Miss World 1991

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Miss World 1991
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Miss World 1991 Titlecard
Date 28 December 1991
Presenters Peter Marshall, Gina Tolleson
Entertainment Indecent Obsession
Venue Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, US
Broadcaster E!
Entrants 79
Placements 10
Debuts Greenland
Withdrawals Barbados, Canada, Cook Islands, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Sri Lanka, USSR
Returns Antigua, Taiwan, Ecuador, Lebanon, Malaysia, South Africa, Swaziland
Winner Ninibeth Leal
 Venezuela

Miss World 1991, the 41st edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 28 December 1991 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, US. The winner was Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiménez representing Venezuela. She was crowned by Gina Tolleson of the United States.

Results

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results

Placements

Final results Contestant
Miss World 1991
1st runner-up
  •  Australia – Leanne Buckle
2nd runner-up
  •  South Africa – Diana Tilden-Davis
Top 5
Semi-finalists

Continental Queens of Beauty

Continental Group Contestant
Africa
  •  South Africa – Diana Tilden-Davis
Americas
Asia & Oceania
  •  Australia – Leanne Buckle
Caribbean
  •  Jamaica – Sandra Foster
Europe

Special awards

No special awards were given this year.

Order of announcements

Contestants

Nation Contestant Hometown Preliminary Score
 American Virgin Islands Cheryl Leiba Milligan St. Croix 34
 Antigua Joanne Bird St. John's 33
 Argentina Marcela Noemí Chazarreta Buenos Aires 34
 Aruba Sandra Croes Santa Cruz 32
 Australia Leanne Buckle Brisbane 48
 Austria Andrea Isabelle Pfeiffer Graz 32
 Bahamas Tarnia Paula Newton Stuart New Providence 32
 Belgium Anke van Dermeersch Antwerp 41
 Belize Josephine (Josie) Gault Belize City 32
 Bolivia Mónica Gamarra Giese Cochabamba 33
23x15px Brazil Cátia Silene Kupssinski São Paulo 38
 British Virgin Islands Marjorie Penn Tortola 33
 Bulgaria Liubomira Slavcheva Sofia 33
 Cayman Islands Yvette Peggy Jordison Grand Cayman 34
 Chile Carolina Beatriz Michelson Martínez Santiago 37
 China Taipei Rebecca Lin Lan-Chih Taipei 33
 Colombia Adriana Rodríguez Anzola Bogota 40
 Costa Rica Eugenie Jiménez Pacheco San Francisco de Heredia 32
 Curaçao Nashaira Desbarida Willemstad 38
 Cyprus Anna Margaret Stephanou Nicosia 34
 Czechoslovakia Andrea Tatarkova Košice 32
 Denmark Sharon Givskav Copenhagen 33
 Dominican Republic Rosanna Rodríguez de la Vega Concepción de La Vega 33
 Ecuador Sueanny Denise Bejarano López Guayaquil 32
 El Salvador Lucía Beatriz López Rodríguez San Salvador 32
 Finland Nina Autio Tampere 35
 France Mareva Georges Tahiti 46
 Germany Susanne Petry Saarbrücken 40
 Ghana Jamilla Haruna Danzuru Accra 32
 Gibraltar Ornella Costa Gibraltar 37
 Greece Miriam Panagos Athens 38
 Greenland Bibiane Holm Nuuk 33
 Guam Yvonne Marie Limtiaco Speight Asan 32
 Guatemala Marlyn Lorena Magaña Ramírez Guatemala City 32
 Holland Linda Egging Spanbroek 39
 Honduras Arlene Rocío Rauscher Duarte Tegucigalpa 32
 Hungary Orsolya Anna Michina Budapest 32
 Iceland Svava Haraldsdóttir Reykjavík 37
 India Ritu Singh New Delhi 44
 Ireland Amanda Brunker Dublin 34
 Israel Li'at Ditkovsky Herzliya 32
 Italy Sabina Pellati Reggio Emilia 39
 Jamaica Sandra Foster Kingston 49
 Japan Junko Tsuda Tokyo 33
 Kenya N'kirote Karimi M'mbijjiwe Nairobi 34
 Korea Kim Tae-hwa Pusan 32
 Latvia Inese Šlesere Riga 33
 Lebanon Diana Begdache Beirut 32
Bandeira do Leal Senado.svg Macau Cristina Guilherme Lam Macau 32
 Malaysia Samantha Schubert Kuala Lumpur 38
 Malta Romina Genuis Gzira 32
 Mauritius Marie Geraldine Deville Central Flacq 32
 Mexico María Cristina Urrutia de la Vega Mexico City 32
 Namibia Michelle McLean Windhoek 51
 New Zealand Lisa Maree de Montalk Taupo 41
 Nigeria Adenike Oshinowo Lagos 37
 Norway Anne-Britt Røvik Kolbotn 33
 Panama Malena Estela Betancourt Guillén Panama City 35
 Paraguay Vivian Rosanna Benítez Brizuela Asuncion 36
 Philippines Gemith Gonzalo Gemparo Manila 38
 Poland Karina Wojciechowska Katowice 33
 Portugal Maria do Carmo Ramalho Lisbon 34
 Puerto Rico Johanna Berenice Irizarry Lajas 34
 Romania Gabriela Dragomirescu Bucharest 32
 Singapore Jasheen Jayakody Singapore 35
 South Africa Diana Tilden-Davis Johannesburg 51
 Spain Candelaria (Catia) Moreno Navarro Tenerife 38
 Swaziland Jackie Emelda Bennett Manzini 32
 Sweden Cathrin Olsson Kungsbacka 34
  Switzerland Sandra Aegerter Aigle 38
 Thailand Rewaedee Malaisee Bangkok 33
 Trinidad & Tobago Sastee Bachan Port of Spain 35
 Turkey Dilek Aslihan Koruyan Istanbul 47
 United Kingdom Joanne Elizabeth Lewis Nottingham 40
 United States Charlotte Ray Camden 42
 Uruguay Andrea Regina Gorrochategui Granja Montevideo 35
 Venezuela Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiménez Maracaibo 58
 Yugoslavia Slavica Tripunović Vukovar 33

Notes

Debuts

  •  Greenland

Returns

Last competed in 1977:

  •  South Africa – returned after the Miss World Organization decided to lift a 14-year apartheid rule, allowing its contestants to compete.

Withdrawals

  •  Canada – Tara Paat withdrew 14 days before the pageant due to illness.
  •  Cook Islands
  •  Papua New Guinea
  •  Luxembourg did not send delegates to Miss World after 1990 until it returned in 2009.
  •  Peru – Due to problems with their franchise and lack of sponsorship
  •  Hong Kong renewed its franchise, however it happened three months after Miss World.
  •  Sri Lanka – Due to scheduling conflict
  •  USSR did not compete because of its dissolution, a result of dividing into 15 states which came to be known as the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Crossovers

Other notes

  • Miss World 1991 was scheduled to be held in the Dominican Republic. Due to scheduling difficulties, Miss World was first moved to Puerto Rico, then to Atlanta, USA.
  • Preliminary swimsuits in Miss World 1991 were held in South Africa.
  • South Africa returned to Miss World after a 14-year post-apartheid rule, and was the first time to crown as Queen of Africa. Diana Tilden-Davis was later attacked by a hippopotamus in Botswana in December 2003, and suffered bruises and long-term injuries. She was recovered from injuries three years later in 2006.
  • This was also the first time that no European country made into the finals for crowning.
  • France, Mareva Georges, represented her country in Miss World although she came from the island of Tahiti.
  • Trinidad & Tobago, Sastee Bachan, currently works as a trained make-up artist who lives in Toronto, and as a fashion & pageant consultant for Miss World Canada.
  • Singapore, Jasheen Jayakody, was born to Sri Lankan parents, and currently lives in San Francisco, California with her American husband and one child.
  • Turkey, Dilek Aslihan Koruyan, is currently the wife of Turkish businessman and entrepreneur, Demir Sabanci.
  • Australia, Leanne Buckle (now Mrs. Frew), currently works as a photographer and a model, and lives with her husband and three children.
  • Malaysia, Samantha Schubert, was born in England, and raise in Malaysia since childhood. She is currently an actress and a model, after she studied at the Lee Strasburg School of Film & Theatre Los Angeles, The Beverly Hills Playhouse Los Angeles and Drama Studio London.
  • Half the number of countries which made it into the semi-finals, were not in the semi-finals last year: South Africa (1975), India (1980), France (1987), and Australia (1989). Namibia had made into the semi-finals for the first time after its debut in 1989.

References

External links

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