Miss World 1982

Miss World 1982
Date	18 November 1982
Presenters	Peter Marshall, and Judith Chalmers
Entertainment	The Three Degrees
Venue	Royal Albert Hall, London, England, United Kingdom
Broadcaster	Thames Television
Entrants	68
Placements	15
Debuts	Indonesia, and Turks & Caicos
Withdraws	Argentina, Austria, Jersey, Lesotho, Papua New Guinea, and Suriname
Returns	American Virgin Islands, Panama, Paraguay, Portugal, and Yugoslavia
Winner	Mariasela Álvarez  Dominican Republic
Personality	Maureen Lewis  Cayman Islands
Photogenic	Lolita Morena  Switzerland

Miss World 1982, the 32nd Miss World pageant, was held on November 18, 1982 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Mariasela Álvarez from the Dominican Republic. The first and second runners-up were Sari Kaarina Aspholm from Finland, and Delia Dolan from the United Kingdom who were semifinalists in the 1982 Miss Universe four months before.

Results

Placements

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results.

Final results	Contestant
Miss World 1982	Dominican Republic - Mariasela Álvarez
1st runner-up	Finland - Sari Kaarina Aspholm
2nd runner-up	United Kingdom - Delia Dolan
3rd runner-up	Switzerland - Lolita Morena
4th runner-up	United States - LuAnn Caughey
5th runner-up	Trinidad & Tobago - Althea Rocke
6th runner-up	Ireland - Roberta Brown
Semi-Finalist	Australia - Catherine Morris  Bolivia - Brita Cederberg  Cayman Islands - Maureen Lewis  Denmark - Tina Nielsen  Guam - Frances Limtiaco  Philippines - Sara-Jane Areza  Yugoslavia - Ana Sasso  Zimbabwe - Caroline Murinda

Special awards

Award	Contestant
Miss Personality	Cayman Islands - Maureen Therese Lewis
Miss Photogenic	Switzerland - Lolita Laure Morena

Continental Queens

Continental	Contestant
Africa	Zimbabwe - Caroline Murinda
America	Dominican Republic - Mariasela Alvarez Lebron
Asia	Philippines - Sara-Jane Areza
Europe	Finland - Sari Kaarina Aspholm
Oceania	Australia - Catherine Ann Morris

Order of announcements

Top 15

Australia Bolivia Cayman Islands Denmark Dominican Republic Finland Guam Ireland

9. Philippines 10. Switzerland 11. Trinidad & Tobago 12. United Kingdom 13. United States 14. Yugoslavia 15. Zimbabwe

Top 7

1. Switzerland
2. Dominican Republic
3. United States
4. Trinidad & Tobago
5. Ireland
6. Finland
7. United Kingdom

68 Contestants

Nation	Contestant	Hometown
American Virgin Islands	Benedicta Acosta	St. Croix
Aruba	Noriza Antonia Helder	Oranjestad
Australia	Catherine Ann Morris	Sydney
Bahamas	Oralee Laverne Stubbs	Nassau
Belgium	Marie Pierre Lemaitre	Brussels
Bermuda	Heather Michelle Ross	Somerset
Bolivia	Brita Margareta Cederberg	Oruro
Brazil	Monica Jannuzzi	Londrina
Canada	Jody Jensen	Calgary
Cayman Islands	Maureen Therese Lewis	George Town
Chile	Mariana Margarita Reinhardt Lagos	Santiago
Colombia	Maria Teresa Gomez Fajardo	Medellin
Costa Rica	Maureen Jimenez Solano	San Jose
Curacao	Vendetta Maria Roozendal	Willemstad
Cyprus	Marina Elena Rauscher	Limassol
Denmark	Tina Maria Nielsen	Copenhagen
Dominican Republic	Mariasela Alvarez Lebron	Santo Domingo
Ecuador	Gianna Machiavello Gonzalez	Guayaquil
El Salvador	Lorendana Munguta	San Salvador
Finland	Sari Kaarina Aspholm	Vantaa
France	Martine Marie Philipps	Audincourt
Germany	Kerstin Natalie Paeserack	Hanover
Gibraltar	Louise Michelle Gillingwater	Gibraltar
Greece	Anthy Priovolos	Athens
Guam	Frances Rose Limtiaco	Tamuning
Guatemala	Edith Suzanne Whitbeck Cain	Guatemala City
Holland	Irene Maria Petronnella Heinrichs Schell	Venlo
Honduras	Ana Lucia Rivera Castro	San Pedro Sula
Hong Kong	Cally Kwong Mei-Wan	Hong Kong
Iceland	Maria Björk Sverrisdóttir	Reykjavík
India	Uttara Mhatre Kher	Nasik
Indonesia	Andi Botenri	Jakarta
Ireland	Roberta Brown	Derry
Isle of Man	Maria Elizabeth Craig	Jurby
Israel	Anat Kerem	Haifa
Italy	Raffaella del Rosario	Bologna
Jamaica	Cornelia Ramona Roxanne Parchment	Kingston
Japan	Mutsuko Kikuchi	Tokyo
Korea	Choi Sung-yoon	Seoul
Lebanon	May Mansour Chahwan	Beirut
Malaysia	Nellie Teoh Swee Yang	Kuala Lumpur
Malta	Adelina Camilleri	Mosta
Mexico	Ana Ruth Garcia Jimenez	Villahermosa
New Zealand	Susan Jane Mainland	Hamilton
Norway	Janett Carine Krefting	Oslo
Panama	Lorena Moreno	Panama City
Paraguay	Susan Dominguez Gutter	Asuncion
Peru	Cynthia Mercedes Piedra	Lima
Philippines	Sara-Jane Coronel Areza	Manila
Portugal	Suzana Walker dos Santos Dias	Lisbon
Puerto Rico	Jannette Torres Burgos	San Juan
Singapore	Yvonne Tan	Singapore
Spain	Ana Isabel Herrero Garcia	Zaragoza
Sri Lanka	Tania Colleen Anne Pereira	Panadura
Sweden	Anne-Lie Margareta Sjöberg	Eskilstuna
Switzerland	Lolita Laure Morena	Locarno
Tahiti	Teura Tuhiti	Papeete
Thailand	Alisa Kajornchaiyakul	Bangkok
Trinidad & Tobago	Althea Ingrid Rocke	Port of Spain
Turkey	Ayse Belgin Guven	Istanbul
Turks and Caicos Islands	Lolita Elaine Ariza	Grand Turk
United Kingdom	Delia Frances Dolan	Grimsby
United States	Elizabeth LuAnn Caughey	Abilene
Uruguay	Varinia Roxana Govea Pazos	Montevideo
Venezuela	Michelle Marie Shoda Belloso	Maracaibo
Western Samoa	Lilly Caroline Hunt	Apia
Yugoslavia	Ana Sasso	Split
Zimbabwe	Caroline Murinda	Harare

National pageant notes

Returning Countries and Debuts

• Indonesia and Turks and Caicos Islands competed in Miss World for the first time.
• Yugoslavia last competed in 1975
• Portugal last competed in 1979.
• Panama, and Paraguay last competed in 1980.

Withdrawals and Nations not competing

• Argentina did not attend the Miss World because of ongoing political conflict with United Kingdom, pertaining the dispute in the Falkland Islands.
• Austria, Rita Isabelle Zehtner, did not compete in Miss World because of personal reasons.

Other Notes

• Sweden competed in Miss Europe 1983 and placed as 1st runner-up.
• Cayman Islands and Switzerland won the same awards in the Miss Universe 1982 and 1983 pageants.
• Seven out of fifteen semi-finalists competed in Miss Universe.
• Finland, Germany and United Kingdom were semi-finalists in Miss Universe 1982.
• Ireland and Switzerland competed in Miss Universe 1983 in St. Louis, MO, and placed as 2nd and 3rd runners-up. Spain also competed in Miss Universe and placed as semi-finalist.
• This is the first time that Bolivia and the Cayman Islands made into the semi-finals.
• Trinidad & Tobago, who placed 6th in Miss World, competed in Miss Universe 1980 in Seoul, but failed to put her through to the semi-finals.
• Cally Kwong Mei-Wan of Hong Kong would later have a successful career as a singer in her native country.
• 9 out of 15 countries which made it into the semifinals, were not in the semifinals last year: Dominican Republic and Philippines (1973), Yugoslavia (1975), Denmark (1977), Switzerland and Finland (1978), and Guam (1980). Bolivia and Cayman Islands had made into the semi-finals for the first time. Bolivia marked its debut in 1960, while the Cayman Islands in 1977.

External Sources

• Pageantopolis
• Jimmy's Pageant Page