Miss World 1982

Miss World 1982 was the 32nd edition of the Miss World pageant, held on 18 November 1982 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, UK. The winner was Mariasela Álvarez from the Dominican Republic. She was crowned by Miss World 1981, Pilín León of Venezuela. The first and second runners-up were Sari Kaarina Aspholm from Finland and Della Dolan from the United Kingdom who were semi-finalists in Miss Universe 1982 four months before.[1]

Miss World 1982
Mariasela Álvarez, Miss World 1982
Date18 November 1982
PresentersPeter Marshall, Judith Chalmers
EntertainmentThe Three Degrees
VenueRoyal Albert Hall, London, UK
BroadcasterThames Television
Entrants68
Placements15
DebutsIndonesia, Turks & Caicos
WithdrawalsArgentina, Austria, Jersey, Lesotho, Papua New Guinea, Suriname
ReturnsPanama, Paraguay, Portugal, Yugoslavia, American Virgin Islands
WinnerMariasela Álvarez
 Dominican Republic

Results

Placements
Placement Contestant
Miss World 1982
1st runner-up
2nd runner-up
Top 7
Top 15

Continental Queens of Beauty
Continental Group Contestant
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania

Contestants

68 contestants competed for the title.

Country/Territory Contestant Age[lower-alpha 1] Hometown
ArubaNoriza Helder19Oranjestad
AustraliaCatherine Anne Morris19Sydney
BahamasOralee Stubbs18Nassau
BelgiumMarie Pierre Lemaître21Brussels
BermudaHeather Ross[5]22Somerset
BoliviaBrita Cederberg17Oruro
BrazilMônica Jannuzzi21Londrina, Paraná
CanadaJody Jensen19Calgary
Cayman IslandsMaureen Therese Lewis21George Town
ChileMariana Reinhardt20Santiago
ColombiaMaría Teresa Gómez19Medellin
Costa RicaMaureen Jiménez22San Jose
CuraçaoVendetta Roozendal20Willemstad
CyprusMarina Rauscher17Limassol
DenmarkTina Nielsen18Copenhagen
Dominican RepublicMariasela Álvarez22Santo Domingo
EcuadorGianna Machiavello20Guayaquil
El SalvadorBerta Loredana Munguía20San Salvador
FinlandSari Aspholm20Vantaa
FranceMartine Philipps23Audincourt
GermanyKerstin Paeserack19Wilhelmshaven
GibraltarLouise Gillingwater20Gibraltar
GreeceAnthi Priovolou19Athens
GuamFrances Limtiaco22Tamuning
GuatemalaSuzanne Whitbeck20Guatemala City
HollandIrene Schell20Venlo
HondurasAna Lucía Rivera20San Pedro Sula
Hong KongCally Kwong19Victoria
IcelandMaría Björk Sverrisdóttir19Reykjavík
IndiaUttara Mhatre19Nasik
IndonesiaAndi Botenri17Jakarta
IrelandRoberta Brown19Derry
 Isle of ManMaria Elizabeth Craig19Jurby
IsraelAnat Kerem18Haifa
ItalyRaffaella del Rosario17Bologna
JamaicaCornelia Parchment19Kingston
JapanMutsuko Kikuchi20Tokyo
KoreaChoi Sung-yoon19Seoul
LebanonMay Mansour Chahwan19Beirut
MalaysiaNellie Teoh25Kuala Lumpur
MaltaDelina Camilleri18Mosta
MexicoAna Ruth García23Villahermosa
New ZealandSusan Mainland19Hamilton
NorwayJanett Krefting19Oslo
PanamaMaría Lorena Moreno22Panama City
ParaguayZulema Domínguez19Asuncion
PeruCynthia Piedra21Lima
PhilippinesSara-Jane Areza22Manila
PortugalSuzana Dias19Lisbon
Puerto RicoJannette Torres17San Juan
SingaporeYvonne Tan19Singapore
SpainAna Herrero17Zaragoza
Sri LankaTania Pereira19Panadura
SwedenAnne-Lie Sjöberg18Eskilstuna
SwitzerlandLolita Morena22Locarno
TahitiTeura Tuhiti17Papeete
ThailandAlisa Kajornchaiyakul17Bangkok
Trinidad and TobagoAlthea Rocke22Port of Spain
TurkeyAyse Güven20Istanbul
Turks and CaicosLolita Ariza21Grand Turk
United KingdomDella Dolan20Grimsby
United StatesLuAnn Caughey24Abilene
United States Virgin Islands Benedicta Acosta 20 St. Croix
UruguayVarinia Govea21Montevideo
VenezuelaMichelle Shoda22Maracaibo
Western SamoaLilly Hunt20Apia
YugoslaviaAna Sasso19Split
ZimbabweCaroline Murinda22Harare

Notes
  1. Ages at the time of the pageant

References
  1. "New Miss World". Observer-Reporter. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  2. "Dominican Miss World; Texas Entry A Finalist". The Victoria Advocate. 19 November 1982. pp. 6B. Retrieved 8 July 2023 – via Google News Archive.
  3. "Miss World 1981 winner Carmen Josefina Leon Crespo - Miss World Contest: through the years". Daily Express. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  4. "Malaysian Business". 1997. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  5. "Miss Ross in a world of trouble". The Salina Journal. 28 November 1982. p. 2. Retrieved 8 July 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
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