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Miss Switzerland Kirsten Cook - Photo ©Miss Schweiz

(video) Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Kerstin Cook, 21, has been crowned the new Miss Switzerland.

Cook was voted the “most beautiful woman in Switzerland” among 12 candidates that competed in a televised final 25 September.

The winner, following distance learning courses in biology from Oxford Open University, is of British ancestry. Her mother is British and her father is half-Swiss, half-British.

The reigning Miss Switzerland, elected by a studio jury and the television audience will serve a one-year term.

Beauty queen measurements: she is 180cm, and 85-62-91.

Sabrina Guilloud, 23, born in Veyrier, Geneva, and a student at the University of Ticino, came second. Jennifer Hurschler of Zurich was the first runner-up.

Schweizer Illustrierte a German-language magazine carries lengthy articles and behind-the-scenes pictures with the candidates.

If you missed the show, here’s the Swiss television broadcast of Miss Schweiz (you can forward to skip ads and see the crowning).

[Ed. note: Gotthard’s lead singer who performed during Miss Switzerland died, update here.)

Miss Switzerland broadcast – Schweizer Fernsehen – Video of Gotthard’s performance forward to 1:42:51