Miss World 2019

Miss World 2019
Toni-Ann Singh, Miss World 2019
Date	14 December 2019
Presenters	Megan Young Peter Andre Fernando Allende Stephanie Del Valle
Entertainment	Peter Andre Lulu Misunderstood Kerry Ellis [1]
Venue	ExCeL London, London, United Kingdom
Broadcaster	E! London Live Univision
Entrants	111
Placements	40
Withdrawals	Austria Belize Cameroon Cyprus Egypt Germany Guam Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Madagascar Martinique Norway Serbia Zambia Zimbabwe
Returns	Antigua and Barbuda Cambodia Costa Rica Kyrgyzstan Macau Samoa Sweden Tunisia US Virgin Islands
Winner	Toni-Ann Singh  Jamaica
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Miss World 2019, the 69th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 14 December 2019 at the ExCeL London in London, United Kingdom.^[2] Vanessa Ponce of Mexico crowned her successor Toni-Ann Singh of Jamaica at the end of the event.

Background

The official announcement was made on 19 February 2019, in Bangkok, by Miss World President Julia Morley, CEO Tanawat Wansom of TW Pageants, and guest Ashwani Kumar Rai. They announced a mid-December date for the contest.^[3] However, on 2 July 2019, Morley and Vanessa Ponce, the reigning Miss World, appeared on ITV's Good Morning Britain with Piers Morgan. Morley officially announced that the pageant will be held on Saturday, 14 December 2019, at ExCeL London and that Miss World 2020 will be held in Thailand in order to celebrate Miss World's 70th anniversary. The 2019 opening ceremony was held in London on 20 November. Contestants then competed in a series of fast track events around London.^[4]

Result

Final result	Contestant
Miss World 2019	Jamaica – Toni-Ann Singh
1st Runner-Up	France – Ophély Mézino
2nd Runner-Up	India – Suman Rao
Top 5	Brazil – Elis Miele  Nigeria – Nyekachi Douglas
Top 12	Cook Islands – Tajiya Eikura Sahay  Kenya – Maria Wavinya  Mexico – Ashley Alvídrez    Nepal – Anushka Shrestha  Philippines – Michelle Dee  Russia – Alina Sanko  Vietnam – Lương Thùy Linh
Top 40	Antigua and Barbuda – Taqiyyah Francis  Australia – Sarah Marschke  British Virgin Islands – Rikkiya Brathwaite  China – Li Peishan  Denmark – Natasja Kunde  England – Bhasha Mukherjee  Guyana – Joylyn Conway  Hong Kong – Lila Lam  Indonesia – Princess Megonondo  Malaysia – Alexis Sue-Ann Seow  Moldova – Elizaveta Kuznitova  Mongolia – Tsevelmaa Mandakh  New Zealand – Lucy Brock  Paraguay – Araceli Bobadilla  Poland – Milena Sadowska  Portugal – Inês Brusselmans  Puerto Rico – Daniella Rodríguez  Scotland – Keryn Matthew  South Africa – Sasha-Lee Olivier  Spain – María del Mar Aguilera  Thailand – Narintorn Chadapattarawalrachoat  Trinidad and Tobago – Tya Janè Ramey  Tunisia – Sabrine Mansour  Uganda – Oliver Nakakande  Ukraine – Marharyta Pasha  United States – Emmy Cuvelier  Venezuela – Isabella Rodríguez  Wales – Gabriella Jukes

Continental Queens of Beauty

Continent	Contestant
Africa	Nigeria – Nyekachi Douglas
Americas	Brazil – Elís Miele Coelho
Asia	India – Suman Rao
Caribbean	Trinidad and Tobago – Tya Janè Ramey
Europe	France – Ophély Mézino
Oceania	Cook Islands – Tajiya Eikura Sahay

Judges

The judges' panel for Miss World 2019 were:

• Julia Morley – Chairman of the Miss World Pageant Organization
• Piers Morgan – TV presenter, talk show host, a former judge at Britain's Got Talent and America's Got Talent
• Mike Dixon – Musical Director
• Deborah Lambie – Miss World New Zealand 2015
• Dame Zandra Rhodes – London Fashion designer
• Marsha-Rae Ratcliff, OBE
• Svestoslav Kolchagov, Creative Director and Designer of KolchagovBarba
• Emilio Barba, Creative Director and Designer of KolchagovBarba
• Lady Wilnelia Forsyth – Miss World 1975 from Puerto Rico
• Ksenia Sukhinova – Miss World 2008 from Russia
• Carina Tyrrell – Miss England 2014
• Kamal Ibrahim – Mister World 2010 from Ireland

Challenge Events

Head-to-Head Challenge

Round 1

•   Advanced to Round 2 of the Head-to-Head Challenge.
•   Advanced to Round 2 of the Head-to-Head Challenge, but advanced to the Top 40 via judges' choice or a challenge event other than Head-to-Head Challenge.
•   Advanced to the Top 40 via a challenge event other than Head-to-Head Challenge.
•   Advanced to the Top 40 via judges' choice.

Group	Country 1	Country 2	Country 3	Country 4	Country 5	Country 6
1	Albania	England	Guyana	Honduras	Korea	Peru
2	Cook Islands	Guatemala	Ireland	Italy	Myanmar	Russia
3	British Virgin Islands	Iceland	Laos	Nicaragua	South Sudan	Venezuela
4	Armenia	Bolivia	Bulgaria	Kazakhstan	Mongolia	South Africa
5	Guadeloupe	Hong Kong	Moldova	Singapore	Spain	Sri Lanka
6	Brazil	Curaçao	Denmark	Ecuador	Malta	Northern Ireland
7	Equatorial Guinea	Hungary	Malaysia	Trinidad and Tobago	United States	Wales
8	Chile	Croatia	France	New Zealand	Paraguay	Scotland
9	Canada	Czech Republic	Indonesia	Portugal	Sierra Leone	Tunisia
10	Cayman Islands	Gibraltar	Mexico	Nepal	Poland	Tanzania
11	Colombia	Costa Rica	Japan	Luxembourg	Netherlands	Nigeria
12	Belgium	Jamaica	Panama	Slovenia	Turkey	U.S. Virgin Islands
13	Australia	El Salvador	Georgia	Guinea-Bissau	Puerto Rico	Slovakia
14	Bahamas	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Botswana	Haiti	India	Thailand
15	Antigua and Barbuda	Barbados	China	Greece	Samoa	Sweden
16	Argentina	Belarus	Finland	Kenya	Macau	Ukraine
17	Aruba	Dominican Republic	Ghana	Philippines	Rwanda	N/A
18	Cambodia	Mauritius	Montenegro	Uganda	Vietnam
19	Angola	Bangladesh	Ethiopia	Kyrgyzstan	Senegal

Round 2

•   Advanced to the Top 40 via the Head-to-Head challenge.

Group	Country 1	Country 2
1	Brazil	Moldova
2	Nepal	Indonesia
3	China	Venezuela
4	Nigeria	Belarus
5	Mexico	Uganda
6	Philippines	Turkey
7	Mongolia	Guyana
8	Bangladesh	India
9	Ireland	Trinidad and Tobago
10	Paraguay	Georgia

Top Model

Miss Nigeria Nyekachi Douglas won Top Model Competition and become the fourth quarter-finalist of Miss World 2019.^[5][6]

Final result	Contestant
Winner	Nigeria - Nyekachi Douglas
1st Runner-Up	Vietnam – Lương Thùy Linh
2nd Runner-Up	India – Suman Rao
3rd Runner-Up	France – Ophély Mézino
4th Runner-Up	Uganda – Oliver Nakakande
Top 10	Brazil – Elis Miele  Czech Republic – Denisa Spergerová  Hong Kong – Lila Lam  Kazakhstan – Madina Batyk  Trinidad and Tobago – Tya Janè Ramey
Top 40	Antigua and Barbuda – Taqiyyah Francis  Argentina – Judit Grnja  Australia – Sarah Marschke  Barbados – Che Amor Greenidge  Bosnia and Herzegovina – Ivana Ladan  China – Li Peishan  Croatia – Katarina Mamić  Denmark – Natasja Kunde  Dominican Republic – Alba Marie Blair  Finland – Dana Mononen  Haiti – Alysha Morency  Hungary – Krisztina Nagypál  Indonesia – Princess Megonondo  Italy –  Jamaica – Toni-Ann Singh  Kenya – Maria Wavinya  Macau – Yu Yanan  Mexico – Ashley Alvídrez  Moldova – Elizaveta Kuznitova  Montenegro – Mirjana Muratović  Philippines – Michelle Dee  Poland – Milena Sadowska  Puerto Rico – Daniella Rodríguez  Russia – Alina Sanko  Slovakia – Frederika Kurtulíková  South Sudan – Mariah Joseph Maget  Turkey – Simay Rasimoğlu  Ukraine – Marharyta Pasha  Venezuela – Isabella Rodríguez  Wales – Gabriella Jukes

Sports

Miss British Virgin Islands Rikkiya Brathwaite won the Sports Competition and became the first quarter-finalist of Miss World 2019.^[7]

Final result	Contestant
Winner	British Virgin Islands – Rikkiya Brathwaite
1st Runner-Up	Nigeria – Nyekachi Douglas
2nd Runner-Up	Trinidad and Tobago – Tya Janè Ramey
Team Challenge Winner	Green Team

Team (Top 32)	Contestant
Red Team	Angola – Brezana Da Costa  Cook Islands – Tajiya Eikura Sahay  Equatorial Guinea – Janet Ortiz Oyono  Guadeloupe – Anaïs Lacalmontie  Haiti – Alysha Morency  Luxembourg – Melanie Heynsbroek  Moldova – Elizaveta Kuznitova  Panama – Agustina Ruiz Arrechea
Yellow Team	Aruba – Ghislaine Mejia  Belarus – Anastasia Laurynchuk  Costa Rica – Jessica Jiménez  Georgia – Nini Gogichaishvili  Kenya – Maria Wavinya  Kyrgyzstan – Ekaterina Zabolotnova  Ukraine – Marharyta Pasha  United States – Emmy Cuvelier
Green Team	British Virgin Islands – Rikkiya Brathwaite  Canada – Naomi Colford  England – Bhasha Mukherjee  France – Ophély Mézino  Japan – Marika Sera  Nigeria – Nyekachi Douglas  Sierra Leone – Enid Jones-Boston  Trinidad and Tobago – Tya Janè Ramey
Blue Team	Honduras – Ana Grisel Romero  New Zealand – Lucy Brock  Nicaragua – María Teresa Cortéz  Northern Ireland – Lauren Eve Leckey  Portugal – Inês Brusselmans  Scotland – Keryn Matthew  Spain – María del Mar Aguilera  Uganda – Oliver Nakakande

Talent

Miss Jamaica, Toni-Ann Singh, was the winner of the Talent Competition and became the second quarter-finalist of Miss World 2019.

Final result	Contestant
Winner	Jamaica – Toni-Ann Singh
1st Runner-Up	British Virgin Islands – Rikkiya Brathwaite
2nd Runner-Up	Canada – Naomi Colford
Top 5	Armenia – Liana Voskerchyan  Malta – Nicole Vella
Top 27	Australia – Sarah Marschke  Barbados – Che Amor Greenidge  Bolivia – Iciar Diaz Camacho  China – Li Peishan  Cook Islands – Tajiya Eikura Sahay  Denmark – Natasja Kunde  Gibraltar – Celine Bolaños  Iceland – Kolfinna Mist Austfjörð  India – Suman Rao  Japan – Marika Sera  Luxembourg – Melanie Heynsbroek  Malaysia – Alexis Sue-Ann Seow  Mongolia – Tsevelmaa Mandakh  Nigeria – Nyekachi Douglas  Panama – Agustina Ruiz Arrechea  Paraguay – Araceli Bobadilla  Slovakia – Frederika Kurtulíková  Tanzania – Sylvia Sebastian  Ukraine – Marharyta Pasha  United States – Emmy Cuvelier  US Virgin Islands – A’yana Keshelle Phillips  Wales – Gabriella Jukes

Multimedia

Miss Nepal, Anushka Shrestha, was the winner of the Multimedia Competition and became the third quarter-finalist of Miss World 2019.

Final result	Contestant
Winner	Nepal – Anushka Shrestha
1st Runner-up	Mexico – Ashley Alvídrez
2nd Runner-up	Mongolia – Tsevelmaa Mandakh

Beauty With A Purpose

For the first time, all 10 finalists were placed in the Top 40 of Miss World 2019 due to their impressive projects and initiatives. Miss Nepal, Anushka Shrestha, received the award and will receive funding from the Miss World Organization for the establishment of her project.

Final result	Contestant
Winner	Nepal – Anushka Shrestha
Top 10	France – Ophély Mézino  India – Suman Rao  Indonesia – Princess Megonondo  Malaysia – Alexis Sue-Ann Seow  Mongolia – Tsevelmaa Mandakh  Nigeria – Nyekachi Douglas  Tunisia – Sabrine Mansour  Venezuela – Isabella Rodríguez  Vietnam – Lương Thùy Linh

Contestants

111 delegates have been confirmed.

Country/Territory	Contestant	Age	Hometown
Albania	Atalanta Kercyku[8]	20	Tirana
Angola	Brezana Da Costa	24	Luanda
Antigua and Barbuda	Taqiyyah Francis	26	St. John's
Argentina	Judit Grnja	18	Villa Ángela
Armenia	Liana Voskerchyan	20	Yerevan
Aruba	Ghislaine Mejia	26	Oranjestad
Australia	Sarah Marschke	20	Sydney
Bahamas	Nyah Bandelier	19	Eleuthera
Bangladesh	Rafah Nanjeba Torsa	21	Chittagong
Barbados	Che Amor Greenidge	26	Bridgetown
Belarus	Anastasia Laurynchuk	19	Minsk
Belgium	Elena Castro Suarez	19	Antwerp
Bolivia	Iciar Díaz Camacho[9]	23	Santa Cruz
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Ivana Ladan	21	Jajce
Botswana	Oweditse Phirinyane Gofaone[10]	25	Gaborone
Brazil	Elís Miele Coelho	20	Serra
British Virgin Islands	Rikkiya Brathwaite[11]	22	Tortola
Bulgaria	Margo Cooper	26	Sofia
Cambodia	Vy Sreyvin	20	Phnom Penh
Canada	Naomi Colford	19	Sydney
Cayman Islands	Jaci Patrick	24	West Bay
Chile	Ignacia Albornoz Olmedo	18	Santiago
China	Li Peishan[12]	26	Beijing
Colombia	Sara Arteaga Franco	26	Medellín
Cook Islands	Tajiya Eikura Sahay	26	Avarua
Costa Rica	Jessica Jiménez	26	San José
Croatia	Katarina Mamić	23	Lika-Senj
Curaçao	Sharon Meyer	24	Willemstad
Czech Republic	Denisa Spergerová	19	České Budějovice
Denmark	Natasja Kunde[13]	18	Copenhagen
Dominican Republic	Alba Marie Blair	21	Jarabacoa
Ecuador	María Auxiliadora Idrovo	18	Guayaquil
El Salvador	Fatima Mangandi	27	Santa Tecla
England	Bhasha Mukherjee	23	Derby
Equatorial Guinea	Janet Ortiz Oyono	20	Malabo
Ethiopia	Feven Gebreslassie	22	Addis Ababa
Finland	Dana Mononen	19	Helsinki
France	Ophély Mézino	20	Morne-à-l'Eau
Georgia	Nini Gogichaishvili	25	Tbilisi
Ghana	Rebecca Kwabi	26	Accra
Gibraltar	Celine Bolaños	22	Gibraltar
Greece	Rafaela Plastira[14]	20	Trikala
Guadeloupe	Anaïs Lacalmontie[15]	22	Basse-Terre
Guatemala	Dulce María Ramos García[16]	22	Cuilapa
Guinea-Bissau	Leila Samati[17]	21	Bissau
Guyana	Joylyn Conway	20	Georgetown
Haiti	Alysha Morency	25	Port-au-Prince
Honduras	Ana Grisel Romero	21	Olanchito
Hong Kong	Lila Lam[18]	27	Hong Kong
Hungary	Krisztina Nagypál	23	Budapest
Iceland	Kolfinna Mist Austfjörð[19]	22	Reykjavík
India	Suman Rao	20	Udaipur
Indonesia	Princess Megonondo	19	Jambi
Ireland	Chelsea Farrell[20]	19	County Louth
Italy	Adele Sammartino	24	Pompei
Jamaica	Toni-Ann Singh	23	Saint Thomas
Japan	Marika Sera[21]	16	Kanagawa
Kazakhstan	Madina Batyk	20	Pavlodar
Kenya	Maria Wavinya	19	Nyandarua
Korea	Lim Ji-yeon[22]	20	Seoul
Kyrgyzstan	Ekaterina Zabolotnova[23]	24	Bishkek
Laos	Nelamith Xaypannha[24]	19	Vientiane
Luxembourg	Melanie Heynsbroek	19	Luxembourg City
Macau	Yu Yanan[25]	26	Macau
Malaysia	Alexis Sue-Ann Seow	24	Selangor
Malta	Nicole Vella	20	Valletta
Mauritius	Urvashi Gooriah	20	Port Louis
Mexico	Ashley Alvídrez	20	Ciudad Juárez
Moldova	Elizaveta Kuznitova	19	Tiraspol
Mongolia	Tsevelmaa Mandakh[26]	22	Ulaanbaatar
Montenegro	Mirjana Muratović	19	Podgorica
Myanmar	Khit Lin Latt Yoon[27]	22	Yangon
Nepal	Anushka Shrestha	23	Kathmandu
Netherlands	Brenda Felicia Muste	23	Arnhem
New Zealand	Lucy Brock	24	Auckland
Nicaragua	María Teresa Cortéz	19	Carazo
Nigeria	Nyekachi Douglas	21	Calabar
Northern Ireland	Lauren Eve Leckey	20	Stoneyford
Panama	Agustina Ruiz Arrechea	25	Chitré
Paraguay	Araceli Bobadilla	20	Asunción
Peru	Angella Escudero	23	Sullana
Philippines	Michelle Dee	24	Makati
Poland	Milena Sadowska	20	Oświęcim
Portugal	Inês Brusselmans	24	Oeiras
Puerto Rico	Daniella Rodríguez	21	Bayamón
Russia	Alina Sanko	20	Azov
Rwanda	Meghan Nimwiza	21	Kigali
Samoa	Alalamalae Lata[28]	23	Apia
Scotland	Keryn Matthew	24	Edinburgh
Senegal	Alberta Diatta[29]	20	Ziguinchor
Sierra Leone	Enid Jones-Boston[30]	24	Freetown
Singapore	Sheen Cher	22	Singapore
Slovakia	Frederika Kurtulíková	25	Bratislava
Slovenia	Špela Alič	22	Ljubljana
South Africa	Sasha-Lee Olivier	26	Alberton
South Sudan	Mariah Joseph Maget	22	Juba
Spain	María del Mar Aguilera	21	Córdoba
Sri Lanka	Dewmi Thathsarani	21	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Sweden	Daniella Lundqvist[31]	20	Kalmar
Tanzania	Sylvia Sebastian	19	Mwanza
Thailand	Narintorn Chadapattarawalrachoat	22	Pathum Thani
Trinidad and Tobago	Tya Janè Ramey	21	Port of Spain
Tunisia	Sabrine Mansour	24	Mahdia
Turkey	Simay Rasimoğlu	22	Istanbul
Uganda	Oliver Nakakande	25	Bombo
Ukraine	Marharyta Pasha	24	Kharkiv
United States	Emmy Cuvelier[32]	23	Pierre
US Virgin Islands	A’yana Keshelle Phillips[33]	24	Saint Thomas
Venezuela	Isabella Rodríguez[34]	26	Petare
Vietnam	Lương Thùy Linh	19	Cao Bằng
Wales	Gabriella Jukes	23	Port Talbot

Notes

Returns

Last competed in 2006:

•  Cambodia

Last competed in 2015:

•  Samoa

Last competed in 2016:

•  Antigua and Barbuda
•  Costa Rica
•  Kyrgyzstan
•  US Virgin Islands

Last competed in 2017:

•  Macau
•  Sweden
•  Tunisia

Designation

Replacements

Withdrawals

•  Austria – Larissa Robitschko did not compete in Miss World or Miss Universe after the Miss Austria Organization relinquished the local franchise.^[35]
•  Belize,  Cameroon,  Cyprus,  Egypt,  Germany,  Guam,  Latvia,  Martinique,  Norway, and  Zambia – No contest.^[36]
•  Lebanon – The Miss Lebanon 2019 pageant was postponed several times then ultimately canceled, citing the country's political unrest.^[37]
•  Lesotho – Palesa Makara
•  Madagascar – Valerie Mille Binguira
•  Serbia – Sanja Lovčević
•  Zimbabwe – The Miss World Zimbabwe 2019 pageant was canceled, citing the country's economic crisis.^[38]

References

External links

• Official website