Miss World 1999

Miss World 1999
Miss World 1999 Titlecard
Date	December 4, 1999
Presenters	Ulrika Jonsson and Melanie Sykes
Venue	Olympia Hall, London, England
Broadcaster	Five
Entrants	94
Placements	10
Debuts	Scotland, Wales
Withdraws	British Virgin Islands, Chinese Taipei, Curaçao, Mauritius
Returns	Bangladesh, Guyana, Honduras, Iceland, Kenya, Latvia, Madagascar, Romania, Sri Lanka, Tahiti, Thailand
Winner	Yukta Mookhey  India

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results.

The 49th Miss World pageant was held on 4 December 1999 at London's Olympia Hall. The pageant was hosted by Ulrika Jonsson and model Melanie Sykes. The 1999 pageant attracted 94 delegates from all over the world. The 1999 pageant also marked the first time that Scotland and Wales fielded their respective delegates.

Results

Final results	Contestant
Miss World 1999	India - Yukta Mookhey
1st runner-up	Venezuela - Martina Thorogood
2nd runner-up	South Africa - Sonia Raciti
Finalists	Israel - Genny Chervoney  Liberia - Sebah Tubman
Semi-finalists	Croatia - Ivana Petković  Estonia - Karin Laasmae  Norway - Anette Haukaas  Spain - Lorena Bernal  United States - Natasha Allas

Order of Semi-finalists

1. Israel 2. Spain 3. Croatia 4. United States 5. Liberia

6. Norway 7. Estonia 8. Venezuela 9. India 10. South Africa

Order of Finalists

• 1. Israel
• 2. Liberia
• 3. Venezuela
• 4. India
• 5. South Africa

Continental Queens

• Africa: Sonia Raciti - South Africa
• Americas: Martina Thorogood - Venezuela
• Asia and Oceania: Yukta Mookhey - India
• Caribbean: Desiree Depass - Jamaica
• Europe: Genny Chervoney - Israel

Special Award

• Best Designed Evening Dress: Genny Chervoney - Israel

94 contestants

American Virgin Islands - Shari Afua Smith  Angola - Lorena Silva  Argentina - Veronica Denise Barrionuevo  Aruba - Cindy Vanessa Cam Tin Martinus  Australia - Nalishebo Gaskell  Austria - Sandra Kolbl  Bahamas - Mary Watkins  Bangladesh - Tania Rahman Tonni  Belgium - Brigitta Callens  Bolivia - Ana Raquel Rivera Zambrana  Bosnia & Herzegovina - Samra Begović  Botswana - Alimah Isaacs  Brazil - Paula de Souza Carvalho  Bulgaria - Violeta Zdravkova  Canada - Mireille Eid  Cayman Islands - Mona Lisa Tatum  Chile - Lissette Sierra Ocayo  Colombia - Mónica Elizabeth Escolar Danko  Costa Rica - Fiorella Martínez  Croatia - Ivana Petković  Cyprus - Sofia Georgiou  Czech Republic - Helena Houdova  Dominican Republic - Luz Cecilia García Guzman  Ecuador - Sofia Moran Trueba  Estonia - Karin Laasmae  Finland - Maria Laamanen  France - Sandra Bretones  Germany - Susan Höcke  Ghana - Mariam Sugru Bugri  Gibraltar - Abigail Garcia  Greece - Evangelia Vatidou  Guatemala - Ana Beatriz González Scheel  Guyana - Indra Changa  Holland - Ilona Marilyn van Veldhuisen  Honduras - Irma Waleska Quijada Henriquez  Hong Kong China - Marsha Yuan Hu-Ma  Hungary - Erika Dankai  Iceland - Katrin Baldursdóttir  India - Yukta Mookhey  Ireland - Emir-Maria Holohan Doyle  Israel - Jenny Chervoney  Italy - Gloria Nicoletti  Jamaica - Desiree Depass  Japan - Aya Mitsubori  Kazakhstan - Assel Issabayeva  Kenya - Esther Muthoni Muthee  Korea - Han Na-na

Latvia - Evija Rucevska  Lebanon - Norma Elias Naoum  Liberia - Sebah Esther Tubman  Lithuania - Renata Mackevičiūtė  Madagascar - Tantely Naina Ramonjy  Malaysia - Jaclyn Lee Tze Wey  Malta - Catharine Attard  Mexico - Danette Velasco Bataller  Nepal - Shweta Singh  New Zealand - Coralie Ann Warburton  Nigeria - Augustine Iruviere  Norway - Annette Haukaas  Panama - Jessenia Casanova Reyes  Paraguay - Mariela Candia Ramos  Peru - Wendy Monteverde  Philippines - Lalaine Bognot Edson  Poland - Marta Kwiecień  Portugal - Joana Ines Texeira  Puerto Rico - Arlene Torres  Romania - Nicoleta Luciu  Russia - Elena Efimova  St. Maarten - Ifelola Badejo  Scotland - Stephanie Norrie  Seychelles - Anne-Mary Jorre de St. Jorre  Singapore - Audrey Quek Ai Woon  Slovakia - Andrea Veresova  Slovenia - Neda Gačnik  South Africa - Sonia Raciti  Spain - Lorena Bernal Pascual  Sri Lanka - Dilumini de Alwis Jayasinghe  Swaziland - Colleen Tullonen  Sweden - Jenny Louise Torsvik  Switzerland - Anita Buri  Tahiti - Manoa Froge  Tanzania - Hoyce Anderson Temu  Thailand - Kamala Kumpu Na Ayutthaya  Trinidad & Tobago - Sacha Anton  Turkey - Ayşe Hatun Önal  Ukraine - Olga Savinskaya  United Kingdom - Nicola Willoughby  United States - Natasha Allas  Uruguay - Katherine Gonzalves  Venezuela - Martina Thorogood Heemsen  Wales - Clare Marie Daniels  Yugoslavia - Lana Marić  Zambia - Cynthia Chikwanda  Zimbabwe - Brita Maseluthini

Trivia & Updates

Returning countries and Debuts

• Scotland, and Wales competed in Miss World for the first time.
• Guyana last competed in 1989.
• Madagascar last competed in 1990.
• Iceland and Sri Lanka last competed in 1994.
• Bangladesh, Romania, and Tahiti last competed in 1996.
• Honduras, Latvia, and Thailand last competed in 1997.

Withdrawals and Nations not competing

• British Virgin Islands, Chinese Taipei, and Curaçao did not compete in Miss World 1999 for unknown reasons.
• Northern Ireland withdrew at the last minute for personal and private reasons.

Other Notes

• Honduras, Japan, Madagascar, Angola, and Uruguay introduced themselves in their native languages.
• Preliminary swimsuits were held in Malta for the second time after 12 years.
• This is the first time that the contestants were introduced in evening gowns. Israel, Jenny Chervoney (placed 4th in Miss World 1999) won the Best Evening Dress Award.
• England, Nicola Willoughby still represented as United Kingdom in Miss World because of Northern Ireland's last-minute withdrawal.
• Thailand (Karnala Kumpu Na Ayuthaya) was the 3rd Runner-Up in Miss Thailand World 1997.
• 7 out of 10 countries which made it into the semifinals, were not in the semifinals last year: Liberia (1964), Norway and Spain (1988), Croatia (1995), Venezuela (1996), and India (1997). Estonia made into the semi-finals for the first time since its debut in 1994.
• Philippines Lalaine Edson was just a replacement for Mirriam Quiambao who was sent to Miss Universe 1999. Originally Mirriam Quiambao will represent Philippines to the Miss World 1999 Pageant but replaced by Lalaine Edson. Later, Mirriam Quiambao Philippines' representative to the Miss Universe 1999 was 1st runner-up.

Group Order

SWIMWEAR GROUP 1 France Dominican Republic Yugoslavia Cayman Islands Jamaica Costa Rica Ecuador Wales Honduras Germany Hong Kong China Philippines GROUP 2 Holland Malta Swaziland Iceland Tanzania Ireland Japan Gibraltar Singapore Greece Cyprus United States GROUP 3 Chile Colombia Norway Liberia Ukraine Kenya Switzerland Israel Russia Lithuania Bulgaria Hungary GROUP 4 Sweden Paraguay American Virgin Islands Peru Guatemala Panama Bahamas Aruba Bolivia Bangladesh Bosnia & Herzegovina Guyana GROUP 5 Italy Croatia Madagascar Seychelles Canada Lebanon Korea Trinidad & Tobago Malaysia Nigeria Tahiti Ghana GROUP 6 Argentina Angola Brazil Portugal Australia Botswana Nepal India Austria Belgium New Zealand United Kingdom GROUP 7 Uruguay Zimbabwe Venezuela Poland Latvia Scotland South Africa Sri Lanka Thailand Zambia GROUP 8 Spain St. Maarten Slovakia Slovenia Estonia Finland Mexico Puerto Rico Kazakhstan Turkey Romania Czech Republic

EVENING GOWN GROUP 1 Dominican Republic Wales Hong Kong China Jamaica France Honduras Philippines Costa Rica Ecuador Cayman Islands Yugoslavia Germany GROUP 2 Singapore Gibraltar Japan Ireland Swaziland Malta Iceland Cyprus Tanzania United States Greece Holland GROUP 3 Hungary Bulgaria Switzerland Kenya Israel Ukraine Chile Liberia Russia Lithuania Colombia Norway GROUP 4 Sweden Peru Bosnia & Herzegovina Panama Bolivia Bahamas Bangladesh Aruba Guatemala American Virgin Islands Guyana Paraguay GROUP 5 Italy Malaysia Croatia Nigeria Trinidad & Tobago Ghana Korea Tahiti Canada Seychelles Madagascar Lebanon GROUP 6 Belgium Australia Nepal Argentina Brazil New Zealand Angola Botswana Austria Portugal United Kingdom India GROUP 7 Venezuela Scotland Thailand Latvia Poland Zimbabwe Sri Lanka Uruguay South Africa Zambia GROUP 8 Estonia Slovenia Czech Republic Slovakia Turkey St. Maarten Puerto Rico Kazakhstan Finland Spain Romania Mexico

Judges

Eric Morley Louis Grech Luciana Morad Linda Pétursdóttir Dean Cain

Eddie Irvine Terry O'Neill Lennox Lewis Wilnelia Merced

External links

• Pageantopolis
• Jimmy's Pageant Page