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Mauriziok/Miss World 1992
Date	12 December 1992
Presenters	Billy Dee Williams Jerry Hall Doreen Morris Suanne Braun Deborah Shelton
Venue	Sun City Entertainment Center, Sun City, South Africa
Broadcaster	E! SABC
Entrants	83
Placements	10
Debuts	Croatia Russia Slovenia Ukraine
Withdrawals	Belize Ghana Honduras Kenya Peru Yugoslavia
Returns	Bermuda Canada Hong Kong Seychelles Sri Lanka Uganda Zambia
Winner	Julia Kourotchkina Russia

Miss World 1992, the 42nd edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 12 December 1992 at the Sun City Entertainment Center in Sun City, South Africa. The winner was Julia Kourotchkina from Russia. She was crowned by Miss World 1991, Ninibeth Leal of Venezuela.

Results

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1992

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss World 1992	Russia – Julia Kourotchkina
1st Runner-up	United Kingdom – Claire Elizabeth Smith
2nd Runner-up	Venezuela – Francis Gago
Top 5	Poland – Ewa Wachowicz South Africa – Amy Kleinhans
Top 10	Bahamas – Jody Weech Denmark – Anja Hende Brond Finland – Petra von Hellens Israel – Ravit Asaf United States – Sharon Belden

Continental Queens of Beauty

Continental Group	Contestant
Africa	South Africa – Amy Kleinhans
Americas	Venezuela – Francis Gago
Asia & Oceania	Thailand – Metinee Kingpayom
Caribbean	Bahamas – Jody Weech
Europe	Russia – Julia Kourotchkina

Contestants

Nation	Contestant	Hometown	Preliminary Score
American Virgin Islands	Leah Webster	St. Thomas	34
Argentina	Claudia Andrea Bertona	Cordoba	41
Aruba	Solange Noelle Nicolaas	Savaneta	34
Australia	Rebecca Simic	Sydney	36
Austria	Kerstin Kinberg	Graz	33
Bahamas	Jody Barbara Weech	Bimini	44
Belgium	Sandra Joine	Antwerp	34
Bermuda	Dianne Lorraine Mitchell	Pembroke	34
Bolivia	Verónica Pino	Tarija	37
Brazil	Priscilla Maria Furlan	Sao Paulo	37
British Virgin Islands	Bisa Smith	Tortola	34
Bulgaria	Elena Draganova	Sofia	34
Canada	Nina Khilji	Toronto	34
Cayman Islands	Pamela Joanne Ebanks	Grand Cayman	36
Chile	Paula Caballero Fernández	Santiago	41
Republic of China	Cheng Wei-Wei	Taipei	36
Colombia	Wguerddy Alejandra Oviedo Vargas	San Andrés	44
Costa Rica	Marisol Soto Alarcón	San Jose	42
Croatia	Elena Šuran	Rovinj	33
Curaçao	Cristina Bakhuis	Willemstad	35
Cyprus	Maria Kountouris	Nicosia	33
Czechoslovakia	Gabriela Harsanyova	Košice	35
Denmark	Anja Hende Brond	Aalborg	45
Dominican Republic	Gina María Rojas Mañón	Concepción de La Vega	41
Ecuador	Stephanie Krumholz de Menezes	Guayaquil	34
El Salvador	Raquel Cristina Durán	San Salvador	34
Finland	Petra Enrika von Hellens	Turku	46
France	Linda Hardy	Nantes	41
Germany	Carina Jope	Frankfurt	34
Gibraltar	Michelle Torres	Gibraltar	39
Greece	Eugenia Paschalidi	Athens	32
Greenland	Laali Lyberth	Nuuk	37
Guam	Michelle Cruz	Santa Rita	39
Guatemala	Ana María Johanis Iglesias	Guatemala City	35
Holland	Gabrielle van Nimwegen	Valkenburg	36
Hong Kong	Patsy Lau Yan-Ling	New Territories	34
Hungary	Bernadette Papp	Szombathely	32
Iceland	María Rún Hafliðadóttir	Reykjavík	33
India	Celine Shyla Lopez	Bangalore	33
Ireland	Sharon Ellis	Cork	32
Israel	Ravit Asaf	Tel Aviv	49
Italy	Paola Irrera	Messina	32
Jamaica	Julie Anne Bradford Houghton	Kingston	33
Japan	Kaoru Kikuchi	Tokyo	33
Korea	Lee Mi-young	Seoul	33
Latvia	Zane Valicka	Cēsis	34
Lebanon	Nicole Bardawil	Keserwan	35
Macau	Ho Lok-I	Macau	35
Malaysia	Fazira Wan Chek	Kuala Lumpur	43
Malta	Noelene Micallef	Fgura	34
Mauritius	Sarasvadee Rengassamy	Central Flacq	34
Mexico	Carmen Lucía Lehman Fernández	Mérida	44
Namibia	Linda Sharon Schulz	Windhoek	35
New Zealand	Karly Donne Kinnaird	Dunedin	36
Nigeria	Sandra Guenefred Petgrave	Lagos	34
Norway	Kjersti Brakestad	Oslo	34
Panama	Michelle Marie Harrington Hasbún	Panama City	38
Paraguay	Lourdes Magdalena Zaracho	Asuncion	39
Philippines	Marina Pura Santos Benipayo	Manila	35
Poland	Ewa Wachowicz	Krakow	47
Portugal	Fernanda Manuela Santos	Lisbon	33
Puerto Rico	Lianabel Rosario Centeno	Trujillo Alto	38
Romania	Camelia Ilie	Bucharest	32
Russia	Julia Kourotchkina	Shcherbinka	56
Seychelles	Myrna Chantal Hoareau	La Digue	34
Singapore	Jennifer Wong	Singapore	33
Slovenia	Natasa Abram	Koper	32
South Africa	Amy Kleinhans	Cape Town	50
Spain	Samantha Torres Waldron	Ibiza	44
Sri Lanka	Ishara Abelashini Makolange	Colombo	35
Swaziland	Candy Litchfield	Mbabane	34
Sweden	Ulrika Johansson	Sollentuna	33
Switzerland	Valerie Bovard	La Tour-de-Peilz	33
Thailand	Metinee Kingpayom	Bangkok	44
Trinidad & Tobago	Renee Garib	St. Joseph	34
Turkey	Ozlem Kaymaz	Istanbul	33
Uganda	Olga Nampima	Rukungiri	34
Ukraine	Oksana Sabo	Kyiv	32
United Kingdom	Claire Elizabeth Smith	Chester	51
United States	Sharon Flynn Belden	Miami	44
Uruguay	Leonora Irene Dibueno Fenocchi	Montevideo	37
Venezuela	Francis del Valle Gago Aponte	Maturín	51
Zambia	Elizabeth Mwanza	Lusaka	34

Judges

Miss World 1992 contestants were evaluated by a panel of judges. Some of them included:

• Sidney Sheldon
• Ivana Trump

Notes

Debuts

• Croatia
• Russia
• Slovenia
• Ukraine

Returns

• Last competed in 1974:
  • Zambia
• Last competed in 1975:
  • Seychelles
• Last competed in 1989:
  • Bermuda
  • Uganda
• Last competed in 1990:
  • Canada
  • Hong Kong
  • Sri Lanka

Replacements

• Philippines – Marina Santos Benipayo was a last minute replacement for original representative Marilen Espino who had to withdraw due to an illness just days before her departure.

Withdrawals

• Belize – Melanie Smith - Lack of Sponsorship. Went to Miss Universe 1993 instead.
• Ghana – No contest.
• Honduras – Yanina Elizabeth Fajardo - Lack of Sponsorship. Went to Miss Asia Pacific Quest 1992 instead.
• Kenya – No contest.
• Peru – Ingrid Yrivarren - Due visa problems and for some disagreements under her contract with Miss Peru Organization.
• Yugoslavia – No contest due to the Yugoslav Wars and sanctions placed to this country until 1996.

External links

• Pageantopolis – Miss World 1992

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