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{{Short description|Beauty pageant edition}}
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{{Infobox beauty pageant
| photo = MissWorld1996Logo.jpg
| caption = Miss World 1996 Titlecard
| winner = '''[[Irene Skliva]]''' '''{{flag|Greece}}'''
| personality = Daisy Reyes {{flag|Philippines}}
| best national costume = Anuska Prado {{flag|Brazil}}
| photogenic = [[Ana Cepinska]] {{flag|Venezuela|1954}}
| date = 23 November 1996
| presenters = {{Hlist|[[Richard Steinmetz]]|[[Ruby Bhatia]]}}
| venue = [[M. Chinnaswamy Stadium]], [[Bangalore]], [[India]]
| broadcaster = {{Hlist|[[E!]]|[[Zee TV]]}}
| entrants = 88
| placements = 10
| debuts = {{Hlist|[[Bonaire]]|[[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]|[[Republic of Macedonia| Macedonia]]}}
| returns = {{Hlist|[[Grenada]]|[[Kenya]]|[[Uganda]]|[[Uruguay]]|[[FR Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]}}
| withdraws = {{Hlist|[[Bahamas]]|[[Barbados]]|[[Bermuda]]|[[Cayman Islands]]|[[Denmark]]}}
| before = [[Miss World 1995|1995]]
| next = [[Miss World 1997|1997]]
}}

'''Miss World 1996''', the 46th edition of the [[Miss World]] pageant, took place on 23 November 1996 in the city of [[Bangalore]], [[India]].<ref name="google.com">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1696&dat=19961124&id=BfoaAAAAIBAJ&pg=6843,2624618&hl=en|title=Hundreds protest Miss World contest in India|work=Daily News|access-date=26 January 2016}}</ref><ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19961120&id=7aRAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lwcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5835,2883974&hl=en ''Ocala Star-Banner'']</ref> Preliminaries were shot in [[India]] and in [[Seychelles]]. 88 contestants from all over the world took part in the prestigious pageant. By the end of the night, 18-year-old [[Irene Skliva]] of [[Greece]] took home the title. She was crowned by [[Jacqueline Aguilera]] of [[Venezuela]].

==Results==
[[File:Miss World 1996 Map.PNG|thumb|250px|Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1996<ref name="google.com"/><ref name="INT-1"/>]]

===Placements===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
! Final results
! Contestant
|-
| '''Miss World 1996'''
|
* '''{{flag|Greece}}''' – '''[[Irene Skliva]]'''
|-
| '''1st Runner-Up'''
|
* '''{{flag|Colombia}}''' – Carolina Arango
|-
| '''2nd Runner-Up'''
|
* '''{{flag|Brazil}}''' – Anuska Valéria Prado
|-
| '''Top 5'''
|
* '''{{flag|India}}''' – [[Rani Jeyraj]]
* '''{{flag|Venezuela|1954}}''' – [[Ana Cepinska]]
|-
|'''Top 10'''
|
* '''{{flag|Aruba}}''' – Afranina Henriquez
* '''{{flag|Belgium}}''' – [[Laurence Borremans]]
* '''{{flag|Dominican Republic}}''' – Idelsa Núñez
* '''{{flag|Mexico}}''' – [[Yessica Salazar]]
* '''{{flag|South Africa}}''' – Peggy-Sue Khumalo
|}

===Continental Queens of Beauty===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
! Continental Group
! Contestant
|-
| '''Africa'''
|
* '''{{flag|South Africa}}''' – Peggy-Sue Khumalo
|-
| '''Americas'''
|
* '''{{flag|Colombia}}''' – Carolina Arango
|-
| '''Asia & Oceania'''
|
* '''{{flag|India}}''' – Rani Jeyraj
|-
| '''Caribbean'''
|
* '''{{flag|Aruba}}''' – Afranina Henriquez
|-
| '''Europe'''
|
* '''{{flag|Greece}}'''–'''[[Irene Skliva]]'''
|}

==Contestants==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;"
|-
! Country/Territory !! Contestant !! Age
|-
| '''{{flag|Argentina}}''' || Fernanda Fernández Ramírez || align=center | 18
|-
| '''{{flag|Aruba}}''' || Afranina Henriquez || align=center | 20
|-
| '''{{flag|Australia}}''' || Nicole Smith || align=center | 24
|-
| '''{{flag|Austria}}''' || Bettina Buxbaumer || align=center | 23
|-
| '''{{flag|Bangladesh}}''' || Rehnuma Dilruba || align=center | 20
|-
| '''{{flag|Belgium}}''' || [[Laurence Borremans]] || align=center | 18
|-
| '''{{flag|Bolivia}}''' || Andrea Mariana Forti Sandoval || align=center | 19
|-
| '''{{flag|Bonaire}}''' || Jhane Louise Landwier || align=center | 18
|-
| '''{{flag|Bosnia & Herzegovina|1992}}''' || Belma Zvrko || align=center | 18
|-
| '''{{flag|Botswana}}''' || Joyce Manase || align=center | 20
|-
| '''{{flag|Brazil}}''' || Anuska Valeria Prado || align=center | 20
|-
| '''{{flag|British Virgin Islands}}''' || Ayana Glasgow || align=center | 21
|-
| '''{{flag|Bulgaria}}''' || Viara Kamenova || align=center | 21
|-
| '''{{flag|Canada}}''' || Michelle Weswaldi || align=center | 19
|-
| '''{{flag|Chile}}''' || Luz Francisca Valenzuela Höllzer || align=center | 20
|-
| '''{{flag|Colombia}}''' || Carolina Arango Corrales || align=center | 19
|-
| '''{{flag|Costa Rica}}''' || Natalia Carvajal Lorenzo || align=center | 21
|-
| '''{{flag|Croatia}}''' || [[Vanja Rupena]] || align=center | 18
|-
| '''{{flag|Curação}}''' || Yandra Angelica Faulborn || align=center | 19
|-
| '''{{flag|Cyprus}}''' || Maria Papaprodromou || align=center | 19
|-
| '''{{flag|Czech Republic}}''' || Petra Minářová || align=center | 18
|-
| '''{{flag|Dominican Republic}}''' || Idelsa Núñez Torres || align=center | 21
|-
| '''{{flag|Ecuador}}''' || Jennifer Lynn Graham Dumani || align=center | 19
|-
| '''{{flag|Estonia}}''' || Mari-Liis Kapustin || align=center | 18
|-
| '''{{flag|Finland}}''' || Hanna Hirvonen || align=center | 20
|-
| '''{{flag|France}}''' || Séverine Derouallé || align=center | 22
|-
| '''{{flag|Germany}}''' || Melanie Ernst || align=center | 18
|-
| '''{{flag|Ghana}}''' || Sheila Azuntaba || align=center | 19
|-
| '''{{flag|Gibraltar}}''' || Samantha Lane || align=center | 17
|-
| '''{{flag|Greece}}'''||'''[[Irene Skliva]]''' || align=center | 18
|-
| '''{{flag|Grenada}}''' || Aria Johnson || align=center | 25
|-
| '''{{flag|Guam}}''' || Aileen Maravilla || align=center | 23
|-
| '''{{flag|Guatemala}}''' || María Gabriela Rosales Castellaños || align=center | 19
|-
| '''{{flag|Holland}}''' || Petra Hoost || align=center | 20
|-
| '''{{flag|British Hong Kong|name=Hong Kong}}''' || Chillie Poon || align=center | 24
|-
| '''{{flag|Hungary}}''' || Andrea Deak || align=center | 19
|-
| '''{{flag|India}}''' || Rani Joan Jeyraj || align=center | 21
|-
| '''{{flag|Ireland}}''' || Niamh Marie Redmond || align=center | 19
|-
| '''{{flag|Israel}}''' || Talia Lewenthal || align=center | 18
|-
| '''{{flag|Italy}}''' || Mara de Gennaro || align=center | 24
|-
| '''{{flag|Jamaica}}''' || Selena Delgado || align=center | 21
|-
| '''{{flag|Japan|1947}}''' || Miyuki Fujii || align=center | 21
|-
| '''{{flag|Kenya}}''' || Pritpal Kulwant Dhamu || align=center | 18
|-
| '''{{flag|South Korea|name=Korea}}''' || Seol Soo-jin || align=center | 21
|-
| '''{{flag|Latvia}}''' || Anta Dukere || align=center | 22
|-
| '''{{flag|Lebanon}}''' || Nisrine Sami Nasser || align=center | 22
|-
| '''{{flag|Lithuania}}''' || Daiva Anuzyte || align=center | 18
|-
| '''[[File:Bandeira do Leal Senado.svg|22px]] [[Macau]]''' || Guiomar Madeira da Silva Pedruco || align=center | 22
|-
| '''{{flag|Macedonia}}''' || Vera Mesterovic || align=center | 17
|-
| '''{{flag|Malaysia}}''' || Qu-an How Cheok Kuan || align=center | 20
|-
| '''{{flag|Mexico}}''' || [[Yessica Salazar|Yessica Salazar González]] || align=center | 22
|-
| '''{{flag|New Zealand}}''' || Kelly-Rose Mischiewski || align=center | 21
|-
| '''{{flag|Nigeria}}''' || Emma Komlosy || align="center" | 19
|-
| '''{{flag|Norway}}''' || Eva Sjøholt || align=center | 24
|-
| '''{{flag|Panama}}''' || Norma Élida Pérez Rodríguez || align=center | 21
|-
| '''{{flag|Paraguay|1990}}''' || María Ingrid Götze Scheunemann || align=center | 22
|-
| '''{{flag|Peru}}''' || Mónica Chacón de Vettori || align=center | 21
|-
| '''{{flag|Philippines|1986}}''' || [[Daisy Reyes]] || align=center | 20
|-
| '''{{flag|Poland}}''' || Agnieszka Zielińska || align=center | 20
|-
| '''{{flag|Portugal}}''' || Ana Mafalda Schaefer de Almeida Santos || align=center | 21
|-
| '''{{flag|Puerto Rico}}''' || Marissa de la Caridad Hernández || align=center | 21
|-
| '''{{flag|Romania}}''' || Carmen Radoi || align=center | 21
|-
| '''{{flag|Russia}}''' || Viktoriya Tsapitsina || align=center | 17
|-
| '''{{flag|Seychelles}}''' || Christina Pillay || align=center | 22
|-
| '''{{flag|Singapore}}''' || Carol Tan || align=center | 19
|-
| '''{{flag|Slovakia}}''' || Linda Lencova || align=center | 18
|-
| '''{{flag|Slovenia}}''' || Alenka Vindiš || align=center | 18
|-
| '''{{flag|South Africa}}''' || Peggy-Sue Khumalo || align=center | 21
|-
| '''{{flag|Spain}}''' || Patricia Ruiz Fernández || align=center | 19
|-
| '''{{flag|Swaziland}}''' || Olive Healy || align=center | 22
|-
| '''{{flag|Sweden}}''' || Åsa Johansson || align=center | 20
|-
| '''{{flag|Switzerland}}''' || [[Melanie Winiger]] || align=center | 17
|-
| '''{{flag|Tahiti}}''' || Hinerava Hiro || align=center | 18
|-
| '''{{flag|Taiwan|Taiwan R.O.C.}}''' || Chen Hsiao-Fen || align=center | 23
|-
| '''{{flag|Tanzania}}''' || Shose Akare Sinare || align=center | 20
|-
| '''{{flag|Thailand}}''' || [[Cindy Bishop|Sirinya Winsiri]] || align=center | 17
|-
| '''{{flag|Trinidad and Tobago}}''' || Sharda Ramlogan || align=center | 23
|-
| '''{{flag|Turkey}}''' || Serpil Sevilay Ozturk || align=center | 19
|-
| '''{{flag|Uganda}}''' || Sheba Kerere || align=center | 19
|-
| '''{{flag|Ukraine}}''' || Nataliya Shvachko || align=center | 20
|-
| '''{{flag|United Kingdom}}''' || Rachael Liza Warner || align=center | 22
|-
| '''{{flag|United States}}''' || Kelly Webber || align=center | 20
|-
| '''{{flag|U.S. Virgin Islands}}''' || Emoliere Williams || align=center | 18
|-
| '''{{flag|Uruguay}}''' || Claudia Verónica Gallaretta Olmedo || align=center | 19
|-
| '''{{flag|Venezuela|1954}}''' || [[Ana Cepinska]] || align=center | 18
|-
| '''{{flag|FR Yugoslavia}}''' || Slavica Krivokuća || align=center | 18
|-
| '''{{flag|Zambia}}''' || Alice Banda || align=center | 21
|-
| '''{{flag|Zimbabwe}}''' || Nomsa Ndiweni || align=center | 19
|}

==Judges==
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
* Andre Sekulic
* [[Linda Pétursdóttir]] – [[Miss World 1988]] from Iceland
* [[Vijay Mallya]]
* Marlene Cardin
* [[Aamir Khan]]
* [[Aishwarya Rai]] – [[Miss World 1994]] from India
* [[Sanath Jayasuriya]]
* [[Ninibeth Leal]] – [[Miss World 1991]] from Venezuela
* Tom Nuyens – [[Mister World 1996]] from Belgium
* Parmeshwar Godrej <ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1957&dat=19961124&id=G4hGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NekMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1084,5623117&hl=en ''The Daily Gazette '']</ref>
{{div col end}}

==Notes==

===Debuts===
{{div col|colwidth=18em}}
* '''{{flagu|Bonaire}}'''
* '''{{flagu|Bosnia & Herzegovina|1992}}'''
* '''{{flagu|Macedonia}}'''
{{div col end}}

===Returns===
{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
*Last competed in [[Miss World 1970|1970]]:
** '''{{flagu|Grenada}}'''
*Last competed in [[Miss World 1991|1991]]:
** '''{{flagu|FR Yugoslavia|name=Yugoslavia}}'''
*Last competed in [[Miss World 1993|1993]]:
** '''{{flagu|Uganda}}'''
** '''{{flagu|Uruguay}}'''
*Last competed in [[Miss World 1994|1994]]:
** '''{{flagu|Kenya}}'''
{{div col end}}

===Withdrawals===
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
* '''{{flagu|Bahamas}}''' – Due to financial problems
* '''{{flagu|Cayman Islands|old}}''' – Due to financial problems
{{div col end}}
 

==Controversy==
The event was organised by [[Amitabh Bachchan Corporation|ABCL]] which was led by [[Amitabh Bachchan]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.rediff.com/news/1996/2011virs.htm | title = Rediff on the NeT: Amitabh Bachchan, in an exclusive interview | work = Rediff.com | access-date = 19 December 2014}}</ref> The beauty pageant saw resistance by several groups due to the perceived [[Cultural conflict|culture clash]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-10-27/features/9610270123_1_miss-world-pageant-swimsuit-competition-indian-ocean | title = Beauty Pageant Stirs Protests | work = Chicago Tribune | access-date = 19 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://indiankanoon.org/doc/1881411/|title=Mahila Jagran Manch, Bangalore vs State of Karnataka And Others on 19 November, 1996 | publisher = Indiankanoon.org | access-date = 19 December 2014}}</ref><ref name="INT-1">{{cite web | url = http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/miss-world-contest-draws-flak-in-bangalore/1/282553.html | title = Miss World contest draws flak in Bangalore : INDIASCOPE – India Today | publisher = Indiatoday.intoday.in | access-date = 19 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9611/22/india.miss.world/ | title = CNN – Indian police prepare for worst in beauty pageant clash – Nov. 22, 1996 | publisher = Edition.cnn.com | access-date = 19 December 2014}}</ref> However, due to support of the local government, the event was held successfully.

 

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100118172402/http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/world_1996.htm Pageantopolis – Miss World 1996]

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Miss World 1996 - Revision history

Muskit Gergous at 04:43, 6 August 2023

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