Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The third woman from Sweden to capture the Miss World title, Mary Ann-Catrin Stävin is a Swedish actress. She was an ex-girlfriend of George Best, the late acclaimed Northern Ireland-born football player and also Don Shanks a footballer with QPR. Mary is probably best known for her appearances in two James Bond movies, Octopussy and A View to a Kill (as agent Kimberley Jones). Mary also hosted Miss World Pageant in 1986 and released an exercise album with Best called Shape Up and Dance .She currently lives in Beverly Hills, California with her British businessman husband, Nicholas Wilcockson.
The runners-up were:
1st runner-up: Ineke Berends (Holland)
2nd runner-up: Dagmar Gabriele Winkler (Germany)
3rd runner-up: Madalena Sbaraini (Brazil)
4th runner-up: Cindy Darlene Miller (United States)
Finalists:
5th runner-up: Madeleine Karen Stringer (United Kingdom)
6th runner-up: Jaye-Leanne Hopewell (Australia)
The delegates who made in the top fifteen are:
Eva-Maria Duringer (Austria), Annette Dybdal Simonsen (Denmark), Asta Seppälä (Finland), Véronique Fagot (France), Elizabeth Aguilar González (Mexico), Maria Isabel Frias Zavala (Peru), Guillermina Ruiz Doménech (Spain), and Danielle Patricia Haberli (Switzerland), .
Special awards
Personality: Maria Elizabeth Giardina (Paraguay)
Photogenic: Dagmar Gabriele Winkler (Germany)
Withdrawals and Nations not competing
Italy (Anna Maria Kanakis) was disqualified in the pageant, because organizers discovered that she competed in Miss World at the very young age of 15. Malta (Janice Galea) also had the same issue with age requirements, because her age was similar to Miss Italy before the pageant. At the very last minute, she was replaced by her successor, and first runner-up, Pauline Lewise Farrugia.
