Miss World 1997
Miss World 1997, the 47th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 22 November 1997 at the Plantation Club Seychelles in Baie Lazare, Seychelles. 86 delegates competed for the coveted crown. At the end of the event, India's Diana Hayden came out victorious. Hayden went on to win the Miss World 1997 pageant at the age of 24 crowned by Miss World 1996, Irene Skliva. It was the first time the Miss World pageant was held in the Seychelles. She became the third Indian woman to win Miss World since Reita Faria in 1966 and Aishwarya Rai in 1994.
Results
Placements
Continental Queens of Beauty
Contestants
- – Natalia Pombo
- – Michella Laclé Croes
- – Laura Csortan
- – Susanne Nagele
- – Alveta Adderley
- – Sandrine Corman
- – Mitzy Suárez Saucedo
- – Elma Terzić
- – Mpule Kwelagobe
- – Fernanda Rambo Agnes
- – Zoe Jennifer Walcott
- – Simona Velitchkova
- – Keri-Lynn Power
- – Carmelinda Gonçalves
- – Cassandra Powell
- – Paulina Mladinic
- – Gladys Buitrago Caicedo
- – Rebeca Escalante Trejas
- – Martina Novosel
- – Galatia Charalambidou
- – Terezie Dobrovolná
- – Carolina Estrella Peña
- – Clío Olaya Frías
- – Amel Shawky Soliman
- – Mairit Roonsar
- – Minna Lehtinen
- – Laure Belleville
- – Katja Glawe
- – Benita Sena Golomeke
- – Rosanna Ressa
- – Eugenia Limantzaki
- – Lourdes Mabel Valencia Bobadilla
- – Sonja Aldina Silva
- – Hansel Cristina Cáceres Teruel
- – Vivian Lee Ming-Wai
- – Beata Petes
- – Diana Hayden
- – Andrea Roche
- – Mirit Greenberg
- – Irene Lippi
- – Michelle Moodie
- – Shinobu Saraie
- – Līga Graudumniece
- – Joëlle Behlock
- – Asta Vyšniauskaitė
- Macau – Agnes Lo Vai Van
- – Arianna Teoh
- – Sarah Vella
- – Blanca Soto
- – Sheya Shipanga
- – Jharana Bajracharya
- – Lauralee Martinovich
- – Charlotte Høiåsen
- – Patricia Aurora Bremner Hernández
- – Mariela Quiñónez García
- – Claudia María Luque Barrantas
- – Kristine Rachel Florendo
- – Roksana Jonek
- – Icilia Silva Berenguel
- – Aurea Isis Marrero Nieves
- – Liudmila Popova
- – Michelle Lane
- – Jasmine Wong
- – Marietta Senčáková
- – Maja Šimec
- – Jessica Motaung
- – Kim Jin-ah
- – Nuria Avellaneda Gallego
- – Xoliswa Mkhonta
- – Sofia Joelsson
- – Tanja Gutmann
- – Fang Su-Ling
- – Saida Joy Kessys Sashays
- – Tanya Suesuntisook
- – Mandy Jagdeo
- – Çağla Şıkel
- – Lillian Acom
- – Kseniya Kuz'menko
- – Vicki-Lee Walberg
- – Sallie Toussaint
- – Taisha Regina Gomes
- – Ana González Kwasny
- – Christina Dieckmann Jiménez
- – Tamara Šaponjić
- – Tukuza Tembo
- – Una Patel
Replacements
- - Kerishnie Naicker - Due personal problems. She went next year to Miss Universe 1998 and Miss World 1998 where become Top 5 and Queen of Africa.