Miss World 2019

Miss World 2019, the 69th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 14 December 2019 at the ExCeL London in London, United Kingdom.[2] Vanessa Ponce of Mexico crowned her successor Toni-Ann Singh of Jamaica at the end of the event. This is Jamaica’s fourth Miss World title, and its first since 1993.

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 US Virgin Islands
Winner	Toni-Ann Singh  Jamaica

Miss World

Motto	Beauty with a Purpose
Formation	29 July 1951; 68 years ago
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	London
Location	United Kingdom
Official language	English
President	Julia Morley
Key people	Eric Morley

Background

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. 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.

Result

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

Continental Queens of Beauty

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

Judges

The judges’ panel for Miss World 2019 were:

• Julia Morley – Chairman of the Miss World Pageant Organization
• Piers Morgan – Renowned 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 – Renowned London Fashion designer
• Marsha-Rae Ratcliff, OBE
• Svestoslav 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

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	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	U.S. 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.

Final result	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 – Elís Miele Coelho Czech Republic – Denisa Spergerová Hong Kong – Lila Lam Kazakhstan – Madina Batyk Trinidad and Tobago – Tya Janè 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.

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

Team (Top 32)	Contestant
Red Team	Angola – Brezana Da Costa Cook Islands – Tajiya Eikura Sahay Equatorial Guinea – Janet Ortiz Oyono Guadeloupe – Anaïs Lacalmontie Haiti – Alysha Morency Luxembourg – Melanie Heynsbroek Moldova – Elizaveta Kuznitova Panama – Agustina Ruiz Arrechea
Yellow Team	Aruba – Ghislaine Mejia Belarus – Anastasia Laurynchuk Costa Rica – Jessica Jiménez Georgia – Nini Gogichaishvili Kenya – Maria Wavinya Kyrgyzstan – Ekaterina Zabolotnova Ukraine – Marharyta Pasha United States – Emmy Cuvelier
Green Team	British Virgin Islands – Rikkiya Brathwaite Canada – Naomi Colford England – Bhasha Mukherjee France – Ophély Mézino Japan – Marika Sera Nigeria – Nyekachi Douglas Sierra Leone – Enid Jones-Boston Trinidad and Tobago – Tya Janè Ramey
Blue Team	Honduras – Ana Grisel Romero New Zealand – Lucy Brock Nicaragua – María Teresa Cortéz Northern Ireland – Lauren Eve Leckey Portugal – Inês Brusselmans Scotland – Keryn Matthew Spain – María del Mar Aguilera Uganda – Oliver Nakakande

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 US 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

Just because, each of the 10 finalists were set in the Top 40 of Miss World 2019 because of their amazing undertakings and activities. Miss Nepal, Anushka Shrestha, got the honor and will get financing from the Miss World Organization for the foundation of her venture.

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

Contestants

111 delegates have been confirmed.

Country/Territory	Contestant	Age	Hometown
Albania	Atalanta Kercyku	20	Tirana
Angola	Brezana Da Costa	24	Luanda
Antigua and Barbuda	Taqiyyah Francis	25	St. John’s
Argentina	Judit Grnja	18	Villa Ángela
Armenia	Liana Voskerchyan	20	Yerevan
Aruba	Ghislaine Mejia	20	Oranjestad
Australia	Sarah Marschke	20	Sydney
Bahamas	Nyah Bandelier	18	Eleuthera
Bangladesh	Rafah Nanjeba Torsa	21	Chittagong
Barbados	Che Amor Greenidge	25	Bridgetown
Belarus	Anastasia Laurynchuk	18	Minsk
Belgium	Elena Castro Suarez	19	Antwerp
Bolivia	Iciar Díaz Camacho	20	Santa Cruz
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Ivana Ladan	20	Jajce
Botswana	Oweditse Phirinyane Gofaone	25	Gaborone
Brazil	Elís Miele Coelho	20	Serra
British Virgin Islands	Rikkiya Brathwaite	22	Tortola
Bulgaria	Margo Cooper	26	Sofia
Cambodia	Vy Sreyvin	20	Phnom Penh
Canada	Naomi Colford	19	Sydney
Cayman Islands	Jaci Patrick	24	West Bay
Chile	Ignacia Albornoz Olmedo	17	Santiago
China	Li Peishan	20	Beijing
Colombia	Sara Arteaga Franco	25	Medellín
Cook Islands	Tajiya Eikura Sahay	26	Avarua
Costa Rica	Jessica Jiménez	25	San José
Croatia	Katarina Mamić	22	Lika-Senj
Curaçao	Sharon Meyer	22	Willemstad
Czech Republic	Denisa Spergerová	18	České Budějovice
Denmark	Natasja Kunde	18	Copenhagen
Dominican Republic	Alba Marie Blair	21	Jarabacoa
Ecuador	María Auxiliadora Idrovo	18	Guayaquil
El Salvador	Fatima Mangandi	27	Santa Tecla
England	Bhasha Mukherjee	23	Derby
Equatorial Guinea	Janet Ortiz Oyono	20	Malabo
Ethiopia	Feven Gebreslassie	22	Addis Ababa
Finland	Dana Mononen	19	Helsinki
France	Ophély Mézino	20	Morne-à-l’Eau
Georgia	Nini Gogichaishvili	24	Tbilisi
Ghana	Rebecca Kwabi	26	Accra
Gibraltar	Celine Bolaños	22	Gibraltar
Greece	Rafaela Plastira	20	Trikala
Guadeloupe	Anaïs Lacalmontie	22	Basse-Terre
Guatemala	Dulce María Ramos García	22	Cuilapa
Guinea-Bissau	Laila Samati	21	Bissau
Guyana	Joylyn Conway	20	Georgetown
Haiti	Alysha Morency	25	Port-au-Prince
Honduras	Ana Grisel Romero	20	Olanchito
Hong Kong	Lila Lam	26	Hong Kong
Hungary	Krisztina Nagypál	22	Budapest
Iceland	Kolfinna Mist Austfjörð	23	Reykjavík
India	Suman Rao	21	Udaipur
Indonesia	Princess Megonondo	19	Jambi
Ireland	Chelsea Farrell	19	County Louth
Italy	Adele Sammartino	24	Pompei
Jamaica	Toni-Ann Singh	23	Saint Thomas
Japan	Marika Sera	17	Kanagawa
Kazakhstan	Madina Batyk	20	Pavlodar
Kenya	Maria Wavinya	19	Nyandarua
Korea	Lim Ji-yeon	20	Seoul
Kyrgyzstan	Ekaterina Zabolotnova	24	Bishkek
Laos	Nelamith Xaypannha	20	Vientiane
Luxembourg	Melanie Heynsbroek	19	Luxembourg City
Macau	Yu Yanan	20	Macau
Malaysia	Alexis SueAnn Seow	24	Selangor
Malta	Nicole Vella	20	Valletta
Mauritius	Urvashi Gooriah	19	Port Louis
Mexico	Ashley Alvídrez	20	Ciudad Juárez
Moldova	Elizaveta Kuznitova	19	Tiraspol
Mongolia	Tsevelmaa Mandakh	22	Ulaanbaatar
Montenegro	Mirjana Muratović	19	Podgorica
Myanmar	Khit Lin Latt Yoon	22	Yangon
Nepal	Anushka Shrestha	22	Kathmandu
Netherlands	Brenda Felicia Muste	22	Arnhem
New Zealand	Lucy Brock	24	Auckland
Nicaragua	María Teresa Cortéz	18	Carazo
Nigeria	Nyekachi Douglas	20	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	22	Bayamón
Russia	Alina Sanko	20	Azov
Rwanda	Meghan Nimwiza	20	Kigali
Samoa	Alalamalae Lata	20	Apia
Scotland	Keryn Matthew	24	Edinburgh
Senegal	Alberta Diatta	19	Ziguinchor
Sierra Leone	Enid Jones-Boston	20	Freetown
Singapore	Sheen Cher	20	Singapore
Slovakia	Frederika Kurtulíková	24	Bratislava
Slovenia	Špela Alič	20	Ljubljana
South Africa	Sasha-Lee Olivier	26	Alberton
South Sudan	Mariah Joseph Maget	22	Juba
Spain	María del Mar Aguilera	21	Córdoba
Sri Lanka	Dewmi Thathsarani	20	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Sweden	Daniella Lundqvist	20	Kalmar
Tanzania	Sylvia Sebastian	19	Mwanza
Thailand	Narintorn Chadapattarawalrachoat	22	Pathum Thani
Trinidad and Tobago	Tya Janè Ramey	21	Port of Spain
Tunisia	Sabrine Mansour	23	Mahdia
Turkey	Simay Rasimoğlu	22	Istanbul
Uganda	Oliver Nakakande	24	Bombo
Ukraine	Marharyta Pasha	24	Kharkiv
United States	Emmy Cuvelier	23	Pierre
US Virgin Islands	A’yana Keshelle Phillips	24	Saint Thomas
Venezuela	Isabella Rodríguez	26	Petare
Vietnam	Lương Thùy Linh	19	Cao Bằng
Wales	Gabriella Jukes	22	Port Talbot

Returns

Last competed in 2006:

Cambodia

Last competed in 2015:

Samoa

Last competed in 2016:

Antigua and Barbuda

Costa Rica

Kyrgyzstan

US Virgin Islands

Last competed in 2017:

Macau

Sweden

Tunisia

Designation

^ BELARUS – Anastasia Laurynchuk was selected to speak to Belarus, after no national expo was held on the grounds that the Miss Belarus exhibition is a half-yearly occasion. It was last time held in 2018. Anastasia was second sprinter up at the Miss Belarus 2018 show.

^ FINLAND – Dana Mononen was named to speak to Finland. Monomen put Top 10 at the Miss Finland 2019.

^ GUYANA – Joylyn Conway was named Miss Guyana 2019 by Natasha Martindale after Miss World Guyana Pageant move to 2020. Conway was first sprinter up at the Miss World Guyana 2018 event.

^ HONG KONG – Lila Lam was named by the Miss Hong Kong Organization to be the national agent to the Miss World event.

Replacements

^ FRANCE –Ophély Mézino was delegated to speak to France, after the first winner Vaimalama Chaves announced that she would not speak to at Miss World 2019 and Miss Universe 2019 but rather she would prefer to go with the challengers of Miss France 2020 during their outing in Tahiti, which would have clashed in her groundwork for the worldwide events. A fascinating truth is that Mézino will go up against her countrywoman Anaïs Lacalmontie who will speak to the establishment of her local island.

Withdrawals

• Austria – Larissa Robitschko will not contend in Miss World or Miss Universe after the Miss Austria Organization surrendered the neighborhood establishment.
• Belize, Cameroon, Cyprus, Egypt, Germany, Guam, Latvia, Martinique, Norway and Zambia –No challenge.
• Lebanon –The Miss Lebanon 2019 expo was delayed a few times at that point eventually dropped, refering to the country’s political distress.
• Lesotho –Palesa Makara
• Madagascar –Valerie Mille Binguira
• Serbia –Sanja Lovčević
• Zimbabwe –The Miss World Zimbabwe 2019 event was dropped, refering to the nation’s monetary emergency.

Titleholders

For full list and details, see List of Miss World titleholders.

Edition	Country	Name	National Title	Location	Number of Entrants
2019	Jamaica	Toni-Ann Singh	Miss Jamaica World	London, England	111
2018	Mexico	Vanessa Ponce	Miss Mexico	Sanya, China	118
2017	India	Manushi Chhillar	Femina Miss India
2016	Puerto Rico	Stephanie Del Valle	Miss World Puerto Rico	Washington, D.C., United States	117
2015	Spain	Mireia Lalaguna	Miss Spain	Sanya, China	114