Miss Universe 1989
Miss Universe 1989, the 38th Miss Universe pageant, was held at the Fiesta Americana Condesa Hotel in Cancún, Mexico, on 23 May 1989. Angela Visser of Holland was crowned by Porntip Nakhirunkanok of Thailand at the end of the event. Seventy-six contestants competed in the pageant.
Contestants
- – Luisa Norbis
- – Karina Felix
- – Karen Wenden
- – Bettina Berghold
- – Tasha Ramirez
- – Anne de Baetzelier
- – Andrea Sherman McKoy
- – Cornelia Furbert
- – Raquel Cors Ulloa
- – Flávia Cavalcanti
- – Viola Joseph
- – Juliette Powell
- – Carol Ann Balls
- – María Macarena Mina Garachena
- – María Teresa Egurrola Hinojosa
- – Luana Freer Bustamante
- – Anna Mosteiro
- – Louise Mejlhede
- – Anny Canaán Camido
- – María Eugenia Molina
- – Sally Attah
- – Beatriz López Rodríguez
- – Raquel Marie Jory
- – Åsa Lövdahl
- – Pascale Meotti
- – Tatiana Desoisa
- – Kristiana Latani
- – Naja-Rie Sorensen
- – Janice Santos
- – Helka Cuevas
- – Glaphyra Jean-Louis
- - Angela Visser
- – Frances Siryl Milla
- – Cynthia Yuk Lui Cheung
- – Guðbjörg Gissurardóttir
- – Dolly Minhas
- – Colette Jackson
- – Nicole Halperin
- – Christiana Bertasi
- – Sandra Foster
- – Eri Tashiro
- – Chris Scott
- – Carmen Cheah Swee
- – Sylvana Sammut Pandolfino
- – Jacky Randabel
- – Adriana Abascal
- – Shelley Soffe
- – Bianca Onoh
- – Soreen Villanueva
- – Lene Ornhoft
- – Ana Victoria Schaerer
- – Mariana Sovero
- – Sara Jane Paez
- – Joanna Gapińska
- – Anna Francisco Sobrinho
- – Catalina Villar
- – Chen Yen Ping
- – Camille Samuels
- – Victoria Susannah Lace
- – Pauline Chong
- South Korea – Kim Sung-ryung
- – Eva Pedraza
- – Veronica Ruston
- – Consuela Cruden
- – Louise Drevenstam
- – Karina Berger
- – Yonlada Ronghanam
- – Guenevere Helen Keishall
- – Jasmine Baradan
- – Sharon Simons
- – Gretchen Polhemus
- – Nathalie Lynch
- – Carolina Pies Riet
- – Eva Lisa Ljung
- – Andrea Caroline Jones
- – Andrea Stelzer
Returns
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Replacements
- – Miss France 1989, Stephanie "Peggy" Zlotkowski, was underage before February 1. During the competition in Cancun, she was replaced by her fourth runner-up, Pascale Meotti, in an emergency change.
- – Miss El Salvador 1988, Maria Eugenia Duarte, relinquished her national title to marry. Her first runner-up, Lucía Beatriz López Rodríguez, got the title.
- – Miss Iceland 1988, Linda Pétursdóttir, had won Miss World 1988. That disabled her from competing at Miss Universe 1989, so her first runner-up, Gudbjörg Gissurardóttir, went instead.
- - Miss Hong Kong 1988, Michelle Reis, withdrew due to her health issues at the time. Her first runner-up, Cynthia Cheung Yuk-Lui, went to Miss Universe 1989 instead.
Awards
- – Miss Amity
- – Miss Photogenic
- – Best National Costume