Nigeria, June 2 -- History was made on Saturday in Hyderabad, India, when 21-year-old model Opal Suchata Chuangsri was crowned the 72nd Miss World beauty pageant winner.

For the first time in its 74 years of existence, a representative from Thailand won the pageant.

Opal also won the contest's multimedia component and topped the contestant app leaderboard with over 2.3 million views.

Ethiopia's Hasset Dereje was named first runner-up, while Poland's Maja Klajda emerged 2nd runner-up.

The Nigerian representative at the competition, Joy Raimi, aka Queen Tiwa, made it to the top 20 finalists.

The competition kicked off on May 7 with 108 contestants, and it was pruned down to 40 quarterfinalists-ten from each continental region: Africa, ...