Miss Russia Ksenia Sukhinova was crowned this year's Miss World Saturday in Johannesburg, South Africa.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, RIA Novosti reported.
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.
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