Century Tuna Superbods 2026: The Women Chasing the Crown This Friday

Century Tuna Superbods reaches a real milestone this Friday, September 11: its tenth Grand Finals in a franchise that’s now twenty years old. That anniversary is the reason this year’s field is bigger than usual — organizers expanded the roster from 15 finalists per category to 20 — and the women’s side of it turned out especially deep, mixing pageant veterans, a professional athlete, and more than one finalist balancing the competition with a corporate day job.

One note before the rundown: former Pinoy Big Brother housemate Lou Yanong, who had been among the more closely watched names in this batch after speaking candidly at the callbacks about a health scare with shingles, withdrew from the competition in late July citing personal reasons. She won’t be part of Friday’s finals.

The Full Field

The active Top 20 Female Finalists are Vienne Luna, Jasmine Rovelle Paguio, Chucel Njigha, Janica Reloxe, Gia Gonzales, Marianne “Maan” Marquez, Ronalyn Lalimo, Ashley Cayuca, Alana Maris Montemayor, Donnabelle Erno, Jilliane Robillos, Aleiah Torres, Diane Querrer, Gee Canlas, Jarly Verceles, Kristen Bea Chua, Rovin Mizuse, Thalia Joaquin, and Anna Valencia Lakrini.

Here’s who else is worth knowing about before Friday:

Vienne Luna of Calamba City, Laguna, is a Binibining Pilipinas 2024 candidate.
Ronalyn Lalimo competed at Binibining Laguna 2025.
Alana Maris Montemayor is Vice President for Risk and Compliance at HSBC (The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation), one of several finalists this cycle drawn from the corporate sector.
Jilliane Robillos is an educator and managing director at the International Center for Beginning Beginners.
Chucel Njigha plays volleyball for Ateneo de Manila University, part of a sports contingent organizers highlighted this year.
Gee Canlas is a television host.

Three to Watch

Anna Valencia Lakrini

Filipino-German beauty queen Anna Valencia Lakrini walks into Friday’s finals with the deepest international pageant résumé in the women’s field, built across two countries. In the Philippines, she won Binibining Pilipinas Globe 2023 and went on to represent the country at Miss Globe 2023, where she placed 2nd runner-up. Competing for her father’s homeland, she then won Miss Supranational Germany 2025 and represented Germany at Miss Supranational 2025, finishing 1st runner-up.

Placing on two continents for two different countries is a level of proven stage composure almost no one else in this field can match, and it makes Lakrini one of the clearest favorites heading into the finale.

Anna Valencia Lakrini, Century Tuna Superbods 2026 women's finalist — Two countries, two international pageant podiums — Lakrini’s résumé speaks for itself.

Anna Valencia Lakrini in competition swimwear, Century Tuna Superbods 2026 — Lakrini on stage, the same composure she’s shown on two continents.

Jasmine Rovelle Paguio

Filipino-Canadian pageant veteran Jasmine Rovelle Paguio currently holds the Miss Universe Philippines Manila 2025 title, but her competitive résumé goes back further. She left Canada for the Philippines to pursue pageantry, and before landing the Manila crown, she was already a titleholder abroad — Miss Eco Canada 2020 and Miss Eco North America 2020 — plus a 3rd runner-up finish at Hiyas ng Pilipinas 2024.

That track record of consistently placing across multiple pageant systems, in two countries, over several years, suggests a contestant who knows how to peak on the right night.

Jasmine Rovelle Paguio, Century Tuna Superbods 2026 women's finalist — Miss Universe Philippines Manila 2025, with titles from two countries behind her.

Jasmine Rovelle Paguio at Century Tuna Superbods 2026 — Paguio traded Canada for the Philippines to chase pageant titles — and kept winning.

Aleiah Torres

Filipino-Canadian libero Aleiah Torres is the rare finalist in this field walking in as a professional athlete with a title already on her résumé. Torres plays for the Creamline Cool Smashers, the winningest team in the Premier Volleyball League (PVL) and one of the most popular clubs in Philippine women’s sports. Drafted out of Brock University in Canada — where she was named an Ontario University Athletics First Team All-Star — Torres has represented Creamline on the international club circuit through the Asian Volleyball Confederation.

Superbods judges have said stage presence and composure under pressure now count as much as physique — traits a pro athlete used to performing in front of Creamline’s famously loud fanbase should already have in abundance. She’s also the finalist with arguably the largest built-in audience walking into Friday, which never hurts on a night decided partly by crowd energy.

Aleiah Torres, Century Tuna Superbods 2026 women's finalist — Creamline’s libero, bringing a built-in fanbase to Friday’s finals.

Aleiah Torres on stage at Century Tuna Superbods 2026 — The only pro athlete in the field with a PVL title already in hand.

Nothing about Friday is decided yet. This lineup reflects who has the strongest case on paper, but Superbods finals have a habit of rewriting the script — 2024 belonged to Justine Felizarta, 2022 to Christelle Abello, and 2020 to Samantha Ashley Lo, a former Binibining Pilipinas candidate, and none of them entered the night as an obvious favorite. The stage decides who joins them.

Crowning happens this Friday, September 11, and ElysPlanet will have full results coverage in its own post once the new titleholders are named. Curious how the men’s field stacks up? Read our companion breakdown of their Top 20 and the contenders worth watching.