MISS UNIVERSE 1991
FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1991
Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.s.a.
73 contestants
PRESENTERS: DICK CLARK & leeza gibbons
commentator: angela visser
Results
1 MEXICO María Guadalupe "Lupita" Jones Garay
2 NETHERLANDS Pauline Huizinga
3 U.S.S.R. Yuliya Lemigova
Top 6
4 VENEZUELA Jackeline Rodríguez Strefezza
5 JAMAICA Kimberley Mais
6 USA Kelli Rachelle McCarty
Top 10
7 CURACAO Jacqueline Nelleke Josien Krijger (Hawaiian Tropic '89, World '90)
8 PARAGUAY Vivian Rosanna Benítez Brizuela (1st RU Sudamericana '91, 2nd RU Nuevo Continente, World '91)
9 FRANCE Maréva Georges (SF World '91)
10 YUGOSLAVIA Natasha Pavlovic
Awards
Miss Amity U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS
Miss Photogenic IRELAND
Best National Costume 1) COLOMBIA, 2) PARAGUAY, 3) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Remainder
ARGENTINA Verónica Flavia Honnorat (Sudamericana '91)
BAHAMAS Farrah Saunders
BELGIUM Katia Alens (SF International '90, World '90, Europe '91)
BELIZE Josephine "Josie" Gault (World '91)
BERMUDA Andrea Sullivan
BOLIVIA Maria Selva Landívar
BRAZIL Patrícia Maria Franco de Godóy (1st RU Latin America '90, winner Sudamericana '91, winner Nuevo Continente '92, Queen of the World '92)
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS Anne Lennard
BULGARIA Kristina Drumeva
CANADA Leslie McLaren
CAYMAN ISLANDS Bethea Michelle Christian (World '90)
CHILE Cecilia del Rosario Alfaro Navarrete (Sudamericana '91)
COLOMBIA Maribel Judith Gutiérrez Tinoco
COOK ISLANDS Raema Chitty
COSTA RICA Viviana Muñoz Fernández (winner Coffee '91)
CZECHOSLOVAKIA Renata Gorecka
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Melissa Vargas (International '91)
ECUADOR Diana Neira
EL SALVADOR Rebeca Dávila Dada
FINLAND Tanja Vienonen (Europe '91)
GERMANY Katrin Richter (International '91)
GHANA Dela Tamakole (World '90)
GREECE Marina Poupou
GUAM Jevon Pellacani
GUATEMALA Lorena Palacios
HONG KONG Anita Wing-Yee Yuen (1st RU Chinese International '91)
ICELAND Dis Sigurgeirsdóttir
INDIA Christabelle Howie
IRELAND Siobhan McClafferty (1st RU World '90)
ISRAEL Miri Goldfarb
ITALY Maria Pia Biscotti
JAPAN Atsuko Yamamoto
KOREA Jung-min Seo
LEBANON Fidaa Chehayeb
LUXEMBOURG Annette Feydt (International '91)
MALAYSIA Elaine Chew
MALTA Michelle Zarb
MAURITIUS Dhandevy Jeetun
NAMIBIA Ronel Liebenberg (World '90)
NICARAGUA Ana SofÍa Pereira Villalta (winner Latin America '92)
NIGERIA Tonia Okogbenin
NORTHERN MARIANAS Sharon Rosario
NORWAY Lene Maria Pedersen
PANAMA Liz Michelle de León Paz
PERU Eliana Daphne Martínez Márquez (Sudamericana '91, Coffee '94)
PHILIPPINES Maria Lourdes Talam Gonzalez
POLAND Joanna Michalska
PUERTO RICO Lizzette Marie Bouret Echevarría
ROMANIA Dana Nane
SINGAPORE Eileen Yeow Yin Yin
SPAIN Esther Arroyo Bermúdez
SRI LANKA Diloka Seneviratne
ST. VINCENT & the GRENADINES Samantha Robertson
SURINAM Simone Vos
SWEDEN Susanne Gustafsson (Scandinavia '92)
TAIWAN Shu-Chuan Lin
THAILAND Jira-prapa Savettanun
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO Josie Ann Richards
TURKEY Pinar Ozdemir
TURKS & CAICOS Kathy Hawkins
U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS Monique Lindesay
UNITED KINGDOM Helen Upton (World '90, SF International-Britain '91)
URUGUAY Adriana Comas Silvera (Sudamericana '91)
WITHDREW:
SWITZERLAND Priscilla Leimgruber (fell ill)
NO SHOWS:
AUSTRIA Regina Kozak
BARBADOS Cheryl Jean Brewster
DENMARK Sharon Givskav
GIBRALTAR Sarah Yeats
GREENLAND Bibiane Holm
HONDURAS Claudia Mercedes Caballero
KENYA Aisha Wawira Lieberg
NEW ZEALAND Adele Valerie Kenny (underage)
PORTUGAL Carla Lopes da Costa Caldeira
REPLACED:
PHILIPPINES Anjanette Palencia Abayari (American citizen)
GERMANY Susanne Petry (Underage during MU. Won Miss Europe 1991 later)
ICELAND Asta Sigridur Einarsdottir
USSR Maria "Masha" Vladimirovna Kezha (underage) (she was from Belarus)
VENEZUELA Sharon Raquel Luengo Gonzalez (Osmel Sousa had an argue with her)
DEBUTS: Bulgaria, Ghana, Romania
WITHDRAWALS: Aruba, Australia, Austria, Denmark, Egypt, England, Gibraltar, Greenland, Honduras, Portugal, Scotland, Switzerland, Wales
RETURNS: Belgium, Brazil, Cook Islands, Curaçao, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Namibia, Nicaragua, Panama, United Kingdom, US Virgin Islands, Yugoslavia
JUDGES:
1- Jose Luis Rodriguez - Venezuelan Singer.
2- Janet Hubert-Whitten - American Film Actress.
3- Kuh Ledesma - Filipino Singer.
4- Jorge Rivero - Mexican Actor.
5- Barbara Lauren - Casting Director.
6- Cristophe - Hairstylist from Belgium.
7- Dustin Nguyen - Vietnamese-American actor.
8- Nadia Comaneci - Romanian Gymnast.