Friday 26 September 2008

MISS UNIVERSE 1998

1998
Wendy Fitzwilliam
TRINIDAD/TOBAGO
Honolulu, Hawaii
USA



























1st runner-up Veruska Tatiana Ramirez
VENEZUELA
2nd runner-up Joyce Marie Giraud
PUERTO RICO
FINALISTS:
Silvia Fernanda Ortiz Guerra COLOMBIA
Shawnae Nicole Jebbia USA
SEMI-FINALISTS:
Michella Dauzacker Marchi BRAZIL
Lymaraina D'Souza INDIA
Andrea Roche IRELAND
Anna Malova RUSSIA
Kerishnie Naicker SOUTH AFRICA


1998 saw the 3rd black woman to win the crown and the second from Trinidad/Tobago in the person of Wendy Fitzwilliam. An unwelcome change, though, is made as television audiences no longer enjoyed the traditional parade of natios with delegates in National Costume but a glitzy fashion-show like slide show of each delegate sans preliminary scores

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