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{{Short description|Beauty pageant edition}}
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{{Infobox beauty pageant
| photo       = [[File:MW 1987 - Thames TV.png|250px]]
| caption     = Miss World 1987 Titlecard
| winner      = [[Ulla Weigerstorfer]]<ref name="google.com1">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1899&dat=19871114&id=CRMgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UWYFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4563,1687010&hl=en|title=The Lewiston Journal|access-date=26 January 2016}}</ref><ref name="vienna.at">{{cite web|url=http://www.vienna.at/ulla-weigerstorfer-kandidiert-fuer-das-team-stronach/3624142|title=Ulla Weigerstorfer kandidiert für das Team Stronach|work=vienna.at|date=July 2013 |access-date=26 January 2016|language=de}}</ref> 
| represented = Austria
| date        = 12 November 1987
| presenters  = {{Hlist|[[Peter Marshall (UK broadcaster)|Peter Marshall]]|[[Alexandra Bastedo]]}}
| acts        = {{Hlist|[[Rick Astley]]}}
| venue       = [[Royal Albert Hall]], [[London]], United Kingdom 
| broadcaster = [[Thames Television]]
| entrants    = 78<ref name="google.com">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19871112&id=i_hNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U4sDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4994,2133522&hl=en|title=The Free Lance-Star|access-date=26 January 2016}}</ref> 
| placements  = 12
| debuts      = {{Hlist|Belize|Cook Islands}}
| returns     = {{Hlist|Argentina|Curaçao|Nigeria|Papua New Guinea}}
| withdraws   = {{Hlist|Antigua and Barbuda|British Virgin Islands|Gambia|Sierra Leone|Tonga}}
| before      = [[Miss World 1986|1986]]
| next        = [[Miss World 1988|1988]]
}}

'''Miss World 1987''', the 37th edition of the [[Miss World]] pageant, was held on 12 November 1987 at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in [London]], United Kingdom. The winner was [[Ulla Weigerstorfer]] (''Queen of Europe'') from [[Austria]].<ref name="google.com1"/><ref name="newsnetworldinternetservicegmbh">{{cite web|url=http://www.news.at/a/team-stronach-ulla-weigerstorfer-interview|title=Team Stronach - Eine Miss fuer Stronach|work=news.at|date=20 July 2013 |access-date=27 January 2016}}</ref> She was crowned by [[Miss World 1986]], [[Giselle Jeanne-Marie Laronde]] of Trinidad and Tobago. Runner-up was [[Albany Lozada|Albani Josefina Lozada Jiménez]] (''Queen of Americas'') from Venezuela, and third was Anna Margrét Jónsdóttir from Iceland.

This edition marked the debut of Belize and Cook Islands, and the return of Argentina and Papua New Guinea, which last competed in [[Miss World 1981|1981]] and Curaçao and Nigeria last competed in [[Miss World 1985|1985]]. Antigua and Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Gambia, Sierra Leone and Tonga, withdrew from the competition for unknown reasons.

== Results ==
[[File:Miss World 1987 Map.PNG|thumb|250px|Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1987<ref name="google.com"/><ref name="google.com1"/><ref name="huffingtonpost.co.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/26/history-of-miss-world_n_6225878.html|title=A Brief History Of Miss World In Pictures (slide #14)|date=26 November 2014|work=The Huffington Post UK|access-date=27 January 2016}}</ref>]]

=== Placements ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
! Placement
! Contestant
|-
| Miss World 1987
|
* {{flag|Austria}} – [[Ulla Weigerstorfer]]<ref name="google.com1"/><ref name="vienna.at"/><ref name="newsnetworldinternetservicegmbh"/><ref name="huffingtonpost.co.uk"/>
|-
| 1st runner-up
|
* {{flag|Venezuela|1954}} – [[Albany Lozada|Albani Lozada]]<ref name="google.com1"/><ref name="huffingtonpost.co.uk"/>
|-
| 2nd runner-up
|
* {{flag|Iceland}} – Anna Margret Jónsdóttir<ref name="google.com1"/><ref name="huffingtonpost.co.uk"/>
|-
| Top 6
|
* {{flag|Argentina}} – Katerina Ciscato
* {{flag|Colombia}} – Claudia Mercedes Escobar
* {{flag|Polish People's Republic|name=Poland}} – Monika Nowosadko<ref name="nowiny24.pl">{{cite web|url=http://www.nowiny24.pl/imprezy/artykuly/art/6104771,dzis-wielka-gala-miss-polonia-2010-glosujmy-na-olge-lackosz-z-jasla,id,t.html|title=Dziś wielka gala Miss Polonia 2010. Głosujmy na Olgę Lackosz z Jasła!|work=nowiny24.pl|date=11 December 2010 |access-date=27 January 2016}}</ref>
|-
| Top 12
|
* {{flag|France}} – [[Nathalie Marquay]]
* {{flag|Guam}} – Francel Manibog Caracol
* {{flag|Holland}} – Angelique Cremers
* {{flag|British Hong Kong|name=Hong Kong}} – [[Pauline Yeung]]
* {{flag|Israel}} – Ya'el Gerthler
* {{flag|Nigeria}} – Mary Ngozi Bienoseh
|}

=== Continental Queens of Beauty ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
! Continental Group
! Contestant
|-
| Africas
|
* {{flagu|Nigeria}} – Mary Ngozi Bienoseh
|-
| Americas
|
* {{flagu|Venezuela|1954}} – [[Albany Lozada|Albani Lozada]]
|-
| Asia
|
* {{flagu|British Hong Kong|name=Hong Kong}} – [[Pauline Yeung]]
|-
| Europe
|
* {{flagu|Austria}} – [[Ulla Weigerstorfer]]
|-
| Oceania
|
* {{flagu|Guam}} – Francel Manibog Caracol
|}

== Judges ==
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
* [[Eric Morley]] † – Chairperson of [[Miss World]]
* [[Linford Christie]]
* Robert Coleman
* John Coleman
* [[Pilin Leon]] – [[Miss World 1981]] from Venezuela
* [[Hayley Mills]]
* Albert Vinci
* [[Rick Wakeman]]
* [[Simon Williams (actor)|Simon Williams]]
{{div col end}}

== Contestants ==
78 countries participated in Miss World 1987.<ref name="google.com"/>
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
! Country/Territory || Contestant || Age{{Efn|Ages at the time of the pageant}} || Hometown 
|-
| {{flagicon|ARG}} [[Belleza Argentina|Argentina]]|| Katerina Ciscato<ref name="google.com" />|| 17 || [[La Plata]]
|-
| {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Miss World Australia|Australia]]|| Donna Rudrum<ref>{{Cite web |last=McHugh |first=Jillian |date=30 August 2015 |title=Miss World Australia crowned |url=https://thewest.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-gossip/miss-world-australia-crowned-ng-ya-170765 |access-date=4 May 2025 |website=The West Australian |language=en}}</ref> || 23 || [[Melbourne]]
|-
| {{flagicon|AUT}} [[Miss Austria|Austria]]|| [[Ulla Weigerstorfer]]<ref name="google.com1" /><ref name="vienna.at" />|| 20 || [[Vienna]]
|-
| {{flagicon|BAH}} [[Miss Bahamas|Bahamas]]|| Indira Wood<ref name="google.com" />|| 21 || [[Nassau, Bahamas|Nassau]]<ref name="google.com" />
|-
| {{flagicon|BAR}} [[Miss Barbados World|Barbados]]|| Dawn Michelle Waithe || 19 || [[Bridgetown]]
|-
| {{flagicon|BEL}} [[Miss Belgium|Belgium]]|| Lynn Wesenbeek || 24 || [[Antwerp]]
|-
| {{flagicon|BIZ|1981}} [[Miss Belize|Belize]]|| Janine Sylvestre || 20 || [[Belize City]]
|-
| {{flagicon|BER}} [[Miss World Bermuda|Bermuda]]|| Kim Elizabeth Johnston || 20 || [[Southampton Parish, Bermuda|Southampton]]
|-
| {{flagicon|BOL}} [[Miss Bolivia|Bolivia]]|| Birgit Ellefsen || 19 || [[Cochabamba]]
|-
| {{flagicon|BRA|1968}} [[Miss Brazil World|Brazil]]|| Simone Augusto Costa da Silva || 20 || [[Recife]]
|-
| {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Miss World Canada|Canada]]|| Tracey Westerholm || 24 || [[Vancouver]]
|-
| {{flagicon|CAY|old}} [[Miss Cayman Islands|Cayman Islands]]|| Desirée Ann Hunter || 22 || [[Grand Cayman]]
|-
| {{flagicon|CHI}} [[Miss World Chile|Chile]]|| [[Yasna Vukasovic]]|| 18 || [[Punta Arenas]]
|-
| {{flagicon|COL}} [[Señorita Colombia|Colombia]]|| Claudia Mercedes Escobar<ref name="google.com" />|| 21 || [[Cali]]
|-
| {{flagicon|COK}} [[Miss Cook Islands|Cook Islands]]|| Michelle Leone Oberg<ref>{{Cite web |last=Skews |first=Robert |title=Cook Islands' hard working commercial traveller |url=https://issuu.com/cookislandssun/docs/cisun_2021/s/12365775 |access-date=4 May 2025 |website=Cook Islands Sun |language=en |via=Issuu}}</ref> || 21 || [[Rarotonga]]
|-
| {{flagicon|CRC}} [[Reinas de Costa Rica|Costa Rica]]|| Alejandra Martínez || 20 || [[Cartago, Costa Rica|Cartago]]
|-
| {{flagicon|CUR}} [[Señorita Curaçao|Curaçao]]|| Diana Fraai || 18 || [[Willemstad]]
|-
| {{flagicon|CYP|1960}} [[Miss Cyprus|Cyprus]]|| Niki Christou || 20 || [[Nicosia]]
|-
| {{flagicon|DEN}} [[Miss Denmark|Denmark]]|| Zelma Hesselmann || 17 || [[Copenhagen]]
|-
| {{flagicon|DOM}} [[Miss Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]]|| Paula del Carmen Lora<ref name="google.com" />|| 21 || [[Salcedo, Dominican Republic|Salcedo]]
|-
| {{flagicon|ECU}} [[Miss Ecuador|Ecuador]]|| Cecilia Pozo<ref name="google.com" />|| 21 || [[Guayaquil]]
|-
| {{flagicon|ESA}} [[Reinado de El Salvador|El Salvador]]|| Claudia Alvarenga || 19 || [[San Salvador]]
|-
| {{flagicon|FIN}} [[Miss Finland|Finland]]|| Minna Rinnetmäki || 19 || [[Tampere]]
|-
| {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Miss France|France]]|| [[Nathalie Marquay]]|| 20 || [[Mulhouse]]
|-
| {{flagicon|GIB}} [[Miss Gibraltar|Gibraltar]]|| Mayte Sanchez || 19 || [[Gibraltar]]
|-
|{{flagicon|GRE}} [[Star Hellas|Greece]]|| Helen Moskiou || 20 || [[Athens]]
|-
| {{flagicon|GUM}} [[Miss World Guam|Guam]]|| Francel Manibog Caracol || 24 || [[Tumon, Guam|Tumon]]
|-
| {{flagicon|GUA}} [[Miss Guatemala|Guatemala]]|| Mábel Hernández || 24 || [[Chinautla]]
|-
| {{flagicon|NED}} [[Miss Nederland|Holland]]|| Angelique Cremers<ref name="google.com" />|| 22 || [[Schinveld]]
|-
| {{flagicon|HON|1949}} [[Miss Honduras|Honduras]]|| Claudia María Paz || 18 || [[San Pedro Sula]]
|-
| {{flagicon|British Hong Kong}} [[Miss Hong Kong|Hong Kong]]|| [[Pauline Yeung]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Yuen |first=Norman |date=22 November 2022 |title=10 Miss Hong Kong winners from the 1980s – what are they doing now? |url=https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3200520/10-miss-hong-kongs-1980s-where-are-they-now-joyce-godenzi-marrying-martial-arts-master-sammo-hung |access-date=4 May 2025 |website=South China Morning Post |language=en}}</ref> || 20 || [[Hong Kong Island]]
|-
| {{flagicon|ISL}} [[Miss Iceland|Iceland]]|| Anna Margret Jónsdóttir<ref name="google.com" />|| 21 || [[Reykjavík]]
|-
| {{flagicon|IND}} [[Femina Miss India|India]]|| Manisha Kohli || 17 || [[Mumbai|Bombay]]
|-
| {{flagicon|IRL}} [[Miss Ireland|Ireland]]|| Adrienne Rock || 22 || [[Dublin]]
|-
| {{IMN}} || Lesley Henthorn || 18 || [[Douglas, Isle of Man|Greeba]]
|-
| {{flagicon|ISR}} [[Miss Israel|Israel]]|| Ya'el Gerthler || 19 || [[Rehovot]]
|-
| {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Miss World Italy|Italy]]|| Barbara Martinuzzi || 17 || [[Turin]]
|-
| {{flagicon|JAM}} [[Miss Jamaica World|Jamaica]]|| Janice Whittingham || 20 || [[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]]
|-
| {{flagicon|JPN|1947}} [[Miss World Japan|Japan]]|| Keiko Unno || 20 || [[Tokyo]]
|-
| {{flagicon|KEN}} [[Miss World Kenya|Kenya]]|| Sheila Kegode || 21 || [[Nairobi]]
|-
| {{flagicon|LIB}} [[Miss Lebanon|Lebanon]]|| Josiane Haddad || 21 || [[Beirut]]
|-
| {{flagicon|LUX}} [[Miss Luxembourg|Luxembourg]]|| Claudine Atten || 24 || [[Erpeldange]]
|-
| {{flagicon|MAC|municipal}} [[Miss Macau|Macau]]|| Olívia do Rosário || 17 || [[Portuguese Macau|Macau]]
|-
| {{flagicon|MAS}} [[Miss World Malaysia|Malaysia]]|| Sheela Shankar || 23 || [[Kuala Lumpur]]
|-
| {{flagicon|MLT}} [[Miss World Malta|Malta]]|| Joanne Corser || 18 || [[Paola, Malta|Paola]]
|-
| {{flagicon|MRI}} [[Miss Mauritius|Mauritius]]|| Marie-France Mamet || 25 || [[Grand Bay, Mauritius|Grand Bay]]
|-
| {{flagicon|MEX}} [[Miss Mexico Organization|Mexico]]|| Elizabeth  Carrillo || 20 || [[Mazatlán]]
|-
| {{flagicon|NZL}} [[New Zealand at Miss World|New Zealand]]|| Karyn Metcalf || 18 || [[Manukau City|Manukau]]
|-
|{{flagicon|NGR}} [[Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria|Nigeria]]|| Mary Ngozi Bienoseh || 19 || [[Benue State|Benue]]
|-
| {{flagicon|NOR}} [[Norway at Miss World|Norway]]|| Mette Veiseth || 18 || [[Namsos (town)|Namsos]]
|-
| {{flagicon|PAN}} [[Señorita Panamá|Panama]]|| María Cordelia Denis || 19 || [[Panama City]]
|-
| {{PNG}}|| Harriet Joan Warren || 19 || [[Port Moresby]]
|-
| {{flagicon|PAR|1954}} [[Miss Paraguay|Paraguay]]|| Lourdes Stanley || 19 || [[Hohenhau]]
|-
| {{flagicon|PER}} [[Miss Peru|Peru]]|| Suzette Woodman || 21 || [[Lima]]
|-
| {{flagicon|PHI|1985}} [[Mutya ng Pilipinas|Philippines]]|| Maria Lourdes Apostol || 21 || [[Manila]]
|-
| {{flagicon|POL}} [[Miss Polski|Poland]]|| Monika Nowosadko<ref name="nowiny24.pl" />|| 23 || [[Kolobrzeg]]
|-
| {{flagicon|POR}} [[Miss República Portuguesa|Portugal]]|| Paula Isabel Leal do Sousa || 18 || [[Lisbon]]
|-
| {{flagicon|SKN}} [[Miss St. Kitts & Nevis|Saint Kitts and Nevis]]|| Jennifer Hensley || 20 || [[Basseterre]]
|-
| {{flagicon|VIN}} [[Miss St. Vincent and the Grenadines|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]|| Nicole Hadaway || 19 || [[Kingstown]]
|-
| {{flagicon|SIN}} [[Miss Singapore World|Singapore]]|| Janicia Koh || 21 || [[Singapore|Spottiswoode Park]]
|-
| {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Miss Korea|South Korea]]{{Efn|Competed as Korea in the pageant}} || Chung Myoung-sun || 22 || [[Seoul]]
|-
| {{flagicon|ESP}} [[Miss Spain|Spain]]|| Sonsoles Artigas || 20 || [[Las Palmas]]
|-
| {{flagicon|SRI}} [[Miss World Sri Lanka|Sri Lanka]]|| Priyanjali de Alwis || 21 || [[Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia|Dehiwala]]
|-
| {{flagicon|SWZ}} [[Miss Swaziland|Swaziland]]|| Phindile Simelane || 17 || [[Mbabane]]
|-
| {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Miss Sweden|Sweden]]|| Karin Trydell || 18 || [[Laholm]]
|-
| {{flagicon|SUI}} [[Miss Switzerland|Switzerland]]|| Gabriela Bigler || 23 || [[Bern]]
|-
| {{flagicon|TH}} [[Miss Thailand World|Thailand]]|| Benjawan Srilapan<ref>{{Cite news |date=22 September 1987 |title=Thai beauty's all set for Miss World contest |language=en |pages=9 |work=The Straits Times |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/page/straitstimes19870922-1.1.9 |access-date=4 May 2025 |via=National Library Board}}</ref> || 18 || [[Bangkok]]
|-
| {{flagicon|TTO}} [[Miss Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]]|| Maria del Valle Xavier || 18 || [[Diego Martin]]
|-
| {{flagicon|TUR}} [[Miss Turkey|Turkey]]|| Şebnem Dinçgor || 17 || [[Istanbul]]
|-
| {{flagicon|TCA}} [[Miss Turks and Caicos|Turks and Caicos Islands]]|| Edna Smith || 20 || [[Grand Turk Island|Grand Turk]]
|-
| {{flagicon|UK}} [[Miss United Kingdom|United Kingdom]]|| [[Karen Mellor]]<ref name="google.com" />|| 24 || [[Barnsley]]
|-
| {{flagicon|US}} [[United States representatives at Miss World|United States]]|| Clotlide Cabrera || 23 || [[Tampa Bay, Florida|Tampa Bay]]
|-
|{{flagicon|ISV}} [[Miss US Virgin Islands|United States Virgin Islands]]
|Lisa Pitram
|17
|[[Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands|St. Thomas]]
|-
| {{flagicon|URU}} [[Miss Uruguay|Uruguay]]|| Mónica Borrea || 23 || [[Montevideo]] 
|-
| {{flagicon|VEN|1954}} [[Miss Venezuela|Venezuela]]|| [[Albany Lozada|Albani Lozada]]<ref name="google.com"/>  || 22 || [[Acarigua]] 
|-
| {{flagicon|FRG}} [[Miss World Germany|West Germany]]|| Christiane Kopp<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 March 1988 |title=Young beauty queens |language=en |pages=12 |work=The Vancouver Sun |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57859313/the-vancouver-sun/ |access-date=4 May 2025 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>  || 19 || [[Berlin]]
|-
| {{flagicon|SAM}} [[Miss Samoa|Western Samoa]]|| Ainslie Berking || 18 || [[Apia]] 
|-
| {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Miss Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]|| Matilda Sazdova || 18 || [[Skopje]] 
|}

== Notes ==
{{notelist}}

=== Withdrawals ===
* '''{{flagu|British Virgin Islands}}''' – because of the national pageant postponement
* '''{{flagu|Sierra Leone}}''' – because of the national pageant postponement

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111116054007/http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/world_1987.htm Pageantopolis – Miss World 1987]

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