The winner of 64th Miss World Title is — Miss South Africa Rolene Strauss! The twenty two year old medical student and model was crowned Miss World at the Excel Centre London. Miss Hungry Edina Kulcsar was named the 1st Runner up and Miss United States Elizabeth Safrit was the second runner up.
This is the second time, South Africa has won the title since 1958 when Penelope Anne Cohen won the crown, though the country has held the title for three times (In 1974, Anneeline Kriel was given the title, when the winner Helen Elizabeth of Wales had to relinquish the title because she had a child, which was against the competition rules).
Around 121 contestants from all over the world competed for the prestigious title this year which symbolizes- beauty with brains, compassion and humanity. All these beauties went through many challenges during the past few days- such as–Talent, Top model, Beach fashion, Beauty with a Purpose and a debate at the Oxford Union. Miss Malaysia Dewi Liana Seriestha won the Talent Contest, Beach Fashion competition winner was Miss Sweden Olivia Asplund, Miss US Elizabeth Safrit won the Multimedia round, Miss Finland Krista Haapalainen was the winner of Sports & Fitness and Bosnia & Herzegovina’s Miss Isidora Borovčanin won the Top Model Title, Sweden’s Olivia Asplund, was the winner of Beach Fashion contest, France’s Flora Coquerel won the interview round.
Five contestants – Miss India Koyal Rana, Brazil’s Julia Gama, Indonesia – Maria Sastrayu, Kenya – Idah Nguma, Guyana – Rafieya Husain were adjudged the winner of the Beauty With a Purpose Contest.
Miss Thailand – Nonthawan Thongleng won the people’s choice contest. India’s Koyal Rana also won the the special award of world fashion designer dress.Here are the highlights of the event:
Tim Vincent and Megan Young(Miss World 2013), hosted the entire show. With this Megan Young became the first ever miss world to host the show
The Grammy award-nominated American singer Sky Blu opened the ceremony with his latest single We Love Girls!
Former Miss world 1994, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was felicitated by Miss world Organisation for her continuing commitment towards organisations social work
The Vamps performing at the pageant
The first Miss World Beauty pageant was held in 1951 by Eric Morley in United Kingdom, since then this event is organized every year by Miss World Organization which works for many humanitarian causes. After his demise in 2000, his better half Julia Morley became the Chairman of the organisation. The winner of the title spends the entire year representing Miss World Organization and its humanitarian causes.
