Countries and territories which sent delegates and results.

The 37th Miss World Pageant was held on November 12 1987 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK.

The winner was Ulla Weigerstorfer (Queen of Europe) from Austria.

Runner up was Albani Josefina Lozada Jimenez (Queen of Americas) from Venezuela, and third was Anna Margret Jonsdottir from Iceland.

Results

• Miss World 1987: Ulla Weigerstorfer (Austria).
• The runners-up were:
  • 1st runner-up: Albani Josefina Lozada Jimenez (Venezuela)
  • 2nd runner-up: Anna Margret Jonsdóttir (Iceland)
• Finalists:
  • 3rd runner-up: Monika Ewa Nowosadko (Poland)
  • 4th runner-up: Claudia Mercedes Escobar Zapata (Colombia)
  • 5th runner-up: Caterina Ciscato (Argentina)
• The delegates who made in the top twelve are: Nathalie Marquay (France), Francel Maribel Manibog Caracol (Guam), Angelique Johanna Gerarda Cremers (Holland), Pauline Yeung Bo-Ling (Hong Kong), Ya'el Gerthler (Israel), and Mary Ngazi Bienoseh (Nigeria).

Order of Semi-finalists

• 1. Argentina
• 2. Austria
• 3. Colombia
• 4. France
• 5. Guam
• 6. Holland

• 7. Hong Kong
• 8. Iceland
• 9. Israel
• 10. Nigeria
• 11. Poland
• 12. Venezuela

Order of Finalists

• 1. Iceland
• 2. Poland
• 3. Argentina
• 4. Venezuela
• 5. Colombia
• 6. Austria

Special Awards

• Personality: Clotilde Helen Cabrera - United States
• Photogenic: Karin Agneta Charlotta Trydell - Sweden

Continental Queens

• Africa: Mary Ngazi Bienoseh - Nigeria
• Americas: Albani Josefina Lozada Jimenez - Venezuela
• Asia: Pauline Yeung Bo-Ling - Hong Kong
• Europe: Ulla Weigerstorfer - Austria
• Oceania: Francel Maribel Manibog Caracol - Guam

78 Contestants

Nation	Contestant	Hometown
	Lisa Pitram	St. Thomas
	Caterina Ciscato	La Plata
	Donna Thelma Rudrum	Melbourne
	Ulla Weigerstorfer	Vienna
	Indira Regina Wood	Nassau
	Dawn Michelle Waithe	Bridgetown
	Lynn Florentine Wesenbeek	Antwerp
	Janine Sylvestre	Belize City
	Kim Elizabeth Johnston	Southampton
	Birgit Ellefsen	Cochabamba
	Simone Augusto Costa da Silva	Recife
	Tracey Westerholm	Vancouver
	Desiree Ann Hunter	Grand Cayman
	Yasna Angelica Vukasovic Alvarez	Punta Arenas
	Claudia Mercedes Escobar Zapata	Cali
	Michelle Leone Oberg	Rarotonga
	Alejandra Eugenia Martínez Fuentes	Cartago
	Diana Patricia Fraai	Willemstad
	Niki Christou	Nicosia
	Zelma Hesselmann	Copenhagen
	Paula del Carmen Lora Garcia	Salcedo
	Cecilia Pozo Caminer	Guayaquil
	Claudia Lorena Alvarenga Ruiz	San Salvador
	Minna Susanna Rinnetmaki	Tampere
	Nathalie Marquay	Mulhouse
	Christiane Kopp	Berlin
	Mayte Sanchez	Gibraltar
	Helen Moskiou	Athens
	Francel Maribel Manibog Caracol	Agana
	Mabel Daniza Hernandez Gutíerrez	Chinautla
	Angelique Johanna Gerarda Cremers	Schinveld
	Claudia Maria Paz Valledares	San Pedro Sula
	Pauline Yeung Bo-Ling	Hong Kong
	Anna Margret Jonsdóttir	Reykjavik
India	Manisha Kohli	Bombay
	Adrienne Rock	Dublin
	Lesley Elizabeth Henthorn	Jurby
	Ya'el Gerthler	Rehovot
	Barbara Martinuzzi	Turin
	Janice Nadine Whittingham	Kingston
	Keiko Unno	Tokyo
	Sheila Linda Kegode	Nairobi
	Chung Myoung-sun	Seoul
	Josiane Haddad	Beirut
	Claudine Atten	Erpeldange
	Olivia Maria do Rosario	Macau
Malaysia	Sheela Shankar	Kuala Lumpur
	Joanne Corser	Gzira
	Marie-France Geraldine Mamet	Grand Bay
Mexico	Elizabeth Carrillo Iturrios	Mazatlan
New Zealand	Karyn Annemarie Therese Meltcaf	Manukau
	Mary Ngazi Bienoseh	Benue
Norway	Mette Veiseth	Namsos
	Maria Cordelia Denis Urriola	Panama City
	Harriet Joan Warren	Port Moresby
	Lourdes Beatriz Stanley Barranda	Hohenhau
	Suzette Marie Woodman Denegri	Lima
Philippines	Maria Lourdes Manalili Apostol	Manila
	Monika Ewa Nowosadko	Kolobrzeg
	Paula Isabel Leal do Sousa	Lisbon
	Jennifer Elvina Hensley	Basseterre
	Nicole Camille Hadaway	Kingstown
	Janicia Koh Wee Ling	Singapore
	Sonsoles Artigas Medero	Las Palmas
	Priyanjali Marina Frances de Alwis	Dehiwala
	Phindile Patricia Simelane	Mbabane
	Karin Agneta Charlotta Trydell	Laholm
	Gabriela Bigler	Berne
	Benjawan Srilapan	Bangkok
	Maria del Valle Xavier	Diego Martin
	Sebnem Dincgor	Istanbul
	Edna Elizabeth Smith	Grand Turk
United Kingdom	Karen Mellor	Barnsley
United States	Clotlide Helen Cabrera	Tampa Bay
	Monica Ines Borrea Vicente	Montevideo
Venezuela	Albani Josefina Lozada Jimenez	Acarigua
	Ainslie Berking	Apia
	Matilda Sazdova	Skopje

Trivia

Returning countries and Debuts

• Belize and Cook Islands competed in Miss World for the first time.
• Argentina and Papua New Guinea last competed in 1981. Argentina returned to Miss World after a 6-year war in the Falkland Islands which brought its dispute against the United Kingdom.
• Curaçao, and Nigeria last competed in 1985.

Withdrawals and Nations not competing

• British Virgin Islands, and Sierra Leone did not compete in Miss World because of the national pageant postponement.

Other Notes

• This is the first time that Miss World has twelve semi-finalists, and six out of the semi-finalists went straight into the Top 6 finalists.
• Preliminary swimsuits in Miss World 1987 were shot in the island of Malta.
• Hong Kong's Pauline Yeung Bo Ling went on to place as 4th runner-up in Miss Universe 1988 which was held in Taiwan. She is the highest placed Miss Hong Kong at both pageants. She is also the first and so far only Hong Kong representative to win the Queen of Asia award. Iceland, Anna Margret Jonsdóttir, who placed as 2nd runner-up in Miss World, failed to put her through into the semi-finals in Miss Universe 1988.
• First time records:
  • United Kingdom failed to make into the semi-finals after 30 years, while United States after 11 years.
  • Guam had received the award for Queen of Oceania for the first time other than Australia and New Zealand.
• 78 contestants sang God Bless The Children as their production number while wearing evening gowns.
• Belgium and Bermuda did not compete in Miss Universe 1987 because of scheduling conflicts in which the pageant took place in May of that same year.
• 9 out of 12 countries which made it into the semifinals, were not in the semifinals last year: France (1980), Argentina (1981), Guam (1982), Hong Kong (1983), Holland (1984), and Iceland, Israel, and Poland (1985). Nigeria had made into the semi-finals for the first time since its debut in 1963.

Contestants Preliminary Scores

External Sources

• Official site