Miss World 1990 Explained

Winner:	Gina Marie Tolleson
Represented:	United States
Personality:	Sabina Umeh-Akamune (Nigeria)
Photogenic:	Sharon Luengo (Venezuela)
Date:	8 November 1990
Venue:	London Palladium, London, United Kingdom
Entrants:	81
Placements:	10
Debuts:	Romania
Before:	1989
Next:	1991

Miss World 1990, the 40th anniversary of the Miss World pageant, was held on 8 November 1990 at the London Palladium in London, United Kingdom. The winner was Gina Tolleson representing United States.^[1] ^[2] She was crowned by Miss World 1989, Aneta Beata Kreglicka of Poland.^[3] After this event, the Miss World competition began to be held outside the United Kingdom, such as in Atlanta, Hong Kong and Sun City, South Africa.^[4] ^[5] .This is the second time that United States to win Miss World.

Results

Placements

Placement	Contestant
Miss World 1990	United States – Gina Marie Tolleson
1st Runner-up	Ireland – Siobhan McClafferty
2nd Runner-up	– Sharon Raquel Luengo González
Top 5	Finland – Nina Björkfelt New Zealand – Adele Valerie Kenny
Top 10	Aruba – Gwendolyne Charlotte Kwidama – Gabrielle Stap Jamaica – Erica Aquart Poland – Ewa Maria Szymczak Turkey – Jülide Ates

Continental Queens of Beauty

Continental Group	Contestant
Africa	Kenya – Aisha Wawira Lieberg
Americas	United States – Gina Marie Tolleson
Asia & Oceania	New Zealand – Adele Valerie Kenny
Caribbean	Jamaica – Erica Aquart
Europe	Ireland – Siobhan McClafferty

Contestants

Country/Territory	Contestant	Age	Hometown	Preliminary Score
American Virgin Islands	Keima Akintobi	17		37
Argentina	Romina Rosales	19		30
Aruba	Gwendolyne Charlotte Kwidama	20		41
Australia	Karina Brown	19		39
Austria	Carina Friedberger	20		33
Bahamas	Lisa Gizelle Strachan	19		33
Barbados	Cheryl Jean Brewster	22		30
Belgium	Katia Alens	23		33
Belize	Ysela Antonia Zabaneh	20		30
Bolivia	Daniela Domínguez Martilotti	17		31
Brazil	Karla Cristina Kwiatkowski	20		35
British Virgin Islands	Suzanne Spencer	22		33
Bulgaria	Violeta Galabova	18		31
Canada	Natasha Palewandrem	22		35
Cayman Islands	Bethea Michelle Christian	17		30
Chile	María Isabel Jara Pizarro	21		35
Colombia	Angela Mercedes Mariño Ortiz	19		38
Cook Islands	Angela Manarang	23		30
Costa Rica	Andrea Murillo Fallas	20		31
Curaçao	Jacqueline Nelleke Josien Krijger	23		33
Cyprus	Emilia Groutidou	18		30
Czechoslovakia	Andrea Roskovcová	19		33
Denmark	Charlotte Christiansen	23		35
Dominican Republic	Brenda Marte Lajara	21		30
Egypt		20		31
El Salvador	María Elena Henríquez	20		31
Finland	Nina Björkfelt	22		40
France	Gaëlle Voiry †	21		30
Germany	Christiane Stocker	23		39
Ghana	Dela Tamakloe	24		30
Gibraltar	Sarah Yeats	18		33
Greece	Sophia Lafkioti	19		31
Guam	Mary Esteban	22		32
Guatemala	María del Rosario Pérez Aguilar	25		30
Holland	Gabrielle Stap	21		46
Honduras	Claudia Bendaña McCausland	21		30
Hong Kong	Elaine da Silva	18		31
Hungary		20		32
Iceland	Ásta Sigríður Einarsdóttir	19		30
India	Naveeda Mehdi	18		35
Ireland	Siobhan McClafferty	20		43
Israel	Ariela Tesler	18		30
Italy	Cristina Gavagnin	19		32
Jamaica	Erica Aquart	20		42
Japan	Tomoko Iwasaki	20		30
Kenya	Aisha Wawira Lieberg	19		32
Korea		19		35
Latvia	Velga Bražņevica	23		38
Luxembourg	Bea Jarzyńska	18		30
Macau	Alexandra Paula Costa Mendes	19		30
Madagascar	Ellys Raza	20		30
Malta	Karen Demicoli	18		30
Mauritius	Marie Desirée Audrey Pitchen	23		30
Mexico	Luz María Mena Basso	23		40
Namibia	Ronel Liebenberg	22		30
New Zealand	Adele Valerie Kenny	17		42
Nigeria		21		30
Norway	Ingeborg Kolseth	20		33
Panama	Madelaine Leignadier Dawson	20		30
	Nellie Ban	23		30
Paraguay	Alba María Cordero Rivals	21		31
Peru	Gisselle Martínez Cuadros	21		38
Philippines	Antonette Elizalde Ballesteros	23		30
Poland	Ewa Maria Szymczak	23		40
Portugal	Filomena Paula Dias Miranda Marques	22		31
Puerto Rico	Magdalena Pabón	23		35
Romania	Mihaela Raescu	22		35
Singapore	Karen Frances Ng	17		30
Spain	María del Carmen Carrasco García	22		32
Sri Lanka	Angela Mary Jane Gunasekera	23		30
Sweden	Daniela Jessica Maria Almen	19		33
Switzerland	Priscilla Leimgruber	20		30
Thailand	Panida Umsaard	19		30
Trinidad and Tobago	Guenevere Helen Kelshall	22		35
Turkey	Jülide Ates	19		41
United Kingdom	Helen Upton	19		39
United States	Gina Marie Tolleson	21		49
Uruguay	María Carolina Casalia Abelia	19		32
U.S.S.R.	Lauma Zemzare	19		37
Venezuela		19		50
Yugoslavia	Ivona Brnelić	18		31

Judges

Eric Morley † – Chairman and CEO of Miss World Organization
Krish Naidoo †
Josie Fonseca
Michael Ward
Kimberley Santos – Miss World 1980 from Guam^[6]
Wilnelia Merced – Miss World 1975^[7] from Puerto Rico^[8]
Ralph Halpern †
Rob Brandt
Knut Meiner
Ruth Moxnes
Thomas Ledin
Terje Aass
Ann-Mari Albertsen
Jarle Johansen
Ingeborg Sorensen

Notes

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.

There were two panels of judges, one in the UK and another in Australia, that commented Miss Venezuela to be “the best one”. This clip was removed from videos and she was placed 2nd runner up.

Returns

Last competed in 1974:
- Madagascar
Last competed in 1987:
- Brazil
Last competed in 1988:
- Barbados
- Bulgaria
- Cook Islands
- Egypt
- India
- Uruguay

Withdrawals

Ecuador – Due to lack of sponsorship
Lebanon – Due to a civil war
Malaysia – Due to lack of sponsorship

Notes and References

Web site: How Did 'Unusually Thicke' Couple Alan and Tanya Thicke Meet? The Story's Not So Sweet . . 23 January 2016.
Web site: Miss World Competition Through the Years . . 12 December 2014 . 23 January 2016.
(18 June 2009). Aneta Kręglicka... skoro piękna, to pewnie głupia, Gazeta Wyborcza (in Polish). Retrieved 23 January 2016.
Book: Bhaskaran, S. . Made in India: Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/national Projects . Palgrave Macmillan . Comparative Feminist Studies . 2004 . 978-1-4039-7925-4 . 42.
Web site: A Globalized Culture Clash . Frontline. 23 January 2016.
Web site: The boyfriend of former Miss World Kimberly Santos, apparently... . . 4 January 1983 . 23 January 2016.
Web site: Bruce Forsyth knighted: Sir Brucie's career in pictures and video . . 12 October 2011 . 23 January 2016.
Web site: Miss World din cap până în picioare. VEZI IMAGINI DE LA ÎNCORONĂRILE DIN 1950 PÂNĂ ASTĂZI . . ro . 23 January 2016.