Miss World 1996

Miss World 1996, the 46th edition of the Miss World pageant, took place at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India on 23 November 1996.[1][2]

Miss World 1996
Miss World 1996 Titlecard
Date23 November 1996
Presenters
  • Richard Steinmetz
  • Ruby Bhatia
VenueM. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India
Broadcaster
Entrants88
Placements10
Debuts
  • Bonaire
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Macedonia
Withdrawals
  • The Bahamas
  • Barbados
  • Bermuda
  • Cayman Islands
  • Denmark
Returns
  • Grenada
  • Kenya
  • Uganda
  • Uruguay
  • Yugoslavia
WinnerIrene Skliva
Greece
PersonalityDaisy Reyes (Philippines)
Best National CostumeAnuska Prado (Brazil)
PhotogenicAna Cepinska (Venezuela)

At the end of the event, Irene Skliva of Greece was crowned as Miss World 1996 by Jacqueline Aguilera of Venezuela. Skliva was the first Greek to win the title.[3][4]

Contestants from eighty-eighty countries and territories participated in this year's pageant. The pageant was hosted by Richard Steinmetz and Ruby Bhatia.

Results

Placements
Placement Contestant
Miss World 1996
1st runner-up
2nd runner-up
Top 5
Top 10

Continental Queens of Beauty
Continental Group Contestant
Africa
Americas
Asia & Oceania
Caribbean
  •  Aruba – Afranina Henriquez
Europe

Contestants
Country/TerritoryContestantAge
 ArgentinaFernanda Fernández18
 ArubaAfranina Henriquez20
 AustraliaNicole Smith24
 AustriaBettina Buxbaumer23
 BangladeshRehnuma Dilruba20
 BelgiumLaurence Borremans18
 BoliviaAndrea Forti19
 BonaireJhane Landwier18
 Bosnia and HerzegovinaBelma Zvrko18
 BotswanaJoyce Manase20
 BrazilAnuska Prado20
 British Virgin IslandsAyana Glasgow21
 BulgariaViara Kamenova21
 CanadaMichelle Weswaldi19
 ChileLuz Francisca Valenzuela20
 ColombiaCarolina Arango19
 Costa RicaNatalia Carvajal21
 CroatiaVanja Rupena18
 CuraçãoYandra Faulborn19
 CyprusMaria Papaprodromou19
 Czech RepublicPetra Minářová18
 Dominican RepublicIdelsa Núñez Torres21
 EcuadorJennifer Graham19
 EstoniaMari-Liis Kapustin18
 FinlandHanna Hirvonen20
 FranceSéverine Derouallé22
 GermanyMelanie Ernst18
 GhanaSheila Azuntaba19
 GibraltarSamantha Lane17
 GreeceIrene Skliva18
 GrenadaAria Johnson25
 GuamAileen Maravilla23
 GuatemalaMaría Gabriela Rosales19
 HollandPetra Hoost20
 Hong KongChillie Poon24
 HungaryAndrea Deak19
 IndiaRani Jeyraj21
 IrelandNiamh Redmond19
 IsraelTalia Lewenthal18
 ItalyMara de Gennaro24
 JamaicaSelena Delgado21
 JapanMiyuki Fujii21
 KenyaPritpal Kulwant Dhamu18
 LatviaAnta Dukere22
 LebanonNisrine Sami Nasser22
 LithuaniaDaiva Anuzyte18
MacauGuiomar Madeira da Silva Pedruco21
 MacedoniaVera Mesterovic17
 MalaysiaQu-an How Cheok Kuan20
 MexicoYessica Salazar22
 New ZealandKelly-Rose Mischiewski21
 NigeriaEmma Komlosy19
 NorwayEva Sjøholt24
 PanamaNorma Élida Pérez21
 ParaguayMaría Ingrid Götze22
 PeruMónica Chacón de Vettori21
 PhilippinesDaisy Reyes[7]20
 PolandAgnieszka Zielińska20
 PortugalAna Mafalda Santos21
 Puerto RicoMarissa de la Caridad Hernández21
 RomaniaCarmen Radoi21
 RussiaViktoriya Tsapitsina17
 SeychellesChristina Pillay22
 SingaporeCarol Tan19
 SlovakiaLinda Lencova18
 SloveniaAlenka Vindiš18
 South AfricaPeggy-Sue Khumalo21
 South KoreaSeol Soo-jin21
 SpainPatricia Ruiz Fernández19
 SwazilandOlive Healy22
 SwedenÅsa Johansson20
  SwitzerlandMelanie Winiger17
 TahitiHinerava Hiro18
 TaiwanChen Hsiao-Fen23
 TanzaniaShose Akare Sinare20
 ThailandSirinya Burbridge17
 Trinidad and TobagoSharda Ramlogan23
 TurkeySerpil Sevilay Ozturk19
 UgandaSheba Kerere19
 UkraineNataliya Shvachko20
 United KingdomRachael Liza Warner22
 United StatesKelly Webber20
 United States Virgin IslandsEmoliere Williams18
 UruguayClaudia Verónica Gallaretta Olmedo19
 VenezuelaAna Cepinska Miszczak18
 YugoslaviaSlavica Krivokuća18
 ZambiaAlice Banda21
 ZimbabweNomsa Ndiweni19

Judges

Notes

Debuts
  •  Bonaire
  •  Bosnia & Herzegovina
  •  Macedonia

Returns
  • Last competed in 1970:
    •  Grenada
  • Last competed in 1991:
    •  Yugoslavia
  • Last competed in 1993:
    •  Uganda
    •  Uruguay
  • Last competed in 1994:
    •  Kenya

Withdrawals
  •  Bahamas – Nicole Symonette could not compete due to financial problems with the Miss Bahamas Committee that ran Miss Bahamas for both Miss World and Miss Universe and thus was only able to send a representative to Miss Universe 1996.
  •  Cayman Islands – Due to financial problems


Controversy

The event was organised by ABCL which was led by Amitabh Bachchan.[9] The beauty pageant saw resistance by several groups due to the perceived culture clash.[10][11][5][12] However, due to support of the local government, the event was held successfully.

References
  1. "Hundreds protest Miss World contest in India". Daily News. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  2. Ocala Star-Banner
  3. "Greek model, 18, is Miss World". New Straits Times. 26 November 1996. p. 13. Retrieved 28 February 2024 – via Google News Archive.
  4. "Miss World Crowned As Indians Protest". New York Times. Reuters. 24 November 1996. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  5. "Miss World contest draws flak in Bangalore : INDIASCOPE". India Today. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  6. "A beautiful journey". Deccan Herald. 16 January 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  7. Burton-Titular, Joyce (1 October 2013). "From Vivien to Megan: The PH in Miss World history". Rappler. Archived from the original on 28 December 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  8. The Daily Gazette
  9. "Rediff on the NeT: Amitabh Bachchan, in an exclusive interview". Rediff.com. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  10. "Beauty Pageant Stirs Protests". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  11. "Mahila Jagran Manch, Bangalore vs State of Karnataka And Others on 19 November, 1996". Indiankanoon.org. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  12. "CNN Indian police prepare for worst in beauty pageant clash – Nov. 22, 1996". CNN. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.