Miss World 1991

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	79
Placements	10
Debuts	Greenland
Withdrawals	Barbados, Canada, Cook Islands, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Sri Lanka, USSR
Returns	Antigua, Taiwan, Ecuador, Lebanon, Malaysia, South Africa, Swaziland
Winner	Ninibeth Leal  Venezuela [1]

Miss World 1991, the 41st edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 28 December 1991 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The winner was Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiménez representing Venezuela. She was crowned by Gina Tolleson of the United States. Miss World 1991 was scheduled to be held in the Dominican Republic. Due to scheduling difficulties, Miss World was first moved to Puerto Rico, then to Atlanta, USA. Preliminary swimsuits in Miss World 1991 were held in South Africa.^[2]

Results

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

Placements

Continental Queens of Beauty

Contestants

Nation	Contestant	Hometown	Preliminary Score
American Virgin Islands	Cheryl Leiba Milligan	St. Croix	34
Antigua	Joanne Bird	St. John's	33
Argentina	Marcela Noemí Chazarreta	Buenos Aires	34
Aruba	Sandra Croes	Santa Cruz	32
Australia	Leanne Buckle	Brisbane	48
Austria	Andrea Isabelle Pfeiffer	Graz	32
Bahamas	Tarnia Paula Newton Stuart	New Providence	32
Belgium	Anke van Dermeersch	Antwerp	41
Belize	Josephine (Josie) Gault	Belize City	32
Bolivia	Mónica Gamarra Giese	Cochabamba	33
Brazil	Cátia Silene Kupssinski	São Paulo	38
British Virgin Islands	Marjorie Penn	Tortola	33
Bulgaria	Liubomira Slavcheva	Sofia	33
Cayman Islands	Yvette Peggy Jordison	Grand Cayman	34
Chile	Carolina Beatriz Michelson Martínez	Santiago	37
China Taipei	Rebecca Lin Lan-Chih	Taipei	33
Colombia	Adriana Rodríguez Anzola	Bogota	40
Costa Rica	Eugenie Jiménez Pacheco	San Francisco de Heredia	32
Curaçao	Nashaira Desbarida	Willemstad	38
Cyprus	Anna Margaret Stephanou	Nicosia	34
Czechoslovakia	Andrea Tatarkova	Košice	32
Denmark	Sharon Givskav	Copenhagen	33
Dominican Republic	Rosanna Rodríguez de la Vega	Concepción de La Vega	33
Ecuador	Sueanny Denise Bejarano López	Guayaquil	32
El Salvador	Lucía Beatriz López Rodríguez	San Salvador	32
Finland	Nina Autio	Tampere	35
France	Mareva Georges	Tahiti	46
Germany	Susanne Petry	Saarbrücken	40
Ghana	Jamilla Haruna Danzuru	Accra	32
Gibraltar	Ornella Costa	Gibraltar	37
Greece	Miriam Panagos	Athens	38
Greenland	Bibiane Holm	Nuuk	33
Guam	Yvonne Marie Limtiaco Speight	Asan	32
Guatemala	Marlyn Lorena Magaña Ramírez	Guatemala City	32
Holland	Linda Egging	Spanbroek	39
Honduras	Arlene Rocío Rauscher Duarte	Tegucigalpa	32
Hungary	Orsolya Anna Michina	Budapest	32
Iceland	Svava Haraldsdóttir	Reykjavík	37
India	Ritu Singh	New Delhi	44
Ireland	Amanda Brunker	Dublin	34
Israel	Li'at Ditkovsky	Herzliya	32
Italy	Sabina Pellati	Reggio Emilia	39
Jamaica	Sandra Foster	Kingston	49
Japan	Junko Tsuda	Tokyo	33
Kenya	N'kirote Karimi M'mbijjiwe	Nairobi	34
Korea	Kim Tae-hwa	Pusan	32
Latvia	Inese Šlesere	Riga	33
Lebanon	Diana Begdache	Beirut	32
Macau	Cristina Guilherme Lam	Macau	32
Malaysia	Samantha Schubert	Kuala Lumpur	38
Malta	Romina Genuis	Gzira	32
Mauritius	Marie Geraldine Deville	Central Flacq	32
Mexico	María Cristina Urrutia de la Vega	Mexico City	32
Namibia	Michelle McLean	Windhoek	51
New Zealand	Lisa Maree de Montalk	Taupo	41
Nigeria	Adenike Oshinowo	Lagos	37
Norway	Anne-Britt Røvik	Kolbotn	33
Panama	Malena Estela Betancourt Guillén	Panama City	35
Paraguay	Vivian Rosanna Benítez Brizuela	Asuncion	36
Philippines	Gemith Gonzalo Gemparo	Manila	38
Poland	Karina Wojciechowska	Katowice	33
Portugal	Maria do Carmo Ramalho	Lisbon	34
Puerto Rico	Johanna Berenice Irizarry	Lajas	34
Romania	Gabriela Dragomirescu	Bucharest	32
Singapore	Jasheen Jayakody	Singapore	35
South Africa	Diana Tilden-Davis	Johannesburg	51
Spain	Candelaria (Catia) Moreno Navarro	Tenerife	38
Swaziland	Jackie Emelda Bennett	Manzini	32
Sweden	Cathrin Olsson	Kungsbacka	34
Switzerland	Sandra Aegerter	Aigle	38
Thailand	Rewaedee Malaisee	Bangkok	33
Trinidad & Tobago	Sastee Bachan	Port of Spain	35
Turkey	Dilek Aslihan Koruyan	Istanbul	47
United Kingdom	Joanne Elizabeth Lewis	Nottingham	40
United States	Charlotte Ray	Camden	42
Uruguay	Andrea Regina Gorrochategui Granja	Montevideo	35
Venezuela	Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiménez [1]	Maracaibo	58
Yugoslavia	Slavica Tripunović	Vukovar	33

Notes

Debuts

•  Greenland

Returns

Last competed in 1977:

•  South Africa – returned after the Miss World Organization decided to lift a 14-year apartheid rule, allowing its contestants to compete.

Withdrawals

•  Canada – Tara Paat withdrew 12 days before the pageant due to illness.
•  Cook Islands
•  Cote d'Ivoire - Muriel Edoukou^[3] - Due lack of Sponsorship.
•  Guyana - Tracy Ann D'Abreu - Due the controversy over her victory and citizenship, she was declared inelegible to compete at Miss World 1991.^[4][5]
•  Hong Kong - Renewed its franchise, however it happened three months after Miss World.
•  Luxembourg - Did not send delegates to Miss World after 1990 until it returned in 2009.
•  Papua New Guinea
•  Peru – Due to problems with their franchise and lack of sponsorship
•  Sri Lanka – Due to scheduling conflict
•  USSR - The winner of Miss USSR 1991, Ilmira Shamsutdinova was invited to compete in Miss World 1991, however she rejected the invitation because was too underage for the contest.^[6] No runner-ups from Miss USSR 1991 pageant were sent for Miss World 1991.^[7]

Replacements