders

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Declared as Winner
Ended as runner-up
Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists

The winner of Mister Venezuela traditionally competes at the Mister World pageant.

Year	Mister Venezuela	Placement
1996	José Gregorio Faría Ojeda
1997	Sandro Finoglio Speranza	Mister World 1998
1998	Juan Ernesto Calzadilla Regalado	Manhunt International 1999
1999	Alejandro Otero Lárez	Top 10 at Mister World 2000
2000	Luis Antonio Nery Gómez	2nd Runner-up at Manhunt International 2001
2001	Daniel Leonard Navarette Muktans	4th Runner-up at Manhunt International 2002
2003	Andrés Eduardo Mistage Parilli	Top 15 at Mister World 2003
2004	Francisco José León Bastidas
2005	José Ignacio Rodríguez Valbuena
2006	Vito Ernesto Gasparrini Domínguez
2009	José Manuel Flores Sánchez^[2]	Top 10 at Mister World 2010
2012	Jesús Alberto Zambrano Contreras^[3]^[4]
2014	Jesús Antonio Casanova Sarmiento
2015	Gabriel José Correa Guzmán^[5]	TBA

Mister International Venezuela

As of 2015 Mister Venezuela has official selected the 1st Runner-up to compete at the Mister International pageant. An official declaration was clarified by Osmel Sausa in Caracas.

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Declared as Winner
Ended as runner-up
Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists

Year	Mister Venezuela	Placement	Special Awards
2015	Rafael Angelucci	Top 10	Runner-up Best National Costume
2013	José Anmer Paredes Jaimes	Mister International 2013
2012	Gary Pinha	Top 16
2011	Jeefry Rommel Rojas Torres	Top 15
2010	Francisco Emilio Sanchez Weky	Top 15
2009	Luis Vicente Nuzzo Hernández	Top 10	Mister Congeniality
2008	Marco Antonio Chinea Franco	Top 10
2007	Alberto Agusto García Gómez	3rd Runner-up	Mister Photogenic
2006	Erbert Javier Delgado	1st Runner-up