Miss World 1982

Miss World 1982, the 32nd edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 18 November 1982 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, UK. The winner was Mariasela Álvarez from the Dominican Republic. She was crowned by Miss World 1981, Pilín León of Venezuela. The first and second runners-up were Sari Kaarina Aspholm from Finland and Della Dolan from the United Kingdom who were semi-finalists in Miss Universe 1982 four months before.

Miss World 1982
Date18 November 1982
PresentersPeter Marshall, Judith Chalmers
EntertainmentThe Three Degrees
VenueRoyal Albert Hall, London, UK
BroadcasterThames Television
Entrants68
Placements15
DebutsRepublic Of Indonesia, Turks & Caicos
WithdrawalsArgentina, Austria, Jersey, Lesotho, Papua New Guinea, Suriname
ReturnsPanama, Paraguay, Portugal, Yugoslavia, American Virgin Islands
WinnerMariasela Álvarez
 Dominican Republic

Results
Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1982[1][2][3]

Placements
Final results Contestant
Miss World 1982
1st runner-up
2nd runner-up
3rd Runner-up
4th Runner-up
5th Runner-up
6th Runner-up
Top 15

Continental Queens of Beauty
Continental Group Contestant
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania

Contestants
CountryContestantAgeHometown
 American Virgin IslandsBenedicta Acosta20St. Croix
ArubaNoriza Antonia Helder19Oranjestad
AustraliaCatherine Anne Morris19Sydney
BahamasOralee Laverne Stubbs18Nassau
BelgiumMarie Pierre Lemaître21Brussels
BermudaHeather Michelle Ross22Somerset
BoliviaBrita Margareta Cederberg Schmidt17Oruro
BrazilMônica Jannuzzi21Londrina
CanadaJody Jensen19Calgary
Cayman IslandsMaureen Therese Lewis21George Town
ChileMariana Margarita Reinhardt Lagos20Santiago
ColombiaMaría Teresa Gómez Fajardo19Medellin
Costa RicaMaureen Jiménez Solano22San Jose
CuraçaoVendetta Martha Roozenda20Willemstad
CyprusMarina Elena Rauscher17Limassol
DenmarkTina Maria Nielsen18Copenhagen
Dominican RepublicMariasela Margarita Álvarez Lebrón22Santo Domingo
EcuadorGianna Machiavello González20Guayaquil
El SalvadorBerta Loredana Munguía Gutiérrez20San Salvador
FinlandSari Kaarina Aspholm20Vantaa
FranceMartine Marie Philipps23Audincourt
GermanyKerstin Natalie Paeserack19Wilhelmshaven
GibraltarLouise Michelle Gillingwater20Gibraltar
GreeceAnthi Priovolou19Athens
GuamFrances Rose Limtiaco22Tamuning
GuatemalaEdith Suzanne Whitbeck Cain20Guatemala City
HollandIrene Maria Petronnella Heinrichs Schell20Venlo
HondurasAna Lucía Rivera Castro20San Pedro Sula
Hong KongCally Kwong Mei Wan19Victoria
IcelandMaría Björk Sverrisdóttir19Reykjavík
IndiaUttara Mhatre19Nasik
IndonesiaAndi Botenri17Jakarta
IrelandRoberta Brown19Derry
 Isle of ManMaria Elizabeth Craig19Jurby
IsraelAnat Kerem18Haifa
ItalyRaffaella del Rosario17Bologna
JamaicaCornelia Ramona Roxanne Parchment19Kingston
JapanMutsuko Kikuchi20Tokyo
KoreaChoi Sung-yoon19Seoul
LebanonMay Mansour Chahwan19Beirut
MalaysiaNellie Teoh Swee Yang25Kuala Lumpur
MaltaDelina Camilleri18Mosta
MexicoAna Ruth García Jiménez23Villahermosa
New ZealandSusan Jane Mainland19Hamilton
NorwayJanett Carine Krefting19Oslo
PanamaMaría Lorena Moreno Arosemena22Panama City
ParaguayZulema Divina (Susan) Domínguez Gutter19Asuncion
PeruCynthia Mercedes Piedra Viñas21Lima
PhilippinesSara-Jane Coronel Areza22Manila
PortugalSuzana Walker dos Santos Dias19Lisbon
Puerto RicoJannette Torres Burgos17San Juan
SingaporeYvonne Tan Yen Yen19Singapore
SpainAna Isabel Herrero García17Zaragoza
Sri LankaTania Colleen Anne Pereira19Panadura
SwedenAnne-Lie Margaretha Sjöberg18Eskilstuna
SwitzerlandLolita Laure Morena22Locarno
TahitiTeura Tuhiti17Papeete
ThailandAlisa Kajornchaiyakul18Bangkok
Trinidad and TobagoAlthea Ingrid Rocke22Port of Spain
TurkeyAyse Belgin Güven20Istanbul
Turks and CaicosLolita Elaine Ariza21Grand Turk
United KingdomDella Frances Dolan20Grimsby
United StatesElizabeth LuAnn Caughey24Abilene
UruguayVarinia Roxana Govea Pazos21Montevideo
VenezuelaMichelle Marie Shoda Belloso22Maracaibo
Western SamoaLilly Caroline Hunt20Apia
YugoslaviaAna Sasso19Split
ZimbabweCaroline Murinda22Harare

Notes

Debuts
  •  Indonesia
  •  Turks & Caicos

Returns
  • Last competed in 1975:
    •  Yugoslavia
  • Last competed in 1979:
    •  Portugal
  • Last competed in 1980:
    •  Panama
    •  Paraguay
    •  American Virgin Islands (as Virgin Islands)

Withdrawals
  •  Argentina – Because of ongoing political conflict with United Kingdom, pertaining to the dispute in the Malvinas Islands.
  •  Austria – Rita Isabelle Zehtner (personal reasons)

References
  1. "Miss World 1981 winner Carmen Josefina Leon Crespo - Miss World Contest: through the years". Daily Express. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  2. "New Miss World". Observer-Reporter. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
  3. "Malaysian Business". Retrieved 26 January 2016.
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