Mexico Wins Miss World 2018
The 68th edition of the Miss World pageant, held in Sanya, China, came off on Saturday,
December 8, 2018.
Taking home the crown for the evening was Miss Mexico Vanessa Ponce de Leon won the
Miss World 2018, and she is the first Mexican queen to ever win the title.
Vanessa beat 117 other queens from around the world, including Ghana’s Nana Ama Benson,
who was crowned Miss Ghana 2018 in Accra on Saturday, September 29, 2018, to
emerge winner.
Miss Mexico Vanessa Ponce de Leon, 26, has a degree in International Business, volunteers for
‘Migrantes en el Camino’ and is on the board of directors of a rehab centre for girls, according
to the Miss World website.
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The colourful also Miss World ceremony included US group Sister Sledge performing their 1979
disco anthem ‘We Are Family’.
Emerging the first runner-up however was Thailand’s Nicolene Pichapa Limsnukan, a
20-year-old studying Business Administration, with Miss Uganda Quiin Abenakyo
coming second runner-up.
Miss Uganda also won Miss World Africa for the continental category.
It is the
This however, becomes the eighth time the Miss World final has taken place in Sanya,
which first hosted the pageant in 2003.
