Miss Universe 1991

Miss Universe 1991
Date May 17, 1991
Presenters Dick Clark, Leeza Gibbons and Angela Visser
Venue Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Broadcaster CBS
Entrants 73
Placements 10
Debuts Bulgaria, Ghana, Romania, United Kingdom
Withdraws Aruba, Australia, Austria, Denmark, Egypt, England, Gibraltar, Greenland, Honduras, Kenya, New Zealand, Portugal, Scotland, Switzerland, Wales
Returns Belgium, Brazil, Cook Islands, Curaçao, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Namibia, Nicaragua, Panama, U.S. Virgin Islands, Yugoslavia
Winner Lupita Jones
 Mexico
Congeniality Monique Lindesay
 U.S. Virgin Islands
Best National Costume Maribel Gutiérrez
 Colombia
Photogenic Siobhan McLafferty
 Ireland
Countries and territories which sent delegates and results.

Miss Universe 1991, the 40th Miss Universe pageant was held at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts on the Las Vegas Strip, USA on May 17, 1991.

Lupita Jones of Mexico was crowned as Miss Universe 1991 by the outgoing titleholder, Mona Grudt of Norway. Seventy-three contestants competed in the 1991 Miss Universe Pageant.

The pageant was hosted by Dick Clark for the second consecutive year, and colour commentary was provided by Leeza Gibbons for the second time and Miss Universe 1989 Angela Visser, Grudt's predecessor, for the first time.

Results

Placements

Final ResultsContestant
Miss Universe 1991
1st runner-up
2nd runner-up
  •  USSR - Yulia Lemigova
Top 6
Top 10

Semifinal scores

Delegate Swimsuit Interview Evening Gown Average
 Mexico 9.450 (1) 9.608 (1) 9.758 (1) 9.605 (1)
 Venezuela 9.412 (2)9.533 (4) 9.650 (3) 9.532 (2)
 USSR 9.225 (3) 9.550 (3) 9.717 (2) 9.497 (3)
 Netherlands 9.073 (6) 9.592 (2) 9.600 (4) 9.422 (4)
 Jamaica 9.213 (4) 9.418 (6) 9.542 (7) 9.391 (5)
 USA 8.950 (7) 9.425 (5) 9.542 (7) 9.306 (6)
 Curaçao 9.135 (5) 9.190 (8) 9.550 (6) 9.292 (7)
 Paraguay 8.897 (8) 9.350 (7) 9.350 (10) 9.229 (8)
 France 8.867 (10) 9.067 (10) 9.590 (5) 9.175 (9)
 Yugoslavia 8.875 (9) 9.167 (9) 9.442 (9) 9.161 (10)

     Winner
     First Runner-up
     Second Runner-up
     Top 6 Finalist
     Top 10 Semifinalist
(#) Rank in each round of competition

Special awards

Award Contestant
Best National Costume
Miss Congeniality
Miss Photogenic

Order of announcements

Top 10

  1. Jamaica
  2. France
  3. Yugoslavia
  4. Paraguay
  5. Curaçao
  6. USSR
  7. Venezuela
  8. Netherlands
  9. USA
  10. Mexico

Top 6

  1. Venezuela
  2. Netherlands
  3. USA
  4. Jamaica
  5. Mexico
  6. USSR

Top 3

  1. USSR
  2. Netherlands
  3. Mexico

Judges

Contestants

Replaced delegates

Designated delegates

Withdrawing delegates

Name changes

Holland began competing as Netherlands

Preliminary scores

Delegate Swimsuit Interview Evening Gown Average
 Mexico 8.83 9.15 9.04 9.006
 Jamaica 8.98 9.13 8.85 8.986
 USSR 8.53 9.17 8.89 8.864
 USA 8.67 9.02 8.82 8.834
 Yugoslavia 8.75 8.90 8.68 8.774
 Curaçao 8.90 8.55 8.81 8.753
 Paraguay 8.42 8.95 8.79 8.719
 Venezuela 8.73 8.68 8.74 8.719
 France 8.90 8.49 8.73 8.706
 Netherlands 8.48 8.82 8.78 8.694
 United Kingdom 8.60 8.68 8.78 8.687
 Brazil 8.37 9.17 8.52 8.687
 Norway 8.54 8.63 8.67 8.613
 Uruguay 8.53 8.88 8.38 8.597
 Chile 7.92 8.85 8.96 8.577
 Finland 8.28 9.07 8.38 8.577
 Spain 8.53 8.52 8.64 8.563
 Germany 8.48 8.86 8.24 8.527
 Ireland 8.08 8.88 8.44 8.467
 Singapore 8.57 8.17 8.60 8.447
 Nicaragua 8.12 8.75 8.37 8.413
 Sweden 8.30 8.52 8.37 8.397
 Trinidad & Tobago 7.92 8.90 8.34 8.387
 Colombia 8.10 8.56 8.48 8.380
 Romania 8.03 8.89 8.21 8.377
 Guatemala 8.02 8.85 8.19 8.353
 Israel 8.16 8.46 8.40 8.340
 Belgium 7.83 8.84 8.29 8.320
 Panama 7.78 8.81 8.34 8.310
 Korea 8.12 8.78 8.01 8.303
 Philippines 7.96 8.61 8.33 8.300
 Argentina 7.97 8.93 8.00 8.300
 Puerto Rico 7.91 8.62 8.32 8.283
 Costa Rica 7.77 8.90 8.09 8.253
 Bermuda 7.72 8.89 8.10 8.237
 Italy 8.13 8.67 7.83 8.210
 Dominican Republic 7.94 8.33 8.34 8.203
 Bulgaria 8.00 8.51 8.06 8.190
 Bahamas 7.63 8.90 8.02 8.183
 Iceland 7.95 8.49 8.07 8.170
 Turkey 7.81 8.55 8.13 8.163
 Canada 7.63 8.63 8.20 8.153
 Peru 7.53 9.00 7.90 8.143
 Taiwan 7.87 8.08 8.45 8.133
 El Salvador 8.05 8.40 7.95 8.133
 Cayman Islands 7.92 8.48 7.97 8.123
 Nigeria 7.87 8.42 8.04 8.110
 India 7.60 8.60 8.11 8.103
 Poland 8.21 7.92 8.12 8.083
 Ecuador 7.97 8.28 7.97 8.073
 U.S. Virgin Islands 7.69 8.70 7.77 8.053
 Guam 7.65 8.53 7.97 8.050
 Lebanon 7.58 8.81 7.75 8.047
 Greece 7.68 8.30 8.05 8.010
 Czechoslovakia 8.00 8.24 7.70 7.980
 Thailand 7.93 8.14 7.83 7.967
 Bolivia 7.28 8.86 7.63 7.923
 Ghana 7.67 8.32 7.72 7.903
 Namibia 7.42 8.80 7.48 7.900
 Hong Kong 7.45 8.02 8.18 7.883
 Japan 7.73 8.13 7.75 7.870
 Suriname 7.57 8.16 7.81 7.847
 Sri Lanka 7.37 8.27 7.82 7.820
 Belize 7.30 8.30 7.76 7.787
 Malaysia 7.27 8.12 7.97 7.787
 Luxembourg 7.80 7.75 7.78 7.777
 British Virgin Islands 7.27 8.41 7.50 7.727
 Northern Marianas 7.32 7.98 7.80 7.700
 Cook Islands 7.37 8.23 7.43 7.677
 St. Vincent & the Grenadines 7.33 7.90 7.62 7.617
 Turks & Caicos 7.10 8.00 7.70 7.600
 Mauritius 7.17 8.20 7.42 7.597
 Malta 7.31 7.79 7.63 7.577

     Winner
     First Runner-up
     Second Runner-up
     Top 6 Finalist
     Top 10 Semifinalist

International Broadcasting

These are some of the networks outside the United States (telecasted on CBS at the time) that showed the 1991 Miss Universe pageant live (or recorded earlier) in their respective countries and territories:

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