Thursday, 25 September 2008

MISS UNIVERSE 1988

1988
Porntip Nakhirunkanok
THAILAND
Taipei, Taiwan (Republic of China)























1st runner-up Chang Yoon Jung KOREA
2nd runner-up Amanda Beatriz Olivares
MEXICO
3rd runner-up Mizuho Sakaguchi JAPAN
4th runner-up Pauline Yeung HONG KONG
SEMI-FINALISTS
Diana Patricia Arevalo Guerra COLOMBIA
Patricia Jimenez DOMINICAN REPUBIC
Bente Charlotte Brunland NORWAY
Courtney Gibbs USA
Yajaira Cristina Vera Roldán VENEZUELA


The pageant presentation was one of the most spectacular to date as the stage for pageant night was transformed to a menagerie of moving figures and colorful sceneries complete with flowers, dragons, and butterflies. Media coverage though was less than spectacular. Yet, there were early favorites in the persons of Misses Venezuela, Mexico, and England. , Asians ruled on pageant night as 4 Asian delegates zoomed into the top 5 leaving preliminary toppers USA and Dominican Republic behind. Only Mexico was able to fight through this Asian wall. Thailand's Porntip Nakhirunkanok ran away with the title but not without stiff competition from Korea's Chang Yoon Jung.

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