List of Mister World Winners

 

The Mister World contest is an international beauty pageant for men, and has been held since 1996. This pageant is run by Julia Morley, as Chairperson and CEO of the Miss World Organization, the same organizer of the Miss World pageant. Traditionally, Mister World lives in London during his reign.

The Mister World pageant is a biennial event, but was carried out only ten times to date, since its founding. Generally, it is a three-week long international competition, in which delegates are judged for their physical and mental endurance, based on different fast-track events such as extreme sports, fashion modeling, talent, interviews, and multimedia, before the sole winner will be declared as “the world’s most desirable man.”

Before we begin with our Annual Winners List, please note this is a list of Mister World winners alone, without consideration for runner-up placements. We are only taking into account, the pageant winner, the pageant year, the country of origin, the continent the country belongs to, the place the contest was held, and the number of countries who participated that year.

That said, we begin with 1996.  Tom Nuyens of Belgium is the first man ever to win the title of Mister World. The contest was held in Istanbul, Turkey and fifty one countries joined that year.

The following contest in 1998, Sandro Finoglio of Venezuela succeeded to the throne.  The pageant was held in Grandola, Portugal, and forty three countries participated.

The year 2000, Ignacio Kliche of Uruguay was named winner. The contest was held in Perthshire, Scotland with thirty two countries participating.

In 2003, Gustavo Gianetti of Brazil won the title. The contest was held in London, England and thirty eight countries competed.

2007 was the year of Juan Garcia Postigo of Spain.  The contest was held in Sanya, China with fifty six competing countries.

In 2010 Kamal Ibrahim took the title for Ireland. The contest was held in Incheon, South Korea with a record seventy four countries competing.

In 2012, Franciscoc Escobar of Colombia snagged title. The contest was also held in Kent, England with forty eight participating countries.

The next pageant year 2014, Niklas Pedersen of Denmark was declared winner. The contest took place in Torbay, England, this time with forty six participants.

2016, was the year Rohit Khandelwal clinched the title for India. The pageant was held in Southport, England, forty six countries competed.

Finally in 2019, England's Jack Heslewood was adjudged the winner. It was held in Manila, Philippines, with seventy two official candidates.

As is customary, we crunched the numbers, and present the results in a bar chart for visualization and ease of understanding.  Now, let’s see what those data revealed.

As of 2020, the Mister World title has been awarded ten times since its inception in 1996. Ten countries have likewise received the title. As you can see we have a flat vertical chart, as no country exceeded another in number of wins.

We have divided the countries into five continents namely Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania. Using the data set from 1996 to 2020, it appears that all winners came from three continents, which are Asia, Americas and Europe. Of the ten winners, five are from Europe, four from Americas, and one from Asia. We have yet to see a winner representing Africa and Oceania.

This chart illustrates that the Mister World pageant, has a bend towards European candidates. There is this natural bend for a pageant, to choose winners from the continent where the pageant originates from.  This holds true for Men Universe Model pageant, and Mister International pageant, which we featured in our earlier posts.  If you haven’t yet, do check them out in our previous blog posts.