Miss World 2013 was the 63rd edition of the Miss World pageant, held at the Bali International Convention Center in Bali, South Kuta, Indonesia, on 28 September 2013.
At the end of the event, Yu Wenxia of China crowned Megan Young of the Philippines, as her successor, marking the only time to date that the Philippines has won the Miss World title. This victory also made the Philippines the third country to win all of the Big Four international beauty pageants and the first Southeast Asian country to capture the title. The first and second runners-up of this year's edition was France's Marine Lorphelin and Ghana's Carranzar Naa Okailey Shooter.
Background Location and date It was the first time in Southeast Asia and it also was the first time in the pageant's history that the event was held in a Muslim majority country.
After protests from hard-line Islamic extremism groups threatened to force the pageant out of Indonesia, the national government announced that the finals would be moved from a venue near the capital city, to a venue on the predominantly Hindu island of Bali. Furthermore, Miss World Organization Chairperson Julia Morley replaced the "Beach Fashion" bikini swimsuit event, with a "Balinese Beach Fabric" sarong cloth event.
Selection of participants Contestants from 127 countries and territories competed in this year's Miss World pageant.
Debuts, returns, and withdrawals This edition saw the debut of Cameroon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kosovo and Uzbekistan, and the return of The British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Ghana, Haiti, Kyrgyzstan, Lesotho, Moldova, Namibia, Romania, Samoa, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia and Zambia; Haiti, which last competed in 1975, Dominica and Tunisia in 1978, Samoa (as Western Samoa) in 1988, The British Virgin Islands in 2001, Switzerland in 2005, Taiwan (as Chinese Taipei) in 2008, Lesotho and Zambia in 2010, and Ghana, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Namibia and Romania in 2011.
Bonaire, Macau, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Uruguay and Zimbabwe, withdrew from the competition. Yityish Titi Aynaw of Israel, withdrew due to political reason regarding to Indonesia being an Islamic country. Later competed at Miss Universe 2013 in Moscow.
Results Placements
Placement Contestant Miss World 2013 – Megan Young 1st Runner-Up – Marine Lorphelin 2nd Runner-Up – Carranzar Naa Okailey Shooter Top 6 – Sancler Frantz – Maroua Kharbouch § – Elena Ibarbia Top 10 – Erin Holland – Kirsty Heslewood – Vania Larissa Tan - Gina Hargitay – Ishani Shrestha Top 20 – Larissa Leeuwe – Noémie Happart – Camille Munro – Joely Bernat – Navneet Kaur Dhillon – Sarah Baderna – Jacqueline Steenbeek – Karolína Chomistekova – Anna Zayachkivska – Olivia Jordan § — People's Choice winner; Not part of the Top 20 (Voted into the Top 6 by viewers)
Continental Queens of Beauty Continental Group Contestant Africa – Carranzar Naa Okailey Shooter Americas – Sancler Frantz Asia – Megan Young Caribbean – Gina Hargitay Europe – Marine Lorphelin Oceania – Erin Holland
Challenge events
There were six challenge events. They were Beach Fashion, Beauty With a Purpose, Multimedia, Sport, Talent, and Top Model. Important points were awarded to each winner. All six winners went through to the Top 20.
Beach Beauty Sancler Frantz of Brazil won Miss World Beach Beauty 2013.
Placement Contestant Winner - Sancler Frantz 1st Runner-up - Marine Lorphelin 2nd Runner-up - Carranzar Naa Okailey 3rd Runner-up - Gina Hargitay 4th Runner-up - Megan Young Top 11 - Wei Wei Yu - Vania Larissa - Sarah Baderna - Valeriya Tsurkan - Elena Ibarbia - Anna Zayachkivska
Beauty With a Purpose Ishani Shrestha of Nepal won Miss World Beauty With a Purpose 2013.
Placement Contestant Winner - Ishani Shrestha 1st Runner-up - Erin Holland 2nd Runner-up - Brigitte Alfred Lyimo 3rd Runner-up - Noemie Happart 4th Runner-up - Sancler Frantz Top 10 - Larissa Leeuwe - Kirsty Heslewood - Marine Lorphelin - Carranzar Naa Okailey - Navneet Kaur Dhillon
Multimedia Navneet Kaur Dhillon of India won Miss World Multimedia 2013.
Placement Contestant Winner - Navneet Kaur Dhillon 1st Runner-up - Kanyapak Phokesomboon 2nd Runner-up - Ishani Shrestha 3rd Runner-up - Megan Young 4th Runner-up - Melinder Bhullar
Sports and Fitness Jacqueline Steenbeek of Netherlands won Miss World Sport and Fitness 2013.
Placement Contestant Winner – Jacqueline Steenbeek 1st Runner-up – Elena Ibarbia 2nd Runner-up – Meagan Green 3rd Runner-up – Coral Ruíz 4th Runner-up – Paola Ayala Top 20 – Larisa Leeuwe – Noemie Happart – Kristi-Mari Agapiou – Joely Bernat – Kirsty Heslewood - Annamaria Rakosi - Sarah Baderna - Ivana Milojko - Ella Langsford - Luz Decena - Virginia Hernandez - Elba Fahsbender - Jamey Bowers - Karolína Chomisteková
Talent Vania Larissa of Indonesia won Miss World Talent 2013 Placement Contestant Winner – Vania Larissa 1st Runner-up – Erin Holland 2nd Runner-up – Anna Zayachkivska 3rd Runner-up – Kirtis Malone 4th Runner-up – Camille Munro Top 11 – Denise Valerie Ayena Dominica – Leslassa Armour-Shillingford – Jacqueline Wong – Virginia Hernandez – Karolína Chomisteková – Sherrece Villafana – Gabrielle Shaw
Top Model Megan Young of Philippines won Miss World Top Model 2013.
Placement Contestant Winner – Megan Young 1st Runner-up - Olivia Jordan 2nd Runner-up – Marine Lorphelin 3rd Runner-up - Anna Zayachkivska 4th Runner-up - Sancler Frantz Top 10 - Denise Valerie Ayena - Kristi-Mari Agapiou - Kirsty Heslewood - Sarah Baderna - Manuela Matong
Judges The judges for Miss World 2013 were:
Julia Morley – Chairman of the Miss World Organization Donna Derby Derek Wheeler Mike Dixon – Musical director Andrew Minarik Vineet Jain Azra Akın – Miss World 2002 from Turkey Maurice Montgomery Haughton-James Ken Warwick Liliana Tanoesoedibjo – Owner and National Director of Miss Indonesia. Liestyana Irman Gusman Silvia Agung Laksono Coretta Kapoyos Bayuseno
Contestants
127 Contestants competed for the title. Country/Territory Contestant Age Hometown Albania Ersela Kurti 22 Tirana Angola Maria Castelo 23 Uíge Argentina Teresa Kuster 24 Buenos Aires Aruba Larisa Leeuwe 22 Oranjestad Australia Erin Holland 24 Cairns Austria Ena Kadić † 23 Innsbruck Bahamas De'Andra Bannister 24 Nassau Barbados Regina Ramjit 19 Bridgetown Belarus Maryia Vialichka 22 Vitebsk Belgium Noémie Happart 20 Liège Belize Idolly Louise Saldivar 22 Belmopan Bermuda Katherine Arnfield 18 Hamilton Bolivia Alejandra Castillo 20 Tarija Bosnia and Herzegovina Sanda Gutić 19 Sarajevo Botswana Rosemary Keofitlhetse 20 Gaborone Brazil Sancler Frantz 21 Arroio do Tigre British Virgin Islands Kirtis Malone 21 Tortola Bulgaria Nansi Karaboycheva 20 Pazardzhik Cameroon Denise Valerie Ayena 22 Yaoundé Canada Camille Munro 24 Regine Chile Camila Andrade 22 Concepción China Yu Weiwei 25 Ankang Colombia Daniela Ocoro 23 Cali Costa Rica Yarley Marín 23 Puntarenas Côte d'Ivoire Aïssata Dia 21 Aboisso Croatia Lana Gržetić 18 Rijeka Curaçao Xafira Urselita 18 Willemstad Cyprus Kristi-Mari Agapiou 20 Nicosia Czech Republic Lucie Kovandová 19 Dolní Kounice Denmark Malene Riis Sorensen 20 Haderslev Dominica Leslassa Armour-Shillingford 19 Roseau Dominican Republic Joely Bernat 24 Bronx Ecuador Laritza Párraga 19 Santo Domingo El Salvador Paola Ayala 18 San Salvador England Kirsty Heslewood 24 London Equatorial Guinea Restituta Mifumu Nguema 19 Micomeseng Ethiopia Genet Tsegay 22 Mekele Fiji Caireen Erbsleben 21 Suva Finland Maija Kerisalmi 20 Nokia France Marine Lorphelin 20 Charnay-lès-Mâcon Gabon Brunilla Moussadingou 19 Lambarene Georgia Tamar Shedania 21 Zugdidi Germany Amina Sabbah 18 Jena Ghana Carranzar Shooter 22 Accra Gibraltar Maroua Kharbouch 22 Gibraltar Greece Athina Pikraki 21 Athens Guadeloupe Sheryna van der Koelen 21 Saint-François Guam Camarin Mendiola 18 Agana Heights Guatemala Karla Loraine Quinto 25 Guatemala City Mariama Diallo 22 Conakry Heny Tavares 21 Bafatá Guyana Ruqayyah Boyer 23 Georgetown Haiti Ketsia Iciena Lioudy 19 Cap-Haïtien Honduras Mónica Elwin 19 Roatan Hong Kong Jacqueline Wong 24 Hong Kong Hungary Annamaria Rakosi 21 Debrecen Iceland Sigríður Dagbjört Ásgeirsdóttir 22 Reykjavík India Navneet Kaur Dhillon 20 Patiala Indonesia Vania Larissa Tan 17 Pontianak Ireland Aoife Walsh 23 Clonmel Italy Sarah Baderna 22 Castell'Arquato Jamaica Gina Hargitay 18 Kingston Japan Michiko Tanaka 23 Shizuoka Kazakhstan Ainura Toleuova 18 Taldykorgan Kenya Wangui Gitonga 23 Mombasa Kosovo Antigona Sejdiju 19 Pristina Kyrgyzstan Zhibek Nukeeva † 19 Bishkek Latvia Eva Dombrovska 22 Jelgava Lebanon Karen Ghrawi 22 Beirut Lesotho Mamahlape Matsoso 19 Maseru Lithuania Rūta Mazurevičiūtė 22 Garliava Macedonia Kristina Spasenoska 21 Kičevo Malaysia Melinder Bhullar 20 Kuala Lumpur Malta Donna Leyland 24 Attard Martinique Julie Lebrasseur 19 Ducos Mauritius Nathalie Lesage 18 Grand Baie Mexico Marilyn Chagoya 23 Poza Rica Moldova Valeriya Tsurkan 21 Tiraspol Mongolia Pagmadulam Sukhbaatar 20 Ulaanbaatar Montenegro Ivana Milojko 19 Kotor Namibia Paulina Malulu 24 Windhoek Nepal Ishani Shrestha 21 Kathmandu Netherlands Jacqueline Steenbeek 23 Drunen New Zealand Ella Langsford 20 Auckland Nicaragua Luz Mery Decena Rivera 23 Jalapa Nigeria Anna Banner 18 Bayelsa Northern Ireland Meagan Green 23 Lisburn Norway Alexandra Backstrom 23 Oslo Panama Virginia Hernández 23 Panama City Paraguay Coral Ruiz Reyes 22 Luque Peru Elba Fahsbender 21 Lima Philippines Megan Young 23 Olongapo Poland Katarzyna Krzeszowska 22 Krynica-Zdrój Portugal Elisabete Rodrigues 20 Porto Puerto Rico Nadyalee Torres 25 Caguas Romania Andreea Chiru 20 Braila Russia Elmira Abdrazakova 18 Mezhdurechensk Saint Kitts and Nevis Trevicia Adams 22 Basseterre Samoa Penina Paeu 21 Apia Scotland Jamey Bowers 24 Edinburgh Serbia Aleksandra Doknić 18 Požarevac Seychelles Agnes Gerry 19 Victoria Singapore Maria-Anna Zenieris 18 Singapore Slovakia Karolína Chomisteková 19 Oravský Podzámok Slovenia Maja Cotič 24 Nova Gorica South Africa Marilyn Ramos 22 Klerksdorp South Korea Min-ji Park 24 Busan South Sudan Modong Manuela 21 Juba Spain Elena Ibarbia 18 San Sebastián Sri Lanka Iresha Asanki de Silva 22 Colombo Sweden Agneta Myhrman 19 Stockholm Switzerland Cindy Williner 18 Zürich Taiwan Cinzia Chang 21 Taipei Tanzania Brigitte Lyimo 20 Dar es Salaam Thailand Natalie Phoksomboon 22 Udon Thani Trinidad and Tobago Sherrece Villafana 19 San Fernando Tunisia Hiba Telmoudi 22 Gabes Turkey Rüveyda Öksüz 19 Istanbul Uganda Stellah Nantumbwe 22 Kampala Ukraine Anna Zayachkivska 21 Ivano-Frankivsk United States Olivia Jordan 25 Tulsa United States Virgin Islands Petra Cabrera 21 Charlotte Amalie Uzbekistan Rakhima Ganieva 18 Tashkent Venezuela Karen Soto 21 Maracaibo Vietnam Lại Hương Thảo 22 Quảng Ninh Wales Gabrielle Shaw 19 Wrexham Zambia Christine Mwaaba 25 Lusaka
Notes
Designations – Maryia Vialichka was appointed to represent Belarus, after no national pageant was held because the Miss Belarus pageant is a bi-annual event. It was last time held in 2012. Maria won the title of Miss Charity at the Miss Belarus 2012 pageant. – Kirtis Kassandra Malone was appointed as Miss World British Virgin Islands 2013. The Miss World British Virgin Islands Committee acquired the franchise license from the Miss World organisation this year. – Kristy Marie Agapiou was appointed to represent Cyprus, she was the 1st runner-up at the Star Cyprus 2011 pageant. – Ruqayyah Boyer was appointed Miss Guyana 2013 after Natasha Martindale became the new national director in Guyana. – Sigríður Dagbjört Ásgeirsdóttir was appointed to represent Iceland, she was the 2nd runner-up at the Ungfrú Island 2011 pageant. – Aynur Toleuova was appointed to represent Kazakhstan. She was previously Miss Kazakhstan 2011. – Pagmadulam Sukhbaatar was appointed as Miss World Mongolia 2013 after a casting call took place.