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, United States
Broadcaster	E!
Entrants	78
Placements	10
Debuts	Greenland
Withdrawals	Barbados Canada Cook Islands Egypt Hong Kong Luxembourg Madagascar Papua New Guinea Peru Sri Lanka USSR
Returns	Antigua Chinese Taipei Ecuador Lebanon Malaysia South Africa Swaziland
Winner	Ninibeth Leal  Venezuela[1]
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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, United States. The winner was Ninibeth Leal representing Venezuela. She was crowned by Gina Tolleson of the United States. 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, United States. Preliminary swimsuits in Miss World 1991 were held in South Africa.^[2] It was the first time the Miss World pageant was held in North America. This is the fourth time that Venezuela to win Miss World.

Results

Placements

Continental Queens of Beauty

Contestants

Country/Territory	Contestant	Age	Hometown	Preliminary Score
American Virgin Islands	Cheryl Leiba Milligan	20	St. Croix	35
Antigua	Joanne Bird	20	St. John's	34
Argentina	Marcela Noemí Chazarreta	20	Buenos Aires	35
Aruba	Sandra Croes	23	Santa Cruz	33
Australia	Leanne Buckle	21	Brisbane	48
Austria	Andrea Isabelle Pfeiffer	18	Graz	32
Bahamas	Tarnia Paula Newton Stuart	19	New Providence	33
Belgium	Anke Maria Flor van Dermeersch	19	Antwerp	41
Belize	Josephine (Josie) Alexandra Gault	21	Belize City	33
Bolivia	Mónica Gamarra Giese	20	Cochabamba	35
Brazil	Cátia Silene Kupssinskü	20	São Paulo	39
British Virgin Islands	Marjorie Penn	18	Tortola	34
Bulgaria	Liubomira Slavcheva	17	Sofia	33
Cayman Islands	Yvette Peggy Jordison	19	Grand Cayman	35
Chile	Carolina Beatriz Michelson Martínez	23	Santiago	38
Republic of China	Rebecca Lin Lan-chih	23	Taipei	33
Colombia	Adriana Rodríguez Anzola	20	Bogota	40
Costa Rica	Eugenie Jiménez Pacheco	20	San Francisco de Heredia	33
Curaçao	Nashaira Desbarida	23	Willemstad	39
Cyprus	Anna Margaret Stephanou	18	Nicosia	34
Czechoslovakia	Andrea Tatarkova	20	Košice	32
Denmark	Sharon Givskav	17	Copenhagen	33
Dominican Republic	Rosanna Patricia Rodríguez Portalatín	21	Concepción de La Vega	34
Ecuador	Sueanny Denise Bejarano López	20	Guayaquil	33
El Salvador	Lucía Beatriz López Rodríguez	22	San Salvador	33
Finland	Nina Autio	20	Tampere	35
France	Mareva Georges	22	Punaauia	46
Germany	Susanne Petry	18	Saarbrücken	40
Ghana	Jamilla Haruna Danzuru	23	Accra	32
Gibraltar	Ornella Costa	17	Gibraltar	37
Greece	Miriam Panagos	20	Athens	38
Greenland	Bibiane Holm	18	Nuuk	34
Guam	Yvonne Marie Limtiaco Speight	19	Asan	32
Guatemala	Marlyn Lorena Magaña Ramírez	20	Guatemala City	33
Holland	Linda Egging	21	Stramproy	39
Honduras	Arlene Rocío Rauscher Duarte	19	Tegucigalpa	33
Hungary	Orsolya Anna Michina	19	Budapest	32
Iceland	Svava Haraldsdóttir	19	Reykjavík	37
India	Ritu Singh	20	New Delhi	43
Ireland	Amanda Brunker	18	Dublin	34
Israel	Li'at Ditkovsky	19	Nordia	32
Italy	Sabina Pellati	19	Reggio Emilia	39
Jamaica	Sandra Foster	21	Kingston	49
Japan	Junko Tsuda	21	Tokyo	33
Kenya	N'kirote Karimi M'mbijjiwe	21	Meru	34
Korea	Kim Tae-hwa	20	Busan	32
Latvia	Inese Šlesere	19	Riga	33
Lebanon	Diana Begdache	20	Beirut	32
Macau	Cristina Guilherme Lam	20	Macau	32
Malaysia	Samantha Schubert †	22	Kuala Lumpur	38
Malta	Romina Genuis	18	Gzira	32
Mauritius	Marie Geraldine Deville	18	Centre de Flacq	32
Mexico	María Cristina Urrutia de la Vega	19	Mexico City	36
Namibia	Michelle McLean	19	Windhoek	51
New Zealand	Lisa Maree de Montalk	21	Taupō	41
Nigeria	Adenike Oshinowo	24	Lagos	37
Norway	Anne-Britt Røvik	18	Molde	33
Panama	Malena Estela Betancourt Guillén	19	Panama City	36
Paraguay	Vivian Rosanna Benítez Brizuela	21	Asuncion	37
Philippines	Gemith Gonzalo Gemparo	20	Manila	39
Poland	Karina Wojciechowska	19	Katowice	32
Portugal	Maria do Carmo Ramalho	20	Lisbon	35
Puerto Rico	Johanna Berenice Irizarry Nazario	20	Lajas	35
Romania	Gabriela Dragomirescu	20	Bucharest	32
Singapore	Jasheen Jayakody	18	Singapore	35
South Africa	Diana Tilden-Davis	22	Johannesburg	51
Spain	María Candelaria (Catia) Moreno Navarro †	20	Tenerife	39
Swaziland	Jackie Emelda Bennett	20	Manzini	32
Sweden	Catrin Olsson	23	Kungsbacka	34
Switzerland	Sandra Aegerter	22	Aargau	38
Thailand	Rewadee Malaisee	21	Bangkok	33
Trinidad and Tobago	Sastee Bachan	21	Port of Spain	35
Turkey	Dilek Aslıhan Koruyan	19	Istanbul	47
United Kingdom	Joanne Elizabeth Lewis	21	Mansfield	39
United States	Charlotte Ray	25	Voorhees	42
Uruguay	Andrea Regina Gorrochategui Granja	23	Montevideo	36
Venezuela	Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiménez[1]	20	Maracaibo	57
Yugoslavia	Slavica Tripunović	20	Vukovar	33

Judges

Notes

Debuts

•  Greenland

Returns

Last competed in 1977:

•  South Africa – returned after the Miss World Organization decided to lift a 14-year apartheid rule, allowing its contestants to compete.

Withdrawals

•  Canada - Unable to compete just days before the finals due to Illness
•  Cook Islands
•  Cote d'Ivoire - Muriel Edoukou^[3] - Due lack of Sponsorship.
•  Guyana - Tracy Ann D'Abreu - Due to the controversy over her victory and citizenship, she was declared ineligible to compete at Miss World 1991.^[4][5]
•  Hong Kong - Renewed its franchise, however it happened three months after Miss World.
•  Luxembourg - Did not send delegates to Miss World after 1990 until it returned in 2009.
•  Papua New Guinea
•  Peru – Due to problems with their franchise and lack of sponsorship
•  Sri Lanka – Due to scheduling conflict
•  Soviet Union - The winner of Miss USSR 1991, Ilmira Shamsutdinova was invited to compete in Miss World 1991, however she rejected the invitation because was too underage for the contest.^[6] No runners-up from Miss USSR 1991 pageant were sent for Miss World 1991.^[7] The USSR ceased to exist only two days before the Miss World pageant. However 5 years later, Shamsutdinova competed at Miss Universe 1996

Replacements

•  Hungary – Antonia Balint - She was Dethroned of her Miss Hungary 1991 crown after Hungarian newspapers printed photographs that she had previously appeared in the men's magazine Lui and other publications against Miss World rules.^[8] Her 1st -runner up, Timea Raba couldn't replace her for the same reason.^[9]
•  Taiwan – Lu Shu-Fang.

Other Notes

•  Namibia Michelle McLean she went to compete in Miss Universe in 1992 it was held in Bangkok and then she won the crown.She competed in just only 4 months before she went on to compete in Miss Universe.

References

External links

• Pageantopolis – Miss World 1991