Miss World 2021

Miss World 2021
Karolina Bielawska, Miss World 2021
Date	March 16, 2022
Presenters	Peter Andre Fernando Allende
Venue	Coca-Cola Music Hall, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Broadcaster	REELZ London Live Univision [1]
Entrants	97
Placements	40
Debuts	Iraq Somalia
Withdrawals	Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Australia Bangladesh Barbados Belarus British Virgin Islands Croatia Cook Islands Denmark Ethiopia Georgia Greece Guatemala Guyana Hong Kong Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Montenegro Myanmar New Zealand Russia Samoa Sierra Leone South Sudan Thailand US Virgin Islands
Returns	Belize Cameroon Côte d'Ivoire Estonia Guinea Madagascar Namibia Norway Saint Lucia Serbia Sint Maarten Uruguay
Winner	Karolina Bielawska  Poland
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Miss World 2021, the 70th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on March 16, 2022 at the Coca-Cola Music Hall in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The coronation was originally scheduled to be held on December 16, 2021 at the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum, the pageant was rescheduled to March 16, 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2][3] Toni-Ann Singh of Jamaica crowned her successor Karolina Bielawska of Poland at the end of the event.^[4]

Background

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

The edition was originally scheduled for the end of 2020 but postponed indefinitely due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.^[5] However, the date was scheduled for December 16, 2021 was first announced on March 8, 2021.^[6]

The threat of the Omicron variant had already detected in some parts of the world during the pre-pageant activities, as the disease started to ravage and swept across the island.

On December 14, Miss World Indonesia Carla Yules tested positive for COVID-19. As a precaution, her roommate Miss World India Manasa Varanasi and five others were classified as suspected cases. Miss World Organization chairwoman Julia Morley confirmed that the delegates are currently isolated and in quarantine and that they will not be on stage for the final show if they do not produce a negative PCR test.^{[7][8][9][10]}

On December 15, Puerto Rico Department of Health confirmed that 17 positive cases for COVID-19 related to the Miss World pageant activities, includes contestants and technical personnel.^[11][12][13]

An official statement stating that Miss World Malaysia Lavanya Sivaji tested positive for COVID-19 by her national director via Miss World Malaysia Instagram on Dec 16, 2021.^[10] She will be required to be isolated for 10 days and will not be permitted on the stage during the finals as part of Puerto Rico Department of Health and Miss World guidelines. The finale, originally slated 16 December, was later postponed and will be held on an unspecified date but within 90 days in Puerto Rico.^[14]

On December 16, epidemiologist Melissa Marzán confirmed that 15 staff and 23 contestants were positive cases associated with Miss World during the Puerto Rico Department of Health press conference. She added that pageant organizers decided to postpone, not the island's authorities.^[15]

The rescheduled 70th Miss World pageant would take place on March 16, 2022 via Miss World social media accounts on December 22, and would be held at Puerto Rico's Coca-Cola Music Hall instead of the José Miguel Agrelot Coliseum, and 40 semifinalists had returned to Puerto Rico on March 9–11, 2022 for the rescheduled event.^{[16][17][18][19]}

Location and date

On March 8, 2021, the Miss World Puerto Rico organization confirmed that the 70th edition of the Miss World competition would take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico on 16 December.^[6] 97 countries participated in this Miss World edition, marking the smallest field of contestants since 2002.

Presenters, performances and judges

Peter Andre was scheduled to return as host for a second time ^[20] with Fernando Allende and Stephanie Del Valle. Performances by Don Omar, Gente de Zona, Victor Manuel, Pedro Capó, and the Puerto Rico Philharmonic Orchestra (Filarmónica de Puerto Rico) conducted by Angel Velez with guest conductor Mike Dixon which were officially announced via Miss World Facebook page on Dec 14, 2021 and on the ffo icial website.^[21][22]

Controversies

Sint Maarten participation

On December 15, the government of Sint Maarten officially denounced the participation of Lara Mateo at Miss World 2021.^[23][24] The current franchise holder of the Miss and Mr World license for Sint Maarten did not select Lara Mateo for her participation; they are currently under investigation by the government.^[25][26] Prime Minister Silveria Jacobs said the government discovered that Lara Mateo was registered by Guadeloupe's franchise holder to represent Sint Maarten.^[27] Sint Maarten government issued an official letter stating that they did not endorse Lara Mateo to Miss World Limited.^[28] She added that Collectivité de Saint-Martin, neither their Tourism Department nor the Culture Department, did not know or acknowledge the candidate and reassured that their winners would solely compete at Miss France.^[29]

Result

15 contestants earned their spot in the semi-finals via various challenges and the remaining 25 semi-finalists were officially announced via Miss World Facebook page on January 21, 2022.^{[30][31][32][33]} There was a tie for the Top 12 placements on the coronation night, which increased the placements to Top 13 which include the Digital Media Challenge Winner.^[34] Shree Saini of United States was awarded as Beauty With A Purpose Ambassador and she will accompany the new Miss World, Karolina Bielawska of Poland during her reign.^[35]

Final result	Contestant
Miss World 2021	Poland – Karolina Bielawska
1st Runner-Up	United States – Shree Saini
2nd Runner-Up	Cote D'Ivoire – Olivia Yacé
Top 6	Indonesia – Carla Yules  Mexico – Karolina Vidales  Northern Ireland – Anna Leitch
Top 13	Colombia – Andrea Aguilera  Czech Republic – Karolína Kopíncová  France – April Benayoum  India – Manasa Varanasi  Philippines – Tracy Perez  Somalia – Khadija Omar  Vietnam – Đỗ Thị Hà §
Top 40	Argentina – Amira Hidalgo  Bahamas – Sienna Evans  Botswana – Palesa Mofele  Brazil – Caroline Teixeira  Cameroon – Audrey Monkam  Canada – Svetlana Mamaeva  Chile – Carol Drpic  China – Jiang Siqi  Dominican Republic – Emmy Peña  Ecuador – Ámar Pacheco  England – Rehema Muthamia  Guinea – Nene Bah  Hungary – Lili Tótpeti  Iceland – Hugrún Birta Egilsdóttir  Ireland – Pamela Uba  Kenya – Sharon Obara  Madagascar – Nellie Anjaratiana  Malaysia – Lavanya Sivaji  Mongolia – Burte-Ujin Anu    Nepal – Namrata Shrestha  Nicaragua – Sheynnis Palacios  Paraguay – Bethania Borba  Puerto Rico – Aryam Díaz  South Africa – Shudufhadzo Musida  Sri Lanka – Sadé Greenwood  Trinidad and Tobago – Jeanine Brandt  Venezuela – Alejandra Conde

§ Digital Media Challenge Winner

Continental Queens of Beauty

Continent	Contestant
Africa	Cote D'Ivoire – Olivia Yacé
Americas	United States – Shree Saini
Asia & Oceania	Indonesia – Carla Yules
Caribbean	Dominican Republic – Emmy Peña
Europe	Northern Ireland – Anna Leitch

Challenge Events

Head-to-Head Challenge

The contestants were officially assigned to their grouping via Miss World YouTube Channel on Nov 24, 2021.^[36]

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[37]	Bahamas	Malaysia	Nepal	Peru	Portugal	United States
2[38]	Albania	El Salvador	England	Indonesia	Mauritius	South Africa
3[39]	Dominican Republic	Namibia	Paraguay	Singapore	Slovakia	Uruguay
4[40]	Cayman Islands	Honduras	Poland	Scotland	Serbia	Sri Lanka
5[41]	Angola	Bolivia	Japan	Sweden	Ukraine	Venezuela
6[42]	Belize	Guadeloupe	Kenya	Norway	Trinidad & Tobago	Turkey
7[43]	Argentina	Czech Republic	Equatorial Guinea	Jamaica	Mongolia	Netherlands
8[44]	Botswana	Estonia	Iceland	Italy	Saint Lucia	Tunisia
9[45]	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Brazil	Bulgaria	Moldova	Vietnam	Wales
10[46]	Cameroon	Chile	Ecuador	Luxembourg	Madagascar	Northern Ireland
11[47]	France	Gibraltar	Macau	Philippines	Puerto Rico	Slovenia
12[48]	Korea	Malta	Mexico	Nigeria	Panama	Spain
13[49]	Belgium	Colombia	Curaçao	Finland	Ireland	Rwanda
14[50]	Canada	Costa Rica	Cote d'Ivoire	Guinea	Hungary	India
15[51]	Armenia	China	Guinea-Bissau	Iraq	Nicaragua	Somalia
16[52]	Cambodia	Ghana	Haiti	Senegal	Sint Maarten	Uganda

• Note:  Tanzania wasn't assigned to any group for the Head-to-Head challenge.

Round 2

The winner of each group will compete at the head-to-head final in the Capitol of Puerto Rico on December 9. The eight semi-finalists were officially announced via Miss World YouTube Channel on Nov 24, 2021.^[53]

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

Knockout stage	Country 1	Country 2
1	Nepal	Indonesia
2	Paraguay	Cayman Islands
3	Venezuela	Trinidad & Tobago
4	Mongolia	Botswana
5	Vietnam	Cameroon
6	Philippines	Mexico
7	Colombia	Cote d'Ivoire
8	Nicaragua	Haiti

Talent

Talent finals was held on December 4, 2021^[54] The winner were officially announced via Miss World Facebook page on Dec 13, 2021.^[55]

Final result	Contestant
Winner	Mongolia – Burte-Ujin Anu
1st Runner-Up	Norway – Amine Storrød
2nd Runner-Up	Japan – Tamaki Hoshi
3rd Runner-up	Chile – Carol Drpic
4th Runner-up	Northern Ireland – Anna Leitch
Top 27	Albania – Amela Agastra  Botswana – Palesa Molefe  Bulgaria – Eva Dobreva  Cote d'Ivoire – Olivia Yacé  Ecuador – Ámar Pacheco  England – Rehema Muthamia  Gibraltar – Janice Sampere  India – Manasa Varanasi  Indonesia – Carla Yules  Ireland – Pamela Uba  Jamaica – Khalia Hall  Kenya – Sharon Obara  Korea – Tara Hong  Mauritius – Angélique Sanson  Scotland – Claudia Todd  Singapore – Khai Ling Ho  Slovenia – Maja Colic  South Africa – Shudufhadzo Musida  Tunisia – Amani Layouni  United States – Shree Saini  Uruguay – Valentina Camejo  Vietnam – Đỗ Thị Hà

Top Model

Top Model finals was held on December 6, 2021^[10]

Miss Cote D'Ivoire, Olivia Yacé, won Top Model Competition and become the first quarter-finalist of Miss World 2021.^[56]

Final result[57]	Contestant
Winner	Cote D'Ivoire – Olivia Yacé
1st Runner-Up	Cameroon – Audrey Monkam
2nd Runner-Up	Puerto Rico – Aryam Díaz
Top 13	Bahamas – Sienna Evans  Czech Republic – Karolína Kopíncová  Dominican Republic – Emmy Pena  France – April Benayoum  Kenya – Sharon Obara  Mexico – Karolina Vidales  Nicaragua – Sheynnis Palacios  Poland – Karolina Bielawska  Venezuela – Alejandra Conde  Vietnam – Đỗ Thị Hà

Designer Dress

Best Designer Dress Award was given to Korea during the Top Model finals of Miss World 2021.^[10]

Final result	Contestant
Winner	Korea – Tara Hong
1st Runner-Up	Cote D'Ivoire – Olivia Yacé
2nd Runner-Up	Iraq – Maria Farhad

Sports

Sports event was initially held on December 1, 2021.^[10][58][59] Miss Norway, Amine Storrød, had an asthma attack during the event which had to delay the rest of the competition.^[60] The winners were officially announced via Miss World Facebook page on Dec 13, 2021.^[55]

Final result	Contestant
Winner	Mexico – Karolina Vidales
1st Runner-Up	Iceland – Hugrún Birta Egilsdóttir
2nd Runner-Up (tie)	Guinea-Bissau – Itchacénia Da Costa  Ireland – Pamela Uba

Team (Top 32)	Contestant
Blue Team in Blue Attire	Guinea-Bissau – Itchacénia Da Costa  Malta – Naomi Dingli  Mauritius – Angélique Sanson  Nigeria – Oluchi Madubuike  Northern Ireland – Anna Leitch  Serbia – Andrijana Savic  Sweden – Gabriella Lomm Mann  Tunisia – Amani Layouni
Green Team in Orange Attire	Armenia – Mirna Bzdigian  Brazil – Caroline Teixeira  Gibraltar – Janice Sampere  Iceland – Hugrún Birta Egilsdóttir  Italy – Claudia Motta  Luxembourg – Emilie Boland  Mexico – Karolina Vidales  Peru – Paula Montes
Red Team in Purple Attire	Botswana – Palesa Molefe  Canada – Svetlana Mamaeva  Jamaica – Khalia Hall  Japan – Tamaki Hoshi  Korea – Tara Hong  Norway – Amine Storrød  Scotland – Claudia Todd  Sint Maarten – Lara Mateo
Yellow Team in Yellow Attire	Argentina – Amira Hidalgo  Estonia – Karolin Kippasto  Finland – Emilia Lepomäki  Hungary – Lili Tótpeti  Ireland – Pamela Uba  Kenya – Sharon Obara  Slovakia – Leona Novoberdaliu  Slovenia – Maja Colic

Multimedia

The winner were officially announced via Miss World Facebook page on January 21, 2022.^[61]

Final result	Contestant
Winner	Cote D'Ivoire – Olivia Yacé
Top 10	Botswana - Palesa Molefe  Cameroon - Audrey Nabila Monkam  Colombia - Andrea Aguilera  Guinea - Nene Mariama Saran Bah  Indonesia - Pricilia Carla Yules  Mexico - Karolina Vidales    Nepal - Namrata Shrestha  South Africa - Shudufhadzo Musida  Venezuela - Alejandra Conde

Beauty With a Purpose

The finalists were officially announced via Miss World Facebook page on December 13, 2021.^[55] The Top 6 finalists were announced as winners.^[10] The 18 other semifinalists were later announced via Miss World Facebook page through contestants' personal profiles.^[62][63]

Final result	Contestant
BWAP Ambassador Award	United States – Shree Saini
Winner(s)	England – Rehema Muthamia  India – Manasa Varanasi  Kenya – Sharon Obara  Philippines – Tracy Perez  South Africa – Shudufhadzo Musida  United States – Shree Saini
Top 10	Czech Republic – Karolína Kopíncová  Madagascar – Nellie Anjaratiana    Nepal – Namrata Shrestha  Sri Lanka – Sadé Greenwood
Top 28	Bahamas – Sienna Evans  Brazil – Caroline Teixeira  Cameroon – Audrey Monkam  Canada – Svetlana Mamaeva  Chile – Carol Drpic  China – Jiang Siqi  Ecuador – Ámar Pacheco  Guinea – Nene Bah  Hungary – Lili Tótpeti  Indonesia – Carla Yules  Ireland – Pamela Uba  Malaysia – Lavanya Sivaji  Mexico – Karolina Vidales  Nicaragua – Sheynnis Palacios  Paraguay – Bethania Borba  Trinidad and Tobago – Jeanine Brandt  Venezuela – Alejandra Conde  Vietnam – Đỗ Thị Hà

Contestants

97 contestants competed for the title

Country/Territory	Delegate	Age[a]	Hometown
Albania	Amela Agastra[64]	18	Tirana
Angola	Ruth Carlos[65]	24	Huambo
Argentina	Amira Hidalgo[66]	23	Buenos Aires
Armenia	Mirna Bzdigian[67]	19	Yerevan
Bahamas	Sienna Evans[68]	24	Nassau
Belgium	Céline Van Ouytsel[69]	25	Herentals
Belize	Markeisha Young[70]	21	Santa Elena
Bolivia	Alondra Mercado[71][72]	19	Trinidad
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Adna Biber[73]	19	Sarajevo
Botswana	Palesa Molefe[74]	22	Gaborone
Brazil	Caroline Teixeira[75]	23	Brasília
Bulgaria	Eva Dobreva[76]	21	Varna
Cambodia	Phum Sophorn[77]	19	Phnom Penh
Cameroon	Audrey Monkam[78]	24	Bali Nyonga
Canada	Svetlana Mamaeva[79]	21	Maple
Cayman Islands	Rashana Hydes[80]	24	West Bay
Chile	Carol Drpic[81]	21	Punta Arenas
China	Jiang Siqi[82]	21	Beijing
Colombia	Andrea Aguilera[83]	23	Medellín
Costa Rica	Tamara Dal Maso[84]	23	Puntarenas
Cote d'Ivoire	Olivia Yacé[85]	23	Yamoussoukro
Curaçao	Alvinette Soliana[86]	20	Willemstad
Czech Republic	Karolína Kopíncová[87]	22	Brno
Dominican Republic	Emmy Peña[88]	24	Duarte
Ecuador	Ámar Pacheco[89]	24	Guayaquil
El Salvador	Nicole Álvarez[90]	27	San Salvador
England	Rehema Muthamia[91]	25	Mill Hill
Equatorial Guinea	Lucila Benita[92]	21	Malabo
Estonia	Karolin Kippasto[93]	24	Tartu
Finland	Emilia Lepomäki[94]	23	Vantaa
France	April Benayoum[95]	22	Éguilles
Ghana	Monique Mawulawe[96]	20	Accra
Gibraltar	Janice Sampere[97]	23	Gibraltar
Guadeloupe	Prescilla Larose[98]	22	Le Moule
Guinea	Nene Bah[99]	24	Conakry
Guinea-Bissau	Itchacénia Da Costa[99]	21	Bissau
Haiti	Erlande Berger[100]	24	Port-au-Prince
Honduras	Dayana Bordas[101]	24	Ahuas
Hungary	Lili Tótpeti[102]	20	Nagykanizsa
Iceland	Hugrún Birta Egilsdóttir	22	Reykjavík
India	Manasa Varanasi[103]	24	Hyderabad
Indonesia	Carla Yules[104][105]	25	Surabaya
Iraq	Maria Farhad[106]	20	Mosul
Ireland	Pamela Uba[107]	25	Galway
Italy	Claudia Motta[108]	21	Velletri
Jamaica	Khalia Hall[109]	25	Saint Ann
Japan	Tamaki Hoshi[110]	20	Tokyo
Kenya	Sharon Obara[111]	19	Nairobi
Korea	Tara Hong[112]	21	Seoul
Luxembourg	Emilie Boland[113]	25	Sandweiler
Macau	Jia Ni Yuan[114]	28	Macau
Madagascar	Nellie Anjaratiana[115]	24	Antananarivo
Malaysia	Lavanya Sivaji[116]	25	Batu Caves
Malta	Naomi Dingli[117]	26	Valetta
Mauritius	Angélique Sanson[118]	25	Curepipe
Mexico	Karolina Vidales[119]	24	Jiquilpan
Moldova	Tatiana Ovcinicova[120]	23	Chișinău
Mongolia	Burte-Ujin Anu[121]	23	Ulan Bator
Namibia	Annerie Mare[122]	26	Kamanjab
Nepal	Namrata Shrestha[123]	24	Kathmandu
Netherlands	Lizzy Dobbe[124]	21	Den Helder
Nicaragua	Sheynnis Palacios[125]	21	Managua
Nigeria	Oluchi Madubuike[126]	25	Abuja
Northern Ireland	Anna Leitch[127]	27	Cookstown
Norway	Amine Storrød[128]	21	Hvaler
Panama	Krysthelle Barretto[129]	25	Panama City
Paraguay	Bethania Borba[130]	20	Presidente Franco
Peru	Paula Montes[131]	25	Lima
Philippines	Tracy Perez[132]	28	Cebu City
Poland	Karolina Bielawska[133]	22	Łódź
Portugal	Lidy Alves[134]	25	Vila Real
Puerto Rico	Aryam Díaz[135]	23	Naranjito
Rwanda	Naomie Nishimwe[136]	22	Kigali
Scotland	Claudia Todd[137]	25	Bothwell
Senegal	Penda Sy[138]	24	Tambacounda
Serbia	Andrijana Savic [139]	21	Belgrade
Singapore	Khai Ling Ho[140]	18	Singapore
Sint Maarten	Lara Mateo[141]	24	Philipsburg
Slovakia	Leona Novoberdaliu[142]	25	Bratislava
Slovenia	Maja Colic[143]	21	Ribnica[disambiguation needed]
Somalia	Khadija Omar	20	Mogadishu
South Africa	Shudufhadzo Musida[144]	25	Limpopo
St. Lucia	Tyler Theophane[145]	23	Choiseul
Spain	Ana García[146]	23	Almería
Sri Lanka	Sadé Greenwood[147]	18	Colombo
Sweden	Gabriella Lomm Mann[148]	26	Stockholm
Tanzania	Julianna Rugumisa[149]	23	Kilimanjaro
Trinidad and Tobago	Jeanine Brandt[150]	25	San Fernando
Tunisia	Amani Layouni[151]	22	Mahdia
Turkey	Dílara Korkmaz[152]	23	Ankara
Uganda	Elizabeth Bagaya[153]	26	Bombo
Ukraine	Aleksandra Yaremchuk[154]	22	Vinnytsia
United States	Shree Saini[155]	25	Seattle
Uruguay	Valentina Camejo[156]	24	Montevideo
Venezuela	Alejandra Conde[157]	24	Villa de Cura
Vietnam	Đỗ Thị Hà[158]	20	Thanh Hóa
Wales	Olivia Harris[159]	18	Magor

Notes

Debuts

•  Iraq
•  Somalia

Returns

References