Miss World 1987

Miss World 1987
Miss World 1987 Titlecard
Date	12 November 1987
Presenters	Peter Marshall, Alexandra Bastedo
Entertainment	Rick Astley
Venue	Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
Broadcaster	Thames Television
Entrants	78
Placements	12
Debuts	Belize, Cook Islands
Withdraws	Antigua and Barbuda, British Virgin Islands, Gambia, Sierra Leone
Returns	Argentina, Curaçao, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea
Winner	Ulla Weigerstorfer  Austria

Miss World 1987, the 37th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 12 November 1987 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, UK. The winner was Ulla Weigerstorfer (Queen of Europe) from Austria. She was crowned by Miss World 1986, Giselle Jeanne-Marie Laronde of Trinidad and Tobago. Runner-up was Albani Josefina Lozada Jiménez (Queen of Americas) from Venezuela, and third was Anna Margrét Jónsdóttir from Iceland.

Results

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results

Placements

Continental Queens of Beauty

Special awards

Order of announcements

Top 12

Top 6

1. Iceland

2. Poland

3. Argentina

4. Venezuela

5. Colombia

6. Austria

Judges

Contestants

Contestant Number	Nation	Contestant	Hometown	Preliminary Score
01	American Virgin Islands	Lisa Pitram	St. Thomas	20
02	Argentina	Caterina Ciscato	La Plata	26
03	Australia	Donna Thelma Rudrum	Melbourne	18
04	Austria	Ulla Weigerstorfer	Vienna	30
05	Bahamas	Indira Regina Wood	Nassau	19
06	Barbados	Dawn Michelle Waithe	Bridgetown	21
07	Belgium	Lynn Florentine Wesenbeek	Antwerp	19
08	Belize	Janine Sylvestre	Belize City	18
09	Bermuda	Kim Elizabeth Johnston	Southampton	18
10	Bolivia	Birgit Ellefsen	Cochabamba	18
11	Brazil	Simone Augusto Costa da Silva	Recife	23
12	Canada	Tracey Westerholm	Vancouver	20
13	Cayman Islands	Desiree Ann Hunter	Grand Cayman	18
14	Chile	Yasna Angélica Vukasovic Álvarez	Punta Arenas	25
15	Colombia	Claudia Mercedes Escobar Zapata	Cali	28
16	Cook Islands	Michelle Leone Oberg	Rarotonga	18
17	Costa Rica	Alejandra Eugenia Martínez Fuentes	Cartago	20
18	Curaçao	Diana Patricia Fraai	Willemstad	18
19	Cyprus	Niki Christou	Nicosia	18
20	Denmark	Zelma Hesselmann	Copenhagen	20
21	Dominican Republic	Paula del Carmen Lora García	Salcedo	24
22	Ecuador	Cecilia Pozo Caminer	Guayaquil	25
23	El Salvador	Claudia Lorena Alvarenga Ruiz	San Salvador	18
24	Finland	Minna Susanna Rinnetmaki	Tampere	22
25	France	Nathalie Marquay	Mulhouse	27
26	West Germany	Christiane Kopp	Berlin	21
27	Gibraltar	Mayte Sanchez	Gibraltar	21
28	Greece	Helen Moskiou	Athens	19
29	Guam	Francel Maribel Manibog Caracol	Agana	21
30	Guatemala	Mabel Daniza Hernández Gutiérrez	Chinautla	18
31	Holland	Angelique Johanna Gerarda Cremers	Schinveld	26
32	Honduras	Claudia María Paz Valledares	San Pedro Sula	18
33	Hong Kong	Pauline Yeung Bo-Ling	Hong Kong	24
34	Iceland	Anna Margrét Jónsdóttir	Reykjavík	28
35	India	Manisha Kohli	Bombay	21
36	Ireland	Adrienne Rock	Dublin	21
37	Isle of Man	Lesley Elizabeth Henthorn	Jurby	21
38	Israel	Ya'el Gerthler	Rehovot	27
39	Italy	Barbara Martinuzzi	Turin	21
40	Jamaica	Janice Nadine Whittingham	Kingston	24
41	Japan	Keiko Unno	Tokyo	18
42	Kenya	Sheila Linda Kegode	Nairobi	18
43	Korea	Chung Myoung-sun	Seoul	19
44	Lebanon	Josiane Haddad	Beirut	18
45	Luxembourg	Claudine Atten	Erpeldange	21
46	Macau	Olivia Maria do Rosario	Macau	18
47	Malaysia	Sheela Shankar	Kuala Lumpur	19
48	Malta	Michelle Sciberras	Paola	22
49	Mauritius	Marie-France Geraldine Mamet	Grand Bay	18
50	Mexico	Elizabeth Carrillo Iturrios	Mazatlán	21
51	New Zealand	Karyn Annemarie Therese Metcalf	Manukau	18
52	Nigeria	Mary Ngazi Bienoseh	Benue	19
53	Norway	Mette Veiseth	Namsos	19
54	Panama	María Cordelia Denis Urriola	Panama City	20
55	Papua New Guinea	Harriet Joan Warren	Port Moresby	18
56	Paraguay	Lourdes Beatriz Stanley Barranda	Hohenhau	21
57	Peru	Suzette Marie Woodman Denegri	Lima	18
58	Philippines	Maria Lourdes Manalili Apostol	Manila	23
59	Poland	Monika Ewa Nowosadko	Kolobrzeg	26
60	Portugal	Paula Isabel Leal do Sousa	Lisbon	19
61	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Jennifer Elvina Hensley	Basseterre	18
62	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Nicole Camille Hadaway	Kingstown	21
63	Singapore	Janicia Koh Wee Ling	Singapore	18
64	Spain	Sonsoles Artigas Medero	Las Palmas	23
65	Sri Lanka	Priyanjali Marina Frances de Alwis	Dehiwala	18
66	Swaziland	Phindile Patricia Simelane	Mbabane	18
67	Sweden	Karin Agneta Trydell	Laholm	23
68	Switzerland	Gabriela Bigler	Berne	18
69	Thailand	Benjawan Srilapan	Bangkok	18
70	Trinidad and Tobago	Maria del Valle Xavier	Diego Martin	20
71	Turkey	Sebnem Dincgor	Istanbul	19
72	Turks and Caicos Islands	Edna Elizabeth Smith	Grand Turk	18
73	United Kingdom	Karen Mellor	Barnsley	25
74	United States	Clotlide Helen Cabrera	Tampa Bay	24
75	Uruguay	Mónica Inés Borrea Vicente	Montevideo	18
76	Venezuela	Albani Josefina Lozada Jiménez	Acarigua	28
77	Western Samoa	Ainslie Berking	Apia	18
78	Yugoslavia	Matilda Sazdova	Skopje	21

Notes

Debuts

• Belize and Cook Islands competed in Miss World for the first time.

Returning countries

• Argentina and Papua New Guinea last competed in 1981. Argentina returned to Miss World after a 6-year war in the Falkland Islands which brought its dispute against the United Kingdom.
• Curaçao and Nigeria last competed in 1985.

Withdrawals and Nations not competing

• British Virgin Islands and Sierra Leone did not compete in Miss World because of the national pageant postponement.

Other notes

• This is the first time that Miss World has twelve semi-finalists, and six out of the semi-finalists went straight into the Top 6 finalists.
• Preliminary swimsuits in Miss World 1987 were shot in the island of Malta.
• Hong Kong's Pauline Yeung Bo Ling went on to place as 4th runner-up in Miss Universe 1988 which was held in Taiwan. She is the highest placed Miss Hong Kong at Miss World and Miss Universe pageant since TVB hosted the pageant in 1973 (Miss Virginia Lee was second runner-up in Miss Universe 1954 and Judy Dan was third runner-up in Miss Universe 1952). She is also the first and so far only Hong Kong representative to win the Queen of Asia award. Iceland, Anna Margret Jonsdóttir, who placed as 2nd runner-up in Miss World, failed to make the semi-finals at Miss Universe 1988, although she managed to place 8th in that pageant's preliminary swimsuit competition.
• First time records:
  • United Kingdom failed to make into the semi-finals after 30 years, while United States after 11 years.
  • Guam had received the award for Queen of Oceania for the first time other than Australia and New Zealand.
• 78 contestants sang God Bless The Children as their production number while wearing evening gowns.
• Belgium and Bermuda did not compete in Miss Universe 1987 because of scheduling conflicts in which the pageant took place in May of that same year.
• 9 out of 12 countries which made it into the semi-finals, were not in the semi-finals last year: France (1980), Argentina (1981), Guam (1982), Hong Kong (1983), Holland (1984), Iceland, Israel, and Poland (1985). Nigeria had made into the semi-finals for the first time since its debut in 1963.
• Mayte Sanchez from Gibraltar did also compete in Miss Universe 1988.

External links

• Pageantopolis - Miss World 1987