Miss World 1982

Miss World 1982
Date	18 November 1982
Presenters	Peter Marshall, Judith Chalmers
Entertainment	The Three Degrees
Venue	Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
Broadcaster	Thames Television
Entrants	68
Placements	15
Debuts	Turks & Caicos
Withdraws	Argentina, Austria, Jersey, Lesotho, Papua New Guinea, Suriname
Returns	Panama, Paraguay, Portugal, Yugoslavia, US Virgin Islands, Indonesia
Winner	Mariasela Álvarez  Dominican Republic

Miss World 1982, the 32nd edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 18 November 1982 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, UK. The winner was Mariasela Álvarez from the Dominican Republic. She was crowned by Miss World 1981, Pilin Leon of Venezuela. The first and second runners-up were Sari Kaarina Aspholm from Finland and Della Dolan from the United Kingdom who were semi-finalists in Miss Universe 1982 four months before.

Results

Placements

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results

Continental Queens of Beauty

Special awards

Order of announcements

Top 15

Top 7

1. Switzerland

2. Dominican Republic

3. United States

4. Trinidad and Tobago

5. Ireland

6. Finland

7. United Kingdom

Contestants

Contestant Number	Nation	Contestant	Hometown
01	American Virgin Islands	Benedicta Acosta	St. Croix
02	Aruba	Noriza Antonia Helder	Oranjestad
03	Australia	Catherine Ann Morris	Sydney
04	Bahamas	Oralee Laverne Stubbs	Nassau
05	Belgium	Marie Pierre Lemaitre	Brussels
06	Bermuda	Heather Michelle Ross	Somerset
07	Bolivia	Brita Margareta Cederberg	Oruro
08	Brazil	Monica Jannuzzi	Londrina
09	Canada	Jody Jensen	Calgary
10	Cayman Islands	Maureen Therese Lewis	George Town
11	Chile	Mariana Margarita Reinhardt Lagos	Santiago
12	Colombia	María Teresa Gómez Fajardo	Medellin
13	Costa Rica	Maureen Jiménez Solano	San Jose
14	Curaçao	Vendetta Maria Roozendal	Willemstad
15	Cyprus	Marina Elena Rauscher	Limassol
16	Denmark	Tina Maria Nielsen	Copenhagen
17	Dominican Republic	Mariasela Álvarez	Santo Domingo
18	Ecuador	Gianna Machiavello González	Guayaquil
19	El Salvador	Lorendana Munguta	San Salvador
20	Finland	Sari Kaarina Aspholm	Vantaa
21	France	Martine Marie Philipps	Audincourt
22	Germany	Kerstin Natalie Paeserack	Hanover
23	Gibraltar	Louise Michelle Gillingwater	Gibraltar
24	Greece	Anthy Priovolos	Athens
25	Guam	Frances Rose Limtiaco	Tamuning
26	Guatemala	Edith Suzanne Whitbeck Cain	Guatemala City
27	Holland	Irene Maria Petronnella Heinrichs Schell	Venlo
28	Honduras	Ana Lucía Rivera Castro	San Pedro Sula
29	Hong Kong	Cally Kwong Mei-Wan	Hong Kong Island
30	Iceland	María Björk Sverrisdóttir	Reykjavík
31	India	Uttara Mhatre Kher	Nasik
32	Indonesia	Andi Botenri	Jakarta
33	Ireland	Roberta Brown	Derry
34	Isle of Man	Maria Elizabeth Craig	Jurby
35	Israel	Anat Kerem	Haifa
36	Italy	Raffaella del Rosario	Bologna
37	Jamaica	Cornelia Ramona Roxanne Parchment	Kingston
38	Japan	Mutsuko Kikuchi	Tokyo
39	Korea	Choi Sung-yoon	Seoul
40	Lebanon	May Mansour Chahwan	Beirut
41	Malaysia	Nellie Teoh Swee Yang	Kuala Lumpur
42	Malta	Adelina Camilleri	Mosta
43	Mexico	Ana Ruth García Jiménez	Villahermosa
44	New Zealand	Susan Jane Mainland	Hamilton
45	Norway	Janett Carine Krefting	Oslo
46	Panama	Lorena Moreno	Panama City
47	Paraguay	Susan Domínguez Gutter	Asuncion
48	Peru	Cynthia Mercedes Piedra	Lima
49	Philippines	Sara-Jane Coronel Areza	Manila
50	Portugal	Suzana Walker dos Santos Dias	Lisbon
51	Puerto Rico	Jannette Torres Burgos	San Juan
52	Singapore	Yvonne Tan	Singapore
53	Spain	Ana Isabel Herrero García	Zaragoza
54	Sri Lanka	Tania Colleen Anne Pereira	Panadura
55	Sweden	Anne-Lie Margareta Sjöberg	Eskilstuna
56	Switzerland	Lolita Laure Morena	Locarno
57	Tahiti	Teura Tuhiti	Papeete
58	Thailand	Alisa Kajornchaiyakul	Bangkok
59	Trinidad and Tobago	Althea Ingrid Rocke	Port of Spain
60	Turkey	Ayse Belgin Guven	Istanbul
61	Turks & Caicos	Lolita Elaine Ariza	Grand Turk
62	United Kingdom	Della Frances Dolan	Grimsby
63	United States	Elizabeth Caughey	Dallas
64	Uruguay	Varinia Roxana Govea Pazos	Montevideo
65	Venezuela	Michelle Marie Shoda Belloso	Maracaibo
66	Western Samoa	Lilly Caroline Hunt	Apia
67	Yugoslavia	Ana Sasso	Split
68	Zimbabwe	Caroline Murinda	Harare

Notes

Debuts

• Turks and Caicos Islands competed in Miss World for the first time.

Returning countries

• Indonesia last competed in 1965
• Yugoslavia last competed in 1975
• Portugal last competed in 1979.
• Panama and Paraguay last competed in 1980.

Withdrawals and Nations not competing

• Argentina did not attend the Miss World because of ongoing political conflict with United Kingdom, pertaining to the dispute in the Falkland Islands.
• Austria, Rita Isabelle Zehtner, did not compete in Miss World because of personal reasons.

Other notes

• Sweden competed in Miss Europe 1983 and placed 1st runner-up.
• Cayman Islands and Switzerland won the same awards in the Miss Universe 1982 and 1983 pageants.
• Six out of fifteen semi-finalists competed in Miss Universe.
• Finland and United Kingdom were semi-finalists in Miss Universe 1982.
• Ireland and Switzerland competed in Miss Universe 1983 in St. Louis, Missouri, and placed 2nd and 3rd runners-up. Spain also competed in same pageant and placed as a semi-finalist also Cyprus but did not place.
• This is the first time that Bolivia and the Cayman Islands made it into the semi-finals.
• Trinidad and Tobago, who placed 6th in Miss World, competed in Miss Universe 1980 in Seoul, but failed to put her through to the semi-finals.
• Cally Kwong Mei-Wan of Hong Kong would later have a successful career as a singer in her native country.
• 9 out of 15 countries which made it into the semi-finals, were not in the semi-finals the previous year: Dominican Republic and Philippines (1973), Yugoslavia (1975), Denmark (1977), Switzerland and Finland (1978), and Guam (1980). Bolivia and Cayman Islands had made into the semi-finals for the first time. Bolivia marked its debut in 1960, while the Cayman Islands in 1977.

External links

• Pageantopolis - Miss World 1982