# Miss World 1991

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International beauty pageant

Miss World 1991 Miss World 1991 Titlecard Date 28 December 1991 Presenters Peter Marshall Gina Tolleson Entertainment Indecent Obsession Venue Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States Broadcaster E! Entrants 78 Placements 10 Debuts Greenland Withdrawals Barbados Canada Cook Islands Egypt Hong Kong Luxembourg Madagascar Papua New Guinea Peru Sri Lanka Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Returns Antigua and Barbuda Ecuador Lebanon Malaysia South Africa Swaziland Taiwan Winner Ninibeth Leal[1] Venezuela ← 1990 1992 →

**Miss World 1991** was the 41st edition of the [Miss World](/source/Miss_World) pageant, at the [Georgia World Congress Center](/source/Georgia_World_Congress_Center) in [Atlanta](/source/Atlanta), [Georgia](/source/Georgia_(U.S._state)), the United States, on 28 December 1991.

[Gina Tolleson](/source/Gina_Tolleson) of the United States crowned [Ninibeth Leal](/source/Ninibeth_Leal) of [Venezuela](/source/Venezuela) as her successor at the conclusion of the event. Miss World 1991 was scheduled to be held in the Dominican Republic but, due to scheduling difficulties, Miss World organisers moved the pageant, first to Puerto Rico, then finally settling in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. Preliminary swimsuits for the 1991 Miss World pageant was held in South Africa.[2]

## Selection of participants

### Replacements

Antonia Balint of Hungary was stripped of the [Miss Hungary](/source/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.[3] 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.[4]

### Debuts, returns, and, withdrawals

This edition marked the debut of Greenland and the return of South Africa, which last competed [1977](/source/Miss_World_1977)[a], Antigua and Barbuda last competed in [1986](/source/Miss_World_1986), Lebanon and Swaziland last competed in [1988](/source/Miss_World_1988) and Ecuador, Malaysia and Taiwan last competed in [1989](/source/Miss_World_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 competition[b] and Ilmira Shamsutdinova of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, won [Miss USSR](/source/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.[5] 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.[6][7] 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.[8]

## Results

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1991[1][2]

### Placements

Placement Contestant Miss World 1991 Venezuela – Ninibeth Leal 1st Runner-Up Australia – Leanne Buckle 2nd Runner-Up South Africa – Diana Tilden-Davis Top 5 Jamaica – Sandra Foster Namibia – Michelle McLean Top 10 France – Mareva Georges India – Ritu Singh New Zealand – Lisa de Montalk Turkey – Aslıhan Koruyan United States – Charlotte Ray

#### Continental Queens of Beauty

Continent/Region Contestant Africa South Africa – Diana Tilden-Davis Americas Venezuela – Ninibeth Leal Asia & Oceania Australia – Leanne Buckle Caribbean Jamaica – Sandra Foster Europe Turkey – Aslıhan Koruyan

## Judges

- Mike Favre

- Brenda McLain

- Phil Hayes

- Marie DeGeorge

- [Eric Morley](/source/Eric_Morley) - Chairman and CEO of Miss World Organization

- [Jarvis Astaire](/source/Jarvis_Astaire)

- Paul Block

- Jane Ambrose

- Edgar Botero

## Contestants

Seventy-eight contestants competed for the title.

Country/Territory Contestant Age Hometown Antigua and Barbuda Joanne Bird 20 St. John's Argentina Marcela Chazarreta 20 Buenos Aires Aruba Sandra Croes 23 Santa Cruz Australia Leanne Buckle 21 Brisbane Austria Andrea Pfeiffer 18 Graz Bahamas Tarnia Newton 19 New Providence Belgium Anke Van dermeersch 19 Antwerp Belize Josephine Gault 21 Belize City Bolivia Mónica Gamarra 20 Cochabamba Brazil Cátia Silene Kupssinskü 20 São Paulo British Virgin Islands Marjorie Penn 18 Tortola Bulgaria Liubomira Slavcheva 17 Sofia Cayman Islands Yvette Peggy Jordison 19 Grand Cayman Chile Carolina Michelson 23 Santiago Colombia Adriana Rodríguez 20 Bogotá Costa Rica Eugenie Jiménez 20 San Francisco de Heredia Curaçao Nashaira Desbarida 23 Willemstad Cyprus Anna Margaret Stephanou 18 Nicosia Czechoslovakia Andrea Tatarkova 20 Košice Denmark Sharon Givskav 17 Copenhagen Dominican Republic Rosanna Rodríguez 21 Concepción de La Vega Ecuador Sueanny Bejarano 20 Guayaquil El Salvador Lucía Beatriz López 22 San Salvador Finland Nina Autio 20 Tampere France Mareva Georges 22 Punaauia Germany Susanne Petry 18 Saarbrücken Ghana Jamilla Danzuru 23 Accra Gibraltar Ornella Costa 17 Gibraltar Greece Miriam Panagos 20 Athens Greenland Bibiane Holm 18 Nuuk Guam Yvonne Limtiaco Speight 19 Asan Guatemala Marlyn Magaña 20 Guatemala City Holland Linda Egging 21 Stramproy Honduras Arlene Rauscher 19 Tegucigalpa Hungary Orsolya Michina 19 Budapest Iceland Svava Haraldsdóttir 19 Reykjavík India Ritu Singh 20 New Delhi Ireland Amanda Brunker 18 Dublin Israel Li'at Ditkovsky 19 Nordia Italy Sabina Pellati 19 Reggio Emilia Jamaica Sandra Foster 21 Kingston Japan Junko Tsuda 21 Tokyo Kenya N'kirote M'mbijjiwe 21 Meru Latvia Inese Šlesere[9] 19 Riga Lebanon Diana Begdache 20 Beirut Macau Cristina Guilherme Lam 20 Macau Malaysia Samantha Schubert 22 Kuala Lumpur Malta Romina Genuis 18 Gżira Mauritius Marie Geraldine Deville 18 Centre de Flacq Mexico María Cristina Urrutia 19 Mexico City Namibia Michelle McLean 19 Windhoek New Zealand Lisa de Montalk[10] 21 Taupō Nigeria Adenike "Nike" Oshinowo 24 Lagos Norway Anne-Britt Røvik 18 Molde Panama Malena Betancourt 19 Panama City Paraguay Vivian Benítez 21 Asunción Philippines Gemith Gemparo 20 Manila Poland Karina Wojciechowska 19 Katowice Portugal Maria do Carmo Ramalho 20 Lisbon Puerto Rico Johanna Irizarry 20 Lajas Romania Gabriela Dragomirescu 20 Bucharest Singapore Jasheen Jayakody 18 Singapore South Africa Diana Tilden-Davis 22 Johannesburg South Korea[c] Kim Tae-hwa 20 Busan Spain Catia Moreno 20 Tenerife Swaziland Jackie Bennett 20 Manzini Sweden Catrin Olsson 23 Kungsbacka Switzerland Sandra Aegerter 22 Aargau Taiwan[d] Rebecca Lin 23 Taipei Thailand Rewadee Malaisee 21 Bangkok Trinidad and Tobago Sastee Bachan 21 Port of Spain Turkey Aslıhan Koruyan 19 Istanbul United Kingdom Joanne Elizabeth Lewis 21 Mansfield United States Charlotte Ray 25 Voorhees United States Virgin Islands Cheryl Leiba Milligan 20 St. Croix Uruguay Andrea Regina Gorrochategui 23 Montevideo Venezuela Ninibeth Leal[1] 20 Maracaibo Yugoslavia Slavica Tripunović 20 Vukovar

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** South Africa returned after the [Miss World Organization](/source/Miss_World) decided to lift a 14-year [apartheid](/source/Apartheid) rule, allowing its contestants to compete.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** She quit from the Pageant few weeks before the finals due to a dispute with pageant officials following a trip to South Africa in which she observed racial discrimination which she felt was tacitly approved by pageant officials

1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** Competed as Korea in the pageant

1. **[^](#cite_ref-14)** Also known as the [Republic of China](/source/Republic_of_China) and competed as [Chinese Taipei](/source/Chinese_Taipei) in the pageant

### Replacements

- **Taiwan** – Lu Shu-Fang

### Other notes

- **Namibia**– [Michelle McLean](/source/Michelle_McLean) eventually competed in [Miss Universe](/source/Miss_Universe) four months after she placed in the top five in Miss World 1991. She emerged victorious of the former pageant, thus making her the first Namibian to claim the Miss Universe crown.

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v t e Miss World 1991 national titleholders Anke Van dermeersch Mareva Georges Amanda Brunker Inese Šlesere Samantha Schubert Michelle McLean Nike Oshinowo Vivian Benítez Dilek Aslıhan Koruyan Charlotte Ray Ninibeth Leal

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