Miss World 1996

Miss World 1996, the 46th edition of the Miss World pageant, took place on 23 November 1996 in the city of Bangalore, India.[1][2] Preliminaries were shot in India and in Seychelles. 88 contestants from all over the world took part in the prestigious pageant. By the end of the night, 18-year-old Irene Skliva of Greece took home the title. She was crowned by Jacqueline Aguilera of Venezuela. It was the first time the Miss World pageant was held in India.

Miss World 1996
Miss World 1996 Titlecard
Date23 November 1996
Presenters
VenueM. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India
Broadcaster
Entrants88
Placements10
Debuts
Withdrawals
Returns
WinnerIrene Skliva
 Greece
PersonalityDaisy Reyes
 Philippines
Best National CostumeAnuska Prado
 Brazil
PhotogenicAna Cepinska
 Venezuela

Results
Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1996[1][3]

Placements
Placement Contestant
Miss World 1996
1st Runner-Up
2nd Runner-Up
  •  Brazil – Anuska Valéria Prado
Top 5
Top 10

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

Contestants
Country/TerritoryContestantAge
 ArgentinaFernanda Fernández Ramírez18
 ArubaAfranina Henriquez20
 AustraliaNicole Smith24
 AustriaBettina Buxbaumer23
 BangladeshRehnuma Dilruba20
 BelgiumLaurence Borremans18
 BoliviaAndrea Mariana Forti Sandoval19
 BonaireJhane Louise Landwier18
 Bosnia & HerzegovinaBelma Zvrko18
 BotswanaJoyce Manase20
 BrazilAnuska Valeria Prado20
 British Virgin IslandsAyana Glasgow21
 BulgariaViara Kamenova21
 CanadaMichelle Weswaldi19
 ChileLuz Francisca Valenzuela Höllzer20
 ColombiaCarolina Arango Corrales19
 Costa RicaNatalia Carvajal Lorenzo21
 CroatiaVanja Rupena18
 CuraçãoYandra Angelica Faulborn19
 CyprusMaria Papaprodromou19
 Czech RepublicPetra Minářová18
 Dominican RepublicIdelsa Núñez Torres21
 EcuadorJennifer Lynn Graham Dumani19
 EstoniaMari-Liis Kapustin18
 FinlandHanna Hirvonen20
 FranceSéverine Derouallé22
 GermanyMelanie Ernst18
 GhanaSheila Azuntaba19
 GibraltarSamantha Lane17
 GreeceIrene Skliva18
 GrenadaAria Johnson25
 GuamAileen Maravilla23
 GuatemalaMaría Gabriela Rosales Castellaños19
 HollandPetra Hoost20
 Hong KongChillie Poon24
 HungaryAndrea Deak19
 IndiaRani Joan Jeyraj21
 IrelandNiamh Marie Redmond19
 IsraelTalia Lewenthal18
 ItalyMara de Gennaro24
 JamaicaSelena Delgado21
 JapanMiyuki Fujii21
 KenyaPritpal Kulwant Dhamu18
 South KoreaSeol Soo-jin21
 LatviaAnta Dukere22
 LebanonNisrine Sami Nasser22
 LithuaniaDaiva Anuzyte18
MacauGuiomar Madeira da Silva Pedruco21
 MacedoniaVera Mesterovic17
 MalaysiaQu-an How Cheok Kuan20
 MexicoYessica Salazar González22
 New ZealandKelly-Rose Mischiewski21
 NigeriaEmma Komlosy19
 NorwayEva Sjøholt24
 PanamaNorma Élida Pérez Rodríguez21
 ParaguayMaría Ingrid Götze Scheunemann22
 PeruMónica Chacón de Vettori21
 PhilippinesDaisy Reyes20
 PolandAgnieszka Zielińska20
 PortugalAna Mafalda Schaefer de Almeida Santos21
 Puerto RicoMarissa de la Caridad Hernández21
 RomaniaCarmen Radoi21
 RussiaViktoriya Tsapitsina17
 SeychellesChristina Pillay22
 SingaporeCarol Tan19
 SlovakiaLinda Lencova18
 SloveniaAlenka Vindiš18
 South AfricaPeggy-Sue Khumalo21
 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
 U.S. Virgin IslandsEmoliere Williams18
 UruguayClaudia Verónica Gallaretta Olmedo19
 VenezuelaAna Cepinska Miszczak18
 FR 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.[5] The beauty pageant saw resistance by several groups due to the perceived culture clash.[6][7][3][8] 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. "Miss World contest draws flak in Bangalore : INDIASCOPE". India Today. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  4. The Daily Gazette
  5. "Rediff on the NeT: Amitabh Bachchan, in an exclusive interview". Rediff.com. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  6. "Beauty Pageant Stirs Protests". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  7. "Mahila Jagran Manch, Bangalore vs State of Karnataka And Others on 19 November, 1996". Indiankanoon.org. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  8. "CNN Indian police prepare for worst in beauty pageant clash – Nov. 22, 1996". CNN. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
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