Miss World 1991

Miss World 1991
Miss World 1991 Titlecard
Date	28 December 1991
Presenters	Peter Marshall, Gina Tolleson
Entertainment	Indecent Obsession
Venue	Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Entrants	79
Placements	10
Debuts	Greenland
Withdraws	Barbados, Canada, Cook Islands, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Sri Lanka, U.S.S.R.
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, USA. 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

Continental Queens of Beauty

Special awards

No special awards were given this year.

Order of announcements

Top 10

Top 5

1. Venezuela

2. Namibia

3. South Africa

4. Australia

5. Jamaica

Contestants

Nation	Contestant	Hometown	Preliminary Score
American Virgin Islands	Cheryl Leiba Milligan	St. Croix	34
Antigua and Barbuda	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
Brazil	Catia 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
Chinese 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
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 and 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 competed in Miss World for the first time.

Returning countries

• South Africa last competed in 1977 after the Miss World Organization decided to lift a 14-year apartheid rule, allowing its contestants to compete.
• Antigua last competed in 1986.
• Lebanon and Swaziland last competed in 1988.
• Republic of China, Ecuador, and Malaysia last competed in 1989.

Withdrawals and Nations not competing

• Canada, Tara Paat, withdrew 14 days before the pageant due to illness.
• Cook Islands and Papua New Guinea no longer to sent their respective delegates to Miss World, with their last representatives competing in 1990.
• Luxembourg did not send delegates to Miss World after 1990 until it returned in 2009.
• Peru did not compete because of problems with their franchise and lack of sponsorship.
• Hong Kong renewed its franchise, however it happened three months after Miss World.
• Sri Lanka did not compete because of a scheduling conflict.
• U.S.S.R. 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.

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 and 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.
• Germany, Susanne Petry, would go on and win Miss Intercontinental 1992.
• USA, Charlotte Ray, was also Miss New Jersey USA 1991 and competed at Miss USA 1991. She finished 1st runner-up in the pageant and was also named Miss Congeniality.
• 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.
• Namibia, Michelle McLean, was crowned Miss Universe in 1992.

Crossovers

Miss Universe

• 1989: El Salvador and Jamaica (semi-finalist)
• 1991: Belize, France (semi-finalist), and Paraguay (semi-finalist)
• 1992: Belgium (finalist), Cayman Islands, Iceland, Namibia (Winner), New Zealand (semi-finalist), and Switzerland
• 1993: Ghana (Miss Amity)

Miss International

• 1991: Costa Rica
• 1992: United Kingdom
• 1992: Ghana (represented as Nigeria)

References

External links

• Pageantopolis - Miss World 1991