Manhunt International

Manhunt International wears the crown as the world's first and most prestigious of all pageants and competitions for men. Its roots began in 1988 when Alex Liu, pageant director of Metromedia Singapore, decided to stage the first male model contest in Singapore announcing a “Manhunt.” Manhunt International Organization was officially formed in 1993 by Liu, with a dream to offer the men of the world a platform to showcase their talents and skills.^[1]

The first ever Manhunt International World Final was held in Australia in 1993 with 25 contestants. The pageant remained on Australia's Gold Coast when Nikos Papadakis of Greece won in 1994. The current president, Rosko Dickinson & Liu began the co-ownerships and partners of Manhunt International from 1994, until Liu's death in January 2018.^[2]

Manhunt International is organized in a macho way with outdoor activities, thrilling events, public presentations, talent competitions, fun routines, and even a chance to meet and impress ladies. Contestants are judged on their runway skills, photogenic ability, personality, and physical attributes. The pageant is organized to promote new faces in the male modeling and fashion industry. The men that enter Manhunt International are also encouraged to become role models and good corporate citizens for younger people to look up to.

Today, Manhunt International is easily the World's most recognized and longest-running international male model contest. It is the worldwide search for the best male models with the highest number of contestants in 2006 and 2012 in China and Thailand respectively.

Several countries have hosted the world finals including Australia (1993, 1994, 1998, 2018), Singapore (1995, 1997, 2000), Philippines (1999, 2020, 2022), China (2001, 2002, 2006, 2016), Korea (2005, 2007, 2008, 2011), Taiwan (2010) and Thailand (2012, 2017).

The Manhunt competition is staged in two rounds, preliminary and final. During the preliminaries, the contestants are judged in Haute Couture Fashion, Swimwear, Formal Evening wear. The contestants with highest scores are named as finalists, from which the judges determine the winner and the runners up.

During the finals, several other awards are also given besides the ultimate title of Manhunt International: Best Runway Model, Mister Photogenic, Mister Friendship, Mister Personality, Mister Physique and Mister Popularity (voted by the public via social media). Since the 2005 edition, Manhunt International has also given five continental awards to the best representatives of each continent. In the 2007 edition, it was announced that the winner of Mister Popularity would automatically advance to final round and in 2022 a new category was introduced called Digital Challenge (Video) with three segments being Runway Challenge, Swimwear/Physique and Casting Challenge. Once again the overall winner of the category went straight in to the Top 16.

Edition	Year	Date	Manhunt International	Runners-Up				Location	No.	Ref.
				First	Second	Third	Fourth
1st	1993	November 30	Thomas Sasse  Germany	Berke Hurcan  Turkey	Raffaele Memoli  Switzerland	Aaron Small  Philippines	Michel Boeuf  New Caledonia	Gold Coast, Australia	22
2nd	1994	Unknown	Nikos Papadakis  Greece	Trent Garfthon  Australia	Richard Planks  United States	Benedict Goh Wei Cheh  Singapore	Rajat Bedi  India	Gold Coast, Australia	24
3rd	1995	Unknown	Albe Geldenhuys  South Africa	Dino Morea  India	David Arnold  United States	Javier Rodriguez  Puerto Rico	Rinat Khismatouli  Kazakhstan	Sentosa Island, Singapore	35
4th	1997	May 24, 1997	Jason Erceg  New Zealand	Sandro Finnoglio Speranza  Venezuela	Vincent Pinto  Philippines	Jonathan Rojas Ortega  Puerto Rico	Zulfi Syed Ahmad  India	Singapore	38
5th	1998	May 3, 1998	Peter Eriksen  Sweden	Tamme Boh Tjarks  Germany	Robert Korceki  United States	Philip Lee  Singapore	Rets Renemaris  Latvia	Gold Coast, Australia	34
6th	1999	May 29, 1999	Ernesto Calzadilla  Venezuela	John Abraham  India	Peter Kerby  Denmark	Kirk Hedley  Jamaica	Llewellyn Cordier  South Africa	Manila, Philippines	34
7th	2000	September 29, 2000	Brett Wilson  Australia	David Zepeda  Mexico	Brandon Choo  Singapore	José Gabriel Madonía Panepinto  Venezuela	Geraldino Nicolina  Curaçao	Singapore	33
8th	2001	November 12, 2001	Rajeev Singh  India	Leo Zhang Wei Biao  China	Luis Antonio Nery Gomez  Venezuela	Adnan Taletovic  Croatia	Kenneth Bryan  Cayman Islands	Beijing, China	43	[3]
9th	2002	November 9, 2002	Fabrice Bertrand Wattez  France	Bart Deschuymer  Belgium	Murat Erbaytan  Turkey	Adrian Medina Scull  Cuba	Daniel Navarrete Muktans  Venezuela	Shanghai, China	46
10th	2005	September 8, 2005	Tolgahan Sayışman  Turkey	Agris Blaubuks  Latvia	Henry Romero  Curaçao	Chen ZeYu  China	Romeo Quiñones  Puerto Rico	Busan, Korea	42
11th	2006	April 19, 2006	Jaime Augusto Mayol  United States	Fabien Hauquier  Belgium	Zhao Zheng  China	Gokhan Keser  Turkey	Jose Mendez  Spain	Jinjiang, China	53
12th	2007	February 12, 2007	Jeffrey Zheng Yu Guang  China	Jason Charles Millot  Canada	Ioannis Athitakis  Greece	Craig Barnett  Australia	Abhimanyu Jain  India	Gangwon, Korea	48
13th	2008	June 2, 2008	Abdelmoumen El Maghraouy  Morocco	Egill Arnljots  Sweden	Cesar Vegas  Costa Rica	Lee Jae-Hwan  South Korea	Claudio Furtado  Angola	Seoul, Korea	47
14th	2010	November 20, 2010	Peter Meňky  Slovakia	Bogdan Brasoveanu  Gibraltar	Marlon de Gregori  Brazil	Daniel Guerra  United States	Jerry Chang  Taiwan	Taichung, Taiwan	50
15th	2011	October 10, 2011	John Chen Jiang Feng  China	Nelson Omar Sterling  Dominican Republic	Gianni Sinnesael  Belgium	Truong Nam Thanh  Vietnam	Martin Smahel  Slovakia	Seoul, Korea	48
16th	2012	November 9, 2012	June Macasaet  Philippines	Bo Peter Jonsson  Sweden	Martin Wang  Macau	Jimmy Perez Rivera  Puerto Rico	Jason Chee  Singapore	Bangkok, Thailand	53
17th	2016	October 29, 2016	Patrik Sjöö  Sweden	Ba Te Er  Hong Kong	Christopher Bramell  England	Maurício Eusébio  Angola	Ramon Pissaia  Brazil	Shenzhen, China	43
18th	2017	November 27, 2017	Trương Ngọc Tình  Vietnam	Kongnat Choeisuwan  Thailand	Gaetan Osman  Lebanon	Mohamed Wazeem  Sri Lanka	Andry Permadi  Indonesia	Bangkok, Thailand	37	[4]
19th	2018	December 2, 2018	Vicent Llorach González  Spain	Dale Maher  Australia	Luca Derin  Netherlands	Jeffrey “Jeff” Langan  Philippines	Mai Tuan Anh  Vietnam	Gold Coast, Australia	28	[5]
20th	2020	February 22, 2020	Paul Luzineau  Netherlands	Nikos Antonopoulos  Greece	Matheus Cruz Giora  Brazil	Yeray Hidalgo Hernández  Spain	Mayur Gangwani  India	Manila, Philippines	36	[6]
2021 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
21st	2022	October 1, 2022	Lochlan “Lochie” Carey  Australia	Joshua Raphael De Sequera  Philippines	Elijah Van Zanten  United States	Trần Mạnh Kiên  Vietnam	Cas Hagman  Netherlands	Manila, Philippines	33

League tables

Country by number of wins

Country	Titles	Year
Australia	2	2000, 2022
Sweden		1998, 2016
China		2007, 2011
Netherlands	1	2020
Spain		2018
Vietnam		2017
Philippines		2012
Slovakia		2010
Morocco		2008
United States		2006
Turkey		2005
France		2002
India		2001
Venezuela		1999
New Zealand		1997
South Africa		1995
Greece		1994
Germany		1993

Continents by number of wins

Victory Rank by Country

Rank	Country	#Wins	#1ST R.U.s	#2ND R.U.s	#3RD R.U.s	#4TH R.U.s
1	Australia	2[a]	2	0	1	0
2	Sweden	2	2	0	0	0
3	China	2	1	1	1	0
4	India	1	2	0	0	4
5	Philippines	1	1[a]	1	2	0
6	Venezuela	1	1	1	1	1
7	Turkey	1	1	1	1	0
8	Greece	1	1	1	0	0
9	Germany	1	1	0	0	0
10	United States	1	0	4[a]	1	0
11	Netherlands	1	0	1	0	1[a]
12	Vietnam	1	0	0	2[a]	1
13	Spain	1	0	0	1	1
14	Slovakia	1	0	0	0	1
14	South Africa	1	0	0	0	1
16	France	1	0	0	0	0
16	Morocco	1	0	0	0	0
16	New Zealand	1	0	0	0	0
19	Belgium	0	2	1	0	0
20	Latvia		1	0	0	1
21	Mexico		1	0	0	0
21	Canada		1	0	0	0
21	Dominican Republic		1	0	0	0
21	Gibraltar		1	0	0	0
21	Hong Kong		1	0	0	0
21	Thailand		1	0	0	0
27	Brazil		0	2	0	1
28	Singapore			1	2	1
29	Curacao			1	0	1
30	Costa Rica			1	0	0
30	Denmark			1	0	0
30	England			1	0	0
30	Lebanon			1	0	0
30	Macau			1	0	0
30	Switzerland			1	0	0
36	Puerto Rico			0	3	1
37	Angola				1	1
38	Croatia				1	0
38	Cuba				1	0
38	Jamaica				1	0
38	Korea				1	0
38	Sri Lanka				1	0
43	Cayman Islands				0	1
43	Indonesia					1
43	Kazakhstan					1
43	New Caledonia					1
43	Taiwan					1

The 21st edition of the Manhunt International was announced by the organisation's president, Rosko Dickinson, on 18 May 2022 via the official Instagram account.^[7] 40 countries delegates arrived in Manila, Philippines on 23 September with the Gala Grand Final night took place on Saturday 1 October 2022. Paul Luzineau of Netherlands crowned Lochlan “Lochie” Carey of Australia as his successor at the end of the event.

Result

Notes:
Δ – placed into the Top 16 by fast-track challenges

Order of announcements

Delegates

38 contestants had been confirmed via the official Facebook and Instagram account:^[9]

Country/Territory	Delegate	Age[a]	Hometown	Ref.
Australia	Lochlan “Lochie” Carey	23	Melbourne	[10]
Belgium	Stef de Plecker	22		[11]
Brazil	Hendson Baltazar	31	Maracanaú	[12]
Bulgaria	Victor Rusinov	23		[13]
Canada	Samuel Albert	22	New Brunswick	[14]
Dominican Republic	Manuel Arias	18		[15]
El Salvador	Gerard Ojeda	23		[16]
Fernando de Noronha	Jefferson Andrade	29		[17]
France	Cedric Cabane	27		[18]
Germany	Ertug Muslu	23		[19]
Greece	Zaxarias Ktistakis	22	Crete	[20]
India	Rakesh Nongmaithem	32		[21]
Indonesia	Deo Nikolas	32		[22]
Japan	Kiichiro Sakamoto	28	Kuroiwa	[23]
Kazakhstan	Bakhyt Tolegenov	28		[24]
Korea	Junhyeok Chang	21		[25]
Malaysia	Edward Kong	32	Penang	[26]
Myanmar	Thar Htet Aung	22		[27]
Nepal	Bikalp Raj Shrestha	29		[28]
Netherlands	Cas Hagman	23	Rotterdam	[29][30]
Nicaragua	Hanniel Espinoza	26	Juigalpa	[31][32]
Nigeria	Lam Chris Iroegbulam	22		[33]
Pakistan	Raheel Saleem	32		[34]
Panama	Jaime Gabriel Garcia	30		[35]
Peru	Daniel Jares	29		[36]
Philippines	Joshua Raphael De Sequera	25	Angeles, Pampanga	[37][38]
Poland	Marcin Niedzielski	25		[39]
Sierra Leone	AlHaji Masaray	24		[40]
Singapore	Darren James Kessler	32		[41]
South Africa	Marcus Max Karsten	26		[42]
Spain	Alexander Calvo	26	Malaga	[43]
Sri Lanka	Supun Maduranga	25		[44]
Thailand	Toto Phakon Rodkhumpiyaset	28		[45][46][47]
Turkey	Eren Semercii	24		[48]
United States	Elijah Van Zanten	23	Colorado	[49]
Venezuela	Jose Luis Trujillo	27		[50]
Vietnam	Trần Mạnh Kiên	29		[51][52]

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