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Miss World 1996
Image
Miss World 1996 Titlecard
Date23 November 1996
Presenters
  • Richard Steinmetz
  • Ruby Bhatia
VenueM. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, India
Broadcaster
Entrants88
Placements10
Debuts
  • Bonaire
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Macedonia
Withdrawals
  • Bahamas
  • Barbados
  • Bermuda
  • Cayman Islands
  • Denmark
Returns
  • Grenada
  • Kenya
  • Nigeria
  • Uganda
  • Uruguay
  • Yugoslavia
WinnerIrene Skliva
Greece
PersonalityDaisy Reyes (Philippines)
Best National CostumeAnuska Prado (Brazil)
PhotogenicAna Cepinska (Venezuela)
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Miss World 1996, the 46th edition of the Miss World pageant, took place at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, India on 23 November 1996.[1][2]

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.

Background

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Controversy

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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][8][9] However, due to support of the local government, the event was held successfully.

Selection of participants

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Debuts, returns, and withdrawals

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This edition saw the debut of Bonaire, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia, and the return of Grenada, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Uruguay and Yugoslavia; Grenada, which last competed in 1970, Yugoslavia last competed in 1991, Uganda and Urugauy last competed in 1993 and Kenya and Nigeria last competed in 1994.

Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands and Denmark, withdrew from the competition.

Results

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Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1996[1][8]

Placements

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Placement Contestant
Miss World 1996
1st runner-up
  • Image Colombia – Carolina Arango[3]
2nd runner-up
  • Image Brazil – Anuska Prado[3]
Top 5[10]
Top 10
  • Image Aruba – Afranina Henriquez
  • Image Belgium – Laurence Borremans
  • Image Dominican Republic – Idelsa Núñez
  • Image Mexico – Yessica Salazar
  • Image South Africa – Peggy-Sue Khumalo

Continental Queens of Beauty

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Continental Group Contestant
Africa
  • Image South Africa – Peggy-Sue Khumalo
Americas
  • Image Colombia – Carolina Arango
Asia & Oceania
Caribbean
  • Image Aruba – Afranina Henriquez
Europe

Judges

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Contestants

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Country/TerritoryContestantAge[a]
Image ArgentinaFernanda Fernández18
Image ArubaAfranina Henriquez20
Image AustraliaNicole Smith24
Image AustriaBettina Buxbaumer23
Image BangladeshRehnuma Dilruba[12]20
Image BelgiumLaurence Borremans18
Image BoliviaAndrea Forti19
Image BonaireJhane Landwier18
Image Bosnia and HerzegovinaBelma Zvrko[13]18
Image BotswanaJoyce Manase20
Image BrazilAnuska Prado20
Image British Virgin IslandsAyana Glasgow21
Image BulgariaViara Kamenova21
Image CanadaMichelle Weswaldi19
Image ChileLuz Francisca Valenzuela20
Image ColombiaCarolina Arango19
Image Costa RicaNatalia Carvajal21
Image CroatiaVanja Rupena18
Image CuraçãoYandra Faulborn19
Image CyprusMaria Papaprodromou19
Image Czech RepublicPetra Minářová18
Image Dominican RepublicIdelsa Núñez Torres21
Image EcuadorJennifer Graham19
Image EstoniaMari-Liis Kapustin18
Image FinlandHanna Hirvonen20
Image FranceSéverine Derouallé22
Image French Polynesia[b]Hinerava Hiro18
Image GermanyMelanie Ernst18
Image GhanaSheila Azuntaba19
Image GibraltarSamantha Lane17
Image GreeceIrene Skliva18
Image GrenadaAria Johnson25
Image GuamAileen Maravilla23
Image GuatemalaMaría Gabriela Rosales19
Image HollandPetra Hoost20
Image Hong KongChillie Poon24
Image HungaryAndrea Deák[14]19
Image IndiaRani Jeyraj21
Image IrelandNiamh Redmond19
Image IsraelTalia Lewenthal18
Image ItalyMara de Gennaro24
Image JamaicaSelena Delgado21
Image JapanMiyuki Fujii21
Image KenyaPritpal Kulwant Dhamu18
Image LatviaAnta Dukere[15]22
Image LebanonNisrine Sami Nasser22
Image LithuaniaDaiva Anužytė[16]18
Image MacauGuiomar Madeira da Silva Pedruco21
Image MacedoniaVera Mesterovic17
Image MalaysiaQu-an How Cheok Kuan20
Image MexicoYessica Salazar22
Image New ZealandKelly-Rose Mischiewski21
Image NigeriaEmma Komlosy19
Image NorwayEva Sjøholt24
Image PanamaNorma Élida Pérez21
Image ParaguayMaría Ingrid Götze22
Image PeruMónica Chacón de Vettori21
Image PhilippinesDaisy Reyes[17]20
Image PolandAgnieszka Zielińska20
Image PortugalAna Mafalda Santos21
Image Puerto RicoMarissa de la Caridad Hernández21
Image RomaniaCarmen Radoi21
Image RussiaViktoriya Tsapitsina17
Image SeychellesChristina Pillay22
Image SingaporeCarol Tan19
Image SlovakiaLinda Lenčová[18][19]18
Image SloveniaAlenka Vindiš[20]18
Image South AfricaPeggy-Sue Khumalo21
Image South Korea[c]Seol Soo-jin21
Image SpainPatricia Ruiz Fernández19
Image SwazilandOlive Healy22
Image SwedenÅsa Johansson20
Image  SwitzerlandMelanie Winiger17
Image Taiwan[d]Chen Hsiao-Fen23
Image TanzaniaShose Akare Sinare20
Image ThailandSirinya Burbridge[21]17
Image Trinidad and TobagoSharda Ramlogan23
Image TurkeySerpil Sevilay Öztürk[22]19
Image UgandaSheba Kerere19
Image UkraineNataliya Shvachko20
Image United KingdomRachael Liza Warner22
Image United StatesKelly Webber20
Image United States Virgin IslandsEmoliere Williams18
Image UruguayClaudia Verónica Gallaretta Olmedo19
Image VenezuelaAna Cepinska Miszczak18
Image YugoslaviaSlavica Krivokuća18
Image ZambiaAlice Banda21
Image ZimbabweNomsa Ndiweni19

Notes

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  1. ↑ Ages at the time of the pageant
  2. ↑ Competed as Tahiti in the pageant
  3. ↑ Competed as Korea in the pageant
  4. ↑ Also known as the Republic of China

Withdrawals

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  • Image 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.
  • Image Cayman Islands – Due to financial problems

References

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  1. 1 2 "Hundreds protest Miss World contest in India". Daily News. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Ocala Star-Banner
  3. 1 2 3 4 "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. ↑ "Rediff on the NeT: Amitabh Bachchan, in an exclusive interview". Rediff.com. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Beauty Pageant Stirs Protests". Chicago Tribune. 27 October 1996. 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. 1 2 "Miss World contest draws flak in Bangalore : INDIASCOPE". India Today. 31 October 1996. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  9. ↑ "CNN Indian police prepare for worst in beauty pageant clash – Nov. 22, 1996". CNN. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  10. ↑ "A beautiful journey". Deccan Herald. 16 January 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  11. ↑ The Daily Gazette
  12. ↑ "Search for Miss World Bangladesh will start from September 16". Dhaka Tribune. 13 September 2018. Archived from the original on 11 April 2025. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  13. ↑ "Stela Zubak-Jovanović: Izbor za Miss BiH od poslijeratne 1996. godine ima svrhu i cilj" [Stela Zubak-Jovanović: The Miss BiH pageant since post-war 1996 has had a purpose and goal]. Klix.ba (in Croatian). 27 December 2018. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
  14. ↑ "Könyvben teregeti ki a szennyest Fásy Ádám" [Ádámp Fásy airs the laundry in a book]. Blikk (in Hungarian). 7 September 2011. Archived from the original on 27 December 2024. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  15. ↑ Tiļļa, Andris (21 April 2018). "30 gadi kopš skaistumkonkursā "Mis Rīga". Latvijas šovbiznesa balvas, skandāli, izaicinājumi, etaloni" [30 years since the beauty contest "Miss Riga". Latvian show business awards, scandals, challenges, benchmarks]. LA.LV (in Latvian). Archived from the original on 1 April 2025. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  16. ↑ Svėrytė, Monika (8 June 2016). "Vilniuje susituokė "Mis Lietuva 1996" Daiva Anužytė ir Vitalijus Baronas" [Miss Lithuania 1996 Daiva Anužytė and Vitalijus Baronas got married in Vilnius]. 15min Lithuania (in Lithuanian). Archived from the original on 26 April 2025. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  17. ↑ 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.
  18. ↑ Kvasnicová, Alena (30 November 2015). "Rezešová má nového chlapa: Ulovila ďalšieho boháča!" [Rezešová has a new boyfriend: She caught another rich man!]. Topky Slovakia (in Slovak). Archived from the original on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  19. ↑ Kizek, Marian (18 January 2001). "Z bývalej Miss World Slovensko sa stala mamička šesťtýždňovej Victorie" [Former Miss World Slovakia becomes mother to six-week-old Victoria]. Korzar (in Slovak). Retrieved 5 May 2025.
  20. ↑ "Nekdanja miss Alenka Vindiš: "Kljub ločitvi nisem obupala nad ljubeznijo!"" [Former Miss Alenka Vindiš: "Despite the divorce, I didn't give up on love!"]. Govori.se (in Slovenian). 12 February 2017. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
  21. ↑ "5 คนดัง มากความสามารถ อดีตเจ้าของมงกุฏ Miss Thailand World" [5 celebrities with many talents, former winners of Miss Thailand World]. Tero Entertainment (in Thai). 18 August 2023. Archived from the original on 26 April 2025. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
  22. ↑ "Sevilay Öztürk kimdir?" [Who is Sevilay Ozturk?]. Hürriyet (in Turkish). 3 September 2017. Archived from the original on 26 December 2024. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
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