First Olympic Champions From Each Country

On the afternoon of April 6, 1896, the opening ceremony of the very first modern Olympic Games took place at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, Greece

 

The Panathenaic Stadium during the 1896 Athens Olympics or the Games of the I Olympiad

 

James Brendan Connolly (a Harvard University student) from the USA won the men's triple jump in the 1896 Olympics becoming the first modern Olympics champion and first gold medallist of any country.

 

Discus thrower Halina Konopacka from Poland is the very first woman in Olympic history to give a first gold medal to her country by winning in the 1928 Amsterdam Games.

 

Tennis player Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain is the first woman Olympic gold medallist when she won the women's singles in the 1900 Paris Olympics.

 

Weightlifting at the 1896 Olympics

 

Swimming at the 1896 Olympics. All swimming events took place at the Piraeus coast off the Bay of Zea on April 11, 1896. There is a total of 13 swimming participants all are male as was true of all Olympic events that year. Women did not swim in the Olympics until 1912. The organizers refused to spend money to build a swimming stadium yet around 20,000 spectators showed up to witness the swimming competition among them is King George I of Greece. There were no diving blocks in the first Olympics. The competitors were taken into the bay by boat to leap into the frigid waters. The Bay of Zea was extremely cold at the time affecting the performance of the swimmers. It was noted that the water temperature was between 53 and 57 degrees Fahrenheit while the air temperature was only 64 degrees Fahrenheit.

 

The British 4x100 relay team which competed at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics were among the first women to compete in swimming.

 

The participating countries at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

Winning an Olympic medal is already a great honor and glory to a nation but winning the Olympic gold is monumentally celebrated in the entire nation which accomplished that feat with their Olympic champions. By achieving the top podium in the sporting world's highest competition it is a bragging right for every nation to have an Olympic champion and put their beloved nation on the map of Olympic champion countries. 

Over 100 countries have won at least a gold medal at the Olympics. This is the list of first gold medal winners (male or female, Summer or Winter) from each country. For some countries, there were numerous gold medalists at the same Olympiad, and in these cases, we have looked closely at the events and dates and determined which of the athletes won their medal first and brought the first Olympic glory to their nation.

There are special delegations that also won gold medals at these games that are also worth mentioning here are included below.

                             

Country/territory	Year	Notes
Algeria	1992	Hassiba Boulmerka won gold in the women's 1,500 meters run.
Argentina	1924	The Argentinian team won the men's polo tournament
Armenia	1996	Armen Nazaryan won the men's flyweight (52 kg.) Greco-Roman wrestling.

Australia	1896	Athletics men's 1500-meter run won by Edwin Harold Flack
Austria	1896	Swimming men's 500 freestyle won by Paul Neumann
Azerbaijan	2000	Shooting women's skeet Zemfira Meftəkhətddinova

Bahamas	1964	Sailing two-person keelboat, Durward Knowles and Cecil Cooke
Bahrain	2012	Athletics women's 1500 meter run won by Maryam Yusuf Jamal
Belarus	1996	Rowing women's single sculls won by Ekaterina Karsten

Belgium	1900	Equestrian individual jumping won by Aimé Haegeman
Bermuda	2021	Triathlete Flora Duffy won the women's triathlon at Tokyo 2020
Brazil	1920	Shooting men's 30-meter rapid-fire pistol won by Guilherme Paraense

Bulgaria	1956	Wrestling men's freestyle middleweight won by Nikola Stanchev
Burundi	1996	Athletics men's 5000 meters won by Vénuste Niyongabo

Cameroon	2000	Football, men's tournament won by Cameroon men's team
Canada	1900	Athletics men's 2500 m steeplechase won by George Washington Orton
Chile	2004	Tennis men's doubles won by Fernando González and Nicolás Massú

China	1984	Shooting men's 50-meter pistol won by Xu Haifeng
Chinese Taipei	2004	Taekwondo women's (49 kg.) flyweight won by Chen Shih-Hsin and men's (58 kg.) flyweight won by Chu Mu-Yen
Colombia	2000	The weightlifting women's (75 kg.) heavyweight category was won by María Isabel Urrutia.

Costa Rica	1996	Swimming women's 200 m. freestyle won by Claudia Poll
Croatia	1996	Handball Croatia men's national team won the tournament
Cuba	1900	Fencing Ramón Fonst won the men's individual épée

Czech Republic	1996	Canoeing women's slalom singles kayak won by Štěpánka Hilgertová
Czechoslovakia	1924	Gymnastics men's rope climbing won by Bedřich Šupčík
Denmark	1896	Weightlifting men's two-hand lift won by Viggo Jensen

Dominican Republic	2004	Athletics men's 400 m hurdles won by Félix Sánchez
East Germany	1968	Athletics men's 50-kilometer walk won by Christoph Höhne
Ecuador	1996	Athletics men's 20-kilometer walk won by Jefferson Pérez

Egypt	1928	Weightlifting men's light heavyweight (-82.5 kg.) won by El-Sayed Nosseir
Estonia	1920	Weightlifting men's lightweight (67.5 kg.) won by Alfred Neuland
Ethiopia	1960	Athletics men's marathon won by Abebe Bikila

 

Fiji	2016	Rugby Sevens won by Fiji men's national rugby sevens team
Finland	1908	Wrestling men's Greco-Roman light-heavyweight won by Verner Weckman
France	1896	Fencing, men's individual foil won by Eugène Henry Gravelotte

 

Georgia	2004	Judo, men's middleweight (90 kg.) won by Zurab Zviadauri
Germany	1896	The gymnastics men's vault was won by Carl Schuhmann. Several  German gymnasts competed on April 9th, 1896 winning gold. Individual golds were won by Hermann Weingärtner, Carl Schuhmann, and Alfred Flatow.
Great Britain	1896	Weightlifting men's one-hand lift won by Launceston Elliot

 

Greece	1896	Fencing men's individual master's foil won by Leonidas Pyrgos
Grenada	2012	Athletics men's 400 meters won by Kirani James
Hong Kong	1996	Sailing women's mistral won by Lee Lai Shan

 

Hungary	1896	Swimming men's 100-meter freestyle won by Alfred Hajos
India	1928	Field Hockey won by India men's national field hockey team(British India Team)
Indonesia	1992	Badminton women's singles won by Susi Susanti

 

Iran	1956	Wrestling men's freestyle lightweight won by Emam Ali Habibi. Gholamreza Takhti also won gold in men's freestyle light heavyweight on the same evening
Ireland	1928	Athletics men's hammer throw won by Pat O'Callaghan
Israel	2004	Sailing men's mistral one design won by Gal Fridman

Italy	1900	Equestrian open  jumping high jump won by Gian Giorgio Trissino
Ivory Coast	2016	Taekwondo, men's (80 kg.) welterweight won by Cheick Sallah Cissé
Jamaica	1948	Athletics men's 400-meter run won by Arthur Wint

Japan	1928	Athletics men's triple jump won by Mikio Oda
Jordan	2016	Taekwondo men's (68 kg) featherweight won by Ahmad Abu-Ghaush
Kazakhstan	1994, 1996	Cross-country skiing. Kazakhstan's first Olympic champion came from the winter sport of cross-country skiing courtesy of Vladimir Smirnov in the men's 50 km. (classical)  Kazakhstan's first Summer Olympic gold medal came two years later from wrestling courtesy of Yuriy Melnichenko in the men's Greco-Roman (57 kg) bantamweight division

Kenya	1968	Athletics. men's 10,000-meter run won by Naftali Temu
Kosovo	2016	Judo. women's 52 kg won by Majlinda Kelmendi
Kuwait	2016	Shooting. men's double trap won Fehaid Al-Deehani. Kuwait shooter  Fehaid Al-Deehani won a gold medal in the men's Double Trap, though he competed as Independent Olympic Athletes under the Olympic flag due to  Kuwait being suspended.

Latvia	2000	Gymnastics men's floor exercise won by Igors Vihrovs
Liechtenstein	1980	Alpine skiing. women's giant slalom won by Hanni Wenzel The tiny nation of Liechtenstein never won a Summer Olympic medal but they already have a total of 10 medals all from alpine skiing  with their first medal which is a bronze they won in the 1976 Games in Innsbruck, Austria
Lithuania	1992	Athletics. men's discus throw won by Romas Obartas

Luxembourg	1952	Athletics. The men's 1500-meter run was won by Josy Barthel. In 1900, an athlete from Luxembourg Michel Théato won the gold in the marathon but the win has been credited to France. In 1924 Jean Jacoby won gold in the painting Olympic art competition. In 1952, Josy Barthel won Luxembourg's first-ever official Olympic gold medal in a sporting event when he narrowly won the men's 1500 meters.
Mexico	1948	Equestrian. The individual jumping was won by Humberto Mariles and by the team jumping event.  Mexico's first-ever gold came in 1948 when Humberto Mariles (Equestrian) and the equestrian team of Humberto Mariles, Rubén Uriza, and Alberto Valdés both won gold medals in their events in London, England.
Mongolia	2008	Judo. Men's (100 kg.) Half-Heavyweight was won by Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar

Morocco	1984	Athletics. The women's 400-meter hurdle was won by Nawal El Moutawakel
Mozambique	2000	Athletics. The women's 800-meter run was won by Maria Mutola
Netherlands	1900, 1920	Rowing. Men's Coxed Pairs won by François Brandt and Roelof Klein.  Sailing. 6.5 meter won by Joop Carp, Berend Carp and Piet Wernink  In the 1900 Paris Olympics, a coxed pair mixed team of mostly Dutchmen won the gold medal including Francois Brandt and Roelof Klein. Dutch Hermanus Brockmann is the coxswain for the team in the semifinals but not in the finals in which an unknown French boy participated as the coxswain. Brockmann is considered a gold medalist by the IOC and is listed in that organization's medal database. Despite information from some sources (DutchNews), the IOC continues to attribute this medal to Mixed Team, as it must be shown in the  IOC database. Netherlands' first official Olympic gold medal came twenty years later in  Antwerp when the 6.5-meter Dutch sailing team consisting of Joop Carp, Berend Carp, and Piet Wernink won first place.

New Zealand	1928	Boxing. The men's welterweight division was won by Ted Morgan  New Zealander Victor Lindberg was part of the Osborne Swimming Club representing Great Britain which won gold in water polo in 1900. Competing for Australasia, New Zealander Malcolm Champion was part of the gold medal-winning team swimming 4 x 200 meters freestyle relay.  Their first ever Olympic gold as an independent country was in 1928 when boxer Ted Morgan took the top spot in the men's welterweight division.
Nigeria	1996	Athletics. Women's long jump won by Chioma Ajunwa
North Korea	1972	Shooting. Mixed open 50-meter rifle (small-bore rifle) prone won by Ri Ho-jun

Norway	1908	Shooting. Men's 300-meter free rifle three positions won by Norway's men's national shooting team
Pakistan	1960	Field Hockey. The men's event was won by Pakistan national field hockey team
Panama	2008	Athletics. Irving Jahir Saladino Aranda won Panama's first and only gold medal at the Olympics in the athletics men's long jump event.

Peru	1948	Shooting. The men's 50-meter pistol event was won by Edwin Vásquez
Philippines	2021	Weightlifting. The women's 55 kg (featherweight) was won by Hidilyn Diaz held on July 26, 2021, a delayed date due to the global Covid-19 pandemic.
Poland	1928	Athletics. The women's discus throw was won by Halina Konopacka.

Puerto Rico	2016	Tennis. The women's singles were won by Monica Puig
Qatar	2021	Weightlifting. The men's 96 kgs. category was won by Meso Hassouna held in 2021 delayed date due to the global Covid-19 pandemic but it is still officially called the 2020 Tokyo Olympics or the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Romania	1952	Shooting. Men's 50-meter rifle (small bore) prone was won by Iosif Sîrbu

Russia	1994, 1996	Speed skating. Russia's first Olympic champion was won by Aleksandr Golubev in Men's 500 m speedskate in the 1994 Winter Olympics. Fencing and shooting. Russia's first Summer Olympic gold came from the Men's saber won by Stanislav Pozdnyakov and women's 10-meter air pistol won by Olga Klochneva
Russian Empire	1908	Figure Skating. The men's special figures won by Nikolai Panin
Soviet Union	1952	Athletics. Women's discus throw was won by Nina Ponomaryova

Serbia	2012	Taekwondo. Women's (+67 kg.) heavyweight won by Milica Mandić
Serbia & Montenegro	1996	Shooting. Women's 50-meter rifle (small bore) three positions won by Aleksandra Ivošev
Singapore	2016	Swimming. Men's 100-meter butterfly was won by Joseph Schooling Singapore's first Olympic gold medal was won in 2016 by swimmer Joseph Schooling in the men's 100-meter butterfly, beating a trio of tied second-place getters which included Michael Phelps.

Slovakia	1996	Canoeing. Men's C-1 slalom event won by Michal Martikán
Slovenia	2000	Shooting. Men's 50 meters (small bore) rifle 3 positions won by Rajmond Debevec Rowing. Men's double sculls won by the pair of Iztok Čop and Luka Špik Many Slovenians won gold while representing Yugoslavia. Competing as an independent nation, the first gold medal was won by Rajmond Debevec in the 50m  3 position Small-Bore Rifle event in 2000. The pair Luka Špik and Iztok Čop also won gold on the same day in the men's double sculls rowing event.
South Africa	1908	Athletics. Men's 100-meter run won by Reggie Walker

South Korea	1976	Wrestling. Men's freestyle (62 kg.) featherweight division was won by Yang Jung-mo
Spain	1900	Basque Pelota. Men's two-man team won by José de Amézola and Francisco Villota
Suriname	1988	Swimming. Men's 100-meter butterfly won by Anthony Nesty

Sweden	1908	Shooting. Men's single-shot running deer was won by Oscar Swahn In 1900, a combined Sweden/Denmark mixed team in the tug of war made up of three competitors from each country defeated the French team to win the title. It was Sweden's first unofficial Olympic gold medal. In the London Olympic Games of 1908, Oscar Swahn won Sweden's first official Olympic gold medal, winning in single-shot running deer shooting. At 64 years and 258 days of age, he became the oldest gold medallist ever, a record he still holds.
Switzerland	1896	Gymnastics. Men's pommel horse was won by Louis Zutter
Syria	1996	Athletics. The women's heptathlon was won by Ghada Shouaa

Tajikistan	2016	Athletics. Men's hammer throw won by Dilshod Nazarov                                                                     In 1972, Yury Lobanov became the first athlete from Tajikistan to win an Olympic gold medal, winning gold in the 1000 m sprint canoe event with Lithuanian Vladas Česiūnas, though they were competing for the Soviet Union. The nation of Tajikistan officially won an Olympic gold medal for the first time when Dilshod Nazarov won the men's hammer throw at the 2016 Rio Games.
Thailand	1996	Boxing. Men's Featherweight was won by Somluck Kamsing.
Trinidad & Tobago	1976	Athletics. Men's 100 meter-run was won by Hasely Crawford

Tunisia	1968	Athletics. Men's 5000 meters was won by Mohammed Gammoudi
Turkey	1936	Wrestling. The men's Greco-Roman featherweight category was won by Yaşar Erkan
Uganda	1972	Athletics. Men's 400-meter hurdles was won by John Akii-Bua

Ukraine	1996	Wrestling. Men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight (90 kg.) category was won by Vyacheslav Oleynyk
UAE	2004	Shooting. Men's double trap was won by Ahmed Al-Maktoum
USA	1896	Athletics. The men's triple jump was won by James Brendan Connolly. The first Olympic champion of the modern games, James Brendan Connolly is the first Olympic gold medallist for any country

Uruguay	1924	Football. Men's football was won by the Uruguayan men's national football team.
Uzbekistan	2000	Boxing. The men's light welterweight was won by Mahammatkodir Abdullaev The nation's first gold medal was earned by Mahammatkodir Abdoollayev who went undefeated in the men's lightweight category in boxing at the 2000 Sydney Summer Olympic Games. Uzbek athletes may have won medals previously when competing as part of the Soviet Union from 1952 to 1988.
Venezuela	1968	Boxing. Men's light flyweight was won by Francisco Rodríguez

Vietnam	2016	Shooting. Men's 10-meter air pistol was won by Hoàng Xuân Vinh
West Germany	1968	Athletics. The women's pentathlon event was won by Ingrid Becker
Yugoslavia	1924	Gymnastics. Men's horizontal bar was won by Leon Štukelj

Zimbabwe            1980                  Field Hockey. The women's event was won by Zimbabwe's national 

                                                       field hockey team. 

Special delegations and not an actual nation

Australasia                              1908            Rugby Union. Australian national rugby union team won the men's rugby
                                                                   union tournament

IOA                                         2016           Shooting. Men's double trap was won by Fehaid Al-Deehani, a Kuwaiti

Mixed Teams                          1896           Tennis. Men's doubles won by John Boland (GBR) and Fritz Traun (GER)

OAR                                       2018            Figure skating. Ladies singles was won by Alina Zagitova

Unified Team                          1992           Cross-country skiing. Women's 15 km. classical won by Lyubov Yegorova

Acronyms

IOA  - Independent Olympic Athletes

OAR - Olympic Athletes from Russia 

                                                                            

Sources:

Top End Sports - https://www.topendsports.com/

Endless Pools - https://www.endlesspools.com/blog/post/this-day-in-swimming-the-1st-modern-olympics-1896

Greek Reporter - https://greekreporter.com/2021/04/08/the-first-modern-olympics-are-held-in-greece-in-april-1896/

Filipino Cinema, Celebrities, Actors and Actress Trivia Part 5

Marlene Dauden is known as the Sophia Loren of the Philippines as she was promoted by her motion picture studio or production company as such since she has this striking resemblance to the Italian Hollywood actress.

Victor Wood

Engelbert Humperdinck

Ray Charles

Tom Jones

Tom Jones for his bass, Engelbert Humperdinck for his midrange, and Ray Charles for his high tone inspired the Filipino singer Victor Wood on his hit song "I'm Sorry, My Love" to create his own singing style. 

Shirley Endoso is the real name of Shirley Gorospe, a Filipino actress who was originally a beauty queen titled Miss Philippines-California was born in Hawaii to an Ilocano father and Portuguese mother. She starred in quite a number of films opposite actor Zaldy Zshornack who eventually became her husband.

Garizaldy Zshornack, the son of Zaldy Zshornack and Shirley Gorospe who eventually became a transgender entertainer in the 1980s changed his name to Christine Endoso Burdick or simply known as Coco.

Rosa del Rosario, a popular Filipino actress in the 1930s and 1940s who was the first to portray Darna in a film was born on December 15, 1917, as Rose del Rosario Stagner in Bacolor, Pampanga to an American father Frank H. Stagner and Filipina mother Agustina del Rosario.

Yolanda Marquez was a Filipino actress in the 1930s who came from an affluent family and was born on January 1, 1920, in San Francisco, California to Generoso Hernandez, a lawyer from Macabebe, Pampanga, and a Mexican mother.

 

Lota Delgado was a Filipino prewar actress in the 1930s and the 1940s whose first film appearance  was in the 1939 Gregorio Fernandez film, Ang Magsasampaguita.

Paraluman (born Sigrid Sophia Agatha de Torres von Giese) is a popular Filipina actress who started her film career in the 1940s and rose to prominence in the 1950s studied in Araullo High School but abruptly stopped her schooling at the outbreak of World War II and went back to making films in the late 1940s.

 

Ben Perez is the love interest of Rosa del Rosario in the very first Darna film of the same title in 1951 directed by Fernando Poe Sr.

 

Letty Alonzo, an actress who was typecasted as a villain in the 1950s was the grandmother of actress Valeen Montenegro being the wife of her grandfather Mario Montenegro.

 

Alma Moreno had a kissing scene with the Sampaguita Pictures actor Luis Gonzales in the 1977 Elwood Perez film Sugar Daddy.

 

Jess Lapid Sr. was shot in Lanai Club in Quezon City on July 13, 1968, allegedly by a member of the BIG 4 syndicate who extort money from film personalities in the 1960s whom he and his group including Fernando Poe Jr. brought to justice.

 

Robert Lee, a Filipino actor in the 1970s. He was known as one of the three "Bruce Lee of the Philippines" along with Ramon Zamora and Rey Malonzo. According to the unpublished memoirs Pinoywood Central Casting by Nick Nicholson, a few years after the release of the film The Firebird Conspiracy, Robert Lee was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer and he committed suicide.

Tessie Agana is a Filipino and part Italian who was born Maria Teresa Rigotti Agana on May 16, 1943 to Filipina actress Linda Estrella (born Consuelo Rigotti) and Dr. Adriano Agana in Manila. Linda Estrella her mother was born on December 3, 1922 in Pandan, Catanduanes to Jose Alcala Rigotti a Filipino of Italian descent from Albay and Francisca Vera from Catanduanes.

 

Lydia Montañez is a Filipino actress of the 1950s of Russian lineage. She was born Tatiana Simbulan Korionoff on April 28, 1933 in Arayat, Pampanga to Victor Pavlov Korionoff and Marcelina Lising Simbulan.

 

Rudy Fernandez with the namesake of a Filipino actor was a para-athlete and Western Institute of Technology physical education teacher from Iloilo. He was born Rodolfo "Rudy" Fernandez on December 5, 1947. He won the PRISAA (Private Schools Athletics Association) Sports Meet gold medal in the 1500 and 5000 meter run in the late 60s, became a national team track star, and was once ranked no. 1 in the country in the 1500 meters (3:56) in the early 70s. He won a medal in the Pesta Sukan games. He was hit by shrapnel by a bombing in the Allegro theater in Iloilo City in 1978 where he was watching that caused him to be amputated. After the incident, he became a para-athlete. He swam the Iloilo Strait from Iloilo City to Guimaras island setting a new record. He died peacefully on January 2, 2022

 

Hazel Ann Mendoza was also known by her other screen name Pupi Pla was a child actress of the late 1990s and 2000s.

 

Patricia Ann Roque was a child actress in the 1990s and eventually became a television host and personality and sports anchor.

Photo Source: 

Alex Castro - https:/viewsfromthepampang.blogspot.com

Simon Santos - https://video48.blogspot.com/

Ugliest Miss World Winners

The Miss World pageant is a 70-year-old pageant that was founded by the Morley couple - Eric and Julia Morley a competition for the most beautiful woman in the world. The beauty contest is mostly held in London, United Kingdom from its inception in 1951 until 1987 and since then various locations around the world has hosted the event. 

Although most of the winners of this contest are really beautiful and standout winners in their respective years, no beauty pageant is perfect and Miss World is no exception. There are years when the chosen winner is not the standard definition of what we call conventionally beautiful and gorgeous but as some pageant makes some excuses that beauty has evolved and not just the physical attributes of a woman should be the standard in selecting the ultimate winner. While we may agree that beauty has evolved let us be reminded that physical attributes including beautiful face and body should still be one of the criteria because that is one of the reasons why people glued to their television, admire and are inspired by this contest from the very beginning until now so beauty contest should not negate too far from this one. There are some reasons why these not so pretty winners are selected including being a former British colony, a fellow European country, or even places with British interests are just some of the factors why they are chosen to wear the blue crown. These hideous winners sometimes are just headscratchers while some generate some harsh reactions, incite debate and discussions, or worse spark outrage, fury, and yield to scandals and controversies that last for years. The beauty contest itself is boring - the format is boring, the criteria for selection of the semifinalists and winners are confusing and shrouded in mystery, skepticism, and cynicism plus there are no real criteria in the finals crowning in selecting the finalists and eventual winner and most of all the entire final show is a snoozefest it bored me to tears but what is ridiculous is that many countries are participating in this contest because of its cheap franchise fee and participation and just to have fun and enjoy the places and the activities of the contest.  

The selections were based on the time they won the pageant not what they become after the pageant so whatever they become after it is not included in the selection and description as the matter of fact the very nature of the beauty pageant itself is in the name and physical characteristics and attributes as one of the original criteria for the selection of the winner and it should not be taken away from the concept of beauty pageant however the contest has evolved nowadays since it is one of the main reasons why people are still admiring beauty pageants and watching either live on the venue itself or on their television.

Only one disclaimer though – I don’t mean to offend anyone most especially pageant lovers and fanatics of their respective beauty queens but this is just my opinion and this is my perception as beauty is visible to the naked eye but still, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Here are some of the selected ugliest winners in Miss World history which became infamous and controversial over time:

 

22. 1991 - Ninibeth Leal (Venezuela) 

The 20-year-old flat face which looks like it was shaped by a bulldozer and whose mouth is as wide as that of a barracuda won the title in 1991 in Atlanta, Georgia the first time it was held in the United States. I am not sure if Ninibeth Leal would be the deserving Miss World winner that year knowing that there are far more stunning women in the competition than her.

21. 1978 - Silvana Suarez (Argentina) 

I find nothing special with this girl who is a head-scratcher for me and looks dull, boring and uninspiring and I wonder what Eric Morley is thinking for choosing this woman as the most beautiful woman in the world in 1978 except that the Falklands Island which is a British colony since 1833 was invaded by Argentine military forces in 1982 which Argentina lay claims on until now as a show of favor to ease the tension between the two countries who lay claim and interests on the islands.

20. 1997 - Diana Hayden (India) 

She is another skinny and ordinary peasant-looking woman from a very remote poor village who was shockingly elected to be the prettiest woman in the world in 1997 held in the exotic island of Seychelles. There is only one reason I can think of this happen is that India is a former colony of Great Britain for almost a hundred years and we all know Miss World and the Morley couple mostly favored former colonies and territories, European countries, and other places which the British have an interest on to win on their Miss World pageant.

19. 1975 - Wilnelia Merced (Puerto Rico) 

Merced looks like a transgender drag queen slash whore so I was so surprised why she won this contest. She deserved to be in a brothel or any place in the red light district not in a beauty pageant.

18. 2009 - Kaiane Aldorino (Gibraltar) 

Another plain jane won in 2009 in the person of Kaiane Aldorino from Gibraltar. Aldorino looks pale, sleepy, boring, uninterested, lousy, and uninspiring before, during, and after the pageant finals upsets everyone when she won over the heavily favored and super stunning and super smart Perla Beltran of Mexico who only ends up 2nd place or 1st runner-up to her. Julia Morley took the chance to favor the British territory south of Spain in the Mediterranean to be crowned the 59th Miss World held in Johannesburg, South Africa that year hosted by the ever boring Steve Douglas, former Miss World 1991 Top 5 and Miss Universe 1992 winner from Namibia Michelle Mclean and the worst of all the ever awkward, humiliating, snoozefest with a ridiculous accent Angela Chow who hosted the show for unprecedented, unbelievably ridiculous several years.

17. 1999 - Yukta Mookhey (India) 

Again the favorite former British colony won this ridiculous pageant with a skinny, bony, and walking skeleton with a large bulging eyes of a bullfrog with Yukta Mookhey, India's third win in just six years and fourth overall. I can't fathom why so many countries participating in this contest when it absolutely plays favoritism and biases not on the contestants' performance oh maybe cheap franchise fee and participation is good enough to see beautiful places.

16. 1992 - Julia Kourotchkina (Russia) 

A Russian silky black hair won the 42nd title of the pageant held for the first time in South Africa in Sun City where 83 of the world's loveliest tried their luck yet the chubby and pufferfish face won the judges and the first crown for Russia.

15. 2005 - Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir (Iceland) 

For the third consecutive year more than a hundred contestants went to Sanya, China also for the third consecutive year of hosting Miss World saw 102 prettiest women on the planet competing for the blue crown shockingly won by this boring, sleepy, snoozefest, uninspiring, lazy and parasitic worm (tapeworm, hookworm) infested woman from Iceland Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir which should have gone to a much more deserving lady say Mexico or Puerto Rico who end up winning 1st runner-up and 2nd runner-up respectively. It is surprisingly a competitive year with too many competitive and lovely contestants chasing the dream of becoming a beauty queen titleholder the likes of Italy, Tanzania, Canada, England, India, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Spain, US Virgin Islands, and Australia among others. In due time, fate has bestowed her the karma and she took the fall literally as a video surfaced about her on a beauty contest appearance as a special guest to crown a successor when she awkwardly and humiliatingly fell on her knees with her blue gown with high slit and crown on top of her head toppling to the ground and she looks embarrassed and ridiculous like a lost cause girl and helped by an escort to be on stage and a telltale sign she does not deserve and worthy of the Miss World crown.

14. 1982 - Mariasela Alvarez (Dominican Republic)

Another bland, boring plain jane girl won this contest in 1982 with the then 22-year-old Mariasela Alvarez of the Caribbean island nation of the Dominican Republic. She looks like a peasant primitive girl dressed up hastily and clumsily at the last minute to take part in a beauty contest. I find nothing spectacular in her but most especially in a lackluster edition of this beauty pageant which is only her redeeming factor.

13. 2018 - Vanessa Ponce (Mexico) 

To compensate for one of their biggest blunder in their 68-year old pageant they let this anorexic girl who looks like a chihuahua with her bulging eyes win the Miss World crown in 2018 the then 26-year old Vanessa Ponce. The Miss World Organization could have deservingly crowned the land of mariachi and sombreros on a perfect timing in 2009 with Perla Beltran but instead bestowed the crown, the sash, and the cape to their British colony in southern Spain - a boring and sleepy lazy Gibraltar, Kaiane Aldorino. But I have to admit in 2018 Mexico's Vanessa Ponce is really one of only two deserving contestants to win the title - the other one being France's Maeva Coucke.

 

12. 1989 - Aneta Kręglicka (Poland) 

The first time Miss World was held outside London, the United Kingdom it did not augur well when it was hosted by Hong Kong with the venue of the finals at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre in Wan Chai North district. The eventual winner was 24-year old Aneta Kreglicka from Poland, a skinny skeletal walking woman whose huge bulging eyes pokes out like a bullfrog or a bulldog. She is the first and remains the only Polish woman to win the coveted Miss World crown.

11. 1998 - Linor Abargil (Israel) 

Mahe, Seychelles hosted the event for the second consecutive year and it was a spectacular show. This tiny East African island nation was a gracious host and credited as one of the most beautiful Miss World editions ever with a memorable exotic event and format competition however the brilliance of the show was shut down and eclipsed by the lackluster result with a chubby, unattractive spaghetti hair Linor Abargil, an 18-year old wrestler err contestant who woos the-who inept judges. She was eighteen that year when she won the crown in 1998 but she looks like forty (40) years old. Her only redeeming factor was her dramatic story of being a rape victim-survivor.

10. 1990 - Gina Tolleson (USA) 

The 40th anniversary of Miss World was aptly celebrated in London, United Kingdom toasting the victory of an American woman from Spartanburg, South Carolina Gina Tolleson. She looks like a skinny Ursula of The Little Mermaid or a bitter godmother who turned into a witch and gave Snow White an apple or the bitter witches who were not invited to the baptism of Cinderella. Her mouth is also huge just like the mouth of a barracuda.

 

9. 1985 - Hólmfríður Karlsdóttir (Iceland) 

Edward Scissorhands' girlfriend won the Miss World 1985 in London, England. The 22-year-old native of Reykjavík, Iceland, Hólmfríður Karlsdóttir has a swollen face that I can compare to an elephant seal and her large mouth is comparable to the mouth of a hippopotamus and her big eyes are as big as the eyes of the tarsiers.

8. 2010 - Alexandria Mills (USA) 

There are so many gorgeous lovely women in America and I can't understand why she was chosen to represent the United States in the 60th edition of Miss World which took place once again in the island resort of Sanya in southern China even more ridiculous was my surprise when she won the title over 114th other more stunning, more gorgeous and more impressive women than her. She looks like an ugly duckling, an ordinary boring college student outcast and reclusive because she is shy and has enochlophobia.

7. 1987 - Ulla Weigerstorfer (Austria) 

The twenty-year-old student from Bad Aussee, Austria Ulla Weigerstorfer beats 77 other stunning contestants to win the Miss World 1987 crown from previous year's winner Gisele Laronde of Trinidad & Tobago. She looks anorexic and malnourished and has not been fed for a year and left to fend for herself. She looks like a Chinese crested dog who likes to bark often starving and hungry for that blue crown. This is another dismal bias year where the Miss World Organization favors its European countries' contestants albeit unworthy and undeserving.

6. 1981 - Pilin Leon (Venezuela) 

This winner really looks fierce as her last name definitely and appropriately describes her. Pilin Leon, an 18-year-old student from Maracay scared and terrified 66 more stunning and lovelier candidates than her with her looks, appearance, and face which looks like a crossbreed of a lion, a tiger, and a Tyrannosaurus Rex. She looks like a ferocious woman who fights back and bites all her haters, detractors, bashers, and bullies alike so no one dared to compete with her let alone question her winning.

5. 2004 - Maria Julia Mantilla (Peru) 

Twenty (20) year-old Trujillo, Peru native Maria Julia Mantilla won the second Miss World title for Peru in the 54th edition of Miss World held in Sanya, China for the third consecutive time besting 106 other hopefuls for the blue crown. I find her not uncommon as she looks like an ordinary woman in the street I have seen a million times and yet could not appreciate her and remember her not so beautiful face let alone overall physical appearance. She looks dull, boring, and dumb but overall typical sleazy and snoozefest bar girl who made the mistake of stepping in a pageant stage and the neurotic obnoxious salacious judges took notice because of her skinny figure and you know unsavory imagination about these women.

4. 2016 - Stephanie del Valle (Puerto Rico) 

This is one of the most disturbing editions of Miss World and six years later and onward people are still talking, discussing, and debating over this raucous humiliating event over its dismal result. Held at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, United States, the pageant drew 117 contestants and saw the winner 19-year-old student and San Juan native Stephanie del Valle taking home the second Miss World crown for Puerto Rico sparked debates, fury, and outrage among pageant fans and audiences around the world. Del Valle's winning was more questionable not just because she was not that conventionally beautiful but with her, the obnoxious somewhat weird face which makes her look like a proboscis monkey or a Californian condor but her somewhat mediocre unintelligible answer to the archaic question the pageant fans memorized for decades makes her unworthy to win maybe Top 5 or as a semifinalist at best. Philippines' Catriona Gray with her stunning beauty, regal dress, and finest answer in the Top 5 arguably the best among the finalists was heavily favored by many to win the Miss World crown but she ends up in a heartbreaking Top 5 with the runner up position that went to Dominican Republic's Yaritza Reyes and Indonesia's Natasha Mannuela respectively. Destiny and fate have been kind to her she redeemed herself and won a much higher title instead two years later - the 67th Miss Universe 2018 held in Bangkok, Thailand. Her true personality and nature were manifested when the 70th Miss World 2021 which suppose to happen in her native Puerto Rico in December 2021 which her events agency helped organized the event did not happen because at least seventeen (17) contestants and MWO personnel tested positive for COVID-19 and run away with the millions of dollars of money said to be the funding for the event. Again karma and fate take the responsibility to punish a Miss World winner as Stephanie del Valle is being sued for failure to stage the Miss World finals in December 2021 resulting in financial losses to the respective sponsors.

3. 2012 - Wen Xia Yu (China) 

Perhaps the worst edition of Miss World which took place in the Ordos, Mongolia in northern China as the result is manipulated and fixed by the Chinese accounting firm partner of Miss World Organization favoring their native Chinese contestant 23-year-old Wenxia Yu from Shangzhi who looks like a crossbred between Chinese giant salamander, anglerfish, blobfish, and viperfish. Australia, Wales, and even South Sudan who gave the most brilliant answer that night are way much more deserving winners than the woman coming from a country of neurotic, greedy, and colonialistic government and many (not all) psychotic people. Everything in this pageant finals is a mess, the introduction of contestants alone with Sierra Leone shoving and pushing away New Zealand due to their entangled dress is already ridiculously humiliating with the boring and overindulging Chinese folk dance stealing the limelight from the contestants, the tabulation board is confusing, complicated and difficult to understand I think a strategy and a deliberate attempt to cheat, manipulate and fixed the contest and the rest of the show is really a garbage contest the entire night. The rude, mean, unforgiving, and tactless audience even laughed at Australia when she slipped a bit when she was announced 2nd runner-up and lastly, Julia Morley shakingly announced the winner in a state of shock.

2. 2019 - Toni-Ann Singh (Jamaica) 

The most recent and current titleholder who also reigns the longest for over two years now due to the global Covid-19 pandemic is also one of the ugliest and worst decisions ever in Miss World with the ugly Toni Ann Singh who looks like she just recovers from typhus who is 23 years-old then winning the fourth Miss World crown for the Rastafarian nation another dismal year which saw the Miss World crowning again a favorite former British colony. She looks like a crossbred of frilled shark and hyena that I laughed hard salivating when she won. Her only redeeming factor is her superior answer compared to other finalists other than that, she looks like a hideous monster a crooked witch at best.

1. 1993 - Lisa Hanna (Jamaica) 

This is the worst and ugliest decision ever in Miss World history in what many pageant fans called BEAUTY and the BEASTS Miss World with the ugly winner Lisa Hanna who looks like she came from an outsider remote tribal group who remain uncivilized and untouched by the world who looks like a product of hybrid and genetic mutation of the hideous creatures on earth like monkfish, red-lipped batfish, aye-aye, naked mole-rat, and vulture. The hideous monster err primitive woman won over eighty (80) more stunning contestants including the gorgeous Philippines' Ruffa Gutierrez who quite give an impressive answer that night, Croatia Fani Capalija, Venezuela Monica Lei among other stunning contestants. Giving the title, honor, crown, and glory to its former colonies and fellow European countries and place with British interests is a penchant for the Miss World pageant.