Miss World 1993

Miss World 1993, the 43rd edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 27 November 1993 at the Sun City Entertainment Centre in Sun City, South Africa. It was the second time that the Miss World pageant was held in the South Africa.The pageant attracted 81 contestants from all over the world. This is the second consecutive staging of the pageant in Sun City. The winner was Lisa Hanna of Jamaica. She was crowned by Julia Kourotchkina of Russia.

Miss World 1993
Miss World 1993 titleholder - Lisa Hanna
Date27 November 1993
Presenters
VenueSun City Entertainment Center, Sun City, South Africa
Broadcaster
Entrants81
Placements10
Debuts
Withdrawals
Returns
WinnerLisa Hanna
Jamaica
PersonalityCharlotte Als (Denmark)
Best National CostumeKarminder Kaur-Virk (India)
PhotogenicBarbara Chiappini (Italy)

Results

Placements
Placement Contestant
Miss World 1993
1st Runner-Up
2nd Runner-Up
Top 5
Top 10

Contestants
Country/TerritoryContestantAgeHometown
American Virgin IslandsSuzanne Palermo21St. Thomas
ArgentinaViviana Carcereri19Mendoza
ArubaChristina van der Berg18Noord
AustraliaKaren Ann Carwin23Brisbane
AustriaJutta Ellinger23Vienna
BahamasJacinda Sayde Francis18Nassau
BelgiumStephanie Meire23Bruges
BermudaKellie Hall22Southampton
BoliviaClaudia Lorena Arrieta Justiniano18Santa Cruz de la Sierra
BrazilLyliá Virna18Maceió
British Virgin IslandsKaida Donovan18Tortola
BulgariaVera Roussinova17Sofia
CanadaTanya Lynne Memme22Toronto
Cayman IslandsAudry Elizabeth Ebanks20Grand Cayman
ChileJessica Miroslava Eterovic Pozas20Punta Arenas
Republic of ChinaVirginia Long Wei-yen19Taipei
ColombiaSilvia Isabel Durán Angarita23Bucaramanga
Costa RicaLaura Odio Salas19San José
CroatiaFani Čapalija18Split
CuraçaoSally Daflaar19Willemstad
CyprusMaria Magdalini Valianti19Larnaca
Czech RepublicSimona Smejkalová19Prague
DenmarkCharlotte Als22Copenhagen
Dominican RepublicLynn Marie Álvarez Klinken21Concepción de La Vega
EcuadorDanna Saab Saab19Guayaquil
El SalvadorBeatriz Eugenia Henríquez Pinto21San Salvador
FinlandJanina Paivansade Frostell20Kuhmo
FranceVéronique de la Cruz19Guadeloupe
GermanyPetra Klein19Ludwigsburg
GibraltarJennifer Jane Ainsworth18Gibraltar
GreeceMania Delou19Athens
GuamGina Burkhart18Sinajana
GuatemalaMaría Lucrecia Flores Flores24Guatemala City
HollandHilda van der Meulen22Oudeschoot
HondurasTania Brüchmann Escoria18Tegucigalpa
Hong KongMay Lam Lai-mei20Hong Kong
IcelandGuðrún Rut Hreiðarsdóttir19Reykjavík
IndiaKarminder Kaur-Virk20Chandigarh
IrelandPamela Flood22Dublin
IsraelTamara Porat18Tel Aviv
ItalyBarbara Chiappini18Piacenza
JamaicaLisa Rene Shanti Hanna[1]18Kingston
JapanYoko Miyasaka22Tokyo
LatviaSigita Rude19Liepāja
LebanonGhada El Turk21Keserwan
LithuaniaJurate Mikutaitė21Kaunas
MacauIsabela Pedruco20Macau
MalaysiaJacqueline Ngu23Kuala Lumpur
MaltaSusanne-Mary Borg17Mosta
MauritiusViveka Babajee †20Beau Bassin
MexicoElizabeth Margain Rivera22Mexico City
NamibiaChristalene Barbara Kahatjipara20Windhoek
New ZealandNicola Johanna Brighty20Auckland
NigeriaHelen Ntukidem22Lagos
NorwayRita Omvik21Kongsvinger
PanamaAracelys del Carmen Cogley Prestán23Colón
ParaguayClaudia Liz Florentín Fariña19Asunción
PhilippinesSharmaine (Ruffa) Rama Gutierrez19Manila
PolandAleksandra Spieczyńska19Wrocław
PortugalAna Luísa Barbosa Moreira20Porto
Puerto RicoAna Rosa Brito Suárez23San Juan
RussiaOlga Syssoeva19Moscow
SingaporeDesiree Chan Fam Yin20Singapore
SlovakiaDana Vojtechovská20Košice
SloveniaMetka Albreht18Postojna
South AfricaPalesa Jacqueline Mofokeng21Soweto
South KoreaLee Seung-yeon24Seoul
SpainAraceli García Eugenio23Madrid
Sri LankaChamila Wickremesinghe22Colombo
SwazilandSharon Richards20Mbabane
SwedenKarin Victoria Silvstedt19Bollnäs
SwitzerlandPatricia Fässler19Zürich
ThailandMaturose (Sherry) Kato Leaudsakda18Bangkok
Trinidad and TobagoDenyse Michelle Paul23San Fernando
TurkeyEmel Yıldırım19Istanbul
UgandaLinda Bazalaki20Kampala
United KingdomAmanda Louise Johnson19Nottingham
United StatesMaribeth Brown23Holliston
UruguayMaría Fernanda Navarro Guigou20Montevideo
VenezuelaMónica Lei Scaccia22Caracas
ZimbabweKaren Amanda Stally19Harare

Judges

Notes

Debuts
  •  Czech Republic
  •  Lithuania
  •  Slovakia

Returns
  • Last competed in 1982:
    •  Zimbabwe
  • Last competed in 1991:
    •  Honduras

Withdrawals
  •  China – Wang Yin Tao. She went to Miss World 1994 inserted.
  •  Czechoslovakia - Split into Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993.
  •  Greenland - Lost their Miss World franchise.
  •  Hungary – Zsanna Pardy - Due lack of sponsor.
  •  Peru – Mónika Sáez Grimm - Due lack of sponsor.
  •  Romania – Adriana Silagy - Due lack of sponsor.
  •  Ukraine – Irina Barabash (Chernomaz) - Actually she was a married woman.[3] She later competed at Miss Universe 1995.
  •  Zambia – No contest.

Replacements
  •  Russia – Anna Baychik - Unable to compete internationally due underage.[4]

Other Notes
  •  France - Véronique de la Cruz, a semi-finalist at this year’s Miss World, was unplaced at Miss Universe 1993 pageant in Mexico City just 6 months earlier.

References
  1. "The Day".
  2. "Hanna to be Miss World judge - Entertainment". Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  3. ""Мисс Украина": 7 победительниц — с олигархами, 4 — не у дел - Новости шоу бизнеса - Как сложились судьбы всех 26 девушек, становившихся королевами красоты в нашей стране. | СЕГОДНЯ". Archived from the original on 8 June 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  4. The Moscow Times
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