{{Short description|Beauty pageant edition}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}} {{EngvarB|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox beauty pageant | photo = Miss World 1989 - ATV HK.png | caption = Miss World 1989 Titlecard | winner = [[Aneta Kręglicka]]<ref name="TEN"/><ref name="OCB-1"/> | represented = Poland | date = 22 November 1989 | presenters = {{Hlist|[[Peter Marshall (UK broadcaster)|Peter Marshall]]|[[Alexandra Bastedo]]|[[John Davidson (entertainer)|John Davidson]]}} | acts = {{Hlist|[[Aswad (band)|Aswad]]}} | venue = [[Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre]], [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]] | broadcaster = [[Asia Television]] | entrants = 78 | placements = 10 | debuts = {{Hlist|Hungary|Latvia|Namibia|Union of Soviet Socialist Republics}} | returns = {{Hlist|Aruba|Czechoslovakia|Panama|Puerto Rico|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}} | photogenic = Anna Gorbunova (Soviet Union) | personality = Greet Ramaekers (Belgium) | withdraws = {{Hlist|Barbados|British Virgin Islands|Bulgaria|Cook Islands|Egypt|India|Isle of Man|Lebanon|Liberia|Saint Kitts and Nevis|Sierra Leone|Swaziland|Turks and Caicos Islands|Uruguay|Western Samoa}} | before = [[Miss World 1988|1988]] | next = [[Miss World 1990|1990]] }}

'''Miss World 1989''', the 39th edition of the [[Miss World]] pageant, was held on 22 November 1989 at the [[Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre]], [[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]]. 78 contestants competed in the pageant. It was the first time in history that the Miss World competition was staged outside of London. It was also the first time the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]] had sent a contestant in any major pageant. The winner was [[Aneta Kręglicka]] of [[Polish People's Republic|Poland]], who was the first Eastern European person to win the competition.<ref name="TEN"/><ref name="OCB-1"/> She was crowned by [[Miss World 1988]], [[Linda Pétursdóttir]] of Iceland.

== Debuts, returns, and, withdrawals == This edition marked the debut of Hungary, Latvia, Namibia and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.{{Efn|Also known as [[Soviet Union]]}} and the returns of Czechoslovakia, which last competed in [[Miss World 1969|1969]], Aruba and Puerto Rico last competed in [[Miss World 1985|1985]] and Panama and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines last competed in [[Miss World 1987|1987]]. On the other hand, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Cook Islands, Egypt, India, Isle of Man, Lebanon, Liberia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay and Western Samoa, withdrew from the competition.<ref name="TEN"/><ref name="OCB-1"/>

== Results == === Placements === {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" |- ! Placement ! Contestant |- | '''Miss World 1989''' | * '''{{flag|Poland}}''' – '''[[Aneta Kręglicka]]''' |- | 1st runner-up | * {{flag|Canada}} – Leanne Caputo |- | 2nd runner-up | * {{flag|Colombia}} – Mónica María Isaza |- | Top 10 | * {{flag|Australia}} – Natalie Tania McCurry * {{flag|Ireland}} – Barbara Curran * {{flag|Mauritius}} – Jeanne Françoise Clement * {{flag|Thailand}} – Prathumrat Woramali * {{flag|United Kingdom}} – Suzanne Younger * {{flag|United States}} – Jill Scheffert * {{flag|United States Virgin Islands}} – Vanessa Thomas |}

==== Continental Queens of Beauty ==== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" |- ! Continental Group ! Contestant |- | Africa | * {{flagu|Mauritius}} – Jeanne-Françoise Clement |- | Americas | * {{flagu|Canada}} – Leanne Caputo |- | Asia | * {{flagu|Thailand}} – Prathumrat Woramali |- | Caribbean | * {{flagu|United States Virgin Islands}} – Vanessa "Vania" Thomas |- | Europe | * {{flagu|Poland}} – [[Aneta Kręglicka]] |- | Oceania | * {{flagu|Australia}} – Natalie Tania McCurry |}

== Contestants == [[File:Miss World 1989 Map.PNG|thumb|250px|Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1989<ref name="TEN"/><ref name="OCB-1"/><ref name="Miklรณssy Ilic 2014"/>]]

78 contestants competed for the title. {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" |- ! Country/Territory || Contestant || Age || Hometown |- | {{flagicon|ARG}} [[Belleza Argentina|Argentina]] || Patricia Wiedenhofer || 17 || [[La Pampa (Córdoba)|La Pampa]] |- | {{flagicon|ARU}} [[Miss Aruba|Aruba]] || Dilailah Odor-Wever || 20 || [[Oranjestad, Aruba|Oranjestad]] |- | {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Miss World Australia|Australia]] || Natalie McCurry || 23 || [[North Bondi, New South Wales|North Bondi]] |- | {{flagicon|AUT}} [[Miss Austria|Austria]] || Marion Amann || 20 || [[Vienna]] |- | {{flagicon|BAH}} [[Miss Bahamas|Bahamas]] || Carolyn Moree || 17 || [[Nassau, Bahamas|Nassau]] |- | {{flagicon|BEL}} [[Miss Belgium|Belgium]] || Greet Ramaekers || 18 || [[Limbourg]] |- | {{flagicon|BIZ|1981}} [[Miss Belize|Belize]] || Martha Elena Badillo || 20 || [[San Pedro Town|San Pedro]] |- | {{flagicon|BER}} [[Miss World Bermuda|Bermuda]] || Cherie Tannock || 23 || [[Warwick, Bermuda|Warwick]] |- | {{flagicon|BOL}} [[Miss Bolivia|Bolivia]] || María Victoria Julio || 19 || [[Tarija, Bolivia|Tarija]] |- |{{flagicon|CAN}} [[Miss World Canada|Canada]] || Leanne Caputo || 23 || [[Milton, Ontario|Milton]] |- | {{flagicon|CAY|old}} [[Miss Cayman Islands|Cayman Islands]] || Michelle Garcia || 20 || [[Grand Cayman]] |- | {{flagicon|CHI}} [[Miss World Chile|Chile]] || Claudia Bahamondes || 17 || [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]] |- | {{flagicon|COL}} [[Señorita Colombia|Colombia]] || Mónica María Isaza || 20 || [[Medellín]] |- | {{flagicon|CRC|state}} [[Reinas de Costa Rica|Costa Rica]] || María Antonieta Sáenz || 18 || [[San José, Costa Rica|San José]] |- | {{flagicon|CUR}} [[Señorita Curaçao|Curaçao]] || Supharmy Sadji || 19 || [[Willemstad]] |- | {{flagicon|CYP|1960}} [[Miss Cyprus|Cyprus]] || Irma Voulgari || 17 || [[Larnaca]] |- | {{flagicon|TCH}} [[Miss Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovakia]] || Jana Hronková || 22 || [[Horšovský Týn]] |- | {{flagicon|DEN}} [[Miss Denmark|Denmark]] || Charlotte Pedersen || 19 || [[Holstebro]] |- | {{flagicon|DOM}} [[Miss Dominican Republic|Dominican Republic]] || Irma Mauriz || 23 || [[San Felipe de Puerto Plata]] |- | {{flagicon|ECU}} [[Miss Ecuador|Ecuador]] || Ximena Correa || 19 || [[Machala]] |- | {{flagicon|ESA}} [[Reinado de El Salvador|El Salvador]] || Ana Estela Aguilar || 20 || [[San Salvador]] |- | {{flagicon|FIN}} [[Miss Finland|Finland]] || Åsa Lövdahl || 20 || [[Helsinki]] |- | {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Miss France|France]] || Stephanie Zlotkowski || 17 || [[Bordeaux]] |- | {{flagicon|GHA}} [[Miss Ghana|Ghana]] || Afua Amoah Bonsu || 23 || [[Accra]] |- | {{flagicon|GIB}} [[Miss Gibraltar|Gibraltar]] || Audrey Gingell || 19 || [[Gibraltar]] |- |{{flagicon|GRE}} [[Star Hellas|Greece]] || Katerina Petropoulou || 19 || [[Athens]] |- | {{flagicon|GUM}} [[Miss World Guam|Guam]] || Cora Tricia Yanger || 18 || [[Mangilao]] |- | {{flagicon|GUA}} [[Miss Guatemala|Guatemala]] || Rocío Lerma de la Vega || 24 || [[Guatemala City]] |- | {{flagicon|GUY}} [[Miss Guyana|Guyana]] || Lyla Shalimar Ryhaan Majeed || 21 || [[Georgetown, Guyana|Georgetown]] |- | {{flagicon|NED}} [[Miss Nederland|Holland]] || Liesbeth Caspers || 21 || [[Noordwijk]] |- | {{flagicon|HON|1949}} [[Miss Honduras|Honduras]] || Belinda Bodden || 18 || [[San Pedro Sula]] |- | {{flagicon|British Hong Kong}} [[Miss Hong Kong|Hong Kong]] || [[Yvonne Yung|Ewong Yung-hung]] || 21 || [[Hong Kong Island]] |- | {{flagicon|HUN}} [[Miss Hungary|Hungary]] || Magdolna Gerloczy || 18 || [[Budapest]] |- | {{flagicon|ISL}} [[Miss Iceland|Iceland]] || Hugrún Guðmundsdóttir || 20 || [[Reykjavík]] |- | {{flagicon|IRL}} [[Miss Ireland|Ireland]] || Barbara Curran || 23 || [[Dublin]] |- | {{flagicon|ISR}} [[Miss Israel|Israel]] || Ronit Sutton || 19 || [[Jerusalem]] |- | {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Miss World Italy|Italy]] || Paola Mercurio || 17 || [[Naples]] |- | {{flagicon|JAM}} [[Miss Jamaica World|Jamaica]] || Natasha Marcanik || 19 || [[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]] |- | {{flagicon|JPN|1947}} [[Miss World Japan|Japan]] || Kaori Muto || 22 || [[Tokyo]] |- | {{flagicon|KEN}} [[Miss World Kenya|Kenya]] || Grace Chabari || 22 || [[Mombasa]] |- | {{flagicon|Latvian SSR}} [[Miss Latvia|Latvia]] || Ina Magone<ref>{{Cite news|date=21 April 2018|last=Tiļļa|first=Andris|title=30 gadi kopš skaistumkonkursā "Mis Rīga". Latvijas šovbiznesa balvas, skandāli, izaicinājumi, etaloni|trans-title=30 years since the beauty contest "Miss Riga". Latvian show business awards, scandals, challenges, benchmarks|url=https://www.la.lv/skaistums-uz-izkersanu|access-date=23 April 2025|website=LA.LV|language=Latvian|archive-date=1 April 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250401173245/https://www.la.lv/skaistums-uz-izkersanu|url-status=live}}</ref> || 18 || [[Liepāja]] |- | {{flagicon|LUX}} [[Miss Luxembourg|Luxembourg]] || Chris Scott || 23 || [[Luxembourg City]] |- | {{flagicon|MAC|municipal}} [[Miss Macau|Macau]] || Guilhermina Madeira da Silva Pedruco<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lo |first=Ricky |date=27 November 2007 |title=Juicy trivia on the Miss World pageant |url=https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2007/11/27/29836/juicy-trivia-miss-world-pageant |access-date=4 May 2025 |website=[[Philippine Star]] |language=en}}</ref> || 19 || [[Portuguese Macau|Macau]] |- | {{flagicon|MAS}} [[Miss World Malaysia|Malaysia]] || Vivien Chen Shee Yee || 24 || [[Kuching]] |- | {{flagicon|MLT}} [[Miss World Malta|Malta]] || Marika Micallef || 18 || [[Għargħur]] |- | {{flagicon|MRI}} [[Miss Mauritius|Mauritius]] || Jeanne-Françoise Clement || 20 || [[Beau Bassin]] |- | {{flagicon|MEX}} [[Miss Mexico Organization|Mexico]] || Nelia María Ochoa || 19 || [[Veracruz]] |- | {{flagicon|RSA|1928}} [[Miss Namibia|Namibia]] || Emarencia Esterhuizen || 22 || [[Windhoek]] |- | {{flagicon|NZL}} [[New Zealand at Miss World|New Zealand]] || Helen Rowney<ref>{{cite news |title=Page 9 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/press/1989/09/20/9 |work=[[The Press]] |page=9 |access-date=1 October 2025 |date=20 September 1989 |location=[[Christchurch]], New Zealand |via=[[National Library of New Zealand#Papers Past|Papers Past]]}}</ref> || 19 || [[Wellington]] |- |{{flagicon|NGR}} [[Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria|Nigeria]] || [[Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu|Bianca Onoh]] || 22 || [[Enugu (city)|Enugu]] |- | {{flagicon|NOR}} [[Norway at Miss World|Norway]] || Bente Brunland || 22 || [[Oslo]] |- | {{flagicon|PAN}} [[Señorita Panamá|Panama]] || Gloria Quintana || 19 || [[Panama City]] |- | {{PNG}}|| Joycelin Leahy || 24 || [[Morobe Province]] |- | {{flagicon|PAR|1988}} [[Miss Paraguay|Paraguay]] || Alicia María Jaime || 20 || [[Asunción]] |- | {{flagicon|PER|state}} [[Miss Peru|Peru]] || Maritza Zorrilla || 20 || [[Lima]] |- | {{flagicon|PHI|1986}} [[Mutya ng Pilipinas|Philippines]] || Estrella Querubin || 20 || [[Manila]] |- | '''{{flagicon|Polish People's Republic}} [[Miss Polski|Poland]]''' || '''[[Aneta Kręglicka]]'''<ref name="TEN" /><ref name="OCB-1" /> || 24 || [[Gdańsk]] |- | {{flagicon|POR}} [[Miss República Portuguesa|Portugal]] || Maria Angélica Mira || 18 || [[Lisbon]] |- | {{flagicon|PUR}} [[Miss World Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]] || Tania Collazo || 18 || [[Orocovis]] |- | {{flagicon|VIN}} [[Miss St. Vincent and the Grenadines|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]] || Anna Young || 19 || [[Kingstown]] |- | {{flagicon|SIN}} [[Miss Singapore World|Singapore]] || Jacqueline Ang || 18 || [[Singapore]] |- | {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Miss Korea|South Korea]]{{efn|competed as Korea in the pageant}} || [[Kim Hye-ri (actress)|Kim Hye-ri]] || 19 || [[Seoul]] |- | {{flagicon|ESP}} [[Miss Spain|Spain]] || Eva Pedraza || 18 || [[Córdoba, Spain|Córdoba]] |- | {{flagicon|SRI}} [[Miss World Sri Lanka|Sri Lanka]] || Serena Danvers || 21 || [[Colombo]] |- | {{flagicon|SWE}} [[Miss Sweden|Sweden]] || Lena Berglind || 23 || [[Gothenburg]] |- | {{flagicon|SUI}} [[Miss Switzerland|Switzerland]] || Catherine Mesot || 23 || [[Wil]] |- | {{flagicon|TWN}} [[Miss Taiwan|Taiwan]]{{Efn|Also known as the [[Republic of China]] in the pageant}} || Wang Min-yei || 22 || [[Taipei]] |- | {{flagicon|THA}} [[Miss Thailand World|Thailand]] || Prathumrat Woramali<ref>{{Cite news |date=30 April 1989 |title=Thai beauty who returned |language=en |pages=10 |work=The Straits Times |url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/page/straitstimes19890430-1.1.10 |access-date=4 May 2025 |via=National Library Board}}</ref> || 17 || [[Bangkok]] |- | {{flagicon|TRI}} [[Miss Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidad and Tobago]] || Samantha Bhagan || 22 || [[Diego Martin|Goodwood Park]] |- | {{flagicon|TUR}} [[Miss Turkey|Turkey]] || Burcu Burkut || 19 || [[İzmir]] |- | {{flagicon|UGA}} [[Miss Uganda|Uganda]] || Doreen Lamon-Opira || 20 || [[Kampala]] |- | {{flagicon|URS}} [[Miss USSR|Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]]{{Efn|competed as Soviet Union in the pageant}} || Anna Gorbunova<ref name="Miklรณssy Ilic 2014" /> || 22 || [[Moscow]] |- | {{flagicon|GBR}} [[Miss United Kingdom|United Kingdom]] || Suzanne Younger || 23 || [[Shrewsbury]] |- | {{flagicon|USA}} [[United States representatives at Miss World|United States]] || Jill Scheffert || 21 || [[Oklahoma City]] |- |{{flagicon|ISV}} [[Miss US Virgin Islands|United States Virgin Islands]] || Vanessa "Vania" Thomas || 19 || [[Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands|St. Thomas]] |- | {{flagicon|VEN|1954}} [[Miss Venezuela|Venezuela]] || [[Fabiola Candosin|Fabiola Candosín]] || 19 || [[Caracas]] |- | {{flagicon|FRG}} [[Miss World Germany|West Germany]] || Jasmine Beil || 23 || [[Frankfurt]] |- | {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Miss Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] || Aleksandra Dobraš || 17 || [[Banja Luka]] |}

==Judges== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Eric Morley]] – Chairman and CEO of Miss World Organization * Krish Naidoo * Brian Daniels * Rob Brandt * Diane Hsin * [[Peter Lam]] * [[Giselle Laronde]] – [[Miss World 1986]] from Trinidad and Tobago * Richard Caring * George Pitman {{div col end}}

==Notes== {{notelist}} ===Debuts=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * '''{{flag|Hungary}}''' * '''{{flag|Latvian SSR|name=Latvia}}''' (Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic) * '''{{flag|South West Africa|name=Namibia}}''' * '''{{flag|USSR}}''' {{div col end}}

===Returns=== {{div col|colwidth=22em}} *Last competed in [[Miss World 1969|1969]]: ** '''{{flag|Czechoslovakia}}''' *Last competed in [[Miss World 1985|1985]]: ** '''{{flag|Aruba}}''' ** '''{{flag|Puerto Rico|1952}}''' *Last competed in [[Miss World 1987|1987]]: ** '''{{flag|Panama}}''' ** '''{{flag|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}}''' {{div col end}}

===Replacements=== * '''{{flag|Soviet Union}}''' – Yulia Sukhanova did not compete due to parental refusal to sign any contract with the Miss USSR organizers due to being underaged or overaged.<ref>[http://www.realussr.com/ussr/the-very-first-miss-ussr The Very First Miss USSR ]</ref>

===Withdrawals=== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * '''{{flag|Barbados}}''' * '''{{flag|British Virgin Islands}}''' * '''{{flag|Bulgaria|1971}}''' * '''{{flag|Egypt}}''' * '''{{flag|India}}''' – National pageant postponed * '''{{flag|Lebanon}}''' – Due to a civil war {{div col end}} * '''{{flag|Lithuanian SSR|name=Lithuania}}''' (Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic) - Liucija Gruzdytė * '''{{flag|Sierra Leone|1989}}''' * '''{{flag|St. Kitts & Nevis}}''' * '''{{flag|Swaziland}}''' * '''{{flag|Turks & Caicos}}''' * '''{{flag|Uruguay}}''' * '''{{flag|Western Samoa|1988}}'''

===Other Notes=== * '''{{flag|Poland}}''' – [[Aneta Kręglicka]] competed in [[Miss International]] in [[Miss International|1989]], securing the second position behind [[Iris Klein]]. Shortly after, she participated in Miss World and clinched the crown, making her the first Polish woman to achieve this honor. In 2021, she won Miss World for the second time, following in the footsteps of [[Karolina Bielawska]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_International_1989 |title=Miss International 1989 |website=Wikipedia |access-date=October 26, 2023}}</ref>.

==References== <references> <ref name="TEN">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1982&dat=19891124&id=vSJHAAAAIBAJ&pg=5641,3393805&hl=en|title=European crowned Miss World '89| publisher=The Evening News|date=24 November 1989|access-date=23 January 2016}}</ref> <ref name="OCB-1">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19891124&id=KLhPAAAAIBAJ&pg=1479,14647&hl=en|title=Miss Poland destroys wall, wins Miss World | newspaper=[[Ocala Star-Banner]]|date=24 November 1989|access-date=23 January 2016}}</ref> <ref name="Miklรณssy Ilic 2014">{{cite book|last1=Miklossy|first1=K.|last2=Ilic|first2=M.|title=Competition in Socialist Society | publisher=Taylor & Francis|series=Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe|year=2014|isbn=978-1-317-75275-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LCAWBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA165|page=165}}</ref> </references>

{{Miss World}} {{Miss World 1989 delegates}}

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