Miss World 2019

Miss World 2019 was the 69th edition of the Miss World pageant, held at the Exhibition Centre London in London, England, on 14 December 2019.^[1][2]

Miss World 2019
Toni-Ann Singh
Date	14 December 2019
Presenters	Megan Young Peter Andre Fernando Allende Stephanie Del Valle
Entertainment	Peter Andre Lulu Misunderstood Kerry Ellis
Venue	ExCeL London, London, United Kingdom
Broadcaster	E! London Live Univision
Entrants	111
Placements	40
Withdrawals	Austria Belize Cameroon Cyprus Egypt Germany Guam Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Madagascar Martinique Norway Serbia Zambia Zimbabwe
Returns	Antigua and Barbuda Cambodia Costa Rica Kyrgyzstan Macau Samoa Sweden Tunisia United States Virgin Islands
Winner	Toni-Ann Singh Jamaica
← 2018 2021 →

At the end of the event, Vanessa Ponce of Mexico crowned Toni-Ann Singh of Jamaica as Miss World 2019.^[3][4] It is the fourth victory of Jamaica in the history of the pageant.^[5][6]

Contestants from 111 countries and territories competed in the pageant. The pageant was hosted by Peter Andre, Miss World 2013 Megan Young, Miss World 2016 Stephanie Del Valle, and Fernando Allende. Peter Andre, Lulu, Misunderstood, and Kerry Ellis performed in this edition.^[7]

Background

Location and date

The official announcement was made on 19 February 2019, in Bangkok, by Miss World President Julia Morley, CEO Tanawat Wansom of TW Pageants, and guest Ashwani Kumar Rai. They announced a mid-December date for the contest.^[8][9]

However, on 2 July 2019, Morley and Vanessa Ponce, the reigning Miss World, appeared on ITV's Good Morning Britain with Piers Morgan. Morley officially announced that the pageant will be held on Saturday, 14 December 2019, at ExCeL London and that Miss World 2020 will be held in Thailand in order to celebrate Miss World's 70th anniversary. The 2019 opening ceremony was held in London on 20 November. Contestants then competed in a series of fast track events around London.^[10]

Selection of participants

Contestants from 111 countries and territories were selected to compete in the competition. Three of these delegates were appointees to their national titles and another was selected to replace the original winner.

Returns and withdrawals

This edition saw the returns of Cambodia who last competed in 2006, Samoa in 2015, Antigua and Barbuda, Costa Rica, Kyrgyzstan, and the United States Virgin Islands in 2016, and Macau, Sweden, and Tunisia who last competed in 2017.

Larissa Robitschko of Austria did not compete in any international pageant after their national organization relinquished the local franchise.^[11][12] Palesa Makara of Lesotho and Sanja Lovčević of Serbia withdrew due to undisclosed reasons. Valerie Mille Binguira of Madagascar withdrew due to internal conflicts with their national organization.^[13][14] Belize, Cameroon, Cyprus, Egypt, Germany, Guam, Latvia, Lebanon, Martinique, Norway, Zambia, and Zimbabwe withdrew after their respective organizations failed to hold a national competition or appoint a delegate.^[15]

Results

Placements

Placement	Contestant
Miss World 2019	Jamaica – Toni-Ann Singh[16]
1st runner-up	France – Ophély Mézino[16][17]
2nd runner-up	India – Suman Rao[16][18]
Top 5	Brazil – Elis Miele[16][19]  Nigeria – Nyekachi Douglas[16]
Top 12	Cook Islands – Tajiya Eikura Sahay[16][20]  Kenya – Maria Wavinya[16]  Mexico – Ashley Alvídrez[16]    Nepal – Anushka Shrestha[16]  Philippines – Michelle Dee[16]  Russia – Alina Sanko[16]  Vietnam – Lương Thùy Linh[16]
Top 40	Antigua and Barbuda – Taqiyyah Francis[16]  Australia – Sarah Marschke[16]  British Virgin Islands – Rikkiya Brathwaite[16]  China – Li Peishan[16]  Denmark – Natasja Kunde[16]  England – Bhasha Mukherjee[16]  Guyana – Joylyn Conway[16]  Hong Kong – Lila Lam[16]  Indonesia – Princess Megonondo[16]  Malaysia – Alexis SueAnn Seow[16]  Moldova – Elizaveta Kuznitova[16]  Mongolia – Tsevelmaa Mandakh[16]  New Zealand – Lucy Brock[16]  Paraguay – Araceli Bobadilla[16]  Poland – Milena Sadowska[16]  Portugal – Inês Brusselmans[16]  Puerto Rico – Daniella Rodríguez[16]  Scotland – Keryn Matthew[16]  South Africa – Sasha-Lee Olivier[16]  Spain – María del Mar Aguilera[16]  Thailand – Narintorn Chadapattarawalrachoat[16]  Trinidad and Tobago – Tya Jané Ramey[16]  Tunisia – Sabrine Mansour[16]  Uganda – Oliver Nakakande[16]  Ukraine – Marharyta Pasha[16]  United States – Emmy Cuvelier[16]  Venezuela – Isabella Rodríguez[16]  Wales – Gabriella Jukes[16]

Continental Queens of Beauty

Continent	Contestant
Africa	Nigeria – Nyekachi Douglas[21]
Americas	Brazil – Elís Miele Coelho[21]
Asia	India – Suman Rao[21]
Caribbean	Trinidad and Tobago – Tya Jané Ramey[21]
Europe	France – Ophély Mézino[21]
Oceania	Cook Islands – Tajiya Eikura Sahay[21]

Challenge Events

Head-to-Head Challenge

Round 1

•   Advanced to Round 2 of the Head-to-Head Challenge.
•   Advanced to Round 2 of the Head-to-Head Challenge, but advanced to the Top 40 via judges' choice or a challenge event other than Head-to-Head Challenge.
•   Advanced to the Top 40 via a challenge event other than Head-to-Head Challenge.
•   Advanced to the Top 40 via judges' choice.

Group	Country 1	Country 2	Country 3	Country 4	Country 5	Country 6
1	Albania	England	Guyana	Honduras	South Korea	Peru
2	Cook Islands	Guatemala	Ireland	Italy	Myanmar	Russia
3	British Virgin Islands	Iceland	Laos	Nicaragua	South Sudan	Venezuela
4	Armenia	Bolivia	Bulgaria	Kazakhstan	Mongolia	South Africa
5	Guadeloupe	Hong Kong	Moldova	Singapore	Spain	Sri Lanka
6	Brazil	Curaçao	Denmark	Ecuador	Malta	Northern Ireland
7	Equatorial Guinea	Hungary	Malaysia	Trinidad and Tobago	United States	Wales
8	Chile	Croatia	France	New Zealand	Paraguay	Scotland
9	Canada	Czech Republic	Indonesia	Portugal	Sierra Leone	Tunisia
10	Cayman Islands	Gibraltar	Mexico	Nepal	Poland	Tanzania
11	Colombia	Costa Rica	Japan	Luxembourg	Netherlands	Nigeria
12	Belgium	Jamaica	Panama	Slovenia	Turkey	United States Virgin Islands
13	Australia	El Salvador	Georgia	Guinea-Bissau	Puerto Rico	Slovakia
14	Bahamas	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Botswana	Haiti	India	Thailand
15	Antigua and Barbuda	Barbados	China	Greece	Samoa	Sweden
16	Argentina	Belarus	Finland	Kenya	Macau	Ukraine
17	Aruba	Dominican Republic	Ghana	Philippines	Rwanda	—N/a
18	Cambodia	Mauritius	Montenegro	Uganda	Vietnam
19	Angola	Bangladesh	Ethiopia	Kyrgyzstan	Senegal

Round 2

•   Advanced to the Top 40 via the Head-to-Head challenge.

Group	Country 1	Country 2
1	Brazil	Moldova
2	Nepal	Indonesia
3	China	Venezuela
4	Nigeria	Belarus
5	Mexico	Uganda
6	Philippines	Turkey
7	Mongolia	Guyana
8	Bangladesh	India
9	Ireland	Trinidad and Tobago
10	Paraguay	Georgia

Top Model

Miss Nigeria Nyekachi Douglas won Top Model Competition and become the fourth quarter-finalist of Miss World 2019.^[22][23]

Placement	Contestant
Winner	Nigeria - Nyekachi Douglas
1st runner-up	Vietnam – Lương Thùy Linh
2nd runner-up	India – Suman Rao
3rd runner-up	France – Ophély Mézino
4th runner-up	Uganda – Oliver Nakakande
Top 10	Brazil – Elis Miele Czech Republic – Denisa Spergerová Hong Kong – Lila Lam Kazakhstan – Madina Batyk Trinidad and Tobago – Tya Jané Ramey
Top 40	Antigua and Barbuda – Taqiyyah Francis Argentina – Judit Grnja Australia – Sarah Marschke Barbados – Che Amor Greenidge Bosnia and Herzegovina – Ivana Ladan China – Li Peishan Croatia – Katarina Mamić Denmark – Natasja Kunde Dominican Republic – Alba Marie Blair Finland – Dana Mononen Haiti – Alysha Morency Hungary – Krisztina Nagypál Indonesia – Princess Megonondo Italy – Adele Sammartino Jamaica – Toni-Ann Singh Kenya – Maria Wavinya Macau – Yu Yanan Mexico – Ashley Alvídrez Moldova – Elizaveta Kuznitova Montenegro – Mirjana Muratović Philippines – Michelle Dee Poland – Milena Sadowska Puerto Rico – Daniella Rodríguez Russia – Alina Sanko Slovakia – Frederika Kurtulíková South Sudan – Mariah Joseph Maget Turkey – Simay Rasimoğlu Ukraine – Marharyta Pasha Venezuela – Isabella Rodríguez Wales – Gabriella Jukes

Sports

Miss British Virgin Islands Rikkiya Brathwaite won the Sports Competition and became the first quarter-finalist of Miss World 2019.^[24]

Final result	Contestant
Winner	British Virgin Islands – Rikkiya Brathwaite
1st runner-up	Nigeria – Nyekachi Douglas
2nd runner-up	Trinidad and Tobago – Tya Jané Ramey
Team Challenge Winner	Green Team

Talent

Miss Jamaica, Toni-Ann Singh, was the winner of the Talent Competition and became the second quarter-finalist of Miss World 2019.

Final result	Contestant
Winner	Jamaica – Toni-Ann Singh
1st runner-up	British Virgin Islands – Rikkiya Brathwaite
2nd runner-up	Canada – Naomi Colford
Top 5	Armenia – Liana Voskerchyan Malta – Nicole Vella
Top 27	Australia – Sarah Marschke Barbados – Che Amor Greenidge Bolivia – Iciar Diaz Camacho China – Li Peishan Cook Islands – Tajiya Eikura Sahay Denmark – Natasja Kunde Gibraltar – Celine Bolaños Iceland – Kolfinna Mist Austfjörð India – Suman Rao Japan – Marika Sera Luxembourg – Melanie Heynsbroek Malaysia – Alexis SueAnn Seow Mongolia – Tsevelmaa Mandakh Nigeria – Nyekachi Douglas Panama – Agustina Ruiz Arrechea Paraguay – Araceli Bobadilla Slovakia – Frederika Kurtulíková Tanzania – Sylvia Sebastian Ukraine – Marharyta Pasha United States – Emmy Cuvelier United States Virgin Islands – A’yana Keshelle Phillips Wales – Gabriella Jukes

Multimedia

Miss Nepal, Anushka Shrestha, was the winner of the Multimedia Competition and became the third quarter-finalist of Miss World 2019.

Final result	Contestant
Winner	Nepal – Anushka Shrestha
1st runner-up	Mexico – Ashley Alvídrez
2nd runner-up	Mongolia – Tsevelmaa Mandakh

Beauty With A Purpose

For the first time, all 10 finalists were placed in the Top 40 of Miss World 2019 due to their impressive projects and initiatives. Miss Nepal, Anushka Shrestha, received the award and will receive funding from the Miss World Organization for the establishment of her project.

Final result	Contestant
Winner	Nepal – Anushka Shrestha
Top 10	France – Ophély Mézino India – Suman Rao Indonesia – Princess Megonondo Malaysia – Alexis SueAnn Seow Mongolia – Tsevelmaa Mandakh Nigeria – Nyekachi Douglas Tunisia – Sabrine Mansour Venezuela – Isabella Rodríguez Vietnam – Lương Thùy Linh

Judges

The judges' panel for Miss World 2019 were:

• Julia Morley – Chairman of the Miss World Pageant Organization
• Piers Morgan – TV presenter, talk show host, a former judge at Britain's Got Talent and America's Got Talent
• Mike Dixon – Musical Director
• Deborah Lambie – Miss World New Zealand 2015
• Dame Zandra Rhodes – London Fashion designer
• Marsha-Rae Ratcliff, OBE
• Svetoslav Kolchagov, Creative Director and Designer of KolchagovBarba
• Emilio Barba, Creative Director and Designer of KolchagovBarba
• Lady Wilnelia Forsyth – Miss World 1975 from Puerto Rico
• Ksenia Sukhinova – Miss World 2008 from Russia
• Carina Tyrrell – Miss England 2014
• Kamal Ibrahim – Mister World 2010 from Ireland

Contestants

111 contestants competed for the title.^[16]

Country/Territory	Contestant	Age[a]	Hometown
Albania	Atalanta Kërçyku[25]	20	Tirana
Angola	Brezana Da Costa[26]	24	Luanda
Antigua and Barbuda	Taqiyyah Francis[27]	26	St. John's
Argentina	Judit Grnja[28]	18	Villa Ángela
Armenia	Liana Voskerchyan[29]	20	Yerevan
Aruba	Ghislaine Mejia[30]	26	Oranjestad
Australia	Sarah Marschke[31]	20	Sydney
Bahamas	Nyah Bandelier[32]	19	Eleuthera
Bangladesh	Rafah Nanjeba Torsa[33]	21	Chittagong
Barbados	Che Amor Greenidge[34]	26	Bridgetown
Belarus	Anastasia Laurynchuk[35]	19	Minsk
Belgium	Elena Castro Suarez[36]	19	Antwerp
Bolivia	Iciar Díaz[37]	23	Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Ivana Ladan[38]	21	Jajce
Botswana	Oweditse Phirinyane Gofaone[39]	25	Gaborone
Brazil	Elís Miele[40]	20	Serra
British Virgin Islands	Rikkiya Brathwaite[41]	22	Tortola
Bulgaria	Margo Cooper[42]	26	Sofia
Cambodia	Vy Sreyvin[43]	20	Kandal
Canada	Naomi Colford[44]	19	Sydney
Cayman Islands	Jaci Patrick[45]	24	West Bay
Chile	Ignacia Albornoz[46]	18	Santiago
China	Li Peishan[47]	26	Beijing
Colombia	Sara Arteaga Franco[48]	26	Medellín
Cook Islands	Tajiya Eikura Sahay[49]	26	Avarua
Costa Rica	Jessica Jiménez[50]	26	San José
Croatia	Katarina Mamić[51]	23	Lika-Senj
Curaçao	Sharon Meyer[52]	24	Willemstad
Czech Republic	Denisa Spergerová[53]	19	České Budějovice
Denmark	Natasja Kunde[54]	18	Copenhagen
Dominican Republic	Alba Marie Blair[55]	21	Jarabacoa
Ecuador	María Auxiliadora Idrovo[56]	18	Guayaquil
El Salvador	Fatima Mangandi[57]	27	Santa Tecla
England	Bhasha Mukherjee[58]	23	Derby
Equatorial Guinea	Janet Ortiz Oyono[59]	20	Malabo
Ethiopia	Feven Gebreslassie[60]	22	Addis Ababa
Finland	Dana Mononen[61]	19	Helsinki
France	Ophély Mézino[62]	20	Morne-à-l'Eau
Georgia	Nini Gogichaishvili[63]	25	Tbilisi
Ghana	Rebecca Kwabi[64]	26	Accra
Gibraltar	Celine Bolaños[65]	22	Gibraltar
Greece	Rafaela Plastira[66]	20	Trikala
Guadeloupe	Anaïs Lacalmontie[67]	22	Basse-Terre
Guatemala	Dulce María Ramos García[68]	22	Cuilapa
Guinea-Bissau	Leila Samati[69]	21	Bissau
Guyana	Joylyn Conway[70]	20	Georgetown
Haiti	Alysha Morency[71]	25	Port-au-Prince
Honduras	Ana Grisel Romero[72]	21	Olanchito
Hong Kong	Lila Lam[73]	27	Hong Kong
Hungary	Krisztina Nagypál[74]	23	Budapest
Iceland	Kolfinna Mist Austfjörð[75]	22	Reykjavík
India	Suman Rao[76]	20	Udaipur
Indonesia	Princess Megonondo[77]	19	Jambi
Ireland	Chelsea Farrell[78]	19	County Louth
Italy	Adele Sammartino[79]	24	Pompei
Jamaica	Toni-Ann Singh[80]	23	Saint Thomas
Japan	Marika Sera[81]	17	Kanagawa
Kazakhstan	Madina Batyk[82]	20	Pavlodar
Kenya	Maria Wavinya	19	Nyandarua
Kyrgyzstan	Ekaterina Zabolotnova[83]	24	Bishkek
Laos	Nelamith Xaypannha[citation needed]	19	Vientiane
Luxembourg	Melanie Heynsbroek	19	Luxembourg City
Macau	Yu Yanan[84]	26	Macau
Malaysia	Alexis SueAnn Seow[85]	24	Selangor
Malta	Nicole Vella	20	Valletta
Mauritius	Urvashi Gooriah	20	Port Louis
Mexico	Ashley Alvídrez	20	Ciudad Juárez
Moldova	Elizaveta Kuznitova	19	Tiraspol
Mongolia	Tsevelmaa Mandakh[86]	22	Ulaanbaatar
Montenegro	Mirjana Muratović	19	Podgorica
Myanmar	Khit Lin Latt Yoon[87]	22	Yangon
Nepal	Anushka Shrestha	23	Kathmandu
Netherlands	Brenda Felicia Muste	23	Arnhem
New Zealand	Lucy Brock	24	Auckland
Nicaragua	María Teresa Cortéz	19	Carazo
Nigeria	Nyekachi Douglas	21	Calabar
Northern Ireland	Lauren Eve Leckey	20	Stoneyford
Panama	Agustina Ruiz Arrechea	25	Chitré
Paraguay	Araceli Bobadilla	20	Asunción
Peru	Angella Escudero	23	Sullana
Philippines	Michelle Dee	24	Makati
Poland	Milena Sadowska	20	Oświęcim
Portugal	Inês Brusselmans	24	Oeiras
Puerto Rico	Daniella Rodríguez	21	Bayamón
Russia	Alina Sanko	20	Azov
Rwanda	Meghan Nimwiza	21	Kigali
Samoa	Alalamalae Lata[88]	23	Apia
Scotland	Keryn Matthew	24	Edinburgh
Senegal	Alberta Diatta[89]	20	Ziguinchor
Sierra Leone	Enid Jones-Boston[90]	24	Freetown
Singapore	Sheen Cher	22	Singapore
Slovakia	Frederika Kurtulíková	25	Bratislava
Slovenia	Špela Alič	22	Ljubljana
South Africa	Sasha-Lee Olivier	26	Alberton
South Korea	Lim Ji-yeon[citation needed]	20	Seoul
South Sudan	Mariah Joseph Maget	22	Juba
Spain	María del Mar Aguilera	21	Córdoba
Sri Lanka	Dewmi Thathsarani	21	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Sweden	Daniella Lundqvist[91]	20	Kalmar
Tanzania	Sylvia Sebastian	19	Mwanza
Thailand	Narintorn Chadapattarawalrachoat	22	Pathum Thani
Trinidad and Tobago	Tya Jané Ramey	21	Port of Spain
Tunisia	Sabrine Mansour	24	Mahdia
Turkey	Simay Rasimoğlu	22	Istanbul
Uganda	Oliver Nakakande	25	Bombo
Ukraine	Marharyta Pasha	24	Kharkiv
United States	Emmy Cuvelier[citation needed]	23	Pierre
United States Virgin Islands	A'yana Keshelle Phillips[92]	24	Saint Thomas
Venezuela	Isabella Rodríguez[93]	26	Petare
Vietnam	Lương Thùy Linh	19	Cao Bằng
Wales	Gabriella Jukes	23	Port Talbot

Notes

1. Ages at the time of the pageant