Miss World 1991

Miss World 1991 was the 41st edition of the Miss World pageant, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States, on 28 December 1991.

Gina Tolleson of the United States crowned Ninibeth Leal of Venezuela as her successor at the end of the event. Miss World 1991 was scheduled to be held in the Dominican Republic due to scheduling difficulties, Miss World was first moved to Puerto Rico, then to Atlanta, the United States. Preliminary swimsuits in Miss World 1991 were held in South Africa.^[2]

Antonia Balint of Hungary was stripped of the Miss Hungary 1991 title, after photographs printed in Hungarian newspapers showed that she had previously appeared in the men's magazine Lui and other publications against Miss World rules.^[3] She was replaced by her first runner-up, Timea Raba but Raba couldn't replace her for the same reason. Orsolya Michina represented Hungary instead.^[4]

This edition marked the debut of Greenland and the return of South Africa, which last competed 1977^[a], Antigua and Barbuda last competed in 1986, Lebanon and Swaziland last competed in 1988 and Ecuador, Malaysia and Taiwan last competed in 1989.

Barbados, Cook Islands, Egypt, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, Peru and Sri Lanka, withdrew from the competition. Tara Paat of Canada withdrew from the competition^[b] and Ilmira Shamsutdinova of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, won Miss USSR 1991 and was invited to compete in this edition, but she was underage to attend.

Muriel Edoukou of Côte d'Ivoire was supposed to compete but withdrew from the competition due to failed to arrive.^[5] Tracy Ann D'Abreu of Guyana also withdrew from the competition due to the controversy over her victory and citizenship, she was declared ineligible to compete at Miss World 1991.^[6][7] Birgit Højgaard of Faroe Islands, was supposed to debut at Miss World 1991, however her separate participation was rejected by the Miss World Organization, because the Faroe Islands are an administrative part of Denmark, then she participated at Miss Denmark World 1991 and was second runner-up.^[8]

Seventy-eight contestants competed for the title.

•  Taiwan – Lu Shu-Fang.

•  Namibia– Michelle McLean competed in Miss Universe in 1992, held in Bangkok, Thailand, where she emerged victorious. Only four months prior, she had participated in the pageant, making her the first and only Namibian to claim the crown.

• Pageantopolis – Miss World 1991