Miss World 1994
| Miss World 1994 | |
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| File:MW 1994 - SABC.png Miss World 1994 Titlecard | |
| Date | 19 November 1994 |
| Presenters | Richard Steinmetz, Suanne Braun, and Bronson Pinchot |
| Venue | Sun City Entertainment Center, Sun City, South Africa |
| Entrants | 87 |
| Placements | 10 |
| Debuts | Bangladesh, People's Republic of China, Estonia |
| Withdrawals | Bermuda, El Salvador, Honduras, Lithuania, Malta, Namibia, Uganda, Uruguay |
| Returns | Botswana, Ghana, Hungary, Kenya, Peru, Romania, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Seychelles, Tahiti, Tanzania, Ukraine |
| Winner | Aishwarya Rai India |
| Personality | Patinya Thongsri Thailand |
| Best National Costume | Irene Ferreira Venezuela |
| Photogenic | Aishwarya Rai India |
Miss World 1994 was the 44th Miss World pageant and marked the third consecutive staging of Miss World in Sun City, South Africa. Actor Blair Underwood and supermodel Naomi Campbell served as presenters. The pageant attracted 87 contestants from around the world. At the end of the night, Aishwarya Rai of India, at the time a 21-year-old architecture student,[1] was crowned the new Miss World. Earlier that year, another Indian, Sushmita Sen had won the Miss Universe title, securing the two leading international beauty pageants for India in 1994.
Results
| Final results | Contestant |
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| Miss World 1994 | |
| 1st runner-up | |
| 2nd runner-up | |
| Finalists | |
| Semi-finalists |
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Order of Semi-finalists
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Order of Finalists
- 1. Zimbabwe
- 2. India
- 3. Croatia
- 4. South Africa
- 5. Venezuela
Special awards
- Miss Personality: Patinya Thongsri (Thailand)
- Miss Photogenic: Aishwarya Rai - (India)
- Best National Costume: Irene Ferreira (Venezuela)
Continental Queens
- Africa: Basetsane Makgalemele (South Africa)
- Americas: Irene Ferreira (Venezuela)
- Asia & Oceania: Aishwarya Rai (India)
- Caribbean: Anita Lilly Bush (Cayman Islands)
- Europe: Branka Bebić (Croatia)
Judges
- Eric Morley - Chairman, Miss World Organization
- Eileen Ford - founder, Ford Model agency
- Ron Moss - Actor, The Bold and the Beautiful
- Katherine Kelly Lang - Actress, The Bold and the Beautiful
- Patrick Lichfield - Photographer
- Marsha Rae Ratcliff - Entertainer and Variety Clubs Ambassador
- Charles Dance - Actor (International Stage, Film and Television)
- Iman - international supermodel
- Herb Ritts - Photographer
- Zindzi Mandela-Hlongwane - Daughter of Nelson Mandela
87 contestants
| Nation | Contestant | Hometown |
 American Virgin Islands |
Jessalyn Pearsall | St. Thomas |
 Argentina |
Miriam Elizabeth Nahon | Buenos Aires |
 Australia |
Skye-Jilly Edwards | Hobart |
 Austria |
Bianka Engel | Graz |
 Bahamas |
Deanna Tamara North | Nassau |
 Bangladesh |
Anika Taher | Dhaka |
 Belgium |
Ilse de Meulemeester | Brussels |
 Bolivia |
Mariel Gabriela Arce Taborga | Cochabamba |
 Botswana |
Hazel Kutlo Mmopi | Gaborone |
 Brazil |
Valquiria Melnik Blicharski | Curitiba |
 British Virgin Islands |
Khara Michelle Forbes | Tortola |
 Bulgaria |
Stella Ognianova | Sofia |
 Canada |
Shawna Roberts | Calgary |
 Cayman Islands |
Anita Lilly Bush | Grand Cayman |
 Chile |
Yulissa Macarena del Pino Pinochet | Santiago |
 People's Republic of China |
Pan Tao | Shenzhen |
 Colombia |
Maria Eugenia González Ponce de León | Bogotá |
 Costa Rica |
Silvia Ester Muñoz Mata | Puntarenas |
 Croatia |
Branka Bebic | Dubrovnik |
 Curaçao |
Marisa Corine Bos | Willemstad |
 Cyprus |
Johanna Uwrin | Limassol |
 Czech Republic |
Lenka Belickova | Karlovy Vary |
 Denmark |
Sara Maria Wolf | Copenhagen |
 Dominican Republic |
Claudia Franjul González | Santo Domingo |
 Ecuador |
Diana Margarita Noboa Gordon | Guayaquil |
 Estonia |
Auli Andersalu | Tallinn |
 Finland |
Mia Marianne Forsell | Askola |
 France |
Radiah Latidine | Cayenne |
 Germany |
Marte Helberg | Munich |
 Ghana |
Matilda Aku Alomatu | Accra |
 Gibraltar |
Melissa Berllaque | Gibraltar |
 Greece |
Evangelia (Evi) Adam | Athens |
 Guam |
Chalorna Freitas | Agana |
 Guatemala |
Sonia Maria Rosales Vargas | Zacapa |
 Holland |
Joshka Bon | Amsterdam |
 Hong Kong |
Annamarie Wood Lai-Ming | Hong Kong |
 Hungary |
Timea Farkas | Záhony |
 Iceland |
Birna Bragadóttir | Álftanes |
| India |
Aishwarya Rai | Bombay |
 Ireland |
Anna Maria McCarthy | Dublin |
 Israel |
Shirly Swarzberg | Tel Aviv |
 Italy |
Arianna Novacco | Trieste |
 Jamaica |
Johanna Simone Ulett | Kingston |
 Japan |
Shinobu Sushida | Miyazaki |
 Kenya |
Josephine Wanjiku Mbatia | Nairobi |
 Korea |
Chae Yeon-hee | Seoul |
 Latvia |
Daina Tobija | Riga |
 Lebanon |
Lara Badaoui | Keserwan |
 Macau |
Chen Ji-Min | Macau |
 Malaysia |
Rahima Orchient Yayah | Kuala Lumpur |
 Mauritius |
Marie Priscilla Mardaymootoo | Port Louis |
 Mexico |
Claudia Hernández Rodríguez | Nayarit |
 New Zealand |
Shelley Jeannine Edwards | Hastings |
 Nigeria |
Susan Hart | Benue |
 Norway |
Anne Lena Hansen | Oslo |
 Panama |
Carmen Lucía Ogando Ginono | Colon |
 Paraguay |
Jannyne Elena Peyrat Scolari | Asunción |
 Peru |
Marcia Pérez Marcés | Lima |
 Philippines |
Caroline Subijano | Manila |
 Poland |
Jadwiga Flank | Bielsko-Biała |
| Portugal |
Leonor Filipa Correia Leal Rodrigues | Lisbon |
 Puerto Rico |
Joyce Marie Giraud Mojica | Aguas Buenas |
 Romania |
Leona Dalia Voicu | Bucharest |
 Russia |
Anna Malova | Moscow |
 St. Lucia |
Yasmine Lyndell Walcott | Castries |
 St. Vincent & the Grenadines |
Cornise Yearwood | Georgetown |
 Seychelles |
Marquise David | Victoria |
 Singapore |
Pickard Angela Lee Kim Mei | Singapore |
 Slovakia |
Karin Majtanova | Bratislava |
 Slovenia |
Janja Zupan | Ljubljana |
 South Africa |
Basetsane Makgalemele | Johannesburg |
 Spain |
Virginia Pareja Garófano | Barcelona |
 Sri Lanka |
Nushara Rusri Pramali Fernando | Colombo |
 Swaziland |
Stephanie Wesselo | Mbabane |
 Sweden |
Sofia Andersson | Stockholm |
 Switzerland |
Sarah Briguet | Lausanne |
 Tahiti |
Vaea Christine Sandra Olanda | Papeete |
 Chinese Taipei |
Joanne Wu Chung-Chun | Taipei |
 Tanzania |
Aina William Maeda | Dodoma |
| Thailand |
Patinya Thongsri | Bangkok |
 Trinidad & Tobago |
Anabel Thomas | Port of Spain |
 Turkey |
Pinar Altug | Istanbul |
 Ukraine |
Nataliya Vasyliyivna Kozytska | Kyiv |
 United Kingdom |
Melanie Abdoun | London |
 United States |
Kristie Harmon | Conyers |
| Venezuela |
Irene Esther Ferreira Izquierdo | Caracas |
 Zimbabwe |
Angeline Musasiwa | Harare |
Returning countries and Debuts
- Bangladesh, People's Republic of China and Estonia competed in Miss World for the first time.
- Tanzania last competed in 1967.
- Botswana last competed in 1974.
- St. Lucia last competed in 1975.
- Tahiti last competed in 1985.
- St. Vincent & Grenadines last competed in 1989.
- Peru last competed in 1990.
- Ghana and Kenya last competed in 1991.
- Hungary, Romania, Seychelles and Ukraine last competed in 1992.
Withdrawals
- Bermuda, Honduras, Lithuania, Malta, Namibia, Uganda and Uruguay failed to send their delegates in Miss World.
- El Salvador lost its franchise and sponsorship for Miss World until 2003.
Crossovers
Miss Universe
- Miss Universe 1994: Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Taiwan R.O.C.
- Miss Universe 1995: Cayman Islands, Ireland, Kenya, Mauritius and Switzerland
- Miss Universe 1998: Puerto Rico (2nd runner-up) and Russia (semi-finalist)
Miss International
- Miss International 1993: Slovakia
- Miss International 1994: Costa Rica and Paraguay
- Miss International 1995: Norway (winner)
- Miss International 1997: Ukraine (semi-finalist)
Historical significance
- Argentina, Austria and Bolivia introduced themselves in their native languages.
- Republic of China changed the name of sash as Taiwan (R.O.C.).
- This is the first time that the Parade of Nations were held in the Palace of the Lost City grounds during day time.
- Zimbabwe made into the Top 5 Finals for the first time.
- 6 out of 10 countries which competed in the semi-finals, were not competed in the semi-finals last year: Belgium (1983), Greece (1973), India (1991), Malaysia (1979), United Kingdom (1992), and Zimbabwe (1982).
- Philippines makes its first back to back appearance at the top 10 (being 2nd runner up last year).
References
- ^ Miss World, Toledo Blade, November 20, 1994.