Mister World 1996 was the 1st edition of the Mister World competition. It was held on September 20, 1996 at the Anadolu Auditorium in Istanbul, Turkey. Tom Nuyens of Belgium was crowned as the very first Mister World at the end of the event.

Mister World 1996
Istanbul, host city for Mister World 1996
DateSeptember 20, 1996
Presenters
Venue Anadolu Auditorium, Şişli, Istanbul, Turkey
Entrants50
Placements10
WinnerTom Nuyens
 Belgium
1998 →

Results edit

Placements edit

Placement Contestant
Mister World 1996
1st Runner-Up
2nd Runner-Up
  •   Turkey – Karahan Çantay
Top 5
Top 10

Special Awards edit

Award Contestant
Mr Personality

Contestants edit

Country Contestant Age Height Hometown
  Argentina Raul Orlando Proietto[1] 21 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Buenos Aires
  Aruba Anthony Andrew Martinez[2] 23 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) Oranjestad
  Australia Arlington Brendan Leigh[3] 22 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Sydney
  Austria Helmut Strebl[4] 27 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) Vienna
  Belgium Tom Nuyens[5] 20 1.92 m (6 ft 3+12 in) Wommelgem
  Bolivia Marcelo Mauricio Ostria Borda[6] 21 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) Tarija
  Botswana Felix Chavaphi[7] 23 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) Gaborone
  Brazil Thierre di Castro Garrito[8] 17 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) Rio Claro
  Bulgaria Boyko Hristov[9] 23 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Sofia
  Canada Jimmy Rai[10] 24 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Toronto
  Colombia Franz Serrano[11] 25 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) San Andrés
  Croatia Ivan Klemenčič[12] 20 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) Split
  Dominican Republic Juan Salvador Vidal Gil[13] 19 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Santo Domingo
  Estonia Andrus Raissar[14] 22 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) Tartu
  France Laurent Piranian[15] 24 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) Mandelieu-la-Napoule
  Germany Konrad Meyer[16] 22 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Düsseldorf
  Greece Harry Kinatzi[17] 26 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) Athens
  Holland Joost Ammerlaan[18] 24 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) Schipluiden
  Hungary Zsolt Cséke[19] 21 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) Budapest
  India Bikram Singh Saluja[20] 22 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Mumbai
  Ireland Thomas Daniel Plewman[21] 25 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Dublin
  Israel Zafrir Ben-Zvi[22] 23 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) Haifa
  Italy Angelo d'Amelio[23] 24 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Taranto
  Jamaica Richard Nevers[24] 20 1.92 m (6 ft 3+12 in) Kingston
  Latvia Vilnis Solovjovs[25] 25 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) Riga
  Lebanon Hadi Esta[26] 24 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) Beirut
  Macedonia FYRO Gazmend Beriša[27] 23 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) Skopje
  Malaysia Alwin Low Dai Wen[28] 22 1.82 m (5 ft 11+12 in) Kuala Lumpur
  Mexico Gabriel Soto Borja-Díaz[29] 21 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Mexico City
  Norway Otto Thorbjørnsen[30] 22 1.82 m (5 ft 11+12 in) Stavanger
  Philippines Christopher Celis[31] 20 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Manila
  Poland Mariusz Trzciński[32] 23 1.94 m (6 ft 4+12 in) Gdańsk
  Puerto Rico Eliseo Paulo Cortés Meléndez[33] 25 1.82 m (5 ft 11+12 in) San Juan
  Russia Oleg Sukochenko[34] 23 1.92 m (6 ft 3+12 in) Yekaterinburg
  Singapore Desmond Kong Hua Ng[35] 24 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Singapore
  Slovakia Richard Ondrias[36] 22 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Bratislava
  Slovenia Marko Vraničar[37] 20 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Ljubljana
  South Africa Charl Hector Coode[38] 24 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) Johannesburg
  Spain José Ramon Gutiérrez Villar[39] 22 1.92 m (6 ft 3+12 in) A Coruña
  Swaziland Thulani Emmanuel Matsebula[40] 24 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) Manzini
  Sweden Tage Johan Jelse[41] 23 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Skarpnäck
  Taiwan ROC Kuo Pin-chao[42] 19 1.87 m (6 ft 1+12 in) Taipei
  Thailand Direk Sirisamphan[43] 18 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Bangkok
  Trinidad and Tobago Ian Anthony Comissiong[44] 25 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) Port of Spain
  Turkey Karahan Çantay[45] 22 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Balıkesir
  Ukraine Mykola Bezrodniy[46] 26 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) Kyiv
  United Kingdom Simon Alexis Peat[47] 23 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) Liverpool
  United States Daniel Luján[48] 23 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) El Paso
  Venezuela José Gregorio Faría Ojeda[49] 24 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) Maracaibo
  Yugoslavia Slobodan Klinać[50] 22 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) Belgrade

Judges edit

References edit

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