Miss World 2012: Yu Wenxia, Miss China, Wins Beauty Crown
Last week, Yu Wenxia was Miss China. Now she’s Miss World 2012.
The beauty queen was crowned Miss World on Saturday. According to the Straitstimes, last year’s winner Ivian Sarcos of Venezuela crowned Wenxia at the Dongsheng stadium in China.
MissWorld.com reports that Wenxia beat out 116 contestants from around the world. Wenxia is the second woman from China to be crowned Miss World since 2007 when Zhang Zilin won the crown.
After winning the award, Wenxia said that she hoped to use the crown to make children around the world feel lucky.
Wenxia said:
“When I was young I felt very lucky because so many people helped me and I hope in the future, I can help more children to feel lucky.”
Sophie Elizabeth Moulds of Wales was the runner up at the beauty pageant, and Jessica Michelle Kahawaty of Australia came in third.
According to her bio on MissWorld.com, Yu Wenxia, 23, is a music student who wants to become a teacher.
Miss World writes:
“Wenxia studied music, and would like to become a music teacher. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, travelling, singing, dancing and playing the piano. She describes herself as someone who follows her dreams with a smile, and says her favourite food is dumplings.”
Here’s a video of Yu Wenxia.
Here are the opening ceremonies from Miss World 2012.
Did you watch the Miss World beauty contest?
Tags : miss china, miss world, miss world 2012, miss world video, xu wenxia
Posted: August 18, 2012
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Miss World is playing a really intense, it makes people nervous to track every step of the beautiful and also not at times fall back previous decisions of this organization.
Speaking of political factors in the competition. In 2010, the Norwegian representative are highly and almost touched to victory but eventually she just stopped in the top seven positions. Many people believe that it is the Chinese hosts for retaliatory action Norwegian Nobel Peace dare character against the Chinese government!
Some recent competitions organized by the Chinese are very coincidence that there are few neighbors present in the semi-finals such as Korea, Japan or Vietnam, but instead to Mongolia, Kazakhstan , Philippines, Thailand…
This year, with the new situation and with China as the host is almost certainly hardly crowned Miss Philippines even though she is highly valued and extremely impressive showing at this year's competition. For example followed by Israel also hardly touched to victory or Japan, Vietnam, Korea will continue to "clap" contribution fun at the finale.
Indeed, so far, especially about 2 years, so many beauty contest held in China, almost certainly the position of the candidate host the second lowest runner! Whether beautiful or ugly beauty that horrible to level five continents nao.Khan authors are woefully.
What a travesty of the manager Miss World…