Miss World 1984

Miss World 1984
Miss World 1984 Titlecard
Date	15 November 1984
Presenters	Peter Marshall, Judith Chalmers
Entertainment	The Drifters
Venue	Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
Broadcaster	Thames Television
Entrants	72
Placements	15
Withdrawals	Indonesia, Liberia, Tonga, Turkey
Returns	Kenya, Nigeria, Tahiti
Winner	Astrid Carolina Herrera  Venezuela

Miss World 1984, the 34th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 15 November 1984 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, UK.^[1] The winner was Astrid Carolina Herrera from Venezuela. She was crowned by Miss World 1983, Sarah-Jane Hutt of the United Kingdom. The 1st and 2nd runners-up were Constance Ellen (Connie) Fitzpatrick from Canada, and Lou-Anne Caroline Ronchi from Australia. The event was viewed by 17.1 million people.^[2]

Results

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1984^[1][3]

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss World 1984	Venezuela – Astrid Carolina Herrera
1st runner-up	Canada – Constance Fitzpatrick
2nd runner-up	Australia – Lou-Anne Ronchi
3rd runner-up	United Kingdom – Vivienne Rooke
4th runner-up	United States – Kelly Anderson
5th runner-up	Brazil – Adriana Oliveira
6th runner-up	Ireland – Olivia Tracey
Semi-finalists	Austria – Heidemarie Pilgerstorfer  Colombia – Ángela Patricia Janiot  Finland – Anna-Liisa Tilus  Holland – Nancy Neede  Iceland – Berglind Johansen  Israel – Iris Louk  Kenya – Khadija Ismail   Switzerland – Silvia Affolter

Continental Queens of Beauty

Continental Group	Contestant
Africa	Kenya – Khadija (Kate) Adam Ismail
Americas	Venezuela – Astrid Herrera
Asia	Israel – Iris Louk
Europe	United Kingdom – Vivienne Mary Rooke
Oceania	Australia – Lou-Anne Caroline Ronchi

Contestants

Number	Nation	Contestant	Hometown
01	American Virgin Islands	Sandy Lewis	St. Croix
02	Aruba	Margaret Jane Bislick	Oranjestad
03	Australia	Lou-Ann Caroline Ronchi	Perth
04	Austria	Heidemarie Pilgerstorfer	Linz
05	Bahamas	Yvette Monique Rolle	Nassau
06	Barbados	Gale Angela Thomas	Christ Church
07	Belgium	Brigitte Maria Antonia Muyshondt	Antwerp
08	Bermuda	Rhonda Cherylene Wilkinson	St. Georges
09	Bolivia	Erika Weise	Santa Cruz
10	Brazil	Adriana Alves de Oliveira	Sao Paulo
11	Canada	Constance Ellen Fitzpatrick	Hamilton
12	Cayman Islands	Thora Ann Crighton	George Town
13	Chile	María Soledad García Leinenweber	Santiago
14	Colombia	Ángela Patricia Janiot Martirena	Bucaramanga
15	Costa Rica	Catalina María Blum Peña	San Jose
16	Curaçao	Ivette del Carmen Atacho	Willemstad
17	Cyprus	Agathi Demetriou	Paphos
18	Denmark	Pia Melchioren	Frederikshavn
19	Dominican Republic	Mayelinne Inés de Lara Almanzar	Bonao
20	Ecuador	María Sol Corral Zambrano	Guayaquil
21	El Salvador	Celina María López Párraga	San Salvador
22	Finland	Anna-Liisa Tilus	Helsinki
23	France	Martine Robine	Paris
24	Gambia	Mirabelle Carayol	Banjul
25	Germany	Brigitta Berx	Düsseldorf
26	Gibraltar	Karina Suzanne Hollands	Gibraltar
27	Greece	Vassiliki (Vana) Barba	Athens
28	Guam	Janet Rachelle Clymer	Mangilao
29	Guatemala	Carla Giovanna Aldana Fontana	Guatemala City
30	Holland	Nancy Neede	Amsterdam
31	Honduras	Myrtice Elitha Hyde	San Pedro Sula
32	Hong Kong	Joan Tong Lai-Kau	Hong Kong Island
33	Iceland	Berglind Johansen	Reykjavík
34	India	Suchita Kumar	Bombay
35	Ireland	Olivia Marie Tracey	Dublin
36	Isle of Man	Jill Armstrong	Braddan
37	Israel	Iris Louk	Rishon LeZion
38	Italy	Federica Silvia Tersch	Milan
39	Jamaica	Jacqueline Q. Crichton	Kingston
40	Japan	Ayako Ohsone	Tokyo
41	Kenya	Khadija (Kate) Ismail Adam	Nairobi
42	Korea	Lee Joo-hee	Seoul
43	Lebanon	Eliane Fakhoury	Beirut
44	Malaysia	Christine Teo Pick Yoon	Kuala Lumpur
45	Malta	Graziella Attard Previ	Gzira
46	Mexico	Mariana Sofía Urrea Stetner	Guadalajara
47	New Zealand	Barbara Rose McDowell	Auckland
48	Nigeria	Cynthia Oronsaye	Lagos
49	Norway	Ingrid Maria Martens	Oslo
50	Panama	Ana Luisa Seda Reyes	Panama City
51	Paraguay	Susana María Ivasiuten Haurelechen	Encarnación
52	Peru	Gloria Cristina Loayza-Guerra	Trujillo
53	Philippines	Aurora Elvira Gayoso Sevilla	Manila
54	Poland	Magdalena Jaworska † [3]	Warsaw
55	Portugal	Maria Leonor Mendes Correia	Lisbon
56	Puerto Rico	María de los Ángeles Rosas Silva	San Juan
57	Singapore	Jenny Li Peng Koh	Singapore
58	Spain	Juncal Rivero Fadrique Castilla	Valladolid
59	Sri Lanka	Bhagya Udeshinka Gunasinghe	Colombo
60	Swaziland	Busie Motsa	Manzini
61	Sweden	Brigitte Madeleine Gunnarsson	Malmö
62	Switzerland	Silvia Anna Affolter	Sarnen
63	Tahiti	Hinarii Kilian	Punaauia
64	Thailand	Intira Insompoh	Bangkok
65	Trinidad & Tobago	Ria Judy Joanne Rambardan	Tunapuna
66	Turks & Caicos	Miriam Coralita Adams	Grand Turk
67	United Kingdom	Vivienne Mary Rooke	Bristol
68	United States	Kelly Lea Anderson	Clarksburg
69	Uruguay	Giselle Barthou Quintes	Montevideo
70	Venezuela	Astrid Carolina Herrera	Caracas
71	Western Samoa	Ana Bentley	Apia
72	Yugoslavia	Dinka Delić	Zenica

Notes

Returns

Last competed in 1968:  Kenya

Last competed in 1979:  Nigeria

Last competed in 1982:  Sri Lanka  Tahiti

Withdrawals

•  Turkey – issues with franchise-holding both in national and in international pageants
•  Indonesia – Government banned Indonesian girls to compete such as beauty pageants.

References

1. "A Brief History Of Miss World In Pictures". The Huffington Post UK. 26 November 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2016. Winner of the 1984 Miss World Contest, Astrid Carolina Herrera from Venezuela, sitting on her throne at the Royal Albert Hall on November 15, 1984.
2. Thussu, D.K. (2008). News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment. SAGE Publications. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-4462-3331-3. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
3. "The beauty queens up there". The Philippine Star. Retrieved 26 January 2016.

External links

• Pageantopolis – Miss World 1984