Miss World 1986

Miss World 1986
Miss World 1986 Titlecard
Date	13 November 1986
Presenters	Peter Marshall, and Mary Ann Catrin Stavin
Venue	Royal Albert Hall, London, England, United Kingdom
Broadcaster	Thames Television
Entrants	77
Placements	15
Debuts	Antigua, British Virgin Islands, Macau, and Sierra Leone
Withdraws	Aruba, Curaçao, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Tahiti, Uganda, and Zaire
Returns	Honduras, Mauritius, Tonga, and Turkey
Winner	Giselle Jeanne-Marie Laronde  Trinidad & Tobago

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results.

The 36th Miss World Pageant was held on November 13, 1986 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Giselle Jeanne-Marie Laronde (Queen of Americas) from Trinidad & Tobago. Runner up was Pia Rosenberg Larsen (Queen of Europe) representing Denmark and third was Chantal Schreiber from Austria.

Results

Placements

Order of semifinalists

Order of finalists

• 1. Austria
• 2. Denmark
• 3. Venezuela
• 4. New Zealand
• 5. Trinidad & Tobago
• 6. United States
• 7. Ecuador

Special awards

• Personality: Dominique Martinez (Gibraltar)
• Photogenic: Rosemary Elizabeth Thompson (Ireland)

Continental Queens

• Africa: Ilana Faye Lapidos - Swaziland
• Americas: Giselle Jeanne-Marie Laronde - Trinidad & Tobago
• Asia: Sherry Rose Austria Byrne - Philippines
• Europe: Pia Rosenberg Larsen - Denmark
• Oceania: Lynda Marie McManus - New Zealand

77 Contestants

Nation	Contestant	Hometown	Preliminary Score
American Virgin Islands	Carmen Rosa Acosta	St. Croix	24
Antigua	Karen Rhona Eartha Knowles	St. John's	25
Australia	Stephanie Eleanor Andrews	West Leederville	28
Austria	Chantal Schreiber	Vienna	34
Bahamas	Bridgette Strachan	Nassau	25
Barbados	Roslyn Irene Williams	Saint Michael	24
Belgium	Goedele Maria Liekens	Brussels	32
Bermuda	Samantha Jayne Morton	Pembroke West	25
Bolivia	Claudia Arevalo Ayala	Cochabamba	30
Brazil	Roberta Pereira da Silva	Itajai	29
British Virgin Islands	Anthonia Brenda Lewis†	Tortola	25
Canada	Wynne Anita Kroontje	Sarnia	24
Cayman Islands	Deborah Elizabeth Cridland	Grand Cayman	24
Chile	Margot Eliza Fuenzalida Montt	Santiago	30
Colombia	Karen Sue Wightman Corridor	Barranquilla	39
Costa Rica	Ana Lorena Gonzalez Garcia	San Jose	33
Cyprus	Maro Andreou	Limassol	24
Denmark	Pia Rosenberg Larsen	Frederiksberg	37
Dominican Republic	Susan González	Santiago	29
Ecuador	Alicia Gisela Cucalon Macias	Guayaquil	38
El Salvador	Nadine Monique Jeanpierre Gutierrez	San Salvador	28
Finland	Satu Riita Alaharja	Seinäjoki	32
France	Catherine Carew	Guadeloupe	31
Gambia	Rose Marie Eunson	Banjul	26
Germany	Dagmar Schulz	Duisburg	25
Gibraltar	Dominique Martinez	Gibraltar	33
Greece	Anna Kechagia	Athens	26
Guam	Valerie Jean Flores	Agana	24
Guatemala	Sonia Schoenstedt	Guatemala City	25
Holland	Janny Tervelde	Steenbergen	24
Honduras	Nilcer Maria Viscovich Babien	San Pedro Sula	25
Hong Kong	May Ng Yuen-Fong	Kowloon Bay	26
Iceland	Gigja Birgisdóttir	Akureyri	26
India	Maureen Mary Lestourgeon	Bombay	28
Ireland	Rosemary Elizabeth Thompson	Lismore	36
Isle of Man	Sarah Therese Craig	Ballaugh	24
Israel	Osnat Moas	Motzkin	29
Italy	Enrica Patane	Rome	30
Jamaica	Lisa Michelle Mahfood	Kingston	31
Japan	Mutsumi Sugimura	Tokyo	24
Kenya	Patricia Maingi	Nairobi	25
Korea	An Jeung-mi	Seoul	28
Lebanon	Mireille Abi Fares	Beirut	24
Luxembourg	Martine Christine Georgette Pilot	Erpeldange	24
Macau	Sai (Patricia) Cheong	Macau	31
Malaysia	Joan Martha Cardoza	Kuala Lumpur	29
Malta	Andrea Josephine Licari	Floriana	26
Mauritius	Michelle Sylvie Geraldine Pastor	Quatre Bornes	24
Mexico	Maria de la Luz Velasco Feliz	Mexicali	28
New Zealand	Lynda Marie McManus	Christchurch	44
Norway	Inger Louise Berg	Bodø	25
Panama	Maria Lorena Orillac Giraldo	Panama City	33
Paraguay	Veronica America Angulo Ahcinelli	Asuncion	31
Peru	Patricia Anne-Marie Kuypers Espejo	Lima	26
Philippines	Sherry Rose Austria Byrne	Manila	32
Poland	Renata Fatla	Bielsko-Biała	29
Portugal	Elsa Maria Rodrigues	Lisbon	31
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Jacqueline Petronella Heyliger	Basseterre	24
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Mandy Haydock	Kingstown	24
Sierra Leone	Alice Matta Fefegula	Bo	24
Singapore	Michelle Loh Yeh Huey	Bedok	25
Spain	Remedios Cervantes Montoya	Malaga	32
Sri Lanka	Indira Gunaratne	Colombo	24
Swaziland	Ilana Faye Lapidos	Manzini	26
Sweden	Elizabeth Marita Ulvan	Motala	33
Switzerland	Renate Walther	Bargen	25
Thailand	Sangravee as-Savarak	Bangkok	24
Tonga	Kerry Cowley	Nuku'alofa	24
Trinidad & Tobago	Giselle Jeanne-Marie LaRonde	Maraval	36
Turkey	Meltem Doganay	Ankara	26
Turks and Caicos Islands	Carmelita Louise Ariza	Grand Turk	26
United Kingdom	Alison Louise Slack	Sheffield	40
United States	Halle Berry	Oakwood	42
Uruguay	Alexandra Maria Goldenthal	Montevideo	25
Venezuela	María Begoña Juaristi Matteo	Maracaibo	46
Western Samoa	Kasileta Joan Gabriel	Apia	24
Yugoslavia	Maja Kučić	Split	34

• In 1986 there were twelve preliminary judges who each gave the contestants a score of 2, 3 or 4. This meant that the contestants could receive a minimum score of 24 and a maximum of 48.
• 1986 rules required that at least one contestant from each continent advanced to the top 15 semifinal round. This is why Miss Philippines, as the best contestant from Asia (score of 32) and Miss Swaziland, as the best from Africa (score of 26) went through, while both Miss Gibraltar and Miss Sweden (with a score of 33) did not.

National pageant notes

Returning countries and debuts

• Antigua, British Virgin Islands, Macau, and Sierra Leone competed in Miss World for the first time.
• Mauritius last competed in 1980.
• Tonga, and Turkey last competed in 1983.
• Honduras last competed in 1984.

Withdrawals and nations not competing

• Aruba, and Puerto Rico lost its Miss World franchise due to financial assistance issues.

Other notes

• British Virgin Islands, Anthonia Brenda Lewis, died of cancer in 2000.
• Preliminary swimsuits in Miss World 1986 were held in Macau.
• Ireland won the Miss Photogenic award for the third time.
• The Parade of Nations was held outside of the main stage for the first time, which was shot in the Ruins of St. Paul's, Macau.
• 10 out of 15 countries which made it into the semifinals, were not in the semifinals last year: Ecuador (1970), Costa Rica (1978), Panama (1979), Denmark, Philippines, and Trinidad & Tobago (1982), Yugoslavia (1983), and Austria, and Colombia (1984). Swaziland had made into the semi-finals for the first time since its debut in 1975.
• United States, Halle Berry, became a successful actress and an Oscar awardee.

External sources

• Pageantopolis
• Jimmy's Pageant Page