1998
Wendy Fitzwilliam
TRINIDAD/TOBAGO
Honolulu, Hawaii
USA
1st runner-up     Veruska Tatiana Ramirez
VENEZUELA
2nd runner-up     Joyce Marie Giraud
PUERTO RICO
FINALISTS:
Silvia Fernanda Ortiz Guerra   COLOMBIA
Shawnae Nicole Jebbia   USA
SEMI-FINALISTS:
Michella Dauzacker Marchi   BRAZIL
Lymaraina D'Souza   INDIA
Andrea Roche   IRELAND
Anna Malova   RUSSIA
Kerishnie Naicker   SOUTH AFRICA
1998 saw the 3rd black woman to win the crown and the second from Trinidad/Tobago in the person of Wendy Fitzwilliam.  An unwelcome change, though, is made as television audiences no longer enjoyed the traditional parade of natios with delegates in National Costume but a glitzy fashion-show like slide show of each delegate sans preliminary scores.
The semi-finalists for Miss Universe 1998
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