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{{Short description|41st edition of the beauty pageant}}
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{{Infobox beauty pageant
| photo = File:Miss Universe 1992 opening titles.jpg
| caption = (left) Title card<br/>(right) [[Lupita Jones]] Miss Universe 1991 riding on an elephant
| winner = [[Michelle McLean]]
| represented = Namibia
| date = 9 May 1992{{efn|name=Thailand date|The event was held at 8:00 am [[Time in Thailand|Thailand Time]] ([[UTC+07:00]]); for the Americas, this was 8 May in their local times.}}
| presenters = {{Hlist|[[Dick Clark]]|[[Leeza Gibbons]]|[[Angela Visser]]}}
| venue = [[Queen Sirikit National Convention Center]], [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]]
| broadcaster = [[CBS]] (international)<br>[[Channel 7 (Thailand)|Channel 7]] (official broadcaster)
| entrants = 78
| placements = 10
| debuts = {{Hlist|CIS|Hungary}}
| withdraws = {{Hlist|Belize|Ghana|Hong Kong|Italy|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|Trinidad and Tobago|Soviet Union|Yugoslavia}}
| returns = {{Hlist|Aruba|Australia|Austria|Cyprus|Denmark|Egypt|Honduras|Kenya|New Zealand|Portugal|Switzerland}}
| before = [[Miss Universe 1991|1991]]
| next = [[Miss Universe 1993|1993]]
}}

'''Miss Universe 1992''' was the 41st [[Miss Universe]] pageant, held on 9 May 1992{{efn|name=Thailand date}} at the [[Queen Sirikit National Convention Center]] in [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]]. Seventy-eight contestants competed in the pageant. [[Michelle McLean]] of [[Namibia]] was crowned by [[Lupita Jones]] of [[Mexico]] at the event's conclusion. This is the first and so far only time that [[Namibia]] won the pageant.

==Background==

=== Location and date ===
Thailand anticipated holding the pageant as early as August 1991, when thousands of [[slum]] dwellers were evicted in order to improve the image of the city prior to a [[World Bank]] conference that was held in the city in October and the pageant.<ref>{{cite news |last=Shenon |first=Philip |date=1991-08-25 |title=Thailand Evicting the Poor: Coming Events Spur Leaders to Level Slum |publisher=Los Angeles Daily News}}</ref>

The official announcement that Bangkok would host the pageant was made in December 1991, with the date initially set as 16 May.<ref>{{cite news |date=1991-12-17 |title=Miss Universe contest to be held Bangkok in May |publisher=Agence France-Press}}</ref> At the same time it secured an exclusive broadcast agreement for Thailand on the subscription television platform [[Thai Sky TV]].<ref>{{cite web |date=18 December 1991 |title=Thailand to host Miss Universe next year |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/straitstimes19911218-1.2.25.6 |access-date=25 July 2024 |website=The Straits Times (retrieved from NLB)}}</ref> In March the date was moved back by a week to 8 May so that it would not clash with Wisakha Bucha Day, a [[Buddhist]] holiday.<ref>{{cite news |date=1992-03-06 |title=Organizers seek new date for beauty pageant |publisher=Agence France-Press}}</ref>

The pageant was held amidst a political crisis in Thailand that culminated, a week after the pageant, on 17 May in the [[Black May (1992)|Black May]] protests against the government of [[Suchinda Kraprayoon|General Suchinda Kraprayoon]]. The day prior to the event the public relations director expressed fears that the show might have to be cancelled if the situation escalated, although the threat was played down by other pageant officials.<ref>{{cite news |date=1992-05-07 |title=Miss Universe organiser says political crisis threatens pageant |publisher=Agence France-Presse}}</ref>
==Results==
[[File:Bkksirikitconvcentr0905a.jpg|thumb|right|Queen Sirikit Convention Center in Bangkok]]
[[File:Miss Universe 1992 Map.PNG|thumb|Miss Universe 1992 participating nations and results]]

===Placements===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
!  Placement
! Contestant
|-
| Miss Universe 1992
|
*{{flag|Namibia}} – [[Michelle McLean]]
|-
| 1st runner-up
|
*{{flag|Colombia}} – [[Paola Turbay]]
|-
| 2nd runner-up
|
*{{flag|India}} – [[Madhu Sapre|Madhushree Sapre]]
|-
| Top 6
|
*{{flag|Belgium}} – [[Anke Van dermeersch]]
*{{flag|Netherlands}} – Vivian Jansen
*{{flag|Venezuela|1954}} – [[Carolina Izsak]]
|-
| Top 10
|
*{{flag|Australia}} – Georgina Dehany
*{{flag|New Zealand}} – Lisa Maree de Montalk
*{{flag|Sweden}} – [[Monica Brodd]]
*{{flag|United States}} – [[Shannon Marketic]]
|}
==Contestants==
{{colbegin|colwidth=30em}}
* '''{{ARG}}''' - Laura Rafael
* '''{{ABW}}''' - Yerusha Rasmijn
* '''{{AUS}}''' - Georgina Denahy
* '''{{AUT}}''' - Katrin Friedl
* '''{{BHS}}''' - Fontella Chipman
* '''{{BEL}}''' - [[Anke Van dermeersch]]
* '''{{BMU}}''' - Colita Joseph
* '''{{BOL}}''' - Natasha Gabriel Arana †
* '''{{flag|Brazil|1968}}''' - Maria Carolina Otto
* '''{{VGB}}''' - Alicia Burke
* '''{{BGR}}''' - Michaella Dinova Nikolova
* '''{{CAN}}''' - [[Nicole Dunsdon]]
* '''{{flag|Cayman Islands|old}}''' - Yvette Peggy Jordison
* '''{{CHL}}''' - [[Marcela Vacarezza]]
* '''{{flag|CIS}}''' - Lidia Kuborskaya
* '''{{COL}}''' - [[Paola Turbay]] 
* '''{{COK}}''' - Jeannine Tuavera
* '''{{CRI}}''' - Jessica Manley Fredrich
* '''{{CUW}}''' - Mijanou de Paula
* '''{{Flag|Cyprus|1960}}''' - Militsa Papadopolou
* '''{{TCH}}''' - Michaela Maláčová
* '''{{DNK}}''' - Anne Mette Voss
* '''{{DOM}}''' - Ana Eliza González
* '''{{Flag|Ecuador|1900}}''' - [[Soledad Diab]]
* '''{{EGY}}''' - Lamia Noshi
* '''{{SLV}}''' - Melissa Salazar
* '''{{FIN}}''' - Kirsi Syrjänen †
* '''{{FRA}}''' - [[Linda Hardy]]
* '''{{GER}}''' - Monica Resch
* '''{{flag|Great Britain}}''' - Tiffany Stanford
* '''{{GRC}}''' - [[Marina Tsintikidou]]
* '''{{GUM}}''' - Cheryl Debra Payne
* '''{{GTM}}''' - Nancy Maricela Perez
* '''{{flag|Honduras|1949}}''' - Monica Raquel Rapalo
* '''{{HUN}}''' - Dora Patko
* '''{{ISL}}''' - Svava Haraldsdóttir
* '''{{IND}}''' - [[Madhu Sapre|Madhushree Sapre]]
* '''{{IRL}}''' - Jane Thompson
* '''{{ISR}}''' - Eynat Zmora
* '''{{JAM}}''' - Bridgette Rhoden
* '''{{flag|Japan|1870}}''' - Akiko Ando
* '''{{KEN}}''' - Aisha Wawira Lieberg ✝︎
* '''{{LBN}}''' - Abeer Sharrouf
* '''{{LUX}}''' - Carole Reding
* '''{{MYS}}''' - Crystal Yong
* '''{{MLT}}''' - Julienne Camilleri
* '''{{MUS}}''' - Stephanie Raymond
* '''{{MEX}}''' - Monica Zuñiga
* '''{{NAM}}''' - '''[[Michelle McLean]]'''
* '''{{NLD}}''' - Vivian Jansen
* '''{{NZL}}''' - Lisa Maree de Montalk
* '''{{NIC}}''' - Ida Patricia Delaney
* '''{{NGA}}''' - Sandra Guenefred Petgrave
* '''{{MNP}}''' - Imelda Antonio
* '''{{NOR}}''' - Anne Sofie Galaen
* '''{{PAN}}''' - [[Ana Orillac|Ana Cecilia Orillac]]
* '''{{flag|Paraguay|1990}}''' - Pamela Zarza
* '''{{PER}}''' - Aline Arce Santos
* '''{{flag|Philippines|1986}}''' - Elizabeth Garcia Berroya
* '''{{POL}}''' - Izabela Filipowska
* '''{{POR}}''' - Maria Fernanda Silva
* '''{{flag|Puerto Rico|1952}}''' - Daisy Garcia
* '''{{ROC}}''' - Vivian Shih Hsiu Chieh
* '''{{ROM}}''' - Corina Corduneanu
* '''{{SGP}}''' - Cori Teo
* '''{{flag|KOR|1949|name=South Korea}}''' - Lee Young-hyun
* '''{{ESP}}''' - Virginia García
* '''{{LKA}}''' - Hiranthi Divapriya
* '''{{SUR}}''' - Nancy Kasanngaloewar
* '''{{SWE}}''' - [[Monica Brodd]]
* '''{{CHE}}''' - Sandra Aegerter
* '''{{flagicon|Thailand}}''' [[Miss Thailand|Thailand]] - [[Orn-anong Panyawong|Ornanong Panyawong]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=|date=13 December 2023|title=เปิดหน้า อรอนงค์ ในวัย 51 กระรัต ตำนานจักรวาลล้านนา ทำหน้าใหม่จนสวยอมตะ |trans-title= Revealing the face of Aronong at the age of 51, the legend of the Lanna universe has a new face until she is beautiful forever. |url= https://www.thairath.co.th/entertain/news/2747649 |access-date=24 March 2025|website=ไทยรัฐ|language=Thai}}</ref>
* '''{{TUR}}''' - Elif Ilgaz
* '''{{TCA}}''' - Barbara Johnson
* '''{{USA}}''' - [[Shannon Marketic]]
* '''{{VIR}}''' - Cathy-Mae Sitaram
* '''{{URY}}''' - Gabriela Escobar Ventura
* '''{{flag|Venezuela|1954}}''' - [[Carolina Izsak]]
{{colend}}

==Notes==
{{notelist}}
===Debuts===
* '''{{flag|CIS|1992}}'''
* '''{{HUN}}'''

===Returns===
Last competed in [[Miss Universe 1987|1987]]:
* '''{{CYP}}'''
* '''{{KEN}}'''

Last competed in [[Miss Universe 1989|1989]]:
* '''{{NZL}}'''

Last competed in [[Miss Universe 1990|1990]]:
* '''{{ABW}}'''
* '''{{AUS}}'''
* '''{{AUT}}'''
* '''{{DNK}}'''
* '''{{EGY}}'''
* '''{{flag|Honduras|1949}}'''
* '''{{POR}}'''
* '''{{CHE}}'''

== Notes ==
{{notelist}}
===Replacements===
* {{ISR}} — Eynat Zmora, Miss Israel, placed first runner-up in the Miss Israel pageant but was sent to Miss Universe because the winner, Ravit Asaf, was under the age restriction of 18 years.<ref>{{cite news|title=Miss Israel loser gives up quest to be Miss Universe|date=1992-04-13|publisher=The Jerusalem Post}}</ref>
* {{flag|CIS|1992}} — Julia Etina, Miss CIS 1992, did not compete in Miss Universe 1992, because she had turned 18 years old ''after'' February 1. Her first runner-up of Miss CIS 1992, Lydia Kuborskaya went to Miss Universe instead of her. However, Etina got an official visit to the United States a consolation prize for missing the big event.<ref>[http://www.bibliotekar.ru/divo/25-26.htm «МИСС ВСЕЛЕННАЯ»]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130916155950/http://articles.philly.com/1992-04-18/news/26002749_1_beauty-pageant-pageant-finals-evening-gown-competition Crowning Achievement Falls Flat A Hit At Soviet Pageant Will Miss Next Step]</ref>
* {{IRL}} — Jane Thompson, who represented Ireland, replaced [[Amanda Brunker]], who was Miss Ireland 1991, because Brunker was underaged before 1 February. Thompson was from [[Belfast]] in [[Northern Ireland]].
* {{ROC}}  — Wu Pei Jun, Miss Universe Republic of China 1992, was underaged before 1 February. Her first runner-up, Liu Yu Hsin couldn't go either due to her health problems. So the chance was given to her second runner-up, Vivian Shih Hsiu Chieh, who went to the pageant instead.<ref>〈世界环姐选举改派第三名施秀洁参赛〉，《联合晚报》，1992年4月10日，4版</ref>
* {{ESP}} - [[:es:Sofía Mazagatos|Sofia Mazagatos]], [[Miss Spain|Miss España]] 1991, did not compete because she was underaged before 1 February. Her first runner-up, Virginia García went instead of her.{{cn|date=September 2024}}

===Withdrawals===
* {{BLZ}} - Their pageant was delayed until Fall 1992.
* {{GHA}} - Jamilla Haruna Danzuru - Due Lack of founds & Visa Problems. She went to compete in [[Miss Universe 1993]].
* {{flag|British Hong Kong|name = Hong Kong}} — Amy Kwok was expected to represent Hong Kong and even arrived in Bangkok, but was disqualified because she did not meet residency requirements. Kwok was a US resident who became the first overseas contestant to win the Miss Hong Kong title. The same issue came up again in [[Miss Universe 1996]] when the winner Winnie Yeung was also a US citizen and she was disqualified. The 1st runner up in the pageant, Sofie Rahman was her replacement.<ref>{{cite news|title=Miss Hong Kong disqualified from Miss Universe contest |publisher=Agence France-Press|date=1992-04-21}}</ref>
* {{ITA}} - [[Miss Italia]] 1991, [[Martina Colombari]] could not compete in MU 1992 for being underage and she was not replaced. Therefore, this is Italy's first ever withdrawal at Miss Universe since its exception in 1952 they would only withdrew again in 2006.
* '''{{GIB}}''' - Ornella Costa - She was Underage prior February 1.
* {{VCT}} - Nicole Hendrickson - Due Lack of sponsorship and founds.
* {{USSR}} – [[Dissolution of Soviet Union|Collapsed in]] [[1991]], split into fifteen countries. Twelve of them were aggregated into the [[Commonwealth of Independent States|CIS]]. Four years later, Miss USSR 1991, Ilmira Shamsuttinova was appointed to compete in [[Miss Universe 1996|the pageant]] as Miss Russia.
* {{TTO}} – Rachel Charles - She was underage before 1 February. She competed in [[Miss Universe 1993|1993]] instead.
* {{YUG}} – [https://sr.wikipedia.org/sr-el/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B0_%D0%A2%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%9B Slavica Tripunović] - Due to [[Breakup of Yugoslavia|the breakup in April]], Lack of funds and the dissolution of the organizing committee. Returned in [[Miss Universe 1998|1998]].
* {{UKR}} – [[Miss Ukraine]] 1992, Oksana Szabo was invited to compete in the Miss Universe 1992, but due lack of founds & sponsorship she didn't go. Ukraine finally debuted at [[Miss Universe 1995]].

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.missuniverse.com Miss Universe official website]

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