Mister World 1996

Mister World 1996
Date	September 20, 1996
Venue	Istanbul, Turkey
Entrants	50
Placements	10
Winner	Tom Nuyens  Belgium

Mister World 1996 the first edition of the Mister World Pageant was held on September 20, 1996,^[1] in Istanbul, Turkey. About 50 countries competed for the title. Tom Nuyens of Belgium crowned as the very first Mister World in 1996.

Results

Award

Felix Chavapri of Botswana won the Personality Award becoming the first African awardist in Mister World History. However, due to his fall on the ramp during the preliminaries, he was unplaced at the finals, ending in 12^th place.

Mister World 1996 Awards

Country	Contestant	Award	Placement
Botswana	Felix Chavaphi	Personality Award	Unplaced

Other Contestants

50 contestants competed for the title but only ten of them were qualified. The remaining delegates' journey were over during the finals.

Country	Contestant
Argentina	Raul Orlando Proietto
Australia	Arlington Brendan Leigh
Austria	Helmut Strebl
Bolivia	Marcelo Mauricio Ostria Borda
Botswana	Felix Chavaphi
Brazil	Thierre Di Castro Garrito
Bulgaria	Boyko Hristov
Canada	Jimmy Rai
Colombia	Franz Serrano
Croatia	Ivan Klemencic
Dominican Republic	Juan Salvador Vidal Gil
Estonia	Andrus Raissar
France	Laurent Piranian
Germany	Konrad Meyer
Greece	Harry Kinatzi
Holland	Joost Ammerlaan
Hungary	Zsolt Cseke
Ireland	Thomas Daniel Plewman
Israel	Zafrir Ben Zvi
Italy	Angelo D'Amelio
Latvia	Vilnis Solovjovs
Lebanon	Hadi Esta
Macedonia	Gazmend Berisa
Malaysia	Alvin Low Dai Wen
Norway	Otto Thorbjornsen
Philippines	Christopher Celis
Poland	Mariusz Trzcinski
Russia	Oleg Sukochenko
Singapore	Desmond Kong Hua Ng
Slovak Republic	Richard Ondrias
Slovenia	Marko Vranicar
South Africa	Charl Hector Coode
Spain	Jose Ramon Gutierrez Villar
Swaziland	Thulani Emmanuel Matsebula
Taiwan	Pin-Chao Kuo
Trinidad & Tobago	Ian Anthony Cormissiong
Ukraine	Nickolay Bezrodniy
USA	Daniel Lujan
Venezuela	Jose Gregorio Faria Ojeda
Yugoslavia	Slobadan Klinac

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