JOHANNESBURG, South Africa | Russian Kseniya Sukhinova is the new Miss World.

The 21-year old student from Siberia also won the contest's top model award and was third in the swimsuit competition of the 58th annual pageant,

 

Miss India Parvathy Omankuttan was picked the first runner-up and Miss Trinidad and Tobago Gabrielle Walcott won third place.

Organizers claimed 1 billion people from 187 countries watched the broadcast of the event.

The first Russian winner of the international beauty pageant was Yulia Kurochkina in 1992. 

and the kind of flag-waving usually seen at sports events.

Sukhinova also had won the contest’s top model award and was third in the swimsuit competition.

She was a crowd favorite, though not as popular as the hometown beauty: Miss South Africa, Tansey Coetzee. She made the final five.

Miss World 2008 / AP RIA Novosti reported.

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donphills: just beautiful As a models trainer, i appluads the jugdes for crowning her. WANT TO BECOME A MODEL CALL ME, OR ASK FOR MY GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT MAGAZINE "donphill magazine' CALL:+2347066812125 1 January 15, 2010 owusu carmen: beauty i like the beauty of miss world 2008. 2 November 13, 2009 agni prashad: must win she was really beautiful 3 November 02, 2009 agni prashad: beautiful she is really beautiful 4 November 02, 2009 osama: beauty she proved that beauty is only in russia.u did a great job i m impressed and happy 5 October 16, 2009 Julia: To jahangir from Uzbekistan Well, for envious people like you: Ksenia isn't from Rostov-na-Donu, She is born in Siberia and we come from the same parts. She IS Russian. But if you want to speak about pure of nations, I can say, that no one nation in this world isn't pure. Anyway, Ukranian Miss is partly the Pole. Then Miss Universe 2005 was Canadian Miss, but she was Russian and was born in Russia. So shut up! Russian people are very nice and beautiful 6 October 08, 2009 ASHOK KUMAR SARKAR : so nice EXCUSE ME HELLO I AM ASHOK KUMAR SARKAR FROM BANGLADESHI. PLEASE CALL +8801732058186 7 September 12, 2009 jahangir: Uzbekistan Dears, you should know that she is from Rostov on Don in Russia, which means she has a lot of mixed blood, this city was in the Centre of Crossroads of many kingdoms, I would say that she is not 100% Russian, she is mixed, and by the was the real russians are in places like Saint petersburg who are very ugly, anyway I am very happy for her and good luck 8 August 28, 2009 ravshan: uzb congratulate you ksenia!!well done , good luck! 9 August 26, 2009 rosegautam: tfgrffd i want to sea a world beauti girl 10 June 05, 2009 BERTILLA DINAYEN: you are a queen you deserve the crown. be yourself and you will always be lifted up.count on me.you are natural 11 May 26, 2009 Cula Phophana: 100% Miss World Hey sweety you deserve 8. You are absolutely a queen, an angel,a darling what else... you are what you are. 12 May 13, 2009 shamsul islam: business she is vry nic. i like mher faice & smail 13 May 02, 2009 Babe: CHECK THIS OUT!! : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjNWrugcVm4 14 April 13, 2009 Summer Stone: swimwear I get all my swimwear at swimwearexpress.com They always have the latest fashions. I get so excited when I get my new suit in the mail. It always looks beautiful! swimwearexpress.com 15 April 10, 2009 Henrick : crown goes to the perfect only..... She'z got all the looks and smartness.in her......beauty is born in russia.. 16 February 25, 2009 sunil marbhal: ... She deserves it as being a Beautiful girl and good sense of humour... 17 February 21, 2009 birnur: miss world! you bent burtifol!!!!!!!!! 18 February 15, 2009 lauren: She deserves it she is totally bueatiful young and drop dead gorgeous. 19 February 14, 2009 Brittanie Lau: So Beautiful she is a natural i luvvv her keep striving 20 February 02, 2009 asia: congrats!!!! well done miss. russia u deserve it 21 January 30, 2009 Deepali Tandon: She is natural beauty She is really really most beautyfull lady..... She is natural, charming and her smile and eyes are amazing.... AND her personality & figer is fantastic..... I wanna kiss her this is for her Muaaaaaaaaaaaaa..... 22 January 27, 2009 utkir: good keep smiling 23 January 24, 2009 jot the plumber: ... shes a babe but shes a idiot when asked why they should vote for her she said i will help people thats gay 24 January 12, 2009 Nanyemba: congratulations Go Girl you are really gorgeous 25 January 06, 2009 Gulruh: Uzbekistan: ... O'zbekistonda go'zallar juda ko'p 26 January 02, 2009 Hamida: Uzbekistan: ... Dunyoni go'zallik qutqaradi. Va u go'zal manman. 27 January 02, 2009 chrishan: miss world2009 -Kseniya Sukhinova I LOVE HER 28 January 01, 2009 maensamad: miss world kseniya sukhinova is the best beautiful miss in the world .. before and after . 29 December 30, 2008 anuj : kumar not perfect for miss world 30 December 30, 2008 mike: princes amazing blue eyes,she is the buton of flower,for Kseniya all the best on the futher... 31 December 18, 2008 olga: miss world 2008 ur the best buty of the world with all my plager congratulation 32 December 18, 2008 sandra: yeppppppppppp she deserveeeeeeeee it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 33 December 18, 2008 ahmed: ... she deserve it shes nice lovely so nateirual i like her 34 December 16, 2008 Mazen: ... Congratulation. Our 2009 Miss World Is Sooooo Pretty. I like her and I wish her all the Best In This World. 35 December 16, 2008 casual encounter club: Impressive She deserves the crown , very impressed with her answers and lools http://www.casual4love.com 36 December 15, 2008 natalie schwantje: ... those 2 comments are disgusting using the f word. 37 December 15, 2008 natalie schwantje: ... this is disgusting with 2 comments using the f word... 38 December 15, 2008 dollie: She deserves the win! Totally totally gorgeous face. Amazing, arresting pair of eyes! to the fucker, u're a totally fuck up idiot with pathetic high hopes. Fat hope fucker! 39 December 15, 2008

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