Miss Universe 1991

Miss Universe 1991, the 40th anniversary of the Miss Universe pageant, was held on May 17, 1991 at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Lupita Jones of Mexico crowned by Mona Grudt of Norway. Seventy-three contestants competed in the 1991 Miss Universe pageant.

Miss Universe 1991
Lupita Jones, Miss Universe 1991
Date	May 17, 1991
Presenters	Dick Clark Leeza Gibbons Angela Visser
Venue	Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts, Las Vegas, United States
Broadcaster	CBS KLAS-TV
Entrants	73
Placements	10
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 United States Virgin Islands Yugoslavia
Winner	Lupita Jones Mexico
Congeniality	Monique Lindesay United States Virgin Islands
Best National Costume	Maribel Gutierrez Colombia
Photogenic	Siobhan McClafferty Ireland
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Results

Miss Universe 1991 participating nations and results

Placements

Placement	Contestant
Miss Universe 1991	Mexico – Lupita Jones
1st Runner-Up	Netherlands – Paulien Huizinga
2nd Runner-Up	Soviet Union – Julia Lemigova
Top 6	Jamaica – Kimberley Mais  United States – Kelli McCarty Venezuela – Jackeline Rodríguez
Top 10	Curaçao – Jacqueline Krijger  France – Mareva Georges Paraguay – Vivian Benítez Yugoslavia – Natasha Pavlovich

Final Competition

Nation	Preliminary Average	Interview	Swimsuit	Evening Gown	Semifinal Average
Mexico	9.006 (1)	9.608 (1)	9.450 (1)	9.758 (1)	9.605 (1)
Netherlands	8.694 (10)	9.592 (2)	9.073 (6)	9.600 (4)	9.421 (4)
Soviet Union	8.864 (3)	9.550 (3)	9.225 (3)	9.717 (2)	9.497 (3)
Venezuela	8.719 (7)	9.533 (4)	9.412 (2)	9.650 (3)	9.531 (2)
Jamaica	8.986 (2)	9.418 (6)	9.213 (4)	9.542 (7)	9.391 (5)
United States	8.834 (4)	9.425 (5)	8.950 (8)	9.542 (7)	9.305 (6)
Curaçao	8.753 (6)	9.190 (8)	9.135 (5)	9.550 (6)	9.291 (7)
Paraguay	8.719 (7)	9.375 (7)	8.987 (7)	9.350 (10)	9.237 (8)
France	8.706 (9)	9.067 (10)	8.867 (10)	9.590 (5)	9.174 (9)
Yugoslavia	8.774 (5)	9.167 (9)	8.875 (9)	9.442 (9)	9.161 (10)

Special Awards

Awards	Winners
Best National Costume	Colombia – Maribel Gutierrez
Miss Photogenic	Ireland – Siobhan McClafferty
Miss Congeniality	United States Virgin Islands – Monique Lindesay

Order of Announcements

Top 10

1.  Jamaica
2.  France
3.  Yugoslavia
4.  Paraguay
5.  Curacao
6.  Soviet Union
7.  Venezuela
8.  Netherlands
9.  United States
10.  Mexico

Top 6

1.  Venezuela
2.  Netherlands
3.  United States
4.  Jamaica
5.  Mexico
6.  Soviet Union

Top 3

1.  Soviet Union
2.  Netherlands
3.  Mexico

Contestants

• Argentina - Verónica Honnorat
•  Bahamas - Farrah Fiona Saunders
•  Belgium - Katia Alens
•  Belize - Josephine Gault
•  Bermuda - Andrea Sullivan
•  Bolivia - María Selva Landívar
• Brazil - Patricia Franco de Godói
•  British Virgin Islands - Anne Lennard
•  Bulgaria - Christy Drumeva
•  Canada - Leslie McLaren
• Cayman Islands - Bethea Michelle Christian
•  Chile - Cecilia del Rosario Alfaro
•  Colombia - Maribel Gutiérrez Tinoco
•  Cook Islands - Raema Chitty
•  Costa Rica - Viviana Múñoz
•  Curaçao - Jacqueline Krijger
•  Czechoslovakia - Renata Gorecka
•  Dominican Republic - Melissa Vargas
• Ecuador - Diana Neira
•  El Salvador - Rebecca Dávila
•  Finland - Tanja Vienonen
•  France - Mareva Georges
•  Germany - Katrin Richter
•  Ghana - Dela Tamakole
•  Greece - Marina Popou
•  Guam - Jevon Pellacani
•  Guatemala - Lorena Palacios
• Hong Kong - Anita Yuen
•  Iceland - Dis Sigurgeirsdóttir
•  India - Christabelle Howie
•  Ireland - Siobhan McClafferty
•  Israel - Miri Goldfarb
•  Italy - Maria Biscotti
•  Jamaica - Kimberley Mais
• Japan - Atsuko Yamamoto
•  Lebanon - Fida Chehayeb
•  Luxembourg - Annette Feydt
•  Malaysia - Elaine Chew
•  Malta - Michelle Zarb
•  Mauritius - Dhandevy Jeetun
•  Mexico - Lupita Jones
•  Namibia - Ronel Liebenberg
•  Netherlands - Paulien Huizinga
•  Nicaragua - Ana Sofía Pereira
•  Nigeria - Tonia Okogbenin
•  Northern Mariana Islands - Sharon Rosario
•  Norway - Lene Maria Pedersen
•  Panama - Liz De León
• Paraguay - Vivian Benítez
•  Peru - Eliana Martínez
• Philippines - Maria Lourdes Gonzalez
•  Poland - Joanna Michalska
• Puerto Rico - Lissette Bouret
•  Republic of China - Lin Shu-Chuan
•  Romania - Daniella Nane
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Samantha Robertson
•  Singapore - Eileen Yeow
• South Korea - Seo Jung-min
•  Soviet Union - Julia Lemigova
•  Spain - Esther Arroyo
•  Sri Lanka - Diloka Seneviratne
•  Suriname - Simone Vos
•  Sweden - Susanna Gustafsson
•  Thailand - Jiraprapa Sawettanan
•  Trinidad and Tobago - Josie Anne Richards
•  Turkey - Pinar Ozdemir
•  Turks and Caicos Islands - Kathy Hawkins
•  United Kingdom - Helen Upton
•  United States - Kelli McCarty
•  United States Virgin Islands - Monique Lindesay
•  Uruguay - Adriana Comas
• Venezuela - Jackeline Rodríguez
•  Yugoslavia - Natasha Pavlovich

Order of Introduction

The following table is the order of introduction in the Parade of Nations segment in the regional groups, randomly-ordered.

Geographical Region / Continent	Order of Country / Territory Introduction
Asia and The USSR	Singapore  Sri Lanka  Malaysia  Republic of China  Thailand Hong Kong  Soviet Union  Japan  India South Korea Philippines
South America	Suriname  Curaçao  Chile  Uruguay  Argentina  Bolivia Venezuela  Peru Brazil  Colombia Paraguay  Ecuador
Europe and The British Isles	Bulgaria  Czechoslovakia  United Kingdom  Poland  Belgium  France  Iceland  Romania  Germany  Netherlands  Luxembourg  Finland  Sweden  Ireland  Norway
Mediterranean, Middle East, and Africa	Nigeria  Lebanon  Namibia  Ghana  Spain  Malta  Israel  Turkey  Greece  Italy  Yugoslavia
The Islands	Dominican Republic  Mauritius  Northern Mariana Islands  Puerto Rico  British Virgin Islands  Cook Islands  Trinidad and Tobago  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Cayman Islands  Guam  Bahamas  Bermuda  Jamaica  Turks and Caicos Islands  United States Virgin Islands
Central and North America	Costa Rica  Panama  El Salvador  Belize  Mexico  Nicaragua  Guatemala  Canada  United States

Notes

Debuts

•  Bulgaria
•  Ghana
•  Romania

Returns

Last competed in 1952:

•  United Kingdom The three constituent countries had their franchises unified, along with those territories that did not have their own franchises, as, between 1955 and 1990, each constituent country on the United Kingdom (England, Scotland and Wales) sent their separated candidate to the pageant. Since 1994, Northern Ireland candidates could compete in Miss Ireland or Miss United Kingdom.

Last competed in 1978:

•  Nicaragua

Last competed in 1984:

•  Namibia competed for the first time as an independent country after gaining independence from South Africa in February 1990.

Last competed in 1985:

•  Yugoslavia

Last competed in 1986:

•  Cook Islands

Last competed in 1987:

•  Panama

Last competed in 1988:

•  Lebanon

Last competed in 1989:

•  Belgium
• Brazil
•  Curaçao
•  Luxembourg
•  United States Virgin Islands

Designations

• Venezuela - Jackeline Rodríguez

Replacements

• Philippines - Maria Lourdes Gonzalez replaced Anjanette Abayari, who was not a Philippine citizen.
• Venezuela - Sharon Luengo - The Director of the Miss Venezuela pageant, Osmel Souza, wanted to send her to Miss Universe due to the delay of the Miss Venezuela 1991 contest. Still, the Miss Universe Organization rejected her as a contestant due to her 2nd runner-up position at Miss World 1990,.^[1] They decided to select the Venezuelan delegate for Miss Universe 1991 under a special commission.^[2]
•  Soviet Union – The winner of Miss USSR 1990, Maria Kezha, was underage after February 1.^[3]
•  Yugoslavia - Miss Yugoslavia 1990, Ivona Brnelić decided not to participate in order to be focused in her Dance Studies. Her Runner up - Zorica Vasojević was supposed to go, but was remplazed at last minute by Natasha Pavlovic for reasons not yet clarified.^[4]

Withdrawals

•  Aruba – The Miss Aruba 1991 pageant was delayed to May 31 and their 1991 winner, Jerusha Rasmijn, was sent to Miss Universe 1992.^[5]
•  Australia - Their national pageant was delayed due the Australian Economic Crisis of early 1990s,^[6] and their winner Georgina Denahy was sent to Miss Universe 1992.^[7]
•  Austria - Regina Kozak - Lack of sponsorship, went to Miss International 1991.
•  Denmark - Sharon Givskav - Due to lack of sponsorship and funding. She went to Miss World 1991 instead.
•  Egypt - no contest.
•  England - Competed as United Kingdom or Great Britain since then.
•  Gibraltar - Sarah Yeats - She was underage before February 1.^[8]
•  Greenland - Bibiane Holm - Miss Greenland Pageant lost their License with the Miss Universe Inc, and she went to Miss World 1991 instead
• Honduras - Claudia Mercedes Caballero - She fell ill and withdrew due to the fact that she suffered from chronic fatigue and had to rest by medical prescription.
•  Portugal - Carla Lopes Da Costa Caldeira - unknown reason to compete
•  Scotland - Competed as United Kingdom or Great Britain since then.
•  Switzerland - Priscilla Leimgruber (She fell ill and withdrew at the last minute.)
•  Wales - Competed as United Kingdom or Great Britain since then.

Did not compete

•  Kenya - Aisha Wawira Lieberg ✝︎ - Due to lack of sponsorship and funding. She went to Miss Universe 1992 instead.
•  New Zealand - Adele Valerie Kenny (because she was underage before February 1)^[9]

Name changes

• Holland began competing as Netherlands.
• Great Britain began competing as United Kingdom for the first time^[10]

General references

• "Miss Universe 1991". pageantopolis.com. Archived from the original on February 7, 2012.