Miss World 1987

Miss World 1987
Miss World 1987 Titlecard
Date	12 November 1987
Presenters	Peter Marshall, and Alexandra Bastedo
Entertainment	Rick Astley
Venue	Royal Albert Hall, London, England, United Kingdom
Broadcaster	Thames Television
Entrants	78
Placements	12
Debuts	Belize, and Cook Islands
Withdraws	Antigua, British Virgin Islands, Gambia, and Sierra Leone
Returns	Argentina, Curaçao, Nigeria, and Papua New Guinea
Winner	Ulla Weigerstorfer  Austria

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results.

The 37th Miss World Pageant was held on November 12, 1987 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Ulla Weigerstorfer (Queen of Europe) from Austria. Runner up was Albani Josefina Lozada Jimenez (Queen of Americas) from Venezuela, and third was Anna Margret Jonsdottir from Iceland.

Results

Final results	Contestant
Miss World 1987	Austria - Ulla Weigerstorfer
1st Runner-up	Venezuela - Albani Josefina Lozada Jimenez
2nd Runner-up	Iceland - Anna Margret Jonsdóttir
3rd Runner-up	Poland - Monika Ewa Nowosadko
4th Runner-up	Colombia - Claudia Mercedes Escobar Zapata
5th Runner-up	Argentina - Caterina Ciscato
Top 12 Semi-finalists	France - Nathalie Marquay  Guam - Francel Maribel Manibog Caracol  Holland - Angelique Johanna Gerarda Cremers  Hong Kong - Pauline Yeung Bo-Ling  Israel - Ya'el Gerthler  Nigeria - Mary Ngazi Bienoseh

Order of Semi-finalists

1. Argentina 2. Austria 3. Colombia 4. France 5. Guam 6. Holland

7. Hong Kong 8. Iceland 9. Israel 10. Nigeria 11. Poland 12. Venezuela

Order of Finalists

• 1. Iceland
• 2. Poland
• 3. Argentina
• 4. Venezuela
• 5. Colombia
• 6. Austria

Special awards

• Personality: Clotilde Helen Cabrera - United States
• Photogenic: Karin Agneta Charlotta Trydell - Sweden

Continental Queens

• Africa: Mary Ngazi Bienoseh - Nigeria
• Americas: Albani Josefina Lozada Jimenez - Venezuela
• Asia: Pauline Yeung Bo-Ling - Hong Kong
• Europe: Ulla Weigerstorfer - Austria
• Oceania: Francel Maribel Manibog Caracol - Guam

78 Contestants

Nation	Contestant	Hometown
American Virgin Islands	Lisa Pitram	St. Thomas
Argentina	Caterina Ciscato	La Plata
Australia	Donna Thelma Rudrum	Melbourne
Austria	Ulla Weigerstorfer	Vienna
Bahamas	Indira Regina Wood	Nassau
Barbados	Dawn Michelle Waithe	Bridgetown
Belgium	Lynn Florentine Wesenbeek	Antwerp
Belize	Janine Sylvestre	Belize City
Bermuda	Kim Elizabeth Johnston	Southampton
Bolivia	Birgit Ellefsen	Cochabamba
Brazil	Simone Augusto Costa da Silva	Recife
Canada	Tracey Westerholm	Vancouver
Cayman Islands	Desiree Ann Hunter	Grand Cayman
Chile	Yasna Angelica Vukasovic Alvarez	Punta Arenas
Colombia	Claudia Mercedes Escobar Zapata	Cali
Cook Islands	Michelle Leone Oberg	Rarotonga
Costa Rica	Alejandra Eugenia Martínez Fuentes	Cartago
Curaçao	Diana Patricia Fraai	Willemstad
Cyprus	Niki Christou	Nicosia
Denmark	Zelma Hesselmann	Copenhagen
Dominican Republic	Paula del Carmen Lora Garcia	Salcedo
Ecuador	Cecilia Pozo Caminer	Guayaquil
El Salvador	Claudia Lorena Alvarenga Ruiz	San Salvador
Finland	Minna Susanna Rinnetmaki	Tampere
France	Nathalie Marquay	Mulhouse
Germany	Christiane Kopp	Berlin
Gibraltar	Mayte Sanchez	Gibraltar
Greece	Helen Moskiou	Athens
Guam	Francel Maribel Manibog Caracol	Agana
Guatemala	Mabel Daniza Hernandez Gutíerrez	Chinautla
Holland	Angelique Johanna Gerarda Cremers	Schinveld
Honduras	Claudia Maria Paz Valledares	San Pedro Sula
Hong Kong	Pauline Yeung Bo-Ling	Hong Kong
Iceland	Anna Margret Jonsdóttir	Reykjavík
India	Manisha Kohli	Bombay
Ireland	Adrienne Rock	Dublin
Isle of Man	Lesley Elizabeth Henthorn	Jurby
Israel	Ya'el Gerthler	Rehovot
Italy	Barbara Martinuzzi	Turin
Jamaica	Janice Nadine Whittingham	Kingston
Japan	Keiko Unno	Tokyo
Kenya	Sheila Linda Kegode	Nairobi
Korea	Chung Myoung-sun	Seoul
Lebanon	Josiane Haddad	Beirut
Luxembourg	Claudine Atten	Erpeldange
Macau	Olivia Maria do Rosario	Macau
Malaysia	Sheela Shankar	Kuala Lumpur
Malta	Joanne Corser	Gzira
Mauritius	Marie-France Geraldine Mamet	Grand Bay
Mexico	Elizabeth Carrillo Iturrios	Mazatlán
New Zealand	Karyn Annemarie Therese Meltcaf	Manukau
Nigeria	Mary Ngazi Bienoseh	Benue
Norway	Mette Veiseth	Namsos
Panama	Maria Cordelia Denis Urriola	Panama City
Papua New Guinea	Harriet Joan Warren	Port Moresby
Paraguay	Lourdes Beatriz Stanley Barranda	Hohenhau
Peru	Suzette Marie Woodman Denegri	Lima
Philippines	Maria Lourdes Manalili Apostol	Manila
Poland	Monika Ewa Nowosadko	Kolobrzeg
Portugal	Paula Isabel Leal do Sousa	Lisbon
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Jennifer Elvina Hensley	Basseterre
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Nicole Camille Hadaway	Kingstown
Singapore	Janicia Koh Wee Ling	Singapore
Spain	Sonsoles Artigas Medero	Las Palmas
Sri Lanka	Priyanjali Marina Frances de Alwis	Dehiwala
Swaziland	Phindile Patricia Simelane	Mbabane
Sweden	Karin Agneta Charlotta Trydell	Laholm
Switzerland	Gabriela Bigler	Berne
Thailand	Benjawan Srilapan	Bangkok
Trinidad & Tobago	Maria del Valle Xavier	Diego Martin
Turkey	Sebnem Dincgor	Istanbul
Turks and Caicos Islands	Edna Elizabeth Smith	Grand Turk
United Kingdom	Karen Mellor	Barnsley
United States	Clotlide Helen Cabrera	Tampa Bay
Uruguay	Monica Ines Borrea Vicente	Montevideo
Venezuela	Albani Josefina Lozada Jimenez	Acarigua
Western Samoa	Ainslie Berking	Apia
Yugoslavia	Matilda Sazdova	Skopje

Trivia

Returning Countries and Debuts

• Belize and Cook Islands competed in Miss World for the first time.
• Argentina and Papua New Guinea last competed in 1981. Argentina returned to Miss World after a 6-year war in the Falkland Islands which brought its dispute against the United Kingdom.
• Curaçao, and Nigeria last competed in 1985.

Withdrawals and Nations not competing

• British Virgin Islands, and Sierra Leone did not compete in Miss World because of the national pageant postponement.

Other Notes

• This is the first time that Miss World has twelve semi-finalists, and six out of the semi-finalists went straight into the Top 6 finalists.
• Preliminary swimsuits in Miss World 1987 were shot in the island of Malta.
• Hong Kong's Pauline Yeung Bo Ling went on to place as 4th runner-up in Miss Universe 1988 which was held in Taiwan. She is the highest placed Miss Hong Kong at Miss World and Miss Universe pageant since TVB hosted the pageant in 1973 (Miss Virginia Lee was second runner-up in Miss Universe 1954 and Judy Dan was third runner-up in Miss Universe 1952). She is also the first and so far only Hong Kong representative to win the Queen of Asia award. Iceland, Anna Margret Jonsdóttir, who placed as 2nd runner-up in Miss World, failed to put her through into the semi-finals in Miss Universe 1988.
• First time records:
  • United Kingdom failed to make into the semi-finals after 30 years, while United States after 11 years.
  • Guam had received the award for Queen of Oceania for the first time other than Australia and New Zealand.
• 78 contestants sang God Bless The Children as their production number while wearing evening gowns.
• Belgium and Bermuda did not compete in Miss Universe 1987 because of scheduling conflicts in which the pageant took place in May of that same year.
• 9 out of 12 countries which made it into the semifinals, were not in the semifinals last year: France (1980), Argentina (1981), Guam (1982), Hong Kong (1983), Holland (1984), and Iceland, Israel, and Poland (1985). Nigeria had made into the semi-finals for the first time since its debut in 1963.

Judges

Eric Morley Linford Christie Robert Coleman John Coleman Pilin Leon

Hayley Mills Albert Vinci Rick Wakeman Simon Williams

Contestants Preliminary Scores

Country	Score	Country	Score
American Virgin Islands	20	Jamaica	24
Argentina	26	Japan	18
Australia	18	Kenya	18
Austria	30	Korea	19
Bahamas	19	Lebanon	18
Barbados	21	Luxembourg	21
Belgium	19	Macau	18
Belize	18	Malaysia	19
Bermuda	18	Malta	22
Bolivia	18	Mauritius	18
Brazil	23	Mexico	21
Canada	20	New Zealand	18
Cayman Islands	18	Nigeria	19
Chile	25	Norway	19
Colombia	28	Panama	20
Cook Islands	18	Papua New Guinea	18
Costa Rica	20	Paraguay	21
Curaçao	18	Peru	18
Cyprus	18	Philippines	23
Denmark	20	Poland	26
Dominican Republic	24	Portugal	19
Ecuador	25	St. Kitts & Nevis	18
El Salvador	18	St. Vincent & the Grenadines	21
Finland	22	Singapore	18
France	27	Spain	23
Germany	21	Sri Lanka	18
Gibraltar	21	Swaziland	18
Greece	19	Sweden	23
Guam	21	Switzerland	18
Guatemala	18	Thailand	18
Holland	26	Trinidad & Tobago	20
Honduras	18	Turkey	19
Hong Kong	24	Turks & Caicos	18
Iceland	28	United Kingdom	25
India	21	United States	24
Ireland	21	Uruguay	18
Isle of Man	21	Venezuela	28
Israel	27	Western Samoa	18
Italy	21	Yugoslavia	21

External Sources

• Official site