Miss USA 1990

Miss USA 1990
Date March 2, 1990
Presenters Dick Clark, Leeza Gibbons and Laura Harring
Venue Century II Convention Center, Wichita, Kansas
Broadcaster CBS, KWCH
Winner Carole Gist
Michigan Michigan
Congeniality Janet Tveita
Photogenic Stephanie Teneyck

Miss USA 1990, the 39th Miss USA pageant, was televised live from the Century II Convention Center in Wichita, Kansas on March 2, 1990.

At the conclusion of the final competition, Carole Gist of Michigan was crowned by outgoing titleholder Gretchen Polhemus of Texas. Carole became the first African American winner ever and the first woman from Michigan to be crowned as Miss USA.

For the first time, each judge's score was displayed to every audience, adding transparency to the process.

A major format change in 1990 transformed the Miss USA competition for the next decade: the delegates would face an extra round of elimination on finals night: the top six judges' questions.

Instead of reducing the top twelve to the usual final five, the judges would pick an intermediate top six. Those six finalists would answer questions from the judges and the field was reduced to a final three, who would face the traditional final question, adding unpredictability to the competition after five Texan Miss USA winners from GuyRex Associates, which would lose its Miss Texas USA franchise the next year.

The pageant was hosted by Dick Clark for the second of five times, with color commentary by Leeza Gibbons and Laura Harring, Miss USA 1985.

This was the first time the pageant was held in Wichita, where it would be staged for the next three years.

Results

Placements

Map showing placements by state
Final results Contestant
Miss USA 1990
1st runner-up
2nd runner-up
Top 6
Top 12

Special awards

Historical significance

Gina Tolleson would represent the USA at Miss World, where she took the title. Carole Gist represented USA at Miss Universe 1990 where she finished runner-up to Norway's Mona Grudt. If Carole had won Miss Universe, Miss South Carolina, Gina Tolleson, would have become Miss USA and Miss New Jersey, Karin Hartz, would have represented the USA at the Miss World Pageant. It has been the closest that USA has been of winning both major Big 4 pageants.

Scores

Preliminary competition

The following are the contestants' scores in the preliminary competition.

State Interview Swimsuit Evening gown Average
Alabama7.6337.6398.1487.807
Alaska8.9398.0228.0218.327
Arizona7.9567.5477.6987.734
Arkansas7.4827.2417.9927.572
California8.3727.7098.3788.153
Colorado8.3117.7787.8887.992
Connecticut7.4067.4277.5777.470
Delaware8.1287.5848.4118.041
District of Columbia 8.1878.3588.0888.211
Florida 7.9678.2208.0888.092
Georgia8.9448.2178.3298.497
Hawaii6.9947.6737.6727.446
Idaho7.5617.0367.2397.279
Illinois 8.3178.2948.3728.328
Indiana8.7177.4387.6447.933
Iowa 7.6007.7007.3277.542
Kansas8.0788.1678.3508.198
Kentucky8.7338.3838.3388.485
Louisiana8.0448.0947.8487.995
Maine7.6787.6207.3227.540
Maryland8.1217.8687.8727.954
Massachusetts7.6387.1807.2877.368
Michigan8.481 8.3038.6498.478
Minnesota7.9717.9487.7837.901
Mississippi 8.3168.2718.1618.249
Missouri8.4498.0097.8618.106
Montana7.2507.0046.9877.080
Nebraska8.3947.1237.3267.614
Nevada8.0007.8617.9477.936
New Hampshire7.7447.4117.4237.526
New Jersey 8.7117.7538.3068.257
New Mexico7.4727.3677.4377.425
New York8.4448.1407.9288.171
North Carolina7.5617.5567.5467.554
North Dakota8.1397.4447.8097.797
Ohio 8.2448.2948.5448.361
Oklahoma8.1448.1507.9898.094
Oregon8.1287.2906.8337.417
Pennsylvania7.9447.5527.8067.767
Rhode Island7.0897.5437.4287.353
South Carolina 8.5898.3148.6418.515
South Dakota7.2337.6047.2497.362
Tennessee 8.5268.1868.6148.442
Texas 8.1568.3108.2798.248
Utah8.7227.8387.6068.055
Vermont 7.2677.2566.9837.169
Virginia8.3108.1897.6228.040
Washington7.8177.9607.7007.826
West Virginia7.8947.7068.0227.874
Wisconsin 8.0287.6707.5897.762
Wyoming7.6508.0128.1287.930

       Winner
       First runner-up
       Second runner-up
       Top 6 Finalist
       Top 12 Semifinalist

Final competition

State Interview Swimsuit Evening Gown Average
Michigan9.261 9.3649.4899.371
New Jersey9.344 9.206 9.4149.321
Alaska9.1119.3229.2189.217
Kentucky8.9819.100 9.2899.123
South Carolina8.8489.1399.2599.082
Georgia8.6839.3259.1009.036
District of Columbia8.577 9.0789.1578.937
Tennessee8.7398.9039.0238.888
Texas8.9228.8398.8698.876
Illinois8.6228.7729.1768.856
Mississippi8.5748.6948.7928.686
Ohio8.4818.3708.7468.532

       Winner
       First runner-up
       Second runner-up
       Top 6 Finalist

Delegates

The Miss USA 1990 delegates were:

Crossovers

1990 was the year with the smallest number of crossover contestants since 1986.

Judges

References

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