Miss China takes the Miss World crown
Miss World 2012 winner Yu Wenxia (C) of China waves as she walks to receive the crown during the pageant's final ceremony at the Dongsheng stadium in the inner Mongolian city of Ordos on August 18, 2012. China's Yu Wenxia of China defeated more than 100 other hopefuls at the glittering ceremony held in the Chinese mining city of Ordos, on the edge of the Gobi desert.
Image by: Ed Jones / AFP PHOTO
Image by: Ed Jones / AFP PHOTO
Miss China, a 23-year-old music lover who wants to work with the poor, was crowned Miss World 2012 at a ceremony in Inner Mongolia, pageant organisers said.
Wearing a sparkling blue gown, Yu Wenxia waved to the audience in the Dongsheng Stadium in Ordos, located in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Organisers said Yu beat out 115 contestants, a record, in the highly publicised annual international beauty pageant.
China also won the Miss World title in 2007, when model Zhang Zilin took the crown.
“I love to smile and I like music,” Yu said in a video posted on the pageant’s website, in which she talks about her study of Chinese folk music.
Sophie Moulds, a 19-year-old business student from Wales, took second place. Jessica Kahawaty, 23, a law student from Australia, was third.
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