| Winner: | Giselle Laronde |
| Represented: | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Date: | 13 November 1986 |
| Placements: | 15 |
| Venue: | Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom |
| Broadcaster: | Thames Television |
| Entrants: | 77 |
| Before: | 1985 |
| Next: | 1987 |
Miss World 1986, the 36th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 13 November 1986 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom. The winner was Giselle Laronde (Queen of Americas) from Trinidad and Tobago.[1] [2] She was crowned by Miss World 1985, Hólmfríður Karlsdóttir of Iceland. Runner-up was Pia Rosenberg Larsen (Queen of Europe) representing Denmark and third was Chantal Schreiber from Austria.
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| 2nd Runner-up |
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| Top 7 |
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| Top 15 |
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| Africa |
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| Asia |
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| Europe |
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| Oceania |
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Seventy-seven contestants competed for the title.
| Country/Territory | Contestant | Age | Hometown | |
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| Karen Knowles | 19 | St. John's | ||
| Stephanie Andrews | 24 | West Leederville | ||
| Chantal Schreiber | 21 | Vienna | ||
| Bridgette Strachan | 17 | Nassau | ||
| Barbados | Roslyn Williams | 24 | Saint Michael | |
| 23 | Brussels | |||
| Samantha Jayne Morton | 20 | Pembroke West | ||
| Claudia Arévalo | 17 | Cochabamba | ||
| Roberta Pereira da Silva | 18 | Itajai | ||
| Anthonia Lewis | 21 | Tortola | ||
| Wynne Anita Kroontje | 22 | Sarnia | ||
| Deborah Cridland | 21 | George Town | ||
| Margot Elena Fuenzalida | 22 | Santiago | ||
| Karen Sue Wightman | 21 | Barranquilla | ||
| Ana Lorena González | 21 | San Jose | ||
| Maro Andreou | 17 | Limassol | ||
| Pia Rosenberg Larsen | 19 | Frederiksberg | ||
| Susan González | 19 | Santiago | ||
| Alicia Cucalon | 20 | Guayaquil | ||
| Nadine Jeanpierre | 18 | San Salvador | ||
| Satu Riita Alaharja | 19 | Seinäjoki | ||
| Catherine Carew | 21 | Guadeloupe | ||
| Rose Marie Eunson | 17 | Banjul | ||
| Dagmar Schulz | 21 | Duisburg | ||
| Dominique Martinez | 20 | Gibraltar | ||
| Anna Kechagia | 19 | Athens | ||
| Valerie Jean Flores | 18 | Agana | ||
| Sonia Schoenstedt | 20 | Guatemala City | ||
| Janny Tervelde | 17 | Domburg | ||
| Nilcer Viscovich | 20 | San Pedro Sula | ||
| May Ng | 19 | Kowloon Bay | ||
| Gígja Birgisdóttir | 18 | Akureyri | ||
| Maureen Lestourgeon | 24 | Bombay | ||
| Rosemary Thompson | 20 | Lisburn | ||
| Sarah Therese Craig | 21 | Ballaugh | ||
| Osnat Moas | 17 | Motzkin | ||
| Enrica Patane | 19 | Rome | ||
| Lisa Mahfood | 22 | Kingston | ||
| Mutsumi Sugimura | 19 | Tokyo | ||
| Patricia Maingi | 20 | Nairobi | ||
| An Jung-mi | 19 | Seoul | ||
| Mireille Abi Fares | 19 | Beirut | ||
| Martine Pilot | 20 | Erpeldange | ||
| Patricia Cheong | 18 | Macau | ||
| Joan Martha Cardoza | 22 | Kuala Lumpur | ||
| Andrea Licari | 21 | Floriana | ||
| Michelle Pastor | 17 | Quatre Bornes | ||
| María de la Luz Velasco | 20 | Mexicali | ||
| Lynda McManus | 20 | Christchurch | ||
| Inger Louise Berg | 18 | Bodø | ||
| María Lorena Orillac | 20 | Panama City | ||
| Verónica Angulo | 20 | Asunción | ||
| Patricia Kuypers | 22 | Lima | ||
| Sherry-Rose Byrne | 18 | Manila | ||
| Renata Fatla | 19 | Bielsko-Biała | ||
| Elsa Maria Rodrigues | 19 | Lisbon | ||
| Jacqueline Heyliger | 20 | Basseterre | ||
| Mandy Haydock | 21 | Kingstown | ||
| Alice Matta Fefegula | 22 | Bo | ||
| Michelle Loh | 20 | Bedok | ||
| Remedios Cervantes | 22 | Málaga | ||
| Indira Gunaratne | 20 | Colombo | ||
| Ilana Faye Lapidos | 18 | Manzini | ||
| Elizabeth Ulvan | 21 | Motala | ||
| Renate Walther | 22 | Megève | ||
| Sangravee as-Savarak | 18 | Bangkok | ||
| Kerry Cowley | 20 | Nuku'alofa | ||
| Trinidad and Tobago | Giselle Laronde | 23 | Marabella | |
| Meltem Doganay | 18 | Ankara | ||
| Carmelita Ariza | 17 | Grand Turk | ||
| Alison Louise Slack | 20 | Sheffield | ||
| Halle Berry[3] | 20 | Oakwood | ||
| United States Virgin Islands | Carmen Acosta | 21 | Saint Croix | |
| Alexandra Goldenthal | 17 | Montevideo | ||
| 18 | Maracaibo | |||
| Kasileta Gabriel | 19 | Apia | ||
| Maja Kučić | 17 | Split |
and lost its Miss World franchise due to financial assistance issues.
Turks and Caicos – Carmelita Louise Ariza competed in the 1987 pageant in Singapore, where she achieved a Top 10 placement. She made history by being the first and only representative from Turk and Caicos to reach this milestone in Miss Universe.
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