Miss World 1996

Miss World 1996
Miss World 1996 Titlecard
Date	November 23, 1996
Presenters	Richard Steinmetz and Ruby Bhatia
Venue	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India
Entrants	88
Placements	10
Debuts	Bonaire, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia
Withdraws	Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Denmark
Returns	Grenada, Kenya, Uganda, Uruguay, Yugoslavia
Winner	Irene Skliva  Greece
Personality	Daisy Reyes  Philippines
Best National Costume	Anuska Prado  Brazil
Photogenic	Ana Cepinska  Venezuela

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results.

Miss World 1996, the 46th Miss World pageant took place on November 23, 1996 in the city of Bangalore, India. 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.

Results

Placements

Special awards

• Miss Personality: Daisy Reyes (Philippines)
• Most Photogenic: Ana Cepinska (Venezuela)
• Spectacular Dress: Anuska Prado (Brazil)
• Spectacular Beach Wear: Yessica Salazar (Mexico)
• Spectacular Evening Wear: Rani Jeyraj (India)

Continental Queens

• Africa: Peggy-Sue Khumalo (South Africa)
• Americas: Carolina Arango (Colombia)
• Asia and Oceania: Rani Jeyraj (India)
• Caribbean: Afranina Henriquez (Aruba)
• Europe: Irene Skliva (Greece)

Order of announcements

Top 5

• 1. Venezuela
• 2. Brazil
• 3. India
• 4. Greece
• 5. Colombia

Judges

Contestants

Nation	Contestant	Age
American Virgin Islands	Emoliere Williams	18
Argentina	Fernanda Fernández Ramírez	18
Aruba	Afranina Henriquez	20
Australia	Nicole Smith	24
Austria	Bettina Buxbaumer	23
Bangladesh	Rehnuma Dilruba	20
Belgium	Laurence Borremans	18
Bolivia	Andrea Mariana Forti Sandoval	19
Bonaire	Jhane Louise Landwier	18
Bosnia & Herzegovina	Belma Zvrko	18
Botswana	Joyce Manase	20
Brazil	Anuska Valeria Prado	20
British Virgin Islands	Ayana Glasgow	21
Bulgaria	Viara Kamenova	21
Canada	Michelle Carrie Lillian Weswaldi	19
Chile	Luz Francisca Valenzuela Höllzer	20
Colombia	Carolina Arango Corrales	19
Costa Rica	Natalia Carvajal Lorenzo	21
Croatia	Vanja Rupena	18
Curaçao	Yandra Angelica Faulborn	19
Cyprus	Maria Papaprodromou	19
Czech Republic	Petra Minartova	18
Dominican Republic	Idelsa Núñez Torres	21
Ecuador	Jennifer Lynn Graham Dumani	19
Estonia	Mari-Liis Kapustin	18
Finland	Hanna Hirvonen	20
France	Séverine Derouallé	22
Germany	Melanie Ernst	18
Ghana	Sheila Azuntaba	19
Gibraltar	Samantha Lane	17
Greece	Irene Skliva	18
Grenada	Aria Johnson	25
Guam	Aileen Maravilla	23
Guatemala	Maria Gabriela Rosales Castellaños	19
Holland	Petra Hoost	20
Hong Kong	Chillie Poon	24
Hungary	Andrea Deak	19
India	Rani Joan Jeyraj	21
Ireland	Niamh Marie Redmond	19
Israel	Talia Lewenthal	18
Italy	Mara de Gennaro	24
Jamaica	Selena Delgado	21
Japan	Miyuki Fujii	21
Kenya	Pritpal Kulwant Dhamu	18
Korea	Seol Soo-jin	21
Latvia	Anta Dukere	22
Lebanon	Nisrine Sami Nasser	22
Lithuania	Daiva Anuzyte	18
Macau	Guiomar Madeira da Silva Pedruco	21
Republic Of Macedonia	Vera Mesterovic	17
Malaysia	Qu-an How Cheok Kuan	20
Mexico	Yessica Salazar Gonzalez	21
New Zealand	Kelly-Rose Mischiewski	21
Nigeria	Emma Komlosy	19
Norway	Eva Sjøholt	24
Panama	Norma Elida Perez Rodríguez	21
Paraguay	Maria Ingrid Götze Scheunemann	22
Peru	Monica Chácon de Vettori	21
Philippines	Daisy Garcia Reyes	20
Poland	Agnieszka Zielińska	20
Portugal	Ana Mafalda Schaefer de Almeida Santos	21
Puerto Rico	Marissa de la Caridad Hernández	21
Romania	Carmen Radoi	21
Russia	Viktoriya Tsapitsina	17
Seychelles	Christina Pillay	22
Singapore	Carol Tan	19
Slovakia	Linda Lencova	18
Slovenia	Alenka Vindiš	18
South Africa	Peggy-Sue Khumalo	21
Spain	Patricia Ruiz Fernández	19
Swaziland	Olive Healy	22
Sweden	Åsa Johansson	20
Switzerland	Melanie Winiger	17
Tahiti	Hinerava Hiro	18
Taiwan (R.O.C.)	Chen Hsiao-Fen	23
Tanzania	Shose Akare Sinare	20
Thailand	Sirinya Winsiri	17
Trinidad & Tobago	Sharda Ramlogan	23
Turkey	Serpil Sevilay Ozturk	19
Uganda	Sheba Kerere	19
Ukraine	Nataliya Shvachko	20
United Kingdom	Rachael Liza Warner	22
United States of America	Kelly Webber	20
Uruguay	Claudia Veronica Gallaretta Olmedo	19
Venezuela	Ana Cepinska Miszak	18
FR Yugoslavia	Slavica Krivokuca	18
Zambia	Alice Banda	21
Zimbabwe	Nomsa Ndiweni	19

Parade order

National pageant notes

Returning countries and debuts

• Bonaire, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Macedonia competed in Miss World for the first time.
• Grenada last competed in 1970.
• Yugoslavia last competed in 1991 after a 5-year civil war in which its nation was divided among independent states.
• Uganda and Uruguay last competed in 1993.
• Kenya last competed in 1994.

Withdrawals and nations not competing

• Bahamas and Cayman Islands did not compete in Miss World because of financial problems.

Crossovers

Miss Universe

• Miss Universe 1996: Hungary, Taiwan R.O.C. and Turkey
• Miss Universe 1997: Belgium, Bonaire, Czech Republic, Poland and Switzerland
• Miss Universe 2000: Ukraine

Miss International

• Miss International 1997: Lebanon

Miss Earth

• Miss Earth 2001: Canada

Historical significance

• This is the only Miss World title won by Greece till date.
• Preliminaries in Miss World 1996 were shot in India and in Seychelles because of the feminist protests that occurred in India against the Miss World beauty pageant.
• Macau was the last of her four siblings in the Pedruco family who competed in Miss World.
• This was the first time Dominican Republic made it to the semi-finals after Mariasela Alvarez had won the Miss World title in 1982.
• Nigeria's Emma Komlousy is the daughter of Patti Boulaye, and the first mixed-raced winner (half-Hungarian) of her country's national pageant.
• Thailand's Sirinya Winsiri is half-American with the name Cindy Burbridge.

External links

• Miss World Official Website
• Pageantopolis - Miss World 1996