Viet Nams Pham Huong (left), Miss Bosnia and Herzegovina Delila Softic and the second runner-up Marharyta Banet from Belarus. — Photo vnepxress.net

HA NOI (VNS) — Viet Nam's Pham Huong defeated participants from 20 other countries to claim the first runner-up position at the Miss World Sport 2014 on Saturday.

The contest, which was held for the first time in Sochi by the Olympic Committee, was won by Miss Bosnia and Herzegovina Delila Softic. The second-runner up was Marharyta Banet from Belarus.

Huong, who is 1.77m-tall, was born in 1991 and has graduated in marketing and sales from the University of Commerce.

The contestants were required to have great passion for sports and the capability of mastering a particular sport. They could be professional athletes or a member of their countrys Olympic team.

They also had to compete in different rounds involving wearing of sportswear, evening or party wear by world-class designers and dancing.

The contest drew participants from Armenia, Belarus, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Sweden, Russia, the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Latvia, Germany, Mongolia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Viet Nam among others. — VNS