Russian crowned Miss World

RUSSIAN blonde Kseniya Sukhinova was crowned the 58th Miss World after a two-hour spectacle in South Africa.

Sukhinova beamed as she was crowned, and said her immediate ambitions included meeting Russia’s president, Dmitry Medvedev.

The Russian beauty added she aims to return soon to her studies at the Tyumen Oil and Gas University in her home region of north-western Siberia.

“I am so happy to be here,” she said of South Africa, hosting a record sixth Miss World final.

“I am so excited. It’s amazing.”

Sukhinova, who in a biography on the Miss World website listed becoming a supermodel as a goal, had also won the contest’s top model award and came third in the swimsuit competition.

She was a crowd favourite — although not as popular as hometown beauty, Miss South Africa Tansey Coetzee, who made the final five.

Second runner-up was Miss Trinidad and Tobago Gabrielle Walcott. First runner-up was Miss India Parvathy Omankuttan.

Miss Angola Brigite Santos completed the top five.