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	79
Placements	10
Debuts	Greenland
Withdrawals	Barbados Canada Cook Islands 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 the United States.

Results[]

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1991^[1][2]

Placements[]

Continental Queens of Beauty[]

Contestants[]

Nation	Contestant	Hometown	Preliminary Score
American Virgin Islands	Cheryl Leiba Milligan	St. Croix	35
Antigua	Joanne Bird	St. John's	34
Argentina	Marcela Noemí Chazarreta	Buenos Aires	35
Aruba	Sandra Croes	Santa Cruz	33
Australia	Leanne Buckle	Brisbane	48
Austria	Andrea Isabelle Pfeiffer	Graz	32
Bahamas	Tarnia Paula Newton Stuart	New Providence	33
Belgium	Anke Van dermeersch	Antwerp	41
Belize	Josephine Gault	Belize City	33
Bolivia	Mónica Gamarra Giese	Cochabamba	35
Brazil	Cátia Silene Kupssinski	São Paulo	39
British Virgin Islands	Marjorie Penn	Tortola	34
Bulgaria	Liubomira Slavcheva	Sofia	33
Cayman Islands	Yvette Peggy Jordison	Grand Cayman	35
Chile	Carolina Beatriz Michelson Martínez	Santiago	38
Chinese Taipei	Rebecca Lin Lan-Chih	Taipei	33
Colombia	Adriana Rodríguez Anzola	Bogota	41
Costa Rica	Eugenie Jiménez Pacheco	San Francisco de Heredia	33
Curaçao	Nashaira Desbarida	Willemstad	39
Cyprus	Anna Margaret Stephanou	Nicosia	34
Czechoslovakia	Andrea Tatarkova	Košice	32
Denmark	Sharon Givskav	Copenhagen	33
Dominican Republic	Rosanna Rodríguez	Concepción de La Vega	34
Ecuador	Sueanny Denise Bejarano López	Guayaquil	33
El Salvador	Lucía Beatriz López Rodríguez	San Salvador	33
Finland	Nina Autio	Tampere	35
France	Mareva Georges	Punaauia	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	34
Guam	Yvonne Marie Limtiaco Speight	Asan	32
Guatemala	Marlyn Lorena Magaña Ramírez	Guatemala City	33
Holland	Linda Egging	Spanbroek	39
Honduras	Arlene Rocío Rauscher Duarte	Tegucigalpa	33
Hungary	Orsolya Anna Michina	Budapest	32
Iceland	Svava Haraldsdóttir	Reykjavík	37
India	Ritu Singh	New Delhi	43
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	Busan	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	36
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	36
Paraguay	Vivian Rosanna Benítez Brizuela	Asuncion	37
Philippines	Gemith Gonzalo Gemparo	Manila	39
Poland	Karina Wojciechowska	Katowice	32
Portugal	Maria do Carmo Ramalho	Lisbon	35
Puerto Rico	Johanna Berenice Irizarry	Lajas	35
Romania	Gabriela Dragomirescu	Bucharest	32
Singapore	Jasheen Jayakody	Singapore	35
South Africa	Diana Tilden-Davis	Johannesburg	51
Spain	Candelaria Moreno Navarro	Tenerife	39
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	Aslıhan Koruyan Sabancı	Istanbul	47
United Kingdom	Joanne Elizabeth Lewis	Nottingham	39
United States	Charlotte Ray	Camden	42
Uruguay	Andrea Regina Gorrochategui Granja	Montevideo	36
Venezuela	Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiménez[1]	Maracaibo	57
Yugoslavia	Slavica Tripunović	Vukovar	33

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
•  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.

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^[10]

References[]

External links[]

• Pageantopolis – Miss World 1991