Miss World 2006

An 18-year-old student from the Czech Republic won the Miss World 2006 beauty contest today, with the Australian contestant in third place.
Tatana Kucharova defeated 103 other women in voting among a panel of judges and from television viewers around the world during a two-hour finals ceremony in the Polish capital Warsaw.
First runner-up in the 56th edition of the annual beauty pageant was Joana Valentina Boitor, a 17-year-old from Romania. Australia's Sabrina Houssami, 20, was third.