{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{short description|Polish dancer and beauty queen (born 1965)}} {{Infobox pageant titleholder | name=Aneta Kręglicka | photo= | title= [[Miss Polonia#Titleholders|Miss Polonia 1989]]<br />[[Miss World 1989]] | birth_place= [[Szczecin]], Poland | birth_date= {{Birth date and age|1965|3|23|df=y}} | birth_name= Aneta Beata Kręglicka | eye_color = Blue | hair_color = Blonde | height=173 cm | nationalcompetition= [[Miss Polonia#Titleholders|Miss Polonia 1989]]<br />(Winner)<br />[[Miss International 1989]]<br />(1st Runner-Up)<br />[[Miss World 1989]]<br />(Winner) }}

'''Aneta Beata Kręglicka''' (born 23 March 1965) is a Polish dancer and beauty queen who won the [[Miss World 1989]] contest<ref name="2009ref">(18 June 2009). [http://trojmiasto.gazeta.pl/trojmiasto/1,35612,6726604,Aneta_Kreglicka__Wierze_w_Tuska.html?as=1&startsz=x Aneta Kręglicka... skoro piękna, to pewnie głupia], ''[[Gazeta Wyborcza]]'' (in Polish), Retrieved 5 November 2010</ref> on 22 November 1989 in [[Hong Kong]], representing Poland. She became the first woman from Poland to win the title and the oldest titleholder when she was crowned on 22 November 1989, at the age of {{age in years and days|1965|3|23|1989|11|22}}. The next Pole to win said pageant was [[Karolina Bielawska]] in [[Miss World 2021|2021]].

== Early life == She was born in [[Szczecin]]. She studied [[economics]] at [[Gdańsk University]] and began graduate studies at [[SGH Warsaw School of Economics]] in Poland. She was a member of the contemporary dance group at Gdańsk University before entering the Miss Poland pageant.

== Miss World == In July 1989, she was crowned as [[Miss Polonia#Titleholders|Miss Polonia 1989]]. In September she traveled to Japan to represent her country at [[Miss International 1989]], almost winning the crown for Poland, becoming the first runner-up to [[Iris Klein]] of Germany.

After this experience, she had to prepare immediately for [[Miss World 1989|Miss World]], held in Hong Kong, and on 22 November 1989 won the title of Miss World 1989.<ref>[http://www.missworld.com/History-of-Miss-World/the-miss-world-history.html Miss World History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101113160532/http://www.missworld.com/History-of-Miss-World/the-miss-world-history.html |date=13 November 2010 }}</ref> For a year she traveled the world, fulfilling her obligations and helping the Miss World Organization with their charitable causes.

== Life after Miss World == In 2006, she took part in the [[Taniec z Gwiazdami (season 3)|third season]] of the [[Taniec z Gwiazdami|Polish version]] of ''[[Dancing With The Stars]]''. She was also one of the judges at [[Miss World 2006]], held in Poland that year.

She has one son, Aleksander, with her husband, [[Film director|director]] Maciej Żak.

== References == {{Reflist}}

{{s-start}} {{s-ach}} {{S-bef|before= {{flagicon|Iceland}} [[Linda Pétursdóttir]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Miss World]] |years = [[Miss World 1989|1989]]}} {{S-aft|after= {{flagicon|USA}} [[Gina Tolleson]]}}

{{s-bef|before={{flagicon|ISL}} [[Linda Pétursdóttir]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Miss World Continental Queen of Beauty#1989|Miss World Europe]] |years=[[Miss World 1989#Continental Queens of Beauty|1989]]}} {{s-aft|after={{nowrap|{{flagicon|IRE}} Siobhan McClafferty}}}}

{{s-bef|before= Joanna Gapińska}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Miss Polonia]] |years=[[Miss Polonia#Titleholders|1989]]}} {{s-aft|after=Joanna Michalska}}

{{s-bef|before= Joanna Gapińska}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Miss Polonia]] World |years=[[Miss Polonia#Titleholders|1989]]}} {{s-aft|after=Ewa Maria Szymczak}}

{{s-vac}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Miss Polonia]] International |years=[[Miss Polonia#Titleholders|1989]]}} {{s-aft|after=Ewa Maria Szymczak}}

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