Miss World 1990

Miss World 1990
Miss World 1990 Titlecard
Date	8 November 1990
Presenters	Peter Marshall and Michelle Rocca
Entertainment	Jason Donovan and Richard Clayderman
Venue	London Palladium, London, United Kingdom
Broadcaster	Thames Television
Entrants	81
Placements	10
Debuts	Romania
Withdraws	Bermuda, Republic of China, Ecuador, Guyana, Malaysia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Uganda
Returns	Barbados, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Cook Islands, Egypt, India, Madagascar, Uruguay
Winner	Gina Tolleson  United States of America
Personality	Sabina Umeh  Nigeria
Photogenic	Sharon Luengo  Venezuela

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results

Miss World 1990, the 40th Miss World pageant was held on 8 November 1990 in the London Palladium, London, United Kingdom. The winner was Gina Tolleson, representing the United States.

Results

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss World 1990	United States of America - Gina Tolleson
1st Runner-up	Ireland - Siobhan McClafferty
2nd Runner-up	Venezuela - Sharon Luengo
Top 5	Finland - Nina Björkfelt  New Zealand - Adele Kenny
Top 10	Aruba - Gwendolyne Kwidama  Holland - Gabrielle Stap  Jamaica - Erica Aquart  Poland - Ewa Szymczak  Turkey - Jülide Ateş

Special awards

Award	Contestant
Miss Personality	Nigeria - Sabina Umeh
Most Photogenic	Venezuela - Sharon Luengo

Continental Queens

Continent	Contestant
Africa	Kenya - Aisha Lieberg
Americas	United States of America - Gina Tolleson
Asia & Oceania	New Zealand - Adele Kenny
Caribbean	Jamaica - Erica Aquart
Europe	Ireland - Siobhan McClafferty

Order of announcements

Top 10 Holland Turkey Ireland Jamaica Venezuela

6. Finland  7. New Zealand  8. United States of America  9. Aruba 10. Poland

Top 5

1. Finland
2. Ireland
3. New Zealand
4. United States of America
5. Venezuela

Contestants

Nation	Contestant	Age	Hometown	Preliminary Score
American Virgin Islands	Keima Akintobi	17	Saint Thomas	37
Argentina	Romina Rosales	19	Buenos Aires	30
Aruba	Gwendolyne Charlotte Kwidama	20	Sint Nicolaas	41
Australia	Karina Brown	19	Sydney	39
Austria	Carina Friedberger	20	Eisenerz	33
Bahamas	Lisa Gizelle Strachan	19	Nassau	33
Barbados	Cheryl Jean Brewster	22	Saint Philip	30
Belgium	Katia Alens	23	Antwerp	33
Belize	Ysela Antonia Zabaneh	20	Independence	30
Bolivia	Daniela Domínguez	17	Tarija	31
Brazil	Karla Cristina Kwiatkowski	20	Curitiba	35
British Virgin Islands	Suzanne Spencer	22	Tortola	33
Bulgaria	Violeta Galabova	18	Sofia	31
Canada	Natasha Palewandrem	22	Ottawa	35
Cayman Islands	Bethea Michelle Christian	17	Grand Cayman	30
Chile	María Isabel Jara Pizarro	21	Santiago	35
Colombia	Angela Mercedes Mariño Ortiz	19	Bogotá	38
Cook Islands	Angela Manarang	23	Rarotonga	30
Costa Rica	Andrea Murillo Fallas	20	Heredia	31
Curaçao	Jacqueline Nelleke Josien Krijger	23	Willemstad	33
Cyprus	Emilia Groutidou	18	Nicosia	30
Czechoslovakia	Andrea Roskovcová	19	Březnice	33
Denmark	Charlotte Christiansen	23	Copenhagen	35
Dominican Republic	Brenda Marte Lajara	21	Santo Domingo	30
Egypt	Dalia El Behery	20	Cairo	31
El Salvador	María Elena Henríquez	20	San Salvador	31
Finland	Nina Björkfelt	22	Turku	39
France	Gaëlle Voiry	21	Lyon	30
Germany	Christiane Stocker	23	Darmstadt	39
Ghana	Dela Tamakole	23	Accra	30
Gibraltar	Sarah Yeats	18	Gibraltar	33
Greece	Sophia Lafkioti	19	Athens	31
Guam	Mary Esteban	22	Dededo	32
Guatemala	María del Rosario Pérez Aguilar	25	Guatemala City	30
Holland	Gabrielle Stap	21	The Hague	46
Honduras	Claudia Bendaña McCausland	21	Tegucigalpa	30
Hong Kong	Elaine da Silva	18	Sai Kung	31
Hungary	Kinga Czuczor	20	Budapest	32
Iceland	Ásta Sigríður Einarsdóttir	19	Garðabær	30
India	Naveeda Medhi	18	Bombay	35
Ireland	Siobhan McClafferty	20	Dublin	43
Israel	Ariela Tessler	18	Tel Aviv	30
Italy	Cristina Gavagnin	19	Trieste	32
Jamaica	Erica Aquart	20	Kingston	42
Japan	Tomoko Iwasaki	20	Shizuoka	30
Kenya	Aisha Wawira Lieberg	19	Embu	32
Korea	Ko Hyeon-jeong	19	Seoul	35
Latvia	Velga Bražņevica	23	Riga	38
Luxembourg	Bea Jarzyńska	18	Luxembourg City	30
Macau	Alexandra Paula Costa Mendes	19	Macau	30
Madagascar	Ellys Raza	20	Antananarivo	30
Malta	Karen Demicoli	18	Żejtun	30
Mauritius	Marie Desirée Audrey Pitchen	23	Central Flacq	30
Mexico	Luz María Mena Basso	23	Mérida	39
Namibia	Ronel Liebenberg	22	Windhoek	30
New Zealand	Adele Valerie Kenny	17	Murupara	42
Nigeria	Sabina Ifeoma Umeh	21	Lagos	30
Norway	Ingeborg Kolseth	20	Hundorp	33
Panama	Madelaine Leignadier Dawson	20	Panama City	30
Papua New Guinea	Nellie Ban	23	Port Moresby	30
Paraguay	Alba María Cordero Rivals	21	Asunción	31
Peru	Gisselle Martínez Cuadros	21	Lima	39
Philippines	Antonette Elizalde Ballesteros	23	Manila	30
Poland	Ewa Maria Szymczak	23	Warsaw	41
Portugal	Filomena Paula Dias Miranda Marques	22	Lisbon	31
Puerto Rico	Magdalena Pabón	23	San Juan	35
Romania	Mihaela Raescu	22	Craiova	35
Singapore	Karen Frances Ng	17	Singapore	30
Spain	María del Carmen Carrasco García	22	Madrid	32
Sri Lanka	Angela Mary Jane Gunasekera	23	Colombo	30
Sweden	Daniela Jessica Maria Almen	19	Västerås	33
Switzerland	Priscilla Leimgruber	20	Bulle	30
Thailand	Panida Umsaard	19	Bangkok	30
Trinidad & Tobago	Guenevere Helen Kelshall	22	Port of Spain	34
Turkey	Jülide Ateş	19	Istanbul	41
United Kingdom	Helen Upton	19	Birmingham	38
United States of America	Gina Marie Tolleson	21	Charleston	49
Uruguay	María Carolina Casalia Abelia	19	Montevideo	32
U.S.S.R.	Lauma Zemzare	19	Moscow	36
Venezuela	Sharon Raquel Luengo González	19	Maracaibo	50
Yugoslavia	Ivona Brnelić	18	Rijeka	31

Continental groups order

Africa, Asia and Oceana Egypt Ghana Kenya Madagascar Mauritius Namibia Nigeria Australia Cook Islands Guam Hong Kong India Japan Korea Macau New Zealand Papua New Guinea Philippines Singapore Sri Lanka Thailand

Americas and Caribbean Islands Argentina Belize Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Mexico Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico United States of America Uruguay Venezuela American Virgin Islands Aruba Bahamas Barbados British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Dominican Republic Jamaica Trinidad & Tobago

Europe Austria Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark Finland France Germany Gibraltar Greece Holland Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Luxembourg Malta Norway Poland Portugal Romania Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom U.S.S.R. Yugoslavia

National pageant notes

Returning countries and debuts

• Romania competed in Miss World for the first time after the Miss World Organization allowed the nation to compete after a 24-year Revolution
• Madagascar last competed in 1974
• Brazil last competed in 1987
• Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Cook Islands, Egypt, India and Uruguay last competed in 1988

Withdrawals and nations not competing

• Republic of China and Swaziland failed to send delegates to Miss World this year
• Ecuador and Malaysia failed to send their delegates due to lack of sponsorship
• Lebanon did not compete in Miss World due to a civil war

Crossovers

Miss Universe

• Miss Universe 1989: Trinidad & Tobago
• Miss Universe 1990: Aruba, Belize, Egypt, France, Germany (Miss Amity), Nigeria and Turkey (Top 10)
• Miss Universe 1991: Belgium, Cayman Islands, Curaçao (Top 10), Ghana, Ireland (Miss Photogenic), Namibia and United Kingdom
• Miss Universe 1992: Kenya

Miss International

• Miss International 1989: Paraguay
• Miss International 1990: Belgium (Top 15), Costa Rica, Luxembourg, Poland (Top 15)
• Miss International 1991: Hungary and United Kingdom (Top 15)

Historical significance

• The preliminary swimsuit competition at Miss World 1990 was held in Norway.
• Gina Tolleson (United States) married celebrity star Alan Thicke but later divorced. She was also the 1st runner-up in the Miss USA 1990 pageant as Miss South Carolina USA. She also hosted with Peter Marshall in Miss World 1991.
• Brenda Marte (Dominican Republic) came from the Dominican community in Queens, New York, United States.
• Sarah Yeats (Gibraltar) and Priscilla Leimgruber (Switzerland) did not compete in Miss Universe 1991. Gibraltar lost its franchise with the Miss Universe Organization, while Miss Switzerland fell ill and withdrew at the last minute.
• Karina Brown (Australia) is currently a hostess in various local television programs.
• Ivona Brnelić (Yugoslavia) has currently lived and worked in London because of her duty to work with some prominent celebrities like Tina Turner and Cher.
• The Miss Universe Organization did not allow Sharon Luengo (Venezuela) to participate in Miss Universe 1991 for being the second runner-up to Miss World 1990.
• The Parade of Nations was arranged in alphabetical order, but in accordance of the continental region: Africa, Asia & Oceania, Americas, Caribbean and Europe.
• 7 out of 10 countries which made it into the semi-finals, were not in the semi-finals last year: Turkey (1976), Finland (1984), Jamaica (1985), New Zealand (1986), Holland (1987) and Venezuela (1988). Aruba had made into the semi-finals for the first time since its debut at Miss Universe 1964.

External sources

• Pageantopolis Coverage of Miss World 1990