Miss World 1993

Miss World 1993
Miss World 1993 titleholder - Lisa Hanna
Date	27 November 1993
Presenters	Pierce Brosnan Doreen Morris Gina Tolleson Kim Alexis
Venue	Sun City Entertainment Center, Sun City, South Africa
Broadcaster	E! SABC
Entrants	81
Placements	10
Debuts	Czech Republic Lithuania Slovakia
Withdrawals	Greenland Hungary Peru Romania Seychelles Ukraine Zambia
Returns	Honduras Zimbabwe
Winner	Lisa Hanna Jamaica
Personality	Charlotte Als (Denmark)
Best National Costume	Karminder Kaur-Virk (India)
Photogenic	Barbara Chiappini (Italy)

Miss World 1993, the 43rd edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 27 November 1993 at the Sun City Entertainment Centre in Sun City, South Africa. It was the second time that the Miss World pageant was held in the South Africa.The pageant attracted 81 contestants from all over the world. This is the second consecutive staging of the pageant in Sun City. The winner was Lisa Hanna of Jamaica. She was crowned by Julia Kourotchkina of Russia.

Results

Placements

Placement	Contestant
Miss World 1993	Jamaica – Lisa Rene Shanti Hanna
1st Runner-Up	South Africa – Palesa Jacqueline Mofokeng
2nd Runner-Up	Philippines – Sharmaine Rama Gutierrez
Top 5	Croatia – Fani Čapalija Venezuela – Mónica Lei Scaccia
Top 10	Finland – Janina Frostell France – Véronique de la Cruz South Korea – Lee Seung-yeon Sweden – Karin Victoria Silvstedt United States – Maribeth Brown

Contestants

Country/Territory	Contestant	Age	Hometown
American Virgin Islands	Suzanne Palermo	21	St. Thomas
Argentina	Viviana Carcereri	19	Mendoza
Aruba	Christina van der Berg	18	Noord
Australia	Karen Ann Carwin	23	Brisbane
Austria	Jutta Ellinger	23	Vienna
Bahamas	Jacinda Sayde Francis	18	Nassau
Belgium	Stephanie Meire	23	Bruges
Bermuda	Kellie Hall	22	Southampton
Bolivia	Claudia Lorena Arrieta Justiniano	18	Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Brazil	Lyliá Virna	18	Maceió
British Virgin Islands	Kaida Donovan	18	Tortola
Bulgaria	Vera Roussinova	17	Sofia
Canada	Tanya Lynne Memme	22	Toronto
Cayman Islands	Audry Elizabeth Ebanks	20	Grand Cayman
Chile	Jessica Miroslava Eterovic Pozas	20	Punta Arenas
Republic of China	Virginia Long Wei-yen	19	Taipei
Colombia	Silvia Isabel Durán Angarita	23	Bucaramanga
Costa Rica	Laura Odio Salas	19	San José
Croatia	Fani Čapalija	18	Split
Curaçao	Sally Daflaar	19	Willemstad
Cyprus	Maria Magdalini Valianti	19	Larnaca
Czech Republic	Simona Smejkalová	19	Prague
Denmark	Charlotte Als	22	Copenhagen
Dominican Republic	Lynn Marie Álvarez Klinken	21	Concepción de La Vega
Ecuador	Danna Saab Saab	19	Guayaquil
El Salvador	Beatriz Eugenia Henríquez Pinto	21	San Salvador
Finland	Janina Frostell	20	Kuhmo
France	Véronique de la Cruz	19	Guadeloupe
Germany	Petra Klein	19	Ludwigsburg
Gibraltar	Jennifer Jane Ainsworth	18	Gibraltar
Greece	Mania Delou	19	Athens
Guam	Gina Burkhart	18	Sinajana
Guatemala	María Lucrecia Flores Flores	24	Guatemala City
Holland	Hilda van der Meulen	22	Oudeschoot
Honduras	Tania Brüchmann Escoria	18	Tegucigalpa
Hong Kong	May Lam Lai-mei	20	Hong Kong
Iceland	Guðrún Rut Hreiðarsdóttir	19	Reykjavík
India	Karminder Kaur-Virk	20	Chandigarh
Ireland	Pamela Flood	22	Dublin
Israel	Tamara Porat	18	Tel Aviv
Italy	Barbara Chiappini	18	Piacenza
Jamaica	Lisa Rene Shanti Hanna	18	Kingston
Japan	Yoko Miyasaka	22	Tokyo
Latvia	Sigita Rude	19	Liepāja
Lebanon	Ghada El Turk	21	Keserwan
Lithuania	Jurate Mikutaitė	21	Kaunas
Macau	Isabela Pedruco	20	Macau
Malaysia	Jacqueline Ngu	23	Kuala Lumpur
Malta	Susanne-Mary Borg	17	Mosta
Mauritius	Viveka Babajee †	20	Beau Bassin
Mexico	Elizabeth Margain Rivera	22	Mexico City
Namibia	Christalene Barbara Kahatjipara	20	Windhoek
New Zealand	Nicola Johanna Brighty	20	Auckland
Nigeria	Helen Ntukidem	22	Lagos
Norway	Rita Omvik	21	Kongsvinger
Panama	Aracelys del Carmen Cogley Prestán	23	Colón
Paraguay	Claudia Liz Florentín Fariña	19	Asunción
Philippines	Sharmaine (Ruffa) Rama Gutierrez	19	Manila
Poland	Aleksandra Spieczyńska	19	Wrocław
Portugal	Ana Luísa Barbosa Moreira	20	Porto
Puerto Rico	Ana Rosa Brito Suárez	23	San Juan
Russia	Olga Syssoeva	19	Moscow
Singapore	Desiree Chan Fam Yin	20	Singapore
Slovakia	Dana Vojtechovská	20	Košice
Slovenia	Metka Albreht	18	Postojna
South Africa	Palesa Jacqueline Mofokeng	21	Soweto
South Korea	Lee Seung-yeon	24	Seoul
Spain	Araceli García Eugenio	23	Madrid
Sri Lanka	Chamila Wickremesinghe	22	Colombo
Swaziland	Sharon Richards	20	Mbabane
Sweden	Karin Victoria Silvstedt	19	Bollnäs
Switzerland	Patricia Fässler	19	Zürich
Thailand	Maturose (Sherry) Kato Leaudsakda	18	Bangkok
Trinidad and Tobago	Denyse Michelle Paul	23	San Fernando
Turkey	Emel Yıldırım	19	Istanbul
Uganda	Linda Bazalaki	20	Kampala
United Kingdom	Amanda Louise Johnson	19	Nottingham
United States	Maribeth Brown	23	Holliston
Uruguay	María Fernanda Navarro Guigou	20	Montevideo
Venezuela	Mónica Lei Scaccia	22	Caracas
Zimbabwe	Karen Amanda Stally	19	Harare

Judges

• Eric Morley † - Chairman and CEO of Miss World Organization
• Frederick Forsyth
• Grace Jones
• Vanessa Williams
• Louis Gossett Jr.
• Christie Brinkley
• Jackie Chan
• John Ratcliffe
• Dali Tambo
• Juliet Prowse †
• Twiggy

Notes

Debuts

• Czech Republic
• Lithuania
• Slovakia

Returns

• Last competed in 1982:
  • Zimbabwe
• Last competed in 1991:
  • Honduras

Withdrawals

• China – Wang Yin Tao. She went to Miss World 1994 inserted.
• Czechoslovakia - Split into Czech Republic and Slovakia on 1 January 1993.
• Greenland - Lost their Miss World franchise.
• Hungary – Zsanna Pardy - Due lack of sponsor.
• Peru – Mónika Sáez Grimm - Due lack of sponsor.
• Romania – Adriana Silagy - Due lack of sponsor.
• Ukraine – Irina Barabash (Chernomaz) - Actually she was a married woman. She later competed at Miss Universe 1995.
• Zambia – No contest.

Replacements

• Russia – Anna Baychik - Unable to compete internationally due underage.

Other Notes

• France - Véronique de la Cruz, a semi-finalist at this year’s Miss World, was unplaced at Miss Universe 1993 pageant in Mexico City just 6 months earlier.