Miss World 1991

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Miss World 1991 was the 41st edition of the Miss World pageant, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States, on 28 December 1991.

Gina Tolleson of the United States crowned Ninibeth Leal of Venezuela as her successor at the end of the event. Miss World 1991 was scheduled to be held in the Dominican Republic due to scheduling difficulties, Miss World was first moved to Puerto Rico, then to Atlanta, the United States. Preliminary swimsuits in Miss World 1991 were held in South Africa.[1]

Selection of participants

Replacements

Antonia Balint of Hungary was stripped of the Miss Hungary 1991 title, after photographs printed in Hungarian newspapers showed that she had previously appeared in the men's magazine Lui and other publications against Miss World rules.[2] She was replaced by her first runner-up, Timea Raba but Raba couldn't replace her for the same reason. Orsolya Michina represented Hungary instead.[3]

Debuts, returns, and, withdrawals

This edition marked the debut of Greenland and the return of South Africa, which last competed 1977Template:Efn, Antigua and Barbuda last competed in 1986, Lebanon and Swaziland last competed in 1988 and Ecuador, Malaysia and Taiwan last competed in 1989.

Barbados, Cook Islands, Egypt, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, Peru and Sri Lanka, withdrew from the competition. Tara Paat of Canada withdrew from the competitionTemplate:Efn and Ilmira Shamsutdinova of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, won Miss USSR 1991 and was invited to compete in this edition, but she was underage to attend.

Muriel Edoukou of Côte d'Ivoire was supposed to compete but withdrew from the competition due to failed to arrive.[4] Tracy Ann D'Abreu of Guyana also withdrew from the competition due to the controversy over her victory and citizenship, she was declared ineligible to compete at Miss World 1991.[5][6] Birgit Højgaard of Faroe Islands, was supposed to debut at Miss World 1991, however her separate participation was rejected by the Miss World Organization, because the Faroe Islands are an administrative part of Denmark, then she participated at Miss Denmark World 1991 and was second runner-up.[7]

Results

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Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1991[8][1]

Placements

Placement Contestant
Miss World 1991
1st Runner-Up
2nd Runner-Up
Top 5
Top 10

Continental Queens of Beauty

Continent/Region Contestant
Africa
Americas
Asia & Oceania
Caribbean
Europe

Judges

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  • Mike Favre
  • Brenda McLain
  • Phil Hayes
  • Marie DeGeorge
  • Eric Morley †- Chairman and CEO of Miss World Organization
  • Jarvis Astaire
  • Paul Block
  • Jane Ambrose
  • Edgar Botero

Contestants

Seventy-eight contestants competed for the title.

Country/Territory Contestant Age Hometown
Template:Flagdeco Antigua and Barbuda Joanne Bird 20 St. John's
Template:Flagicon Argentina Marcela Chazarreta 20 Buenos Aires
Template:Flagicon Aruba Sandra Croes 23 Santa Cruz
Template:Flagicon Australia Leanne Buckle 21 Brisbane
Template:Flagicon Austria Andrea Pfeiffer 18 Graz
Template:Flagicon Bahamas Tarnia Newton 19 New Providence
Template:Flagicon Belgium Anke Van dermeersch 19 Antwerp
Template:Flagicon Belize Josephine Gault 21 Belize City
Template:Flagicon Bolivia Mónica Gamarra 20 Cochabamba
Template:Flagicon Brazil Cátia Silene Kupssinskü 20 São Paulo
Template:Flagicon British Virgin Islands Marjorie Penn 18 Tortola
Template:Flagicon Bulgaria Liubomira Slavcheva 17 Sofia
Template:Flagicon Cayman Islands Yvette Peggy Jordison 19 Grand Cayman
Template:Flagicon Chile Carolina Michelson 23 Santiago
Template:Flagicon Colombia Adriana Rodríguez 20 Bogotá
Template:Flagicon Costa Rica Eugenie Jiménez 20 San Francisco de Heredia
Template:Flagicon Curaçao Nashaira Desbarida 23 Willemstad
Template:Flagicon Cyprus Anna Margaret Stephanou 18 Nicosia
Template:Flagicon Czechoslovakia Andrea Tatarkova 20 Košice
Template:Flagicon Denmark Sharon Givskav 17 Copenhagen
Template:Flagicon Dominican Republic Rosanna Rodríguez 21 Concepción de La Vega
Template:Flagicon Ecuador Sueanny Bejarano 20 Guayaquil
Template:Flagicon El Salvador Lucía Beatriz López 22 San Salvador
Template:Flagicon Finland Nina Autio 20 Tampere
Template:Flagicon France Mareva Georges 22 Punaauia
Template:Flagicon Germany Susanne Petry 18 Saarbrücken
Template:Flagicon Ghana Jamilla Danzuru 23 Accra
Template:Flagicon Gibraltar Ornella Costa 17 Gibraltar
Template:Flagicon Greece Miriam Panagos 20 Athens
Template:Flagicon Greenland Bibiane Holm 18 Nuuk
Template:Flagicon Guam Yvonne Limtiaco Speight 19 Asan
Template:Flagicon Guatemala Marlyn Magaña 20 Guatemala City
Template:Flagicon Holland Linda Egging 21 Stramproy
Template:Flagicon Honduras Arlene Rauscher 19 Tegucigalpa
Template:Flagicon Hungary Orsolya Michina 19 Budapest
Template:Flagicon Iceland Svava Haraldsdóttir 19 Reykjavík
Template:Flagicon India Ritu Singh 20 New Delhi
Template:Flagicon Ireland Amanda Brunker 18 Dublin
Template:Flagdeco Israel Li'at Ditkovsky 19 Nordia
Template:Flagicon Italy Sabina Pellati 19 Reggio Emilia
Template:Flagicon Jamaica Sandra Foster 21 Kingston
Template:Flagicon Japan Junko Tsuda 21 Tokyo
Template:Flagicon Kenya N'kirote M'mbijjiwe 21 Meru
Template:Flagicon Latvia Inese Šlesere[9] 19 Riga
Template:Flagicon Lebanon Diana Begdache 20 Beirut
Template:Flagicon Macau Cristina Guilherme Lam 20 Macau
Template:Flagicon Malaysia Samantha Schubert 22 Kuala Lumpur
Template:Flagicon Malta Romina Genuis 18 Gżira
Template:Flagicon Mauritius Marie Geraldine Deville 18 Centre de Flacq
Template:Flagicon Mexico María Cristina Urrutia 19 Mexico City
Template:Flagicon Namibia Michelle McLean 19 Windhoek
Template:Flagicon New Zealand Lisa de Montalk 21 Taupō
Template:Flagicon Nigeria Adenike Oshinowo 24 Lagos
Template:Flagicon Norway Anne-Britt Røvik 18 Molde
Template:Flagicon Panama Malena Betancourt 19 Panama City
Template:Flagicon Paraguay Vivian Benítez 21 Asuncion
Template:Flagicon Philippines Gemith Gemparo 20 Manila
Template:Flagicon Poland Karina Wojciechowska 19 Katowice
Template:Flagicon Portugal Maria do Carmo Ramalho 20 Lisbon
Template:Flagicon Puerto Rico Johanna Irizarry 20 Lajas
Template:Flagicon Romania Gabriela Dragomirescu 20 Bucharest
Template:Flagicon Singapore Jasheen Jayakody 18 Singapore
Template:Flagicon South Africa Diana Tilden-Davis 22 Johannesburg
Template:Flagicon South KoreaTemplate:Efn Kim Tae-hwa 20 Busan
Template:Flagicon Spain Catia Moreno 20 Tenerife
Template:Flagdeco Swaziland Jackie Bennett 20 Manzini
Template:Flagicon Sweden Catrin Olsson 23 Kungsbacka
Template:Flagdeco Switzerland Sandra Aegerter 22 Aargau
Template:Flagicon TaiwanTemplate:Efn Rebecca Lin 23 Taipei
Template:Flagdeco Thailand Rewadee Malaisee 21 Bangkok
Template:Flagicon Trinidad and Tobago Sastee Bachan 21 Port of Spain
Template:Flagicon Turkey Aslıhan Koruyan 19 Istanbul
Template:Flagicon United Kingdom Joanne Elizabeth Lewis 21 Mansfield
Template:Flagicon United States Charlotte Ray 25 Voorhees
Template:Flagicon United States Virgin Islands Cheryl Leiba Milligan 20 St. Croix
Template:Flagicon Uruguay Andrea Regina Gorrochategui 23 Montevideo
Template:Flagicon Venezuela Ninibeth Leal[8] 20 Maracaibo
Template:Flagicon Yugoslavia Slavica Tripunović 20 Vukovar

Notes

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Replacements

Other Notes

References

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External links

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