Manhunt International

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Manhunt International

Formation	1993
Type	Male Model Search
Legal status	Active
Headquarters	Gold Coast, Australia
Location	Australia
Official language	English
President	Rosko Dickinson
Budget	$3M
Website	manhunt.international

Manhunt International is a prominent international male model search for the next Male Supermodel, founded in 1993. However, the competition's roots trace back a few years earlier, when a single national preliminary was held in Singapore. The competition was conceived by Metromedia Singapore and Procon Leisure International, which became co-partners in 1993.

The Manhunt International 2024 winner was Kevin Dasom from Thailand. He was crowned by the former titleholder, Lochlan "Lochie" Carey of Australia, on 26 May 2024, in Ayutthaya, Thailand.^[1]

Manhunt International holds the title as the world's first and most prestigious pageant and competition for men. The Manhunt International Organization was officially formed in 1993 when Rosko Dickinson (Australia) and Alex Liu (Singapore) joined forces with a shared dream to offer men worldwide a platform to showcase their talents and skills.^[2]

The first-ever Manhunt International World Final was held in Australia in 1993 with 25 contestants, and it was won by Thomas Sasse from Germany. The pageant remained on Australia's Gold Coast, where Nikos Papadakis from Greece won in 1994. The current president, Rosko Dickinson, and Alex Liu began their co-ownership and partnership of Manhunt International in 1993, which continued until Liu's death in January 2018.^[3]

Manhunt International is organized with a focus on masculinity, featuring outdoor activities, thrilling events, public presentations, talent competitions, fun routines, and even opportunities to meet and impress women. Contestants are judged on their runway skills, photogenic qualities, personality, and physical attributes; it is a search for the next Male Supermodel. The pageant is designed to promote new faces in the male modeling and fashion industry. The men who enter Manhunt International are also encouraged to become role models and responsible 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 a worldwide search for the best male models, having recorded 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), the Philippines (1999, 2020, 2022), China (2001, 2002, 2006, 2016), Korea (2005, 2007, 2008, 2011), Taiwan (2010), and Thailand (2012, 2017, 2024).

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

During the finals, several other awards are given in addition to 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 awarded five continental titles to the best representatives of each continent. In the 2007 edition, it was announced that the winner of Mister Popularity would automatically advance to the final round, and in 2022 a new category was introduced called Digital Challenge (Video), with three segments: Runway Challenge, Swimwear/Physique, and Casting Challenge. Once again, the overall winner of the category advanced straight to the Top 20.

30th year Anniversary

On this special occasion, the final ten were awarded as runners-up.

Edition	Year	Date	Manhunt International	Runners-Up				Location	No.	Ref.
				First	Second	Third	Fourth
1st	1993	November 30, 1993	Thomas Sasse  Germany	Berke Hürcan  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 Finocchio (Finoglio) 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	Juan Ernesto Calzadilla Regalado  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 Quintero  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 Gómez  Venezuela	Adnan Taletovic  Croatia	Kenneth Bryan  Cayman Islands	Beijing, China	43	[4]
9th	2002	November 9, 2002	Fabrice Bertrand Wattez  France	Bart Deschuymer  Belgium	Murat Erbaytan  Turkey	Adrian Medina Scull  Cuba	Daniel Leonard 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	Gökhan 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	[5]
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	[6]
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	[7]
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		33
22nd	2024	May 26, 2024	Kevin Aphisittinun Len Dasom  Thailand	Lucas Schlachter  France	Kenneth Stromsnes  Philippines	Víctor Michele Battista Infante  Venezuela	Vincenzo Melisi  Italy	Ayutthaya, Thailand	37	[8]

5th-9th Runner-Up

Since 2024, Manhunt International pageant has awarded a Top 10 finalists as 5th-9th Runner-Up.

This table lists the name of 5th-9th Runner-Up titles by year.

Edition	Year	Date	Runners-Up					Location	No.	Ref.
			Fifth	Sixth	Seventh	Eighth	Ninth
22nd	2024	May 26, 2024	Daniel Lorente  Spain	Matt Dixon  Canada	Marcel Riera   Switzerland	Ruan Mendes  Brazil	Luke Van  South Africa	Ayutthaya, Thailand	37	[8]

• 
  Manhunt International 2024
  Kevin Dasom
  Thailand
• 
  Manhunt International 2020
  Paul Luzineau
  Netherlands
• 
  Manhunt International 2005
  Tolgahan Sayışman
  Turkey

Country	Titles	Year
Australia	2	2000, 2022
Sweden		1998, 2016
China		2007, 2011
Thailand	1	2024
Netherlands		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

Rank	Country	#Wins[a]	#1ST R.U.s	#2ND R.U.s	#3RD R.U.s	#4TH R.U.s
1	Australia	2	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	2[a]	2	0
6	Venezuela	1	1	1	2[a]	1
7	Turkey	1	1	1	1	0
8	Greece	1	1	1	0	0
9	Germany	1	1	0	0	0
9	France	1	1[a]	0	0	0
9	Thailand	1[a]	1	0	0	0
10	United States	1	0	4	1	0
11	Netherlands	1	0	1	0	1
12	Vietnam	1	0	0	2	1
13	Spain	1	0	0	1	1
14	Slovakia	1	0	0	0	1
14	South Africa	1	0	0	0	1
18	Morocco	1	0	0	0	0
18	New Zealand	1	0	0	0	0
20	Belgium	0	2	1	0	0
21	Latvia		1	0	0	1
22	Mexico		1	0	0	0
22	Canada		1	0	0	0
22	Dominican Republic		1	0	0	0
22	Gibraltar		1	0	0	0
22	Hong Kong		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	Italy				0	1[a]
43	Cayman Islands					1
43	Indonesia					1
43	Kazakhstan					1
43	New Caledonia					1
43	Taiwan					1

• Mister International
• Mister World
• Mister Global
• Mister Supranational
• Man of the World

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