Miss World 2014 was the 64th edition of the Miss World pageant, held at ExCeL London in London, United Kingdom, on 14 December 2014.
At the end of the event, Rolene Strauss of South Africa was crowned Miss World 2014 by Megan Young of the Philippines. This is the second time that South Africa has won the title outright and marking the country's first victory after 40 years, and their overall third victory in the pageant's history. The first runner-up was Edina Kulcsá representing Hungary, and the second runner-up was Elizabeth Safrit representing the United States.
Background Debuts, returns, and, withdrawals This edition marked the debut of Chad and São Tomé and Príncipe, and the return of Egypt, Israel, Luxembourg, Myanmar, Uruguay and Zimbabwe; Myanmar, which last competed (as Burma) in 1960, Luxembourg in 2010, Egypt in 2011, and Israel, Uruguay and Zimbabwe in 2012.
Angola, Botswana, Bulgaria, Chile, Dominica, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Taiwan, Uzbekistan and Zambia, withdrew from the competition.
Miss Honduras In April 2014, María José Alvarado won Miss Honduras World. She was expected to represent Honduras and was scheduled to fly to London, England for the Miss World pageant. On 19 November 2014, Alvarado and her sister Sofía Trinidad were found murdered and then buried in the village of Cablotales. Miss Honduras pageant organizers decided not to replace Alvarado and the country officially withdrew from the contest. On 23 November 2014, Miss World Organization Chairperson Julia Morley gave a special memorial service in remembrance for her and her sister.
Results Placements
Placement Contestant Miss World 2014 – Rolene Strauss 1st Runner-Up – Edina Kulcsár 2nd Runner-Up – Elizabeth SafritTop 5 – Courtney Thorpe – Carina Tyrrell Top 11 – Julia Gama – Rafieya Husain – Koyal Rana – Idah Nguma – Daniela Álvarez – Nonthawan Thongleng § Top 25 – Andrea Forfori – Du Yang – Dhío Moreno – Krista Haapalainen – Nadia Ntanu – Maria Rahajeng – Dewi Liana Seriestha – Tatjana Maul – Valerie Weigmann – Anastasia Kostenko – Ellie McKeating – Awien Kuanyin-Agoth – Olivia Asplund – Sarah Waddell – Nguyễn Thị Loan § – People's Choice winner
Challenge Events Beach Beauty Placement Contestant Winner – Olivia AsplundTop 5 – Koyal Rana – Idah Nguma – Daniela Álvarez – Rolene Strauss
Beauty With a Purpose Placement Contestant Winner(s) – Julia Gama – Rafieya Husain – Koyal Rana – Maria Rahajeng – Idah NgumaTop 10 – Andrea Forfori – Carina Tyrrell – Tatjana Maul – Valerie Weigmann – Rolene Strauss
Multimedia Placement Contestant Winner – Elizabeth SafritTop 5 – Carina Tyrrell – Rafieya Husain – Koyal Rana – Tatjana Maul
Sport Placement Contestant Winner – Krista HaapalainenRunner-Up – Edina Kulcsár3rd Place – Rolene Strauss4th Place – Milica Vuklis5th Place – Alice Ford
Talent Placement Contestant Winner – Dewi Liana SeriesthaRunner-Up – Ellie McKeatingTop 5 – Anastasia Kostenko – Olivia Asplund – Elizabeth Safrit
Top Model Placement Contestant Winner – Isidora Borovčanin Top 5 – Courtney Thorpe – Du Yang – Edina Kulcsár – Awien Kuanyin-Agoth
Judges The judges for Miss World 2014 were: Julia Morley – Chairman of the Miss World Organization Mike Dixon – Musical Director Rudy Salles – Member of the National Assembly of France Jody Reynolds – former president of Variety International Marsha-Rae Ratcliff – Variety International board member Tony Hatch – British most celebrated musical acts and films Agbani Darego – Miss World 2001 from Nigeria Azra Akın – Miss World 2002 from Turkey Zhang Zilin – Miss World 2007 from China Kaiane Aldorino – Miss World 2009 from Gibraltar Mike Dixon – Musical director
Contestants 121 contestants competed for the title. Country/Territory Contestant Age Hometown Albania Xhensila Pere 25 Pogradec Argentina Yoana Don 23 Santiago del Estero Aruba Joitza Henriquez 21 Oranjestad Australia Courtney Thorpe 23 Brisbane Austria Julia Furdea 20 Asten Bahamas Rosetta Cartwright 19 Nassau Barbados Zoé Trotman 22 Bridgetown Belarus Viktoria Mihanovich 21 Minsk Belgium Anissa Blondin 22 Brussels Belize Raquel Badillo 21 Belize City Bermuda Lillian Lightbourn 24 Hamilton Bolivia Andrea Forfori 25 Santa Cruz de la Sierra Bosnia and Herzegovina Isidora Borovčanin 19 Pale Brazil Julia Gama 21 Porto Alegre British Virgin Islands Rosanna Chichester 25 Road Town Cameroon Larissa Ngangoum 24 Yaoundé Canada Annora Bourgeault 21 Regina Chad Sakadi Djivira 21 Abéché China Du Yang 22 Beijing Colombia Leandra García 21 Cali Costa Rica Natasha Sibaja 23 San José Côte d'Ivoire Yéo Jennifer 18 Aboisso Croatia Antonija Gogić 19 Zagreb Curaçao Gayle Sulvaran 19 Willemstad Cyprus Ioánna Filíppou 19 Nicosia Czech Republic Tereza Skoumalová 24 Ostrava Denmark Pernille Sørensen 23 Aalborg Dominican Republic Dhío Moreno 24 Santo Domingo Ecuador Virginia Limongi 19 Portoviejo Egypt Amina Ashraf 19 Giza El Salvador Larissa Vega 21 Santa Ana England Carina Tyrrell 24 Cambridge Equatorial Guinea Agnes Cheba 19 Luba Ethiopia Yirgalem Hadish 23 Addis Ababa Fiji Charlene Tafuna'i 20 Nadi Finland Krista Haapalainen 24 Helsinki France Flora Coquerel 20 Orléans Gabon Jessie Lekery 24 Moyen-Ogooué Georgia Ana Zubashvili 21 Tbilisi Germany Egzonita Ala 18 Stuttgart Ghana Nadia Ntanu 23 Accra Gibraltar Shyanne Azzopardi 23 Gibraltar Greece Eleni Kokkinou 20 Athens Guadeloupe Wendy Metony 20 Le Gosier Guam Chanel Cruz Jarrett 20 Agana Heights Guatemala Keyla Bermúdez 22 Guatemala City Halimatou Diallo 20 Conakry Guyana Rafieya Husain 21 Anna Regina Haiti Carolyn Desert 25 Port-au-Prince Hong Kong Erin Wong 23 Kowloon Hungary Edina Kulcsár 24 Budapest Iceland Tanja Ýr Ástþórsdóttir 22 Hafnarfjörður India Koyal Rana 21 New Delhi Indonesia Maria Rahajeng 22 Mamuju Ireland Jessica Hayes 20 Cork Israel Mor Maman 20 Beersheba Italy Silvia Cataldi 24 Sannicola Jamaica Laurie-Ann Chin 21 Montego Bay Japan Hikaru Kawai 19 Sendai Kenya Idah Nguma 22 Machakos Kosovo Vita Rexhepi 17 Pristina Kyrgyzstan Aikol Alikzhanova 24 Jalal-Abad Latvia Liliana Garkalne 19 Riga Lebanon Saly Greige 24 Bishmizzine Lesotho Nthole Matela 21 Mapoteng Lithuania Agnė Kavaliauskaitė 21 Vilnius Luxembourg Frédérique Wolff 19 Luxembourg Malaysia Dewi Liana Seriestha 25 Kampung Tematu Malta Joanna Galea 24 Valletta Martinique Anaïs Delwaulle 20 Fort-de-France Mauritius Sheetal Khadun 25 Port Louis Mexico Daniela Álvarez 21 Cuernavaca Moldova Alexandra Caruntu 18 Ungheni Mongolia Battsetseg Turbat 23 Ulaanbaatar Montenegro Nataša Novaković 18 Podgorica Myanmar Wyne Lay 19 Naypyidaw Namibia Brumhilda Ochs 22 Windhoek Nepal Subin Limbu 23 Dharan Netherlands Tatjana Maul 25 The Hague New Zealand Arielle Garciano 22 Lyttelton Nicaragua Yumara López 20 Rivas Nigeria Iheoma Nnadi 19 Akwa Ibom Northern Ireland Rebekah Shirley 19 Belfast Norway Monica Pedersen 25 Moelv Panama Nicole Pinto 21 Panama City Paraguay Myriam Arévalos 21 Asunción Peru Sofía Rivera 24 Oxapampa Philippines Valerie Weigmann 25 Legazpi Poland Ada Sztajerowska 22 Piotrków Trybunalski Portugal Zita Oliveira 24 Lisbon Puerto Rico Génesis Dávila 24 Arroyo Romania Bianca Fanu 25 Timișoara Russia Anastasia Kostenko 20 Salsk Djeissica Barbosa 19 São Tomé Scotland Ellie McKeating 19 Milngavie Serbia Milica Vukliš 21 Belgrade Seychelles Camila Estico 23 Victoria Singapore Dalreena Poonam Gill 20 Bedok Slovakia Laura Longauerová 19 Detva Slovenia Julija Bizjak 20 Lesce South Africa Rolene Strauss 22 Volksrust South Korea Hwa-young Song 23 Suwon South Sudan Awien Kuanyin-Agoth 19 Gogrial Spain Lourdes Rodríguez 20 Daimiel Sri Lanka Chulakshi Ranathunga 25 Colombo Sweden Olivia Asplund 18 Stockholm Switzerland Dijana Cvijetić 20 Gossau Tanzania Happiness Watimanywa 20 Dodoma Thailand Nonthawan Thongleng 20 Surat Thani Trinidad and Tobago Sarah Jane Waddell 24 Carenage Tunisia Wahiba Arres 20 Menzel Bourguiba Turkey Amine Gülşe 21 İzmir Uganda Leah Kalanguka 21 Iganga Ukraine Andriana Khasanshin 19 Lviv United States Elizabeth Safrit 22 Kannapolis United States Virgin Islands Aniska Tonge 20 Saint Thomas Uruguay Romina Fernández 20 Montevideo Venezuela Debora Menicucci 23 Caracas Vietnam Nguyễn Thị Loan 23 Ho Chi Minh City Wales Alice Ford 21 Cardiff Zimbabwe Tendai Humda 23 Chitungwiza
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References
Further reading "Miss World 2014: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan felicitated for being the most successful Miss World so far". CNN-IBN. 15 December 2014.
External links Miss World official website