Miss World 2012, the 62nd edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 18 August 2012 at Dongsheng Fitness Center Stadium in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. 116 contestants from all over the world competed for the crown. Ivian SarcosofVenezuela crowned her successor Yu WenxiaofChina at the end of the event. This is the second time China has won the title.
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Yu Wenxia in 2013
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| Date | 18 August 2012 |
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| Venue | Dongsheng Fitness Center Stadium, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China |
| Entrants | 116 |
| Placements | 30 |
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| Winner | Yu Wenxia China |
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| Top 15 |
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| Top 30 |
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There were six challenge events. They were Top Model, Beach Fashion, Sport, Multimedia, Talent, and Beauty With a Purpose. Important points were awarded to each winner. All six winners went through to the Top 30.
Atong DemachofSouth Sudan won Miss World Top Model 2012.
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Sophie MouldsofWales won Miss World Beach Beauty 2012.
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Sanna Jinnedal of Sweden won Miss World Sport 2012.
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| Swimming |
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| Long Jump |
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| 100-Meter Dash |
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Vanya MishraofIndia won Miss World Multimedia 2012.
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Yu WenxiaofChina won Miss World Talent 2012.
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| Top 5 |
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| Top 16 |
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Vanya MishraofIndia won Miss World Beauty With a Purpose 2012.
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116 contestants competed for the title.
| Country/Territory | Contestant | Age | Height | Hometown |
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 Albania |
Floriana Garo[1] | 25 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | Durrës |
 Angola |
Edmilza dos Santos[2] | 21 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Malanje |
 Argentina |
Josefina Herrero[3] | 18 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Mercedes |
 Aruba |
Lucianette Verhoeks[4] | 19 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Oranjestad |
 Australia |
Jessica Kahawaty[5] | 23 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Sydney |
 Austria |
Amina Dagi[6] | 17 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Bregenz |
 Bahamas |
Daronique Young[7] | 22 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Nassau |
 Barbados |
Marielle Wilkie[8] | 21 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Bridgetown |
 Belarus |
Julia Skalkovich[9] | 20 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Baranovichi |
 Belgium |
Laura Beyne[10] | 19 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Brussels |
 Belize |
Chantae Chanice Guy[11] | 20 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Belmopan |
 Bermuda |
Rochelle Minors[12] | 22 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Hamilton |
 Bolivia |
Mariana García[13] | 23 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | La Paz |
 Bonaire |
Ana Gisel Maciel[14] | 19 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Kralendijk |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Fikreta Husić[15] | 22 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Brčko |
 Botswana |
Tapiwa Anna-Marie Preston[16] | 19 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Gaborone |
 Brazil |
Mariana Notarangelo[17] | 22 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Duque de Caxias |
 Bulgaria |
Gabriela Vasileva[18] | 20 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Byala Slatina |
 Canada |
Tara Teng[19] | 23 | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | Fort Langley |
 Chile |
Camila Recabarren[20] | 21 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | La Serena |
 China |
Yu Wenxia[21][22] | 23 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Shangzhi |
 Colombia |
Bárbara Turbay[23] | 19 | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Bogotá |
 Costa Rica |
Silvana Sánchez[24] | 23 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | Palmares |
 Cote d'Ivoire |
Hélène-Valerie Djouka[25] | 18 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Divo |
 Croatia |
Maja Nikolić[26] | 21 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Zagreb |
 Curaçao |
Stephanie Rose Chang[27] | 20 | 1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | Willemstad |
 Cyprus |
Georgia Georgiou[28] | 21 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Limassol |
 Czech Republic |
Linda Bartošová[29] | 19 | 1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Vraclav |
 Denmark |
Iris Thomsen[30] | 25 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | Osterbro |
 Dominican Republic |
Sally Aponte Tejada[31] | 21 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Salcedo |
 Ecuador |
Cipriana Correia[32] | 21 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Esmeraldas |
 El Salvador |
Maria Luisa Vicuña[33] | 18 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Sonsonate |
 England |
Charlotte Holmes[34] | 23 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Plymouth |
 Equatorial Guinea |
Jennifer Riveiro Ilende[35] | 20 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | Malabo |
 Ethiopia |
Melkam Endale[36] | 21 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Addis Ababa |
 Fiji |
Koini Elesi Vakaloloma[37] | 24 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Lautoka |
 Finland |
Sabina Särkkä[38] | 23 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Helsinki |
 France |
Delphine Wespiser[39] | 20 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Magstatt-le-Bas |
 Gabon |
Marie-Noëlle Ada[40] | 22 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Mouila |
 Georgia |
Salome Khomeriki[41] | 20 | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Tbilisi |
 Germany |
Martina Ivezaj[42] | 23 | 1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in) | Munich |
 Gibraltar |
Jessica Baldachino[43] | 24 | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | Gibraltar |
 Greece |
Maria Tsagkaraki[44] | 23 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Crete |
 Guadeloupe |
Brigitte Golabkan[45] | 18 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Le Moule |
 Guam |
Jeneva Bosko[46] | 19 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Chalan Pago |
 Guatemala |
Monique Aparicio[47] | 21 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Quetzaltenango |
 Guyana |
Arti Cameron[48] | 23 | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | Georgetown |
 Honduras |
Jennifer Valle[49] | 17 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Santa Rosa de Copan |
 Hong Kong |
Kelly Cheung[50] | 21 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Hong Kong |
 Hungary |
Tamara Cserháti[51] | 20 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Győr |
 Iceland |
Íris Telma Jónsdóttir[52] | 21 | 1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | Reykjavík |
 India |
Vanya Mishra[53] | 20 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Jalandar |
 Indonesia |
Ines Putri Chandra[54] | 22 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Denpasar |
 Ireland |
Rebecca Maguire[55] | 20 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Dublin |
 Israel |
Shani Hazan[56] | 19 | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | Kiryat Ata |
 Italy |
Jessica Bellinghieri[57] | 23 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Messina |
 Jamaica |
Deanna Robins[58] | 21 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Kingston |
 Japan |
Nozomi Igarashi[59] | 24 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Yamagata |
 Kazakhstan |
Evgeniya Klishina[60] | 25 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Astana |
 Kenya |
Shamim Nabil[61] | 18 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Mombasa |
 South Korea |
Kim Sung-min[62] | 23 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Seoul |
 Latvia |
Anastasija Skibunova[63] | 23 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Riga |
 Lebanon |
Sonia-Lynn Gabriel[64] | 20 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Mont-Liban |
 Lithuania |
Rasa Vereniūtė[65] | 20 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Vilnius |
 Macau |
Winnie Sin[66] | 25 | 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in) | Macau |
 Macedonia |
Aneta Stojkoska[67] | 19 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | Gostivar |
 Malawi |
Susan Mtegha †[68] | 24 | 1.67 m (5 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | Mzuzu |
 Malaysia |
Yvonne Lee[69] | 23 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Kuala Lumpur |
 Malta |
Daniela Darmanin[70] | 21 | 1.64 m (5 ft 4+1⁄2 in) | Mġarr |
 Martinique |
Andy Govindin[71] | 23 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Fort-de-France |
 Mauritius |
Shalini Panchoo[72] | 23 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Saint Pierre |
 Mexico |
Mariana Berumen[73] | 20 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | Guanajuato |
 Mongolia |
Bayarmaa Huselbaatar[74] | 20 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Ulan Bator |
 Montenegro |
Nikolina Lončar[75] | 19 | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | Pljevlja |
 Nepal |
Shristi Shrestha[76] | 23 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Bharatpur |
 Netherlands |
Nathalie den Dekker[77] | 22 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Amsterdam |
 New Zealand |
Collette Lochore[78] | 18 | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | Auckland |
 Nicaragua |
Lauren Lawson[79] | 24 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Granada |
 Nigeria |
Damiete Charles Granville[80] | 23 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Port Harcourt |
 Northern Ireland |
Tiffany Brien[81] | 21 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Belfast |
 Norway |
Karoline Olsen[82] | 21 | 1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in) | Klo |
 Panama |
Maricely González[83] | 24 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Panama City |
 Paraguay |
Fiorella Migliore[84] | 23 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Asunción |
 Peru |
Giuliana Zevallos[85] | 23 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | Lima |
 Philippines |
Queenierich Rehman[86] | 24 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Las Piñas |
 Poland |
Weronika Szmajdzińska[87] | 18 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Szczecin |
 Portugal |
Melanie Vicente[88] | 21 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Torres Vedras |
 Puerto Rico |
Janelee Chaparro[89] | 20 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Barceloneta |
 Russia |
Elizaveta Golovanova[90] | 19 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Safonovo |
 Scotland |
Nicole Treacy[91] | 23 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Paisley |
 Serbia |
Bojana Lečić[92] | 22 | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | Nova Varoš |
 Seychelles |
Sherlyn Ferneau[93] | 21 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | Victoria |
 Sierra Leone |
Vanessa Williams[94] | 22 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Freetown |
 Singapore |
Karisa Sukamto[95] | 19 | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) | Singapore |
 Slovakia |
Kristína Krajčírová[96] | 20 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Bratislava |
 Slovenia |
Nives Orešnik[97] | 20 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Maribor |
 South Africa |
Remona Moodley[98] | 23 | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | Cape Town |
 South Sudan |
Atong Demach[99] | 24 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | Bor |
 Spain |
Aránzazu Estévez[100] | 23 | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | Las Palmas |
 Sri Lanka |
Sumudu Prasadini[101] | 23 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Kurunegala |
 Saint Kitts and Nevis |
Markysa O'Loughlin[102] | 20 | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | Basseterre |
 Suriname |
Stefanie Grace Gentle[103] | 22 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Nieuw Nickerie |
 Sweden |
Sanna Jinnedal[104] | 19 | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | Borås |
 Tanzania |
Lisa Jensen[105] | 24 | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Dar es Salaam |
 Thailand |
Vanessa Herrmann[106] | 21 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Phuket |
 Trinidad and Tobago |
Athaliah Samuel[107] | 24 | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | Port of Spain |
 Turkey |
Açalya Samyeli Danoğlu[108] | 20 | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | Istanbul |
 Uganda |
Phiona Bizzu[109] | 19 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Lira |
 Ukraine |
Karina Zhyronkina[110] | 20 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Kharkiv |
 United States |
Claudine Book[111] | 20 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | California |
 Uruguay |
Valentina Henderson[112] | 18 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | Salto |
 US Virgin Islands |
Taiesa Lashley[113] | 24 | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | Saint Thomas |
 Venezuela |
Gabriella Ferrari[114] | 21 | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Valencia |
 Vietnam |
Vũ Thị Hoàng My[115] | 23 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Đồng Nai |
 Wales |
Sophie Moulds[116] | 19 | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | Ferndale |
 Zimbabwe |
Bongani Dlakama[117] | 24 | 1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | Bulawayo |
Gabon South SudanMiss World 2012 contestants were evaluated by a panel of judges.[118]
The primary site for the competition was OrdosinInner Mongolia, China. A fashion show was held in Shanghai, and the beachwear competitions were held at the desert resort of Xiangshawan.
On 31 January 2013, the official website of Miss World Organisation released a statement regarding the scoreboard errors in the final telecast last 18 August 2012. Miss World was under siege after beauty watchers, fans and even National Directors noticed some inconsistencies in the scoring system. According to the official statement of the Ionoco Ltd., it says that the errors occurred on the graphical scoreboard were solely caused by human error on part of the operator. Miss World Organization provided the Ionoco Ltd. with verified scores, however, the operator failed to update the score table correctly resulting in a discrepancy between the position of the contestants in the scoreboard and the point values displayed.[121]
Afghanistan: Star World Angola: TPA
Anguilla: Direct TV
Antigua and Barbuda: Direct TV Argentina: Direct TV[122]
Armenia: Armenia TV Aruba: Direct TV Australia: FOXTEL-E![123] Bahamas: ZNS[124]
Bangladesh: SRK showtime Barbados: Direct TV Belarus: ONT Belgium: STAR! Belize: Channel 5[125] Bermuda: Direct TV Bolivia: Unitel[126] Bonaire: Direct TV Bosnia and Herzegovina: RTRS,[127] FTV Botswana: BTV Brazil: UOL[128]
British Virgin Islands: Direct TV
Brunei: Star World
Cambodia: Star World Canada: E!
Cayman Islands: Direct TV Chile: Canal 13 China: CCTV 2[129] Colombia: Canal 1[130] Curacao: TDS[131] Cyprus: Sigma TV Denmark: STAR! & TNT[132]
Dominica: Direct TV Dominican Republic: Direct TV Ecuador: Direct TV[133]
Egypt: Dalycartoon El Salvador: Canal 2 England: DRG TV[134]
Estonia: STAR![132] Fiji: Fiji Broadcast Corporation[135] Finland: STAR![132] France: Paris Premiere[136] Georgia: Telemedia Germany: E!
Ghana: GBC
Grenada: Direct TV Guadeloupe: Paris Premiere[136] Guatemala: Canal 11
Haiti: Direct TV Honduras: Telesistema[137] Hong Kong: Star World Israel: STAR![132] India: Zee Cafe Indonesia: RCTI
Iran: Manoto Ireland: E! Entertainment Italy: E! Jamaica: TVJ[138] Japan: Star World Kenya: Royal Media Services Ltd. South Korea: T Cast
Laos: Star World Latvia: STAR![132] Lebanon: LBCI Lithuania: Lietuvos rytas TV[139]
Luxembourg: STAR![132] Macau: Star World Macedonia: Sitel Malaysia: Star World
Maldives: Star World
Montserrat: Direct TV Martinique: Paris Premiere[136] Mauritius: MBC Mexico: Galavision
Micronesia: Star World Mongolia: UBS TV[140]
Mozambique: STV
Myanmar: Star World
Namibia: NBC
Nauru: Star World Netherlands: STAR![132]
New Caledonia: Star World Nicaragua: Canal 2[141] Nigeria: Silverbird New Zealand: TV2[142] Northern Ireland: DRG TV[134] Norway: STAR![132]
Palau: Star World Panama: Telemetro
Papua New Guinea: Star World
Paraguay: La Tele Peru: Direct TV[143] Philippines: TV5 Poland: Polsat Portugal: Sic Internacional Puerto Rico: Puerto Rico TV[144] Russia: Star World Saint Kitts and Nevis: Direct TV
Saint Lucia: Direct TV Saint Martin: Direct TV
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Direct TV
Saba: Direct TV Scotland: DRG TV[134] Seychelles: SBC[145] Singapore: MediaCorp Channel 5
Solomon Islands: Star World South Africa: SABC 3[146] Spain: Mediaset España
Swaziland: Swazi TV Sweden: STAR![132]
Taiwan: Star World Thailand: Channel 3 Trinidad and Tobago: CTV[147] Turkey: CNBC-e
Turks and Caicos: Direct TV Uruguay: Direct TV[148] United States: E! Entertainment, Xbox Live (via Xfinity video on demand application) US Virgin Islands: Direct TV
Vanuatu: Star World Venezuela: Venevisión Vietnam: VTV Wales: DRG TV[134]
Zambia: ZNBC Zimbabwe: ZBC
