PHOTOS: Sabrina’s crowning moment - Miss Universe Sri Lanka 2012

23 July 2012
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The Siyatha Lux Miss Universe Sri Lanka 2012 came to an end on Sunday 22 July at the Hilton Colombo, with Sabrina Herft winning the coveted title.

Pictured below is Sabrina's crowning moment along with other scenes from the evening, complete with musical performances from Bathya n Santhush and more.

Sabrina Herft

(L-R) Aushani Samarasinghe, 1st Runner-up, Madusha Mayadunne, Miss International 2012, Sabrina Herft, Miss Universe Sri Lanka 2012, Nicola Dabrera, 2nd Runner-up and Luckme Perera, 3rd Runner-up

Fiona De Silva

Eshani Diana Jayapala

Shehara Perera

Manuja de Silva

Pamuditha de Silva

Harsha Madushani

Erandi Jayawardena

Aushani Samarasinghe

Sabrina Herft

Luckme Perera

Madusha Mayadunne

Nicola Dabrera

Sabrina won 'Miss Body Beautiful' as well

Entertainment for the evening

Bathya n Santhush performed and were joined by the contestants as well.

Past title holders

Hirunika Premachandra, Miss International 2011

Stephanie Siriwardena, Miss Universe Sri Lanka 2011

The judges

Madusha Mayadunne being crowned Miss International 2012

The audience

Sabrina’s crowning moment

(L-R) Aushani Samarasinghe, 1st Runner-up, Madusha Mayadunne, Miss International 2012, Sabrina Herft, Miss Universe Sri Lanka 2012, Nicola Dabrera, 2nd Runner-up and Luckme Perera, 3rd Runner-up

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Comments (34)

Mr. B Wijeyasingha
Jul 23, 2012 06:11 pm
They are all good looking and they all look like European wannabe's. Sri Lanka has plenty of darker skinned beauties but as usual one needs to look like a European in order to qualify as beautiful.
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salman
Jul 24, 2012 04:57 am
makeup naaala!!... bwakk
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Ajay
Jul 24, 2012 06:18 am
Sri Lanka is a very diverse country and we should be proud of it. This is not "Miss Nationalistic", this is a modern day beauty pageant, a competition, has nothing to do with portraying your idea of traditional/ideal beauty. Skin color has nothing to do with how Sri Lankan or not someone is.
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Dumudu
Jul 24, 2012 07:10 am
For beauty contest in srilanka i dont see any srilankan girl come through. for beauty contest sl girl's who participated are foreign educated, less sinhala speak, dark less, high society rich daughters.
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Prasa
Jul 24, 2012 07:14 am
This time all the fialist seems to be ver good looking. Keep it up Sri Lanka..!!!
Other ladies should take them as example and atleast to give a try to be slim and healthy without becoming barrals...
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asoka
Jul 24, 2012 10:49 am
apey aachchi handai meeta wada...
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John
Jul 24, 2012 11:58 am
Mr B Wijey,Please don't talk out of context,your level racial segregation in this portraits quite well.Get a life.Sri Lanka is a diverse place.Cheers Sabrina
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Valerie
Jul 24, 2012 01:08 pm
Congratulations to each and every one who took part in the pageant.
The judges made the best choice and Sabrina really deserved the crown.
She is well spoken and was the most beautiful lady of them all. Congratulations Sabrina. Wishing you the best and hope you do Sri Lanka Proud! Way to go Girl!
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Milen
Jul 24, 2012 01:25 pm
They are all beautiful (in their own ways) But none of them have any grace. There was an interview earlier with all of the girls, not one of them had a sense of calm and collected self. I dont know why our people think that to qualify for and win a pageant English is mandatory. Since of late only those with foreign backgrounds seems to be winning these contests. Is there some sort of genuine bias or is it that the competition is poor? There are so many more intelligent beautiful women in Sri Lan
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colpetty
Jul 24, 2012 01:42 pm
Just because you are from a wealthy family doesn't make you less Sti Lankan than someone from a village. Get your head out of your a** and stop thinking of Sri Lankans as some stereotype. It doesn't do any of us any favours
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faqi
Jul 24, 2012 03:46 pm
All very pretty girls this time around.
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Anon
Jul 24, 2012 04:52 pm
Just because a Sri Lankan girl has been educated overseas, fairer and is blessed with riches does not make her any less Sri Lankan than you. The girls speak both Sinhala and English (the most common language in the world) which you Dumudu speak very little of, so maybe you should educate yourself or better not comment if you dont know how to in correct english. Right now you just sound like a jealous person with very low self esteem, and putting people down who you dont even know to make yoursel
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faqi
Jul 24, 2012 09:37 pm
Everyone seems a winner, beautiful array of attractive women in this years contest. Now there should be intensive coaching by past contest winners on the 'ins and outs of the International beauty contests' , that they are to compete in. Most other countries have and array of experts in all the 'beauty contest fields' that train their contest winners.
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Carlyle
Jul 25, 2012 01:35 am
Any easy job for the judges, blind freddy would have picked Sabrina. No surprice to see narrow minded comments from jokers like Mr B Wijeysingha
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Hyacinth
Jul 25, 2012 03:52 am
Some of those who have made their comments have not considered that the search for a Ms Sri Lanka for Ms Universe or any other international title, does NOT end here on our shores. She has to contend with contestants of many countries on categories that are quite stringent. Colour is not the criteria, it is the bias of people who cannot see beyond their own bigoted thought process who bring division into something that should make every Sri Lankan proud.
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Doug
Jul 25, 2012 10:43 am
My sentiments exactly. I am as black as the ace of spades & with a name like mine I've got to be irate about a 'light'skinned person being the "Most Beautiful" on the night. Come on fellows, stop looking for excuses as to why TAN didn't get a gurnsey. Sabrina will do a "Maureen Hingert" & end up MISS UNIVERSE. Maybe some of you protesters are too undernage to remember our Maureen, Yes, she had a light skin - a respectable Burgher girl from a great family. Please give Miss Herft a 'fair go' guys.
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Muqaddasa Wahid
Jul 25, 2012 11:24 am
YAHOOOO!!!!! Way to go!!!! Sabrina Herft really deserves the crown, she was the prettiest, the most confident and was the most suitable person for this crown. I like the way she speaks, it's really nice. Aushani Samarasinghe is also correctly chosen to be the 1st runner up. I hope Sabrina would really make Sri Lanka proud at the Miss. Universe contest. Come on, Sabrina, you can do it, because you have the courage, the determination, intelligence and the looks, even if you don't win, don't worry,
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Elizabeth P Watts
Jul 26, 2012 07:55 pm
I was born in Sri Lanka some 72yeas ago, now living in the UK find it intriguing and absolutely overwhelmed at the most beautiful young ladies that represent Sri Lanka. I congratulate then with all my heart.
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Jason
Jul 27, 2012 10:07 am
Out in the very first round where the international event is concerned
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Chandrika
Jul 27, 2012 12:17 pm
All the finalists were beautiful and the best got selected. I agree with Hyacinth. Pl don't bring division into a great event where the organizers and the judges have done a just and great job. Stop being petty minded and be happy for the beautiful girls and wish them well. I wish Sabrina and Madusha the very best. I am sure they can and will do Sri Lanka proud.
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Malcolm
Jul 30, 2012 06:57 am
This is typical of Sri Lanka and they will never change. Please learn to accept and respect each other not by your name but as Sri Lankans.
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Shirlene
Aug 01, 2012 12:29 pm
Congratulations Sabrina, you are so beautiful, I am a friend of your Mum since she was a kid. I see so much of her in you. Pray that you will enjoy the rest of your journey, it does not matter if you win or loose as long as you hold your head up high and follow your dream. God Bless you
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Hello
Aug 01, 2012 07:55 pm
Doesn't she have any of her father's looks then?
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Leslie Silva
Aug 03, 2012 02:53 am
Mr. BW. Sad to see your mindset is from the 1800s'. Beauty has nothing to do with skin colour or social status. Lots of Sri Lankan beauty queens in the past were all mostly light skinned girls. There were some dark skinned girls who won the title as well. We are a diversified nation. I hate stereotypes. Wake up we are in 21st century.
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Ken
Aug 09, 2012 10:01 pm
Our family left S/L in the late sixties to the lucky-country, it was a brilliant move.
I find the S/L's always knock themselves, now in a beauty pageant? what next?
The contestants are beautiful, the prettiest of them all...won. Get over all the doubts & inferiority complexes, these hang-ups will drag you down.
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Bernie Nathanielsz
Aug 12, 2012 07:24 am
Congratulations Sabrina you are so beautiful and have done Sri Lanka proud and most of all your parents. Give mum my love and congratulations too.... Aunty Bernie (Natasha's mum)
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Angel
Aug 15, 2012 08:08 pm
Yes! I agree with u, it seems still even in the East judges vote for the white skin. I am light skined too, but I know of much beautiful girls who did not participate with dark skins.
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Anu
Aug 24, 2012 07:17 am
Mr. B, I know exactly what u mean, even though the other idiots didn't seem to get it. I know beauty is nothing to do with skin colour, which is why it pisses me off why Sri Lankans are always viewing fairer as more beautiful. We are still trying to get over the pathetic post-colonial, inferiority complexes. If you don't agree, have a look all the Pathetic 'get fair' products on every shelf.
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Raaz
Sep 13, 2012 02:51 pm
Sri lanka has so many dark skinned beautiful women yet none of them are here....I guess they still believe the whole "dark is not beautiful"....backward thinking....
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Charmaine Dole
Oct 15, 2012 05:24 am
Hi Elizabeth Watts - were you Elizabeth Wilson at one time?
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ruth
Oct 25, 2012 01:27 am
just because they are skinny doesn't mean one is healthy. For all of you who don't want others to talk negative about Lanka, you people are the ones giving the reason for all the negativity. As said in prev. comments, never have i seen a dark women on their platforms, even if one does come, they fake it so much that they look like masks. if people stop putting emphasis on colour and body structure, there would less people with eating disorders, and less depression.
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Helene
Nov 05, 2012 10:20 am
Congratulations Sabrina - Wishing you all the very best in the next stage of this journey. I am sure you will do us proud. To all those knockers I say get a life - you are all pathetic - we are all Lankans no matter what colour skin we have. Give mum our love - The Elias family in Melbourne
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Bala Sunderam
Nov 21, 2012 11:39 am
Sabrina, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. I know of a friend of mine who married an ayyama( maid ). Not because she was beatiful but she was plesant and intelligent . And also poor. They are living in Austalia happily. Congratulations and all the best at the universal pageant.
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Nathan
Dec 17, 2012 06:54 am
Typical South Asian attitude surfaces again in some of the above posters' sentiments and the contest choices, namely one must look European to be considered attractive.
South Asians have a massive inferiority complex when it comes to skin color and features, picking the fair and sharp featured every time.
Ironically in the West people have moved towards accepting dark skinned non Caucasoid featured persons as attractive.
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