Miss World 1996

Miss World 1996
Miss World 1996 Titlecard
Date 23 November 1996
Presenters Richard Steinmetz, Ruby Bhatia
Venue M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India
Broadcaster E!, Zee TV
Entrants 88
Placements 10
Debuts Bonaire, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia
Withdrawals Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Denmark
Returns Grenada, Kenya, Uganda, Uruguay, Yugoslavia
Winner Irene Skliva
 Greece
Personality Daisy Reyes
 Philippines
Best National Costume Anuska Prado
 Brazil
Photogenic Ana Cepinska
 Venezuela

Miss World 1996, the 46th edition of the Miss World pageant, took place on 23 de Novembro de 1996 in the city of Bangalore, India.[1][2] Preliminaries were shot in India and in Seychelles. 88 contestants from all over the world took part in the prestigious pageant. By the end of the night, 18 Anos de Idade Irene Skliva of Greece took home the title. She was crowned by Jacqueline Aguilera of Venezuela.

Results

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1996[1][3]

Placements

Final results Contestant
Miss World 1996
1st Runner-Up
2nd Runner-Up
  •  Brazil – Anuska Valéria Prado
Top 5
Semi-finalists

Continental Queens of Beauty

Continental Group Contestant
Africa
Americas
Asia & Oceania
Caribbean
  •  Aruba – Afranina Henriquez
Europe

Contestants

Country/TerritoryContestantAge
Template:Country data Ilhas virgens AmericanasEmoliere Williams18
 ArgentinaFernanda Fernández Ramírez18
 ArubaAfranina Henriquez20
Template:Country data AustráliaNicole Smith24
Template:Country data ÁustriaBettina Buxbaumer23
 BangladeshRehnuma Dilruba20
 BelgiumLaurence Borremans18
 BoliviaAndrea Mariana Forti Sandoval19
 BonaireJhane Louise Landwier18
 Bosnia & HerzegovinaBelma Zvrko18
Template:Country data BotsuanaJoyce Manase20
 BrasilAnuska Valeria Prado20
Template:Country data Ilhas Virgens britânicasAyana Glasgow21
Template:Country data BulgáriaViara Kamenova21
Template:Country data CanadáMichelle Weswaldi19
 ChileLuz Francisca Valenzuela Höllzer20
Template:Country data ColômbiaCarolina Arango Corrales19
 Costa RicaNatalia Carvajal Lorenzo21
Template:Country data CroáciaVanja Rupena18
 CuraçãoYandra Angelica Faulborn19
Template:Country data ChipreMaria Papaprodromou19
Template:Country data República ChecaPetra Minářová18
Template:Country data República DominicanaIdelsa Núñez Torres21
 EcuadorJennifer Lynn Graham Dumani19
 EstoniaMari-Liis Kapustin18
 FinlandHanna Hirvonen20
 FranceSéverine Derouallé22
 GermanyMelanie Ernst18
 GhanaSheila Azuntaba19
 GibraltarSamantha Lane17
 GreeceIrene Skliva18
 GrenadaAria Johnson25
 GuamAileen Maravilla23
 GuatemalaMaría Gabriela Rosales Castellaños19
 HollandPetra Hoost20
 Hong KongChillie Poon24
 HungaryAndrea Deak19
 IndiaRani Joan Jeyraj21
 IrelandNiamh Marie Redmond19
 IsraelTalia Lewenthal18
 ItalyMara de Gennaro24
 JamaicaSelena Delgado21
 JapanMiyuki Fujii21
 KenyaPritpal Kulwant Dhamu18
 KoreaSeol Soo-jin21
 LatviaAnta Dukere22
 LebanonNisrine Sami Nasser22
 LithuaniaDaiva Anuzyte18
Macau Guiomar Madeira da Silva Pedruco22
 MacedoniaVera Mesterovic17
 MalaysiaQu-an How Cheok Kuan20
 MexicoYessica Salazar González21
 New ZealandKelly-Rose Mischiewski21
 NigeriaEmma Komlosy19
 NorwayEva Sjøholt24
 PanamaNorma Élida Pérez Rodríguez21
 ParaguayMaría Ingrid Götze Scheunemann22
 PeruMónica Chacón de Vettori21
 PhilippinesDaisy Reyes20
 PolandAgnieszka Zielińska20
 PortugalAna Mafalda Schaefer de Almeida Santos21
 Puerto RicoMarissa de la Caridad Hernández21
 RomaniaCarmen Radoi21
 RussiaViktoriya Tsapitsina17
 SeychellesChristina Pillay22
 SingaporeCarol Tan19
 SlovakiaLinda Lencova18
 SloveniaAlenka Vindiš18
 South AfricaPeggy-Sue Khumalo21
 SpainPatricia Ruiz Fernández19
 SwazilandOlive Healy22
 SwedenÅsa Johansson20
  SwitzerlandMelanie Winiger17
 TahitiHinerava Hiro18
 TaiwanChen Hsiao-Fen23
 TanzaniaShose Akare Sinare20
 ThailandSirinya Winsiri17
 Trinidad & TobagoSharda Ramlogan23
 TurkeySerpil Sevilay Ozturk19
 UgandaSheba Kerere19
 UkraineNataliya Shvachko20
 United KingdomRachael Liza Warner22
 United StatesKelly Webber20
 UruguayClaudia Verónica Gallaretta Olmedo19
 VenezuelaAna Cepinska18
 FR YugoslaviaSlavica Krivokuća18
 ZambiaAlice Banda21
 ZimbabweNomsa Ndiweni19

Judges

Notes

Debuts

  •  Bonaire
  •  Bosnia & Herzegovina
  •  Macedonia

Returns

  • Last competed in 1970:
    •  Grenada
  • Last competed in 1991:
    •  Yugoslavia
  • Last competed in 1993:
    •  Uganda
    •  Uruguay
  • Last competed in 1994:
    •  Kenya

Withdrawals

  •  Bahamas – Due to financial problems
  •  Cayman Islands – Due to financial problems

Controversy

The event was organised by ABCL which was led by Amitabh Bachchan.[5] The beauty pageant saw resistance by several groups due to the perceived culture clash.[6][7][3][8] However, due to support of the local government, the event was held successfully.

References

  1. 1 2 "Hundreds protest Miss World contest in India". Daily News. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Ocala Star-Banner
  3. 1 2 "Miss World contest draws flak in Bangalore : INDIASCOPE – India Today". Indiatoday.intoday.in. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  4. ↑ The Daily Gazette
  5. ↑ "Rediff on the NeT: Amitabh Bachchan, in an exclusive interview". Rediff.com. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Beauty Pageant Stirs Protests". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  7. ↑ "Mahila Jagran Manch, Bangalore vs State of Karnataka And Others on 19 November, 1996". Indiankanoon.org. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  8. ↑ "CNN – Indian police prepare for worst in beauty pageant clash – Nov. 22, 1996". Edition.cnn.com. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
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