Miss World 1981
Beauty pageant edition
title: "Miss World 1981" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["miss-world", "1981-in-london", "1981-beauty-pageants", "beauty-pageants-in-england", "events-at-the-royal-albert-hall", "november-1981-in-the-united-kingdom"] description: "Beauty pageant edition" topic_path: "geography/united-kingdom" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_World_1981" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Beauty pageant edition ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| photo | [[File:MW 1981 - Thames TV.png |
| caption | Miss World 1981 Titlecard |
| winner | Pilín León |
| represented | Venezuela |
| date | 12 November 1981 |
| presenters | |
| acts | |
| venue | Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom |
| broadcaster | Thames Television |
| entrants | 67 |
| placements | 15 |
| returns | |
| withdraws | |
| before | 1980 |
| next | 1982 |
| :: |
| photo = [[File:MW 1981 - Thames TV.png|250px]] | caption = Miss World 1981 Titlecard | winner = Pilín León | represented = Venezuela | date = 12 November 1981 | presenters = | acts = | venue = Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom | broadcaster = Thames Television | entrants = 67 | placements = 15 | returns = | withdraws = | before = 1980 | next = 1982
Miss World 1981, the 31st edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 12 November 1981 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom. The winner was Pilín León from Venezuela, the first titleholder from her country since 1955. She was crowned by Miss World 1980, Kimberley Santos from Guam. Another Venezuelan, Irene Sáez, had been crowned Miss Universe 1981 in July, making Venezuela one of the few countries to hold both major international titles (Miss Universe and Miss World) in the same year. The Continental Queens of Beauty were awarded for the first time.
This edition marked the return of Suriname, which last competed in 1966 and Chile, El Salvador, French Polynesia (as Tahiti), Iceland last competed in 1979. Mauritius, Panama, Paraguay, Swaziland, the United States Virgin Islands withdrew from the competition for unknown reasons.
Results
Placements
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| Placement | Contestant |
|---|---|
| Miss World 1981 | |
| 1st runner-up | |
| 2nd runner-up | |
| Top 7 | |
| Top 15 | |
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Special awards
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| Award | Winner |
|---|---|
| Miss Photogenic | |
| Miss Personality | |
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Contestants ==
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Miss_World_1981_Map.PNG" caption="Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1981<ref name="Ribane 2006" /><ref name="W.W. Gaunt & Sons 1987" />]]67 contestants competed for the title."] ::
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| Country/Territory | Contestant | Age | Hometown |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARG Argentina | Helen Natali | 21 | Villa María |
| ARU Aruba | Gerarda Roepel | 24 | Oranjestad |
| AUS Australia | Melissa Hannan | 19 | Mosman |
| AUT Austria | Beatrix Kopf | 21 | Lustenau |
| BAH Bahamas | Monique Ferguson | 18 | Nassau |
| BEL Belgium | Dominique van Eeckhoudt | 19 | Waterloo |
| BER Bermuda | Cymone Tucker | 21 | Smith's Parish |
| BOL Bolivia | Carolina Díaz | 17 | Pando |
| BRA Brazil | Maristela Grazzia | 17 | São Paulo |
| CAN Canada | Earla Stewart | 22 | Pembroke |
| CAY Cayman Islands | Donna Marie Myrie | 20 | George Town |
| CHI Chile | Susanna Bravo | 19 | Santiago |
| COL Colombia | Nini Johanna Soto | 18 | Bucaramanga |
| CRC Costa Rica | Sucetty Salas | 18 | San José |
| ANT Curaçao | Mylene Gerard | 21 | Willemstad |
| CYP Cyprus | Elena Andreou | 19 | Nicosia |
| DEN Denmark | Tina Brandstrup | 21 | Copenhagen |
| DOM Dominican Republic | Josefina Cuello | 24 | Santo Domingo |
| ECU Ecuador | Lucía Vinueza | 19 | Guayaquil |
| ESA El Salvador | Martha Alicia Ortíz | 19 | San Salvador |
| FIN Finland | Pia Nieminen | 20 | Tampere |
| FRA France | Isabelle Benard | 19 | Vernon |
| French Polynesia | Maimiti Kinnander | 20 | Huahine |
| GIB Gibraltar | Yvette Maria Bellido | 18 | Gibraltar |
| GRE Greece | Maria Argyrokastritou | 22 | Athens |
| GUM Guam | Rebecca Arroyo | 21 | Mangilao |
| GUA Guatemala | Beatriz Bojorquez | 23 | Guatemala City |
| NED Holland | Saskia Lemmers | 23 | Amsterdam |
| HON Honduras | Xiomara Sikaffy | 20 | San Pedro Sula |
| British Hong Kong Hong Kong | Winnie Chin | 18 | Hong Kong Island |
| ISL Iceland | Ásdís Hannesdóttir | 23 | Reykjavík |
| IND India | Deepti Divakar | 22 | Bengaluru |
| IRL Ireland | Geraldine McGrory | 22 | Derry |
| Nicola-Jane Grainger | 18 | Dalby | |
| ISR Israel | Ninnette Assor | 22 | Tel Aviv |
| ITA Italy | Marisa Tutone | 17 | Turin |
| JAM Jamaica | title=Jamaica | publisher=W.W. Gaunt & Sons | series=W.I.L.I.P. series |
| JPN Japan | Naomi Kishi | 18 | Kawasaki |
| JEY | Elizabeth Walmsley | 18 | Saint Helier |
| LIB Lebanon | Zeina Challita | 19 | Beirut |
| LES | Palesa Joyce Kalele | 18 | Maseru |
| MAS Malaysia | Cynthia de Castro | 20 | Malacca |
| MLT Malta | Elizabeth-Mary Fenech | 19 | Żebbuġ |
| MEX Mexico | Doris Pontvianne | 18 | Tampico |
| NZL New Zealand | Raewyn Marcroft | 18 | Hamilton |
| NOR Norway | Anita Nesbø | 20 | Akershus |
| PNG | Jennifer Abaijah | 19 | Port Moresby |
| PER Peru | Olga Zumarán | 22 | Lima |
| PHI Philippines | Suzette Nicolas | 24 | Manila |
| PUR Puerto Rico | Andrenira Ruíz | 19 | San Juan |
| SIN Singapore | Sushil Kaur Sandhu | 20 | Singapore |
| KOR South Korea | Lee Han-na | 19 | Seoul |
| ESP Spain | Cristina Pérez Cottrell | 18 | Málaga |
| SRI Sri Lanka | Sonya Elizabeth Tucker | 20 | Colombo |
| SUR Suriname | Joan Boldewijn | 18 | Paramaribo |
| SWE Sweden | Carita Gustafsson | 20 | Gothenburg |
| SUI Switzerland | Margrit Kilchoer | 22 | Geneva |
| THA Thailand | Massupha Karbprapun | 21 | Bangkok |
| TTO Trinidad and Tobago | Rachael Thomas | 21 | Diego Martin |
| TUR Turkey | Aydan Şener | 18 | Kilis |
| GBR United Kingdom | Michele Donnelly | 20 | Cardiff |
| USA United States | Lisa Moss | 23 | Shreveport |
| URU Uruguay | Marianela Bas | 23 | Montevideo |
| VEN Venezuela | Pilin León | 18 | Maracay |
| FRG West Germany | Barbara Reimund | 18 | Stuttgart |
| SAM Western Samoa | Julianna Curry | 17 | Apia |
| ZIM Zimbabwe | Juliet Nyathi | 24 | Bulawayo |
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Notes
References
References
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