Miss Universe 1995

Miss Universe 1995
Date	May 12, 1995
Presenters	Bob Goen, Daisy Fuentes
Entertainment	Jon Secada
Venue	Windhoek Country Club Resort, Windhoek, Namibia
Broadcaster	CBS, NBC
Entrants	82
Placements	10
Debuts	Seychelles, Ukraine, Zambia
Withdraws	Argentina, Belgium, Honduras, Luxembourg, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Returns	Belize, Bonaire, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Kenya, Nicaragua, South Africa, US Virgin Islands
Winner	Chelsi Smith USA
Congeniality	Toyin Raji  Nigeria
Best National Costume	María Reyes  Spain
Photogenic	Petra Hultgren  Sweden

Miss Universe 1995, the 44th Miss Universe pageant was held at Windhoek Country Club Resort, in Windhoek, Namibia on May 12, 1995. Chelsi Smith of USA was crowned as Miss Universe 1995 by Miss Universe 1994 Sushmita Sen of India. 82 contestants competed for the crown.

Results

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results.

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss Universe 1995	USA - Chelsi Smith
1st runner-up	India - Manpreet Brar
2nd runner-up	Canada - Lana Buchberger
Top 6	Trinidad & Tobago - Arlene Peterkin  Puerto Rico - Desirée Lowry  Venezuela - Denyse Floreano
Top 10	South Africa - Augustine Masilela  El Salvador - Eleonora Carrillo  Dominican Republic - Cándida Lara  Colombia - Tatiana Castro

Semifinal scores

Delegate Swimsuit Interview Evening Gown Average Top 6 Finalists  USA 9.719 (1) 9.639 (3) 9.656 (7) 9.671 (1) 9.789 (2)  Canada 9.598 (2) 9.538 (5) 9.789 (1) 9.641 (2) 9.818 (1)  Puerto Rico 9.561 (5) 9.653 (2) 9.661 (6) 9.625 (3) 9.658 (5)  Venezuela 9.566 (4) 9.499 (7) 9.705 (2) 9.590 (4) 9.425 (6)  Trinidad & Tobago 9.515 (6) 9.499 (7) 9.674 (5) 9.563 (5) 9.724 (4)  India 9.378 (8) 9.573 (4) 9.700 (3) 9.550 (6) 9.748 (3)  South Africa 9.348 (9) 9.525 (6) 9.688 (4) 9.520 (7)  El Salvador 9.305 (10) 9.674 (1) 9.531 (10) 9.503 (8)  Dominican Republic 9.573 (3) 9.219 (9) 9.573 (9) 9.455 (9)  Colombia 9.430 (7) 9.020 (10) 9.599 (8) 9.350 (10)

Winner      First Runner-up      Second Runner-up      Top 6 Finalist      Top 10 Semifinalist (#) Rank in each round of competition

Special awards

Award	Contestant
Best National Costume	Spain - María Reyes  Brazil - Renata Bessa  Zambia - Luo Tricia Punabantu
Miss Congeniality	Nigeria - Toyin Raji
Miss Photogenic	Sweden - Petra Hultgren
Jantzen Best in Swimsuit	USA - Chelsi Smith
Most Beautiful Hair	Peru - Paola Dellepiane

Judges

• Ann Magnuson – American actress and singer
• Zakes Mokae – South African-born American actor
• Lucero – Singer and actress
• Dan McVicar – American actor
• Natasha Alexandrovna – Russian pop star
• Phil Gallo – Entertainment journalist
• Vanessa Bell Calloway – African American actress
• Peter Kwong – Asian American actor and martial artist
• Irene Sáez – Miss Universe 1981
• Freddy Taylor - Actor

Contestants

Aruba - Marie-Denise Herrlein  Australia - Jacqueline Shooter  Bahamas - Shammine Tenika Lindsay  Belize - Deborah Wade  Bolivia - Sandra Rivero Zimmermann  Bonaire - Donna Landwier  Brazil - Renata Aparecida Bessa Soares  British Virgin Islands - Elaine Patricia Henry  Bulgaria - Boiana Dimitrova  Canada - Lana Buchberger  Cayman Islands - Anita Lilly Bush  Chile - Paola Falcone Bacigalupo  Colombia - Tatiana Leonor Castro Abuchaibe[1]  Cook Islands - Tarita Brown  Costa Rica - Beatriz Alejandra Alvarado Mejía  Curaçao - Maruschka Jansen  Cyprus - Clara Davina Rainbow  Czech Republic - Eva Kotulanova  Denmark - Tina Dam  Dominican Republic - Cándida Lara Betances  Ecuador - Radmila Padnizic Arapov  Egypt - Nadia Ezz  El Salvador - Eleonora Beatrice Carrillo Alamanni  Estonia - Enel Eha  Finland - Heli Pirhonen  France - Corine Lauret  Germany - Ilka Endres  Great Britain - Sarah-Jane Southwick  Greece - Helen Papaioannou  Guam - Alia Tui Stevens  Guatemala - Indira Lili Chinchilla Paz  Hong Kong - Halina Tam Siu-Wan  Hungary - Andrea Harsanyi  Iceland - Margret Skuladóttir Sigurz  India - Manpreet Brar  Indonesia - Susanty Manuhutu  Ireland - Anna Marie McCarthy  Israel - Jana Kalman  Italy - Alessandra Meloni  Jamaica - Justine Willoughby  Japan - Narumi Saeki

Kenya - Josephine Wanjiku Mbatia  Korea - Han Sung-joo  Malaysia - Suziela Binte Azrai  Malta - Sonia Massa  Mauritius - Marie Priscilla Mardaymootoo  Mexico - Luz Maria Zetina Lugo  Namibia - Patricia Burt  Netherlands - Chantal von Woensel  New Zealand - Shelley Jeannine Edwards  Nicaragua - Linda Asalia Clerk Castillo  Nigeria - Toyin Enitan Raji  Northern Marianas - Karah Kirschenheiter  Norway - Lena Sandvik  Panama - Michele Jeanette Sage Navarrete  Paraguay - Bettina Rosemary Barboza Caffarena  Peru - Paola Dellepiane Gianotti  Philippines - Joanne Zapanta Santos  Poland - Magdalena Pecikiewicz  Portugal - Adriana Iria  Puerto Rico - Desirée Louny Lowry Rodríguez  Romania - Monika Grosu  Russia - Yulia Alekseeva  Seychelles - Maria Payet  Singapore - Tun Neesa Abdullah  Slovakia - Nikoleta Mezsarasova  South Africa - Augustine Masilela  Spain - María Reyes Vásquez  Sri Lanka - Shivani Vasagam  Sweden - Petra Hultgren  Switzerland - Sarah Briguet  Taiwan R.O.C. - Liao Chia-Yi  Thailand - Phavadee Vichienrat  Trinidad & Tobago - Arlene Peterkin  Turkey - Gamze Saygi  Turks & Caicos - Sharleen Rochelle Grant  Ukraine - Irina Ivoanova Victorovna Chernomaz  Uruguay - Sandra Znidaric  USA - Chelsi Mariam-Pearl Smith  U.S. Virgin Islands - Kim Marie Ann Boschulte  Venezuela - Denyse del Carmen Floreano Camargo  Zambia - Luo Trica Punabantu

Preliminary scores

Delegate Swimsuit Evening Gown Interview Average USA 9.29 9.37 9.37 9.343 Puerto Rico 8.88 9.58 9.54 9.333 Colombia 9.03 9.40 9.56 9.330 Trinidad & Tobago 9.21 9.39 9.34 9.313 Venezuela 9.23 9.31 9.09 9.209 Dominican Republic 8.95 9.21 9.44 9.200 El Salvador 8.83 9.30 9.46 9.197 Canada 8.67 9.38 9.43 9.160 India 8.61 9.26 9.59 9.153 South Africa 9.04 9.12 9.27 9.143 Nigeria 8.88 9.02 9.37 9.090 Russia 9.15 9.11 8.99 9.083 Spain 8.94 9.21 8.99 9.047 Thailand 8.86 9.07 9.19 9.040 Cook Islands 8.73 9.18 9.15 9.020 Philippines 8.76 9.22 9.06 9.013 Korea 8.65 9.15 9.24 9.013 Panama 8.94 9.18 8.85 8.990 Italy 8.88 9.00 8.98 8.953 Jamaica 8.64 9.04 9.17 8.950 France 8.99 8.95 8.89 8.943 Netherlands 8.87 9.04 8.88 8.930 Sri Lanka 8.52 9.11 9.13 8.920 Israel 8.83 9.09 8.83 8.917 Singapore 8.83 9.04 8.88 8.917 Estonia 8.93 9.06 8.76 8.917 Iceland 8.71 8.93 8.88 8.840 Mexico 8.45 8.87 9.16 8.827 Poland 8.84 8.77 8.82 8.810 Namibia 8.87 8.88 8.67 8.807 Curaçao 8.60 8.87 8.94 8.803 Mauritius 8.79 8.94 8.66 8.797 Cayman Islands 8.72 8.97 8.66 8.783 Slovak Republic 8.54 8.84 8.91 8.763 Peru 8.59 8.59 9.08 8.753 Norway 8.66 8.68 8.86 8.733 Germany 8.36 8.83 8.89 8.693 Czech Republic 8.42 8.75 8.90 8.690 Northern Marianas 8.61 8.80 8.64 8.683 Turkey 8.64 8.61 8.79 8.680 Ireland 8.27 8.76 9.01 8.680 Bahamas 8.23 8.62 9.14 8.663 New Zealand 8.34 8.76 8.84 8.647 Switzerland 8.47 8.52 8.91 8.633 Hong Kong 8.16 8.99 8.71 8.620 Chile 8.54 8.84 8.48 8.620 Romania 8.60 8.61 8.64 8.617 Sweden 8.56 8.71 8.57 8.613 Greece 8.38 8.78 8.66 8.607 Great Britain 8.43 8.69 8.69 8.603 Zambia 8.82 8.73 8.22 8.590 Brazil 8.28 8.74 8.74 8.587 Japan 8.62 8.66 8.47 8.583 Costa Rica 8.25 8.70 8.76 8.570 Finland 8.56 8.55 8.55 8.553 Portugal 8.70 8.21 8.74 8.550 Australia 8.10 8.47 9.08 8.550 Kenya 8.02 8.49 9.09 8.533 Aruba 7.97 8.58 9.04 8.530 Guatemala 8.08 8.93 8.56 8.523 Bolivia 7.87 8.74 8.93 8.513 Paraguay 8.37 8.38 8.78 8.510 Belize 8.10 8.64 8.76 8.500 Ecuador 7.89 8.44 9.15 8.493 Guam 8.15 8.41 8.88 8.480 Cyprus 8.37 8.42 8.63 8.473 Egypt 7.95 8.43 9.04 8.473 Nicaragua 8.37 8.43 8.56 8.453 Taiwan R.O.C. 8.10 8.54 8.64 8.427 Indonesia 7.99 8.59 8.58 8.387 Ukraine 8.40 8.27 8.49 8.387 Uruguay 8.38 8.30 8.47 8.383 Seychelles 8.19 8.54 8.28 8.337 Malaysia 8.16 8.55 8.26 8.323 Hungary 8.10 8.27 8.59 8.320 Denmark 7.96 8.10 8.90 8.320 Bulgaria 8.02 8.63 8.29 8.313 Turks & Caicos 8.04 8.16 8.56 8.253 Malta 8.04 8.15 8.38 8.190 British Virgin Islands 7.94 8.33 8.09 8.120 US Virgin Islands 7.56 8.01 8.29 7.953 Bonaire 7.53 7.94 8.32 7.930

Winner      First Runner-up      Second Runner-up      Top 6 Finalist      Top 10 Semifinalist

Historical significance

• Chelsi Smith, a multiracial American, is the second Miss Universe of African heritage in history.

• For the first time, no European countries made it into the semifinals.

International broadcasters

These are some of the networks outside the United States (telecasted on CBS at the time) that showed the 1995 Miss Universe pageant live (or recorded earlier) in their respective countries and territories:

Albania: RTV21  Australia: Seven Network  Austria: TW1  Argentina: América 2  Bahamas: ZNS-TV  Bermuda: ZBM-TV  Belgium: Star!  Bolivia: Unitel  Bulgaria: BNT 1  Canada: CBC Television  China: CCTV-1  Colombia: Canal A[1]  Costa Rica: Teletica  Cyprus: Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation  Denmark: Star! Scandinavia and Showtime Scandinavia  Dominican Republic: Color Vision  Ecuador: Ecuavisa  Egypt: MBC3  El Salvador: TCS  Estonia: Star! and Viasat Baltics  Finland: MTV3, Star! Scandinavia and Showtime Scandinavia  France: Paris Première  Germany: Das Vierte (German)  Greece: ANT1  Honduras: Canal 11  Hong Kong: TVB Pearl  Hungary: m1  Iceland: Star! Scandinavia and Showtime Scandinavia  India: DD National  Indonesia: Indosiar (Indonesian)  Ireland: RTE One  Israel: Arutz 2  Italy: Stream  Jamaica: Ination TV

Japan: NHK  South Korea: KBS1  Latvia: Star! and Viasat Baltics  Lebanon: LBC and MBC3  Malaysia: TV1  Republic of Malta: TVM  Mexico: Canal de las Estrellas  Myanmar: TV Myanmar  Namibia (host country): NBC  Netherlands: Star!  Nicaragua: Televicentro  Norway: TV2  Panama: Telemetro  Peru: ATV  Philippines: ABC 5  Poland: TVP2  Portugal: RTP1  Puerto Rico: WAPA-TV  Romania: TVR1  Russia: C1R (Russian)  Singapore: Television Corporation of Singapore  Spain: TVE1  Serbia: RTS  Sweden: Star! Scandinavia and Showtime Scandinavia  Switzerland: SF 1  Taiwan R.O.C.: CTS  Thailand : MCOT (Thai)  Turkey: NTV  United Arab Emirates: MBC3  United Kingdom: BBC One  Ukraine: UT1  United States: CBS  Venezuela: Venevisión  Vietnam: VTV1 (Vietnamese)

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "La noche real de Tatiana en televisión". El Tiempo. May 12, 1995. http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=es&tl=en&u=http://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-324853. Retrieved 27 January 2011. 

External links

• Miss Universe official website