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Miss World Trinidad and Tobago Anna-Lise Nanton has won the Americas & Caribbean category of the Miss World 2025 Head-to-Head (H2H) Challenge Finale, a debate competition which took place in Hyderabad, India this morning.
This win has secured Nanton a top-ten spot in the Americas and Caribbean group of the 2025 Miss World competition.
The 26-year-old engineer from Santa Cruz is the only delegate from the region to place in the finals of every major category so far – Sports, Talent, and the Head-to-Head Challenge – as the world’s longest-running beauty pageant returns to India this month.
“It honestly feels surreal. I am so honoured and full of gratitude,” Nanton said.
“I am just a small girl from a small town, from little islands that are barely a dot on the map. But now the world sees us, hears our voice, knows our heart. This is all I could have hoped for.”
A former National Open Scholar and first-class honours Civil Engineering graduate from the University of Bath, Nanton is also a former St Joseph’s Convent POS student, a footballer for Queen’s Park, and an avid hiker. Her pageant advocacy, built around sport sustainability, explores how physical activity can foster social inclusion and environmental stewardship.
“Sport also taught me how to take care of my health,” she said during the Head-to-Head Challenge. “It deepened my appreciation for the environment, the importance of clean air and protecting the natural world which sustains us.”
Nanton’s project ranked among the top five in the global “Beauty with a Purpose” segment.
Miss World T&T Director Charu Lochan Dass praised her discipline and determination.
“This is no small feat,” she said. “The world has seen her beauty, her talent, her level of fitness and now her voice... She has ignited a sense of pride across our twin-island nation and shown the world the brilliance of a Trinbagonian woman.”
Nanton emerged from a field of 18 local finalists earlier this year, winning the Fitness, Talent, Head-to-Head and People’s Choice categories.
The 72nd edition of Miss World runs from May 7–31, with events taking place across the Indian state of Telangana.
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https://guardian.co.tt/news/miss-world-tt-wins-at-continental-headtohead-challenge-6.2.2315163.1a3028e666Miss World Trinidad and Tobago Anna-Lise Nanton has won the Americas & Caribbean category of the Miss World 2025 Head-to-Head (H2H) Challenge Finale, a debate competition which took place in Hyderabad, India this morning.
This win has secured Nanton a top-ten spot in the Americas and Caribbean group of the 2025 Miss World competition.
The 26-year-old engineer from Santa Cruz is the only delegate from the region to place in the finals of every major category so far – Sports, Talent, and the Head-to-Head Challenge – as the world’s longest-running beauty pageant returns to India this month.
“It honestly feels surreal. I am so honoured and full of gratitude,” Nanton said.
“I am just a small girl from a small town, from little islands that are barely a dot on the map. But now the world sees us, hears our voice, knows our heart. This is all I could have hoped for.”
A former National Open Scholar and first-class honours Civil Engineering graduate from the University of Bath, Nanton is also a former St Joseph’s Convent POS student, a footballer for Queen’s Park, and an avid hiker. Her pageant advocacy, built around sport sustainability, explores how physical activity can foster social inclusion and environmental stewardship.
“Sport also taught me how to take care of my health,” she said during the Head-to-Head Challenge. “It deepened my appreciation for the environment, the importance of clean air and protecting the natural world which sustains us.”
Nanton’s project ranked among the top five in the global “Beauty with a Purpose” segment.
Miss World T&T Director Charu Lochan Dass praised her discipline and determination.
“This is no small feat,” she said. “The world has seen her beauty, her talent, her level of fitness and now her voice... She has ignited a sense of pride across our twin-island nation and shown the world the brilliance of a Trinbagonian woman.”
Nanton emerged from a field of 18 local finalists earlier this year, winning the Fitness, Talent, Head-to-Head and People’s Choice categories.
The 72nd edition of Miss World runs from May 7–31, with events taking place across the Indian state of Telangana.
MISS Trinidad and Tobago Anna-Lise Nanton has, so far, topped various categories of competition heading into the Miss World finals on May 31 in India.
The scoreboard issued by the Miss World Organisation has ranked TT in first place with 205 points, ahead of her five closest rivals who are all in joint second place with 190 points each – Estonia, Indonesia, Ireland, Turkiye and Wales.
Miss Zambia was third, Brazil fourth and Miss Martinique – Nanton's roommate, is fifth.
Nanton was selected to head into the quarter-finals due earlier on May 31, with the other Americas and Caribbean quarter finalists so far chosen being Miss Martinique and Miss Puerto Rico. The three other regions (Asia and Oceania, Europe and Africa) have also each chosen three quarter-finalists, with more to come.
Nanton placed first in the Americas and Caribbean region in the Head to Head debate. She placed first in the world in one of the three events comprising the sport/fitness category known as shuttle runs, where she was the only competitor to complete the running challenge in under 60 seconds.
Nanton was fourth overall in sport/fitness, which was won by Estonia, with Martinique second and Canada third.
She was also deemed to be a "talent finalist" for her display of aerial acrobatics in the talent category.
Navin Boodhai of the Miss World TT organisation told Newsday that Nanton has qualified for the quarter-finals which is expected to have 40 delegates out of the initial 108 entrants.
"On Saturday at 6.30 pm is the final. All 108 will parade. They will announce the top 40." He said this number will be successively halved as the evening progresses, to produce the top woman for each region and of course, the Miss World 2025.
Boodhai praised Nanton's performance in the Head to Head competition, responding to questions on women's freedom of movement and on climate change. "She had to respond unprepared to questions on an international level. She responded phenomenally. This was the first time TT has won the Head to Head challenge."
He said in the talent competition, Nanton was in the top 20.
"She has been one of the most consistent women, if not the most consistent in the competition."
Although Nanton has not officially scored in the evening gown category, Boodhai said she acquitted herself very well in her two offerings – a dress dubbed the Bronze Ibis symbolic of TT, plus a black sari, reflecting the culture of the host nation, India.
Boodhai said Nanton had modelled the sari in a mood that was "very sombre, very light." He said Nanton was likely to again wear her national costume in the finals, a feathered Carnival-style outfit depicting two birds, which she had won in the competition's introduction even but which was not a scored criterion.
He said he was proud on how well Nanton has been doing, just as Miss World fourth-placed Ache Abraham had done last year, after the development programme and skills training his organisation offered them and is keen to offer many other young women in the future.
*Miss World T&T prepares for Saturday's pageant*
Remember… You can cast your vote for Miss World Trinidad and Tobago Anna-Lise Nanton on the Miss World app.
1. Download the Miss World App (available on iOS and Android).
2. Find Anna-Lise Nanton, like her posts, vote for her, and share them widely.
3. Encourage everyone you know, here and abroad, to do the same.
The Miss World 2025 grand finale will take place at Hyderabad’s HITEX tomorrow, May 31, showcasing Telangana’s culture and talent.
You can view the grand finale on CNC3 this Saturday from 9 am.
MISS WORLD TT Anna-Lise Nanton made it to the top 40 in the Miss World 2025 competition, but missed out on the top 20 at the pageant finals in Telangana, India on May 31.
Earlier in the competition at the HITEX Exhibition Centre, the 26-year-old geotechnical engineer made it to the top ten from the Americas and the Caribbean, but when the top five were announced, TT was left hanging. Argentina, Brazil, Martinique, Puerto Rico and the US advanced.
However, at one point, the Miss World Organisation scoreboard ranked TT in first place with 205 points. Nanton also won the Americas and Caribbean region in the Head to Head debate and placed first in the shuttle run event in the sport/fitness category.
At a gathering of supporters at Imax Cinema at #1 Woodbrook Place, Port of Spain, local franchise co-owner Navin Boodhai said while Nanton not advancing was disappointing, he believed TT should be proud of her.
“We had a really wonderful representative. She put in all the hard work. I think she was most consistent in the competition and I think we remain immensely proud of what she has done and what she did for TT as well.”
He said since they met, she had made advancements in her personal and professional life daily. He added that TT was very proud of her and wished her luck in her future endeavours.
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