Mister World 1996 was the first Mister World competition, held at the Anadolu Auditorium in Istanbul, Turkey, on September 20, 1996. Tom Nuyens of Belgium was crowned as the first Mister World at the end of the event.
Results Placements Placement Contestant Mister World 1996 – Tom Nuyens 1st Runner-Up – Gabriel Soto Borja-Díaz 2nd Runner-Up – Karahan Çantay Top 5 – Richard Nevers – Eliseo Paulo Cortés Top 10 – Anthony Andrew Martinez – Bikram Singh Saluja – Tage Johan Jelse – Direk Sirisamphan – Simon Alexis Peat
Special awards Award Contestant Mister Personality – Felix Chavaphi
Contestants Country Contestant Age Height Hometown Raul Orlando Proietto 21 Buenos Aires Anthony Andrew Martinez 23 Oranjestad Arlington Brendan Leigh 22 Sydney Helmut Strebl 27 Vienna Tom Nuyens 20 Wommelgem Marcelo Mauricio Ostria Borda 21 Tarija Felix Chavaphi 23 Gaborone Thierre di Castro Garrito 17 Rio Claro Boyko Hristov 23 Sofia Jimmy Rai 24 Toronto Franz Serrano 25 San Andrés Ivan Klemenčič 20 Split Juan Salvador Vidal Gil 19 Santo Domingo Andrus Raissar 22 Tartu Laurent Piranian 24 Mandelieu-la-Napoule Konrad Meyer 22 Düsseldorf Harry Kinatzi 26 Athens Joost Ammerlaan 24 Schipluiden Zsolt Cséke 21 Budapest Bikram Singh Saluja 22 Mumbai Thomas Daniel Plewman 25 Dublin Zafrir Ben-Zvi 23 Haifa Angelo d'Amelio 24 Taranto Richard Nevers 20 Kingston Vilnis Solovjovs 25 Riga Hadi Esta 24 Beirut Gazmend Beriša 23 Skopje Alwin Low Dai Wen 22 Kuala Lumpur Gabriel Soto Borja-Díaz 21 Mexico City Otto Thorbjørnsen 22 Stavanger Christopher Celis 20 Manila Mariusz Trzciński 23 Gdańsk Eliseo Paulo Cortés Meléndez 25 San Juan Oleg Sukochenko 23 Yekaterinburg Desmond Kong Hua Ng 24 Singapore Richard Ondrias 22 Bratislava Marko Vraničar 20 Ljubljana Charl Hector Coode 24 Johannesburg José Ramon Gutiérrez Villar 22 A Coruña Thulani Emmanuel Matsebula 24 Manzini Tage Johan Jelse 23 Skarpnäck Kuo Pin-chao 19 Taipei Direk Sirisamphan 18 Bangkok Ian Anthony Comissiong 25 Port of Spain Karahan Çantay 22 Balıkesir Mykola Bezrodniy 26 Kyiv Simon Alexis Peat 23 Liverpool Daniel Luján 23 El Paso José Gregorio Faría Ojeda 24 Maracaibo Slobodan Klinać 22 Belgrade
Judges Bruce Forsyth - Entertainer Ninibeth Leal - Miss World 1991 from Venezuela Wilnelia Merced - Miss World 1975 from Puerto Rico Eric Morley - Chairman and CEO of Miss World Organization Linda Pétursdóttir - Miss World 1988 from Iceland Naim Süleymanoğlu - Olympic gold medalist Ivana Trump - Businesswoman
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