View source for Miss World 1982

{{Short description|Beauty pageant edition}}
{{EngvarB|date=November 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}}
{{Infobox beauty pageant
| photo       = Mariasela Álvarez (cropped).jpg
| winner      = [[Mariasela Álvarez]]
| represented = Dominican Republic
| date        = 18 November 1982
| presenters  = {{Hlist|[[Peter Marshall (UK broadcaster)|Peter Marshall]]|[[Judith Chalmers]]}}
| acts        = {{Hlist|[[The Three Degrees]]}}
| venue       = [[Royal Albert Hall]], [[London]], United Kingdom
| broadcaster = [[Thames Television]]
| entrants    = 68
| placements  = 15
| debuts      = {{Hlist|Indonesia|Turks and Caicos Islands}}
| returns     = {{Hlist|Panama|Paraguay|Portugal|United States Virgin Islands|Yugoslavia}}
| withdraws   = {{Hlist|Argentina|Austria|Jersey|Lesotho|Papua New Guinea|Suriname}}
| before      = [[Miss World 1981|1981]]
| next        = [[Miss World 1983|1983]]
|image size=200px|caption=Mariasela Álvarez, Miss World 1982}}

'''Miss World 1982''' was the 32nd edition of the [[Miss World]] pageant, held on 18 November 1982 at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in [[London]], the United Kingdom. The winner was [[Mariasela Álvarez]] from the Dominican Republic. She was crowned by Miss World 1981, [[Pilín León]] of Venezuela. The first and second runners-up were Sari Kaarina Aspholm from Finland and Della Dolan from the United Kingdom who were semi-finalists in [[Miss Universe 1982]] four months before.<ref name="google.com">{{cite news |title=New Miss World |newspaper=[[Observer-Reporter]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&dat=19821118&id=M4NdAAAAIBAJ&pg=5123,3239284&hl=en |access-date=26 January 2016}}</ref>

This edition marked the debut of Indonesia and Turks and Caicos Islands. And the return of Yugoslavia, which last competed in [[Miss World 1975|1975]], Portugal last competed in [[Miss World 1979|1979]] and Panama, Paraguay and the United States Virgin Islands last competed in [[Miss World 1980|1980]]. Argentina, Austria, Jersey, Lesotho, Papua New Guinea, Suriname withdrew from the competition for unknown reasons.

== Results ==
=== Placements ===
{{unreferenced section|date=July 2024}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
! Placement
! Contestant
|-
| '''Miss World 1982'''
|
* '''{{flag|Dominican Republic}}''' – '''[[Mariasela Álvarez]]'''
|-
| 1st runner-up
|
* {{flag|Finland}} – Sari Aspholm
|-
| 2nd runner-up
|
* {{flag|United Kingdom}} – Della Dolan
|-
| Top 7
|
* {{flag|Ireland}} – Roberta Brown
* {{flag|Switzerland}} – [[Lolita Morena]]
* {{flag|Trinidad and Tobago}} – Althea Rocke
* {{flag|United States}} – LuAnn Caughey
|-
| Top 15
|
* {{flag|Australia}} – Catherine Anne Morris
* {{flag|Bolivia|civil}} – Brita Cederberg
* {{flag|Cayman Islands|old}} – Maureen Therese Lewis
* {{flag|Denmark}} – Tina Nielsen
* {{flag|Guam}} – Frances Limtiaco
* {{flag|Philippines|1936}} – Sara-Jane Areza
* {{flag|Yugoslavia}} – [[Ana Sasso]]
* {{flag|Zimbabwe}} – Caroline Murinda
|}

===Continental Queens of Beauty===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
! Continental Group
! Contestant
|-
| Africa
|
* {{flagu|Zimbabwe}} – Caroline Murinda<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=19 November 1982 |title=Dominican Miss World; Texas Entry A Finalist |pages=6B |work=[[The Victoria Advocate]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=f8AcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5VcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6697%2C5054878 |access-date=8 July 2023 |via=[[Google News Archive]]}}</ref>
|-
| Americas
|
* {{flagu|Dominican Republic}} – [[Mariasela Alvarez]]<ref name=":0" />
|-
| Asia
|
* {{flagu|Philippines|1936}} – Sara-Jane Areza<ref name=":0" />
|-
| Europe
|
* {{flagu|Finland}} – Sari Aspholm<ref name=":0" />
|-
| Oceania
|
* {{flagu|Australia}} – Catherine Anne Morris<ref name=":0" />
|}

== Contestants ==<!-- FOR NAMES OF COUNTRIES OR TERRITORIES, PLEASE STRICTLY ADHERE TO WP:COMMONNAME POLICIES, DO NOT CHANGE IT JUST BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT MISS WORLD USES. -->
[[File:Miss World 1982 Map.PNG|thumb|250px|Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1982<ref name="express.co.uk">{{cite web |title=Miss World 1981 winner Carmen Josefina Leon Crespo - Miss World Contest: through the years |url=http://www.express.co.uk/pictures/galleries/2438/Miss-World-Contest-through-the-years/Miss-World-1981-winner-Carmen-Josefina-Leon-Crespo-49872 |access-date=26 January 2016 |work=[[Daily Express]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |year=1997 |title=Malaysian Business |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fZO0AAAAIAAJ |access-date=26 January 2016}}</ref>]]68 contestants competed for the title.
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%;"
|-
! Country/Territory
! Contestant 
! Age{{efn|name=I|Ages at the time of the pageant}} 
! Hometown 
|-
| {{flagicon|ARU}} [[Miss Aruba|Aruba]] || Noriza Helder || 19 || [[Oranjestad, Aruba|Oranjestad]]
|-
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Miss World Australia|Australia]] || Catherine Anne Morris || 19 || [[Sydney]]
|-
| {{flagicon|BAH}} [[Miss Bahamas|Bahamas]] || Oralee Stubbs || 18 || [[Nassau, Bahamas|Nassau]]
|-
| {{flagicon|BEL}} [[Miss Belgium|Belgium]] || Marie Pierre Lemaître || 21 || [[Brussels]]
|-
| {{flagicon|BER}} [[Miss World Bermuda|Bermuda]] || Heather Ross<ref>{{Cite news |date=28 November 1982 |title=Miss Ross in a world of trouble |pages=2 |work=[[The Salina Journal]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salina-journal/52768427/ |access-date=8 July 2023 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> || 22 || [[Somerset, Bermuda|Somerset]]
|-
| {{flagicon|BOL}} [[Miss Bolivia|Bolivia]] || Brita Cederberg || 17 || [[Oruro, Bolivia|Oruro]]
|-
| {{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Miss Brazil World|Brazil]] || Mônica Jannuzzi || 21 || [[Londrina, Paraná]]
|-
| {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Miss World Canada|Canada]] || Jody Jensen || 19 || [[Calgary]]
|-
| {{flagicon|CAY|old}} [[Miss Cayman Islands|Cayman Islands]] || Maureen Therese Lewis || 21 || [[George Town, Cayman Islands|George Town]]
|-
| {{flagicon|CHI}} [[Miss World Chile|Chile]] || Mariana Reinhardt || 20 || [[Santiago]]
|-
| {{flagicon|COL}} [[Señorita Colombia|Colombia]] || María Teresa Gómez || 19 || [[Medellin]]
|-
| {{flagicon|CRC|state}} [[Reinas de Costa Rica|Costa Rica]] || Maureen Jiménez || 22 || [[San Jose, Costa Rica|San Jose]]
|-
| {{flagicon|AHO|1959}} [[Señorita Curaçao|Curaçao]] || Vendetta Roozendal || 20 || [[Willemstad]]
|-
| {{flagicon|CYP}} [[Miss Cyprus|Cyprus]] || Marina Rauscher || 17 || [[Limassol]]
|-
| {{flagicon|DEN}} [[Miss Denmark|Denmark]] || Tina Nielsen || 18 || [[Copenhagen]]
|-
| '''{{flagicon|DOM}} [[Miss Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]]''' || '''[[Mariasela Álvarez]]''' || 22 || [[Santo Domingo]]
|-
| {{flagicon|ECU}} [[Miss Ecuador|Ecuador]] || Gianna Machiavello || 20 || [[Guayaquil]]
|-
| {{flagicon|ESA}} [[Reinado de El Salvador|El Salvador]] || Berta Loredana Munguía || 20 || [[San Salvador]]
|-
| {{flagicon|FIN}} [[Miss Finland|Finland]] || Sari Aspholm || 20 || [[Vantaa]]
|-
| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Miss France|France]] || Martine Philipps || 23 || [[Audincourt]]
|-
| {{flagicon|French Polynesia}} [[Miss Tahiti|French Polynesia]]{{Efn|Competed as Tahiti in the pageant}} || Teura Tuhiti || 17 || [[Papeete]]
|-
| {{flagicon|GIB}} [[Miss Gibraltar|Gibraltar]] || Louise Gillingwater || 20 || [[Gibraltar]]
|-
| {{flagicon|GRE}} [[Star Hellas|Greece]] || Anthi Priovolou || 19 || [[Athens]]
|-
| {{flagicon|GUM}} [[Miss World Guam|Guam]] || Frances Limtiaco || 22 || [[Tamuning]]
|-
| {{flagicon|GUA}} [[Miss Guatemala|Guatemala]] || Suzanne Whitbeck || 20 || [[Guatemala City]]
|-
| {{flagicon|NED}} [[Miss Nederland|Holland]] || Irene Schell || 20 || [[Venlo]]
|-
| {{flagicon|HON|1949}} [[Miss Honduras|Honduras]] || Ana Lucía Rivera || 20 || [[San Pedro Sula]]
|-
| {{flagicon|British Hong Kong}} [[Miss Hong Kong|Hong Kong]] || Cally Kwong || 19 || [[Victoria, Hong Kong|Victoria]]
|-
| {{flagicon|ISL}} [[Miss Iceland|Iceland]] || María Björk Sverrisdóttir || 19 || [[Reykjavík]]
|-
| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Femina Miss India|India]] || Uttara Mhatre || 19 || [[Nasik]]
|-
| {{flagicon|INA}} [[Miss Indonesia|Indonesia]] || [[Andi Botenri]] || 17 || [[Jakarta]]
|-
| {{flagicon|IRL}} [[Miss Ireland|Ireland]] || Roberta Brown || 19 || [[Derry]]
|-
| {{flag|IMN|name=Isle of Man}} || Maria Elizabeth Craig || 19 || [[Jurby]]
|-
| {{flagicon|ISR}} [[Miss Israel|Israel]] || Anat Kerem || 18 || [[Haifa]]
|-
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Miss World Italy|Italy]] || Raffaella del Rosario || 17 || [[Bologna]]
|-
| {{flagicon|JAM}} [[Miss Jamaica World|Jamaica]] || Cornelia Parchment || 19 || [[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]]
|-
| {{flagicon|JPN|1947}} [[Miss World Japan|Japan]] || Mutsuko Kikuchi || 20 || [[Tokyo]]
|-
| {{flagicon|LIB}} [[Miss Lebanon|Lebanon]] || May Mansour Chahwan || 19 || [[Beirut]]
|-
| {{flagicon|MAS}} [[Miss Malaysia|Malaysia]] || Nellie Teoh || 25 || [[Kuala Lumpur]]
|-
| {{flagicon|MLT}} [[Miss World Malta|Malta]] || Delina Camilleri || 18 || [[Mosta]]
|-
| {{flagicon|MEX}} [[Miss Mexico Organization|Mexico]] || Ana Ruth García || 23 || [[Villahermosa]]
|-
| {{flagicon|NZL}} [[New Zealand at Miss World|New Zealand]] || Susan  Mainland || 19 || [[Hamilton, New Zealand|Hamilton]]
|-
| {{flagicon|NOR}} [[Norway at Miss World|Norway]]  || Janett Krefting || 19 || [[Oslo]]
|-
| {{flagicon|PAN}} [[Señorita Panamá|Panama]] || María Lorena Moreno || 22 || [[Panama City]]
|-
| {{flagicon|PAR|1954}} [[Miss Paraguay|Paraguay]]  || Zulema Domínguez || 19 || [[Asuncion]]
|-
| {{flagicon|PER|state}} [[Miss Peru|Peru]] || Cynthia Piedra || 21 || [[Lima]]
|-
| {{flagicon|PHI|1936}} [[Mutya ng Pilipinas|Philippines]] || Sarah Jane Coronel Areza<ref>{{Cite news|last=Burton-Titular|first=Joyce|date=1 October 2013|title=From Vivien to Megan: The PH in Miss World history|url=https://www.rappler.com/entertainment/pageants/40304-philippines-miss-world-history/|access-date=28 April 2025|website=[[Rappler]]|language=en|archive-date=24 July 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724212547/https://onedio.com/haber/hepsi-zirveye-cikti-ancak-hepsi-orada-kalamadi-turkiye-nin-son-25-yildaki-turkiye-guzelleri-simdi-ne-yapiyor-860708|url-status=live}}</ref> || 22 || [[Manila]]
|-
| {{flagicon|POR}} [[Miss República Portuguesa|Portugal]] || Suzana Dias || 19 || [[Lisbon]]
|-
| {{flagicon|PUR|1952}} [[Miss World Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]] || Jannette Torres || 17 || [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]]
|-
| {{flagicon|SIN}} [[Miss Singapore World|Singapore]] || Yvonne Tan || 19 || [[Singapore]]
|-
| {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Miss Korea|South Korea]]{{Efn|Competed as Korea in the pageant}} || Choi Sung-yoon || 19 || [[Seoul]]
|-
| {{flagicon|ESP}} [[Miss Spain|Spain]] || Ana  Herrero || 17 || [[Zaragoza]]
|-
| {{flagicon|SRI}} [[Miss World Sri Lanka|Sri Lanka]] || Tania Pereira || 19 || [[Panadura]]
|-
| {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Miss Sweden|Sweden]] || Anne-Lie Sjöberg || 18 || [[Eskilstuna]]
|-
| {{flagicon|SUI}} [[Miss Switzerland|Switzerland]] || [[Lolita Morena]] || 22 || [[Locarno]]
|-
| {{flagicon|THA}} [[Miss Thailand World|Thailand]]|| [[Alisa Kajornchaiyakul]] || 17 || [[Bangkok]]
|-
| {{flagicon|TRI}} [[Miss Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]] || Althea Rocke || 22 || [[Port of Spain]]
|-
| {{flagicon|TUR}} [[Miss Turkey|Turkey]] || Ayse Güven || 20 || [[Istanbul]]
|-
| {{flagicon|TCA}} [[Miss Turks and Caicos|Turks and Caicos Islands]] || Lolita Ariza || 21 || [[Grand Turk Island|Grand Turk]]
|-
| {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Miss United Kingdom|United Kingdom]] || Della Dolan || 20 || [[Grimsby]]
|-
| {{flagicon|USA}} [[United States representatives at Miss World|United States]] || LuAnn Caughey || 23 || [[Abilene, Texas|Abilene]]
|-
|{{flagicon|ISV}} [[Miss US Virgin Islands|United States Virgin Islands]]
|Benedicta Acosta
|20
|[[Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands|St. Croix]]
|-
| {{flagicon|URU}} [[Miss Uruguay|Uruguay]] || Varinia Govea || 21 || [[Montevideo]]
|-
| {{flagicon|VEN|1954}} [[Miss Venezuela|Venezuela]] || [[Michelle Shoda]] || 22 || [[Maracaibo]]
|-
| {{flagicon|FRG}} [[Miss World Germany|West Germany]] || Kerstin Paeserack || 19 || [[Wilhelmshaven]]
|-
| {{flagicon|SAM}} [[Miss Samoa|Western Samoa]] || Lilly Hunt || 20 || [[Apia]]
|-
| {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Miss Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] || [[Ana Sasso]] || 19 || [[Split (city)|Split]]
|-
| {{flagicon|ZIM}} [[Miss Zimbabwe|Zimbabwe]] || Caroline Murinda || 22 || [[Harare]]
|}

== Notes ==
{{notelist}}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{official website|http://www.missworld.com|name=Official website}}

{{Miss World}}

[[Category:Miss World]]
[[Category:1982 in London]]
[[Category:1982 beauty pageants]]
[[Category:Beauty pageants in England]]
[[Category:Events at the Royal Albert Hall]]
[[Category:November 1982 in the United Kingdom]]