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Top Ukraine, Tahiti, United Kingdom, China, U.S.A., Australia, Russia, South Africa, Bahamas,
Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Brazil, Belgium, Hong Kong, American Virgin Islands,
Germany & Philippines
2nd top Japan, Sweden, Turkey,
Trinidad & Tobago, Tanzania, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Hungary, Guatemala,
Iceland, Canada, Bulgaria, Romania, Curacao, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Italy
& Seychelles
Middle Austria, Swaziland, Sri
Lanka, Spain, Slovenia, Slovak Republic, Israel, Cayman Islands, India,
British Virgin Islands, Guam, St. Vincent, Jamaica, Ghana, Norway, Poland,
Portugal & Saint Lucia
2nd bottom Thailand, Switzerland,
Greece, Holland, Ireland, Estonia, Kenya, Korea, Latvia, Lebanon, Macau,
Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, New Zealand, Argentina &
Peru
Bottom Costa Rica,
Botswana, Colombia, Croatia, Chile, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark,
Nelson Mandela (President of
South Africa), Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Ecuador, Finland, France,
Gibraltar, Paraguay, Singapore & Panama |
Miss World 1994
- an amalgam
of news reports -
Miss India, a 21-year-old architecture student from Bombay, was named Miss
World 1994.
Folding her hands in a traditional gesture of thanks, a composed and smiling
Aishwarya Rai accepted the crown. She succeeds Lisa Hanna of Jamaica, who
won last year’s title.
For the second straight year, Miss South
Africa was the runner-up. This year it was
Basetsane Julia Makgalemele, 20. She was followed in third place by Miss
Venezuela, Irene Ester Ferreira Izquierdo, 18, of Venezuela.
The Miss World title brings prizes and gifts worth more than $500,000
including more than $75,000 in cash.
Miss Rai, in a sparkling white evening gown, was a crowd-pleasing
contestant, drawing enthusiastic cheers from partisans from her first
appearance on stage.
The brown-haired, green-eyed contestant projected an aura of grace and
dignity, despite confessing to enjoying the “occasional extravagance.” She
also was named Miss Photogenic in a poll of photographers.
Asked her aim as Miss World, she said her first goal would be to show
“compassion for the underprivileged.”
Judges included fashion model Iman; Eileen Ford of the Ford modeling agency;
photographer Patrick Lichfield; Zinzi Mandela Hlongwane, daughter of South
African President Nelson Mandela; actors Ron Moss and Katherine Kelly Lang
from the CBS-TV soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful;” and actors Tony
Leung Ka-Fai, Marsha Rae Ratcliff and Andres Garcia.
Actors Blair Underwood and Bronson Pinchot, supermodel Naomi Campbell and
South African singers Johnny Clegg and Ladysmith Black Mambazo also
participated.
The pageant was held for the third time in Sun City. The fantasy gambling
resort is in the former black homeland of
Bophuthatswana,
now reincorporated into South Africa as part of reforms that ended
white-minority rule this year.
The Somalia-born Iman told the crowd she could never have imagined being
able to present the beauty award in a “free South Africa.” |
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United Kingdom |
India & Poland |
Brazil, Bolivia & Dominican Republic |
20th birthday
Holland, Germany, Czech Republic & Iceland |
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1994 November 19
Sun City, South Africa
87 entries
Results
1 India Aishwarya Rai
Queen
of Asia & Oceania
2
South Africa Basetsane Julia Makgalemele
Queen of Africa
3
Venezuela Irene Esther Ferreira Izquierdo
Queen
of Americas
Finalists
4 Zimbabwe Angeline Musasiwa
5
Croatia Branka Bebic
Queen of Europe
Semi-finalists
Belgium Ilse De Meulemeester
Greece Evangelia
"Evi" Adam
Malaysia Rahima Orchient Yayah
Philippines Caroline Subijano
United Kingdom Melanie Abdoun
Remainder
American Virgin Islands Jessalyn Pearsall
Argentina
Miriam Elizabeth Nahon
Australia Skye-Jilly
Edwards
Austria Bianca Engel
Bahamas Deanna Tamara North
Bangladesh Anika Taher
Bolivia Mariel Gabriela Arce Taborga
Botswana Hazel Kutlo Mmopi
Brazil Valquíria Melnik Blicharski
British Virgin Islands Khara Michelle Forbes
Bulgaria Stella Ognianova
Canada Shawna Roberts
Cayman Islands Anita Lilly Bush
Queen of
Caribbean Isles
Chile Yulissa Macarena del Pino Pinochet
China Pan Tao
Colombia Maria Eugenia González Ponce de León
Costa Rica
Silvia Ester Muñoz Mata
Curacao Marisa Corine Bos
Cyprus Johanna Uwrin
Czech Republic Lenka Belickova
Denmark Sara Maria Wolf
Dominican Republic Claudia Franjul González
Ecuador Diana Margarita Noboa Gordon
Estonia Auli Andersalu
Finland Mia Marianne Forsell
France Radiah Latidine
Germany Marte Helberg
Ghana Matilda Aku Alomatu
Gibraltar Mellissa Berllaque
Guam Chalorna Freitas
Guatemala Sonia Maria Rosales Vargas
Holland Yoska Bon
Hong Kong Annamarie Wood Lai-Ming
Hungary Timea Farkas
Iceland Birna Bragadóttir
Ireland Anna Maria McCarthy
Israel Shirley Schwartzberg
Italy Arianna Novacco
Jamaica Johanna Simone Ulett
Japan Shinobu Sushida
Kenya Josephine Wanjiku Mbatia
Korea Chae Yeon-hee
Latvia Daina Tobija
Lebanon
Lara Badawi
Macau Chen Ji-Min
Mauritius Marie Priscilla Mardaymootoo
Mexico Claudia Hernández Rodríguez
New Zealand Shelley Jeannine Edwards
Nigeria Suzan Hart
Norway Anne Lena Hansen
Panama Carmen Lucía Ogando Ginono
Paraguay Jannyne Elena Peyrat
Scolari
Peru Marcia Pérez Marcés
Poland Jadwiga Flank
Portugal Leonor Filipa Correia Leal Rodrigues
Puerto Rico
Joyce Marie Giraud Mojica
Romania
Leona Dalia Voicu
Russia Anna Malova
Seychelles Marquise David
Singapore Pickard Angela Lee Kim Mei
Slovak Republic Karin Majtanova
Slovenia
Janja Zupan
Spain Virginia Pareja Garófano
Sri Lanka Nushara Rusri Pramali Fernando
St. Lucia Yasmine Lyndel Walcott
St. Vincent Cornise Yearwood
Swaziland Stephanie Wesselo
Sweden Sofia Andersson
Switzerland Sarah Briguet
Tahiti Vaea Christine Sandra Olanda
Taiwan Joanne Wu Chung-Chun
Tanzania Aina
William Maeda
Thailand Patinya
"If" Thongsri
Trinidad & Tobago Anabel Thomas
Turkey Pinar Altug
Ukraine Nataliya Vasilievna Kozitskaya
U.S.A. Kristie Harmon
Awards
Miss Personality Thailand
Miss Photogenic India
Best National Costume Venezuela |
U.S.A., Bahamas, TV personality Charlie Smith & United Kingdom |
Turkey, New Zealand & Greece |
Best National Costume
Venezuela |
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South Africa (1st
runner-up), India (winner)
& Venezuela (2nd runner-up) |
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Cross-references to some of the other pageants
Argentina
Banana 1993, Coffee 1994, Int'l Queen of Harvest 1994 & Sugar Cane
World Queen 1994
Australia Queen of the Year 1993 (winner) & Globe 1994 (winner)
Austria Maja International 1995
Bolivia Coffee 1995
Cayman Islands Universe 1995
Costa Rica
International 1994
Denmark Baltic Sea 1996 (2nd runner-up)
Guatemala Sugar Cane World Queen 1994
Iceland Scandinavia 1995 (winner)
Ireland Universe 1995 & Europe 1995
Kenya Universe 1995
Macau Chinese International 1995
Mauritius Universe 1995
Mexico Maja International 1995 (winner)
New Zealand Universe 1995
Nigeria Universe 1994
Norway International 1995
(winner)
Paraguay Globe 1994 & International 1994
Poland Queen of the Year 1995 (semi-finalist)
Puerto Rico Universe 1998 (2nd runner-up)
Russia Baltic Sea 1994 (winner) & Universe 1998 (semi-finalist)
Slovak Republic International 1993
Sri Lanka Asia Pacific 1992 (semi-finalist), Universe 1994
& Mrs World 2001 (semi-finalist)
Sweden Teen International 1993 (winner)
Switzerland Universe 1995
Taiwan Universe 1994
Ukraine International 1997 (semi-finalist)
United Kingdom International-Britain 1995 |
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