Miss World 1994

Miss World 1994, the 44th edition of the Miss World, was held on 19 November 1994 and marked the third consecutive staging of Miss World in Sun City, South Africa. The pageant attracted 87 contestants from around the world. At the end of the night, Aishwarya Rai of India, at the time a 21-year-old architecture student, was crowned the new Miss World. She was crowned by Miss World 1993, Lisa Hanna of Jamaica. Earlier that year, another Indian, Sushmita Sen had won the Miss Universe title, securing the two leading international beauty pageants for India in 1994.