Miss World 2012 | |
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Date | 18 August 2012 |
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Venue | Dongsheng Fitness Center Stadium, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China |
Entrants | 116 |
Placements | 30 |
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Winner | Yu Wenxia China |
Miss World 2012 was the 62nd edition of the Miss World pageant, held at the Dongsheng Fitness Center Stadium in Ordos City, China, on 18 August 2012.
Ivian Sarcos of Venezuela crowned Yu Wenxia of China as her successor at the end of the event. This is the second time China has won the title.
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Miss World 2012 | |
1st Runner-Up |
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Top 7 |
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Top 15 |
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Top 30 |
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There were six challenge events. They were Top Model, Beach Fashion, Sport, Multimedia, Talent, and Beauty With a Purpose. Important points were awarded to each winner. All six winners went through to the Top 30.
Atong Demach of South Sudan won Miss World Top Model 2012.
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Top 10 |
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Sophie Moulds of Wales won Miss World Beach Beauty 2012.
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Top 10 |
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Sanna Jinnedal of Sweden won Miss World Sport 2012.
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Swimming |
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Long Jump |
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100-Meter Dash |
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Kick-Off |
Vanya Mishra of India won Miss World Multimedia 2012.
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1st Runner-Up |
Yu Wenxia of China won Miss World Talent 2012.
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Top 5 |
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Top 16 |
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Vanya Mishra of India won Miss World Beauty With a Purpose 2012.
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116 contestants competed for the title.
Country/Territory | Contestant | Age | Height | Hometown |
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Albania | Floriana Garo [2] | 25 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | Durrës |
Angola | Edmilza dos Santos [3] | 21 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Malanje |
Argentina | Josefina Herrero [4] | 18 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Mercedes |
Aruba | Lucianette Verhoeks [5] | 19 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Oranjestad |
Australia | Jessica Kahawaty [6] | 23 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Sydney |
Austria | Amina Dagi [7] | 17 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Bregenz |
Bahamas | Daronique Young [8] | 22 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Nassau |
Barbados | Marielle Wilkie [9] | 21 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Bridgetown |
Belarus | Julia Skalkovich [10] | 20 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Baranovichi |
Belgium | Laura Beyne [11] | 19 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Brussels |
Belize | Chantae Chanice Guy [12] | 20 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Belmopan |
Bermuda | Rochelle Minors [13] | 22 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Hamilton |
Bolivia | Mariana García [14] | 23 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | La Paz |
Bonaire | Ana Gisel Maciel [15] | 19 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Kralendijk |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Fikreta Husić [16] | 22 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Brčko |
Botswana | Tapiwa Anna-Marie Preston [17] | 19 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Gaborone |
Brazil | Mariana Notarangelo [18] | 22 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Duque de Caxias |
Bulgaria | Gabriela Vasileva [19] | 20 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Byala Slatina |
Canada | Tara Teng [20] | 23 | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | Fort Langley |
Chile | Camila Recabarren [21] | 21 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | La Serena |
China | Yu Wenxia [22] [23] | 23 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Shangzhi |
Colombia | Bárbara Turbay [24] | 19 | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Bogotá |
Costa Rica | Silvana Sánchez [25] | 23 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | Palmares |
Cote d'Ivoire | Hélène-Valerie Djouka [26] | 18 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Divo |
Croatia | Maja Nikolić [27] | 21 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Zagreb |
Curaçao | Stephanie Rose Chang [28] | 20 | 1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | Willemstad |
Cyprus | Georgia Georgiou [29] | 21 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Limassol |
Czech Republic | Linda Bartošová [30] | 19 | 1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Vraclav |
Denmark | Iris Thomsen [31] | 25 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | Osterbro |
Dominican Republic | Sally Aponte Tejada [32] | 21 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Salcedo |
Ecuador | Cipriana Correia [33] | 21 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Esmeraldas |
El Salvador | Maria Luisa Vicuña [34] | 18 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Sonsonate |
England | Charlotte Holmes [35] | 23 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Plymouth |
Equatorial Guinea | Jennifer Riveiro Ilende [36] | 20 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | Malabo |
Ethiopia | Melkam Endale [37] | 21 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Addis Ababa |
Fiji | Koini Elesi Vakaloloma [38] | 24 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Lautoka |
Finland | Sabina Särkkä [39] | 23 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Helsinki |
France | Delphine Wespiser [40] | 20 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Magstatt-le-Bas |
Gabon | Marie-Noëlle Ada [41] | 22 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Mouila |
Georgia | Salome Khomeriki [42] | 20 | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Tbilisi |
Germany | Martina Ivezaj [43] | 23 | 1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in) | Munich |
Gibraltar | Jessica Baldachino [44] | 24 | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | Gibraltar |
Greece | Maria Tsagkaraki [45] | 23 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Crete |
Guadeloupe | Brigitte Golabkan [46] | 18 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Le Moule |
Guam | Jeneva Bosko [47] | 19 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Chalan Pago |
Guatemala | Monique Aparicio [48] | 21 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Quetzaltenango |
Guyana | Arti Cameron [49] | 23 | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | Georgetown |
Honduras | Jennifer Valle [50] | 17 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Santa Rosa de Copan |
Hong Kong | Kelly Cheung [51] | 21 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Hong Kong |
Hungary | Tamara Cserháti [52] | 20 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Győr |
Iceland | Íris Telma Jónsdóttir [53] | 21 | 1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | Reykjavík |
India | Vanya Mishra [54] | 20 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Jalandar |
Indonesia | Ines Putri Chandra [55] | 22 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Denpasar |
Ireland | Rebecca Maguire [56] | 20 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Dublin |
Israel | Shani Hazan [57] | 19 | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | Kiryat Ata |
Italy | Jessica Bellinghieri [58] | 23 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Messina |
Jamaica | Deanna Robins [59] | 21 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Kingston |
Japan | Nozomi Igarashi [60] | 24 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Yamagata |
Kazakhstan | Evgeniya Klishina [61] | 25 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Astana |
Kenya | Shamim Nabil [62] | 18 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Mombasa |
South Korea | Kim Sung-min [63] | 23 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Seoul |
Latvia | Anastasija Skibunova [64] | 23 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Riga |
Lebanon | Sonia-Lynn Gabriel [65] | 20 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Mont-Liban |
Lithuania | Rasa Vereniūtė [66] | 20 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Vilnius |
Macau | Winnie Sin [67] | 25 | 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in) | Macau |
Macedonia | Aneta Stojkoska [68] | 19 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | Gostivar |
Malawi | Susan Mtegha † [69] | 24 | 1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | Mzuzu |
Malaysia | Yvonne Lee [70] | 23 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Kuala Lumpur |
Malta | Daniela Darmanin [71] | 21 | 1.64 m (5 ft 4+1⁄2 in) | Mġarr |
Martinique | Andy Govindin [72] | 23 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Fort-de-France |
Mauritius | Shalini Panchoo [73] | 23 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Saint Pierre |
Mexico | Mariana Berumen [74] | 20 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | Guanajuato |
Mongolia | Bayarmaa Huselbaatar [75] | 20 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Ulan Bator |
Montenegro | Nikolina Lončar [76] | 19 | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | Pljevlja |
Nepal | Shristi Shrestha [77] | 23 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Bharatpur |
Netherlands | Nathalie den Dekker [78] | 22 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Amsterdam |
New Zealand | Collette Lochore [79] | 18 | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | Auckland |
Nicaragua | Lauren Lawson [80] | 24 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Granada |
Nigeria | Damiete Charles Granville [81] | 23 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Port Harcourt |
Northern Ireland | Tiffany Brien [82] | 21 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Belfast |
Norway | Karoline Olsen [83] | 21 | 1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in) | Klo |
Panama | Maricely González [84] | 24 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Panama City |
Paraguay | Fiorella Migliore [85] | 23 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Asunción |
Peru | Giuliana Zevallos [86] | 23 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | Lima |
Philippines | Queenierich Rehman [87] | 24 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Las Piñas |
Poland | Weronika Szmajdzińska [88] | 18 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Szczecin |
Portugal | Melanie Vicente [89] | 21 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Torres Vedras |
Puerto Rico | Janelee Chaparro [90] | 20 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Barceloneta |
Russia | Elizaveta Golovanova [91] | 19 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Safonovo |
Scotland | Nicole Treacy [92] | 23 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Paisley |
Serbia | Bojana Lečić [93] | 22 | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | Nova Varoš |
Seychelles | Sherlyn Ferneau [94] | 21 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | Victoria |
Sierra Leone | Vanessa Williams [95] | 22 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Freetown |
Singapore | Karisa Sukamto [96] | 19 | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | Singapore |
Slovakia | Kristína Krajčírová [97] | 20 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Bratislava |
Slovenia | Nives Orešnik [98] | 20 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Maribor |
South Africa | Remona Moodley [99] | 23 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Cape Town |
South Sudan | Atong Demach [100] | 24 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | Bor |
Spain | Aránzazu Estévez [101] | 23 | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | Las Palmas |
Sri Lanka | Sumudu Prasadini [102] | 23 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Kurunegala |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | Markysa O'Loughlin [103] | 20 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Basseterre |
Suriname | Stefanie Grace Gentle [104] | 22 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Nieuw Nickerie |
Sweden | Sanna Jinnedal [105] | 19 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | Borås |
Tanzania | Lisa Jensen [106] | 24 | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Dar es Salaam |
Thailand | Vanessa Herrmann [107] | 21 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Phuket |
Trinidad and Tobago | Athaliah Samuel [108] | 24 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Port of Spain |
Turkey | Açalya Samyeli Danoğlu [109] | 20 | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | Istanbul |
Uganda | Phiona Bizzu [110] | 19 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Lira |
Ukraine | Karina Zhyronkina [111] | 20 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Kharkiv |
United States | Claudine Book [112] | 20 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | California |
Uruguay | Valentina Henderson [113] | 18 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | Salto |
US Virgin Islands | Taiesa Lashley [114] | 24 | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | Saint Thomas |
Venezuela | Gabriella Ferrari [115] | 21 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Valencia |
Vietnam | Vũ Thị Hoàng My [116] | 23 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Đồng Nai |
Wales | Sophie Moulds [117] | 19 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | Ferndale |
Zimbabwe | Bongani Dlakama [118] | 24 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Bulawayo |
Miss World 2012 contestants were evaluated by a panel of judges. [119]
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