Miss World 1986, the 36th edition, was held on 13 November 1986 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom. Giselle Laronde of Trinidad and Tobago won and was crowned by Miss World 1985, Hólmfríður Karlsdóttir of Iceland. Denmark’s Pia Rosenberg Larsen was first runner-up and Austria’s Chantal Schreiber was third. The edition saw debuts from Antigua and Barbuda, the British Virgin Islands, Macau and Sierra Leone; returns from Mauritius, Tonga, Turkey and Honduras; and withdrawals by Aruba, Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao, French Polynesia, Liberia, Nigeria, Puerto Rico, Uganda and Zaire.