User:Mauriziok/Miss Universe 1996

Miss Universe 1996, the 45th Miss Universe pageant, was held on May 17, 1996 at Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Alicia Machado of Venezuela was crowned by Chelsi Smith from the United States at the end of the event. 79 contestants competed in this edition.

The pageant originally was scheduled to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa. However, for financial reasons, South Africa couldn't host the pageant and Miss Universe was moved to Las Vegas.

Contestants

 * 🇦🇷 - Verónica Ledezma
 * 🇦🇼 - Taryn Mansell
 * 🇦🇺 - Jodie McMullen
 * 🇧🇸 - Michelle Rae Collie
 * 🇧🇪 - Véronique De Kock
 * 🇧🇿 - Ava Lovell
 * 🇧🇴 - Natalia Cronenbold Aguilera
 *  - Jessy Viceisza
 * 🇧🇷 - Maria Joana Parizotto
 * 🇻🇬 - Linette Smith
 * 🇧🇬 - Maria Sinigerova
 * 🇨🇦 - Renette Cruz
 * 🇰🇾 Cayman Islands - Tasha Ebanks
 * 🇨🇱 - Andrea L'Huillier Troncoso
 * 🇨🇴 - Lina María Gaviria Forero
 * 🇨🇰 - Victoria Keil
 * 🇨🇷 - Dafne Zeledón Monge
 * 🇨🇼 - Vanessa Dorinda Mambi
 * 🇨🇾 - Froso Spyrou
 * 🇨🇿 - Renata Hornofová
 * 🇩🇰 - Anette Oldenborg
 * 🇩🇴 - Sandra Natasha Abreu Matusevicius
 * 🇪🇨 - Mónica Paulina Chalá Mejía
 * 🇪🇬 - Hadeel Abol-Naga
 * 🇸🇻 - Milena Mayorga
 * 🇪🇪 - Helen Mahmastol
 * 🇫🇮 - Lola Odusoga
 * 🇫🇷 - Laure Belleville
 * 🇩🇪 - Miriam Ruppert
 * 🇬🇭 - Pearl Amoah
 *  Great Britain - Anita St. Rose
 * 🇬🇷 - Nina Georgala
 * 🇬🇹 - Karla Hannelore Beteta Forkel
 * 🇭🇳 - Yazmín Rossana Fiallos Bosak
 *  British Hong Kong - Sofie Rahman
 * 🇭🇺 - Andrea Deak
 * 🇮🇸 - Hrafnhildur Hafsteinsdóttir
 * 🇮🇳 - Sandhya Chib
 * 🇮🇩 - Alya Rohali
 * 🇮🇪 - Joanne Black
 * 🇮🇱 - Liraz Mesilaty
 * 🇮🇹 - Anna Valle
 * 🇯🇲 - Trudi-Ann Ferguson
 * 🇰🇷 South Korea - Kim Yoon-jung
 * 🇱🇧 - Julia Syriani
 * 🇲🇾 - Adeline Ong Siew Fong
 * 🇲🇹 - Roseanne Farrugia
 * 🇲🇽 - Vanessa Guzmán
 * 🇳🇦 - Faghma Absolom
 * 🇳🇱 - Marja de Graaf
 * 🇳🇿 - Sarah Brady
 * 🇲🇵 - Belvilyn Ada Tenorio
 * 🇳🇴 - Inger Lise Ebeltoft
 * 🇵🇦 - Reyna Royo
 * 🇵🇾 Paraguay - Marta Elizabeth Lovera Parquet
 * 🇵🇪 - Natali Patricia Sacco Ángeles
 * 🇵🇭 Philippines - Aileen Leng Marfori Damiles
 * 🇵🇱 - Monika Chróścicka-Wnętrzak
 *  - Rita Carvalho
 * 🇵🇷 - Sarybel Velilla Cabeza
 * 🇷🇴 - Roberta Anastase
 * 🇷🇺 - Ilmira Shamsutdinova
 * 🇸🇬 - Angeline Putt
 * 🇸🇰 - Iveta Jankulárová
 * 🇿🇦 - Carol Anne Becker
 * 🇪🇸 - María José Suárez Benítez
 * 🇱🇰 - Shivanthini Dharmasiri
 * 🇸🇪 - Annika Duckmark
 * 🇨🇭 - Stéphanie Berger
 * 🇹🇼 - Chen Hsiao-Fen
 * 🇹🇭 - Nirachala Kumya
 * 🇹🇹 - Michelle Kahn
 * 🇹🇷 - Serpil Sevilay Ozturk
 * 🇹🇨 - Shaneika Lightbourne
 * 🇺🇦 - Irina Borisova
 * 🇺🇾 - Adriana Sandra Maidana
 * 🇺🇸 - Ali Landry
 * 🇻🇪 Venezuela - Alicia Machado Fajardo
 * 🇿🇼  - Langa Sibanda

Order of Introduction
The following table is the order of introduction in the Parade of Nations segment in the regional groups, randomly-ordered. The order was fixed from 1994 but edited with more nations.

Replacements

 *  – Elmira Tuyusheva won Miss Russia 1995 and was supposed to compete in Miss Universe. However, she decided to break her contract with the Miss Russia organization just 1 month before Miss Universe to pursue her career as a model and actress. As none of the Miss Russia 1995 pageant runners-up were eligible to replace her duties due to several reasons, the organizers decided to pick Ilmira Shamsutdinova as the official delegate of Russia in Miss Universe 1996. Shamsutdinova was Miss USSR 1991 but the Soviet Union split into fifteen countries that year.

Withdrawals

 * 🇬🇺 - Aileen Maravilla Villanueva
 * 🇯🇵 Japan - Miyuki Fujii
 * 🇸🇨 Seychelles
 * 🇿🇲 - Alice Banda
 * 🇸🇨 Seychelles
 * 🇿🇲 - Alice Banda
 * 🇸🇨 Seychelles
 * 🇿🇲 - Alice Banda
 * 🇿🇲 - Alice Banda

Returns

 * Last competed in 1993
 * Last competed in 1994
 * Last competed in 1994
 * Last competed in 1994

Did not compete

 * 🇬🇮 - Monique Chiara

Awards

 * 🇦🇺 - Miss Congeniality (Jodie McMullen)
 * 🇵🇭 Philippines - Miss Photogenic (Aileen Damiles)
 * 🇷🇺 - Best National Costume (Ilmira Shamsutdinova)