# Miss Universe 1989

Miss Universe 1989, the 38th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 23 May 1989 at the Fiesta Americana Condesa Hotel in Cancún, Mexico. Angela Visser of the Netherlands was crowned by Porntip Nakhirunkanok of Thailand. Seventy-six contestants competed in this year.

## Results
### Placements

| Final results | Contestant |
| Miss Universe 1989 | Netherlands – Angela Visser |
| 1st runner-up | Sweden – Louise Drevenstam |
| 2nd runner-up | United States – Gretchen Polhemus |
| 3rd runner-up | Poland – Joanna Gapińska |
| 4th runner-up | Mexico – Adriana Abascal |
| Top 10 | Chile – Macarena Mina  Finland – Åsa Lövdahl  Germany – Andrea Stelzer  Jamaica – Sandra Foster  Venezuela – Eva Lisa Ljung |

### Final Competition

| Nation | Interview | Swimsuit | Evening Gown | Semifinal Average |
| Netherlands | 9.583 (1) | 9.725 (1) | 9.824 (1) | 9.710 (1) |
| Sweden | 9.261 (2) | 9.233 (2) | 9.376 (2) | 9.290 (2) |
| United States | 8.511 (5) | 8.894 (4) | 8.927 (8) | 8.777 (5) |
| Poland | 8.472 (6) | 9.105 (3) | 9.027 (4) | 8.868 (3) |
| Mexico | 8.650 (3) | 8.883 (5) | 9.026 (5) | 8.853 (4) |
| Germany | 8.461 (7) | 8.737 (7) | 9.010 (6) | 8.736 (6) |
| Venezuela | 8.204 (8) | 8.727 (8) | 9.096 (3) | 8.675 (7) |
| Finland | 8.533 (4) | 8.661 (9) | 8.755 (9) | 8.649 (8) |
| Jamaica | 8.111 (9) | 8.788 (6) | 8.933 (7) | 8.610 (9) |
| Chile | 8.033 (10) | 8.505 (10) | 8.755 (9) | 8.431 (10) |

## Contestants

* Argentina – Luisa Norbis
* Aruba – Karina Felix
* Australia – Karen Wenden
* Austria – Bettina Berghold
* Bahamas – Tasha Ramirez
* Belgium – Anne de Baetzelier
* Belize – Andrea Sherman McKoy
* Bermuda – Cornelia Furbert
* Bolivia – Raquel Cors Ulloa
* Brazil – Flávia Cavalcanti
* British Virgin Islands – Viola Joseph
* Canada – Juliette Powell
* Cayman Islands – Carol Ann Balls
* Chile – María Macarena Mina Garachena
* Colombia – María Teresa Egurrola Hinojosa
* Costa Rica – Luana Freer Bustamante
* Curaçao – Anna Mosteiro
* Denmark – Louise Mejlhede
* Dominican Republic – Anny Canaán Camido
* Ecuador – María Eugenia Molina
* Egypt – Sally Attah
* El Salvador – Beatriz López Rodríguez
* England – Raquel Marie Jory
* Finland – Åsa Maria Lövdahl
* France – Pascale Meotti
* Germany – Andrea Stelzer
* Gibraltar – Tatiana Desoisa
* Greece – Kristiana Latani
* Greenland – Naja-Rie Sorensen
* Guam – Janice Santos
* Guatemala – Helka Cuevas
* Haiti – Glaphyra Jean-Louis
* Honduras – Frances Siryl Milla
* Hong Kong – Cynthia Yuk Lui Cheung
* Iceland – Guðbjörg Gissurardóttir
* India – Dolly Minhas
* Ireland – Collette Jackson
* Israel – Nicole Halperin
* Italy – Christiana Bertasi
* Jamaica – Sandra Foster
* Japan – Eri Tashiro
* Korea – Kim Sung-ryung
* Luxembourg – Chris Scott
* Malaysia – Carmen Cheah Swee
* Malta – Sylvana Sammut Pandolfino
* Mauritius – Jacky Randabel
* Mexico – Adriana Abascal
* Netherlands - Angela Visser
* New Zealand – Shelley Soffe
* Nigeria – Bianca Onoh
* Northern Mariana Islands – Soreen Villanueva
* Norway – Lene Ornhoft
* Paraguay – Ana Victoria Schaerer
* Peru – Mariana Sovero
* Philippines – Sarah Jane Davis Paez
* Poland – Joanna Gapińska
* Portugal – Anna Francisco Sobrinho
* Puerto Rico – Catalina Villar
* Republic of China – Chen Yen Ping
* Scotland – Victoria Susannah Lace
* Singapore – Pauline Chong
* Spain – Eva Pedraza
* Sri Lanka – Veronica Ruston
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Camille Samuels
* Suriname – Consuela Cruden
* Sweden – Louise Drevenstam
* Switzerland – Karina Berger
* Thailand – Yonlada Ronghanam
* Trinidad and Tobago – Guenevere Helen Keishall
* Turkey – Jasmine Baradan
* Turks and Caicos Islands – Sharon Simons
* Uruguay – Carolina Pies Riet
* United States – Gretchen Polhemus
* United States Virgin Islands – Nathalie Lynch
* Venezuela – Eva Lisa Larsdotter Ljung
* Wales – Andrea Caroline Jones

### Order of Introduction

This year marked the first year that introduced the contestants in regional groups in the Parade of Nations segment. The following table is the order of introduction in the Parade of Nations segment in the regional groups, randomly-ordered.
| Geographical Region / Continent | Order of Country / Territory Introduction |
| Central and North America | Mexico  El Salvador  Guatemala  Costa Rica  Honduras  Iceland  Canada  Greenland  United States |
| Asia and The Land Down Under | Sri Lanka  Philippines  Singapore  India  Malaysia  Japan  South Korea  Thailand  Hong Kong  Republic of China  New Zealand  Australia |
| British Isles and Europe | England  Wales  Scotland  Ireland  Portugal  Holland  Germany  Finland  France  Sweden  Belgium  Norway  Austria  Poland  Luxembourg  Denmark  Switzerland |
| South America | Paraguay  Ecuador  Chile  Colombia  Uruguay  Suriname  Peru  Argentina  Brazil  Bolivia  Venezuela |
| The Islands | Haiti  United States Virgin Islands  Bahamas  Bermuda  Turks and Caicos Islands  Trinidad and Tobago  Aruba  Guam  Belize  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines  Northern Mariana Islands  Cayman Islands  Puerto Rico  British Virgin Islands  Jamaica  Curaçao  Dominican Republic  Mauritius |
| Mediterranean, Middle East, and Africa | Gibraltar  Spain  Italy  Greece  Turkey  Malta  Israel  Egypt  Nigeria |