BEIJING : 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 yesterday.
Wearing a sparkling blue
gown, Yu Wenxia (picture) 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. (Reuters)
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