Puerto Rico's Yara Liz Lasanta is Miss World 2010 Beach Beauty winner

All wearing red bikini, the Top 40 Beach Beauty semi-finalists finally competed today, 3 days after it was postponed due to heavy rain.

It was held at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Sanya, China, trimming the Top 40 down to Top 20. And crowned Miss World 2010 Beach Beauty is
Miss Puerto Rico Yara Liz Lasanta Santiago.

Miss Puerto Rico, who's also one of the favorites, now earns an automatic slot as one of the Official Top 15 semi-finalists of the pageant.

Though it's kinda disappointing not seeing Misses St. Lucia and Russia
in the Top 20, Miss Puerto Rico as Beach Beauty winner is actually a great choice by the judges.

The results:

BEACH BEAUTY WINNER: PUERTO RICO, Yara Lasanta Santiago

2nd Place - UNITED STATES, Alexandria Mills

3rd Place - NORWAY, Mariann Birkedal

4th Place - CHINA PR, Xiao Tang

5th Place - FRENCH POLYNESIA, Mihilani Teixeira

TOP 20:
AUSTRALIA, Ashleigh Francis
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA, Snežana Prorok
BOTSWANA, Emma Wareus
CZECH REPUBLIC, Veronika Machova
FRANCE, Virginie Dechenaud
GHANA, Mimi Areme
HUNGARY, Jennifer Kalo
INDIA, Manasvi Mamgai
ISRAEL, Shavit Wiesel
MARTINIQUE, Tully Fremcourt
NETHERLANDS, Desiree van den Berg
PARAGUAY, Egni Eckert
SCOTLAND, Nicola Mimnagh
THAILAND, Yuwaret Sirirat Rueangsri
ZIMBABWE, Samantha Tshuma

TOP 40:
ARGENTINA, Mariana Arambarry
BAHAMAS, Braneka Bassett
BARBADOS, Danielle Bishop
BOLIVIA, Maria Teresa Roca Cordova
CAPE VERDE, Joseline Fontes
CAYMAN ISLANDS, Cristin Joy Alexander
GUADELOUPE, Ericka Aly
HONG KONG, Sau Man Cheung
ITALY, Giada Pezzaioli
LITHUANIA, Gritė Maruškevičiūtė
LUXEMBOURG, Shari Thuyns
MOLDOVA, Daria Zaiteva
MONGOLIA, Sarnai Amar
NEW ZEALAND, Cody Yerkovich
RUSSIA, Irina Sharipova
SRI LANKA, Fallon Ranasinghe Dona
ST. LUCIA, Aiasha Gustave
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, Davia Chambers
TURKEY, Gizem Memic
UKRAINE, Ekaterina Zakharchenko

Photo and results courtesy of MWO