Miss Nicaragua Sheynnis Palacios Becomes New Miss Universe

Miss Nicaragua, Sheynnis Palacios has been crowned as the new Miss Universe at the beauty pageant competition hosted at the Adolfo Pineda National Gymnasium, San Salvador on Sunday.

Never before has a beauty queen emerged from Nicaragua until the 72nd edition that had eight-four contenders vying for the same crown, for which Miss Thailand, Anntonia Porsild and Miss Austrialia, Moraya Wilson followed as first and second runner-up respectively.  

Besides doing best at posing in swmsuits, evening gowns and traditional dresses, she also gave the most satisfactory answer to the jury's question regarding her prefered personality in whose shoes she would like to spend a year in. Palacios choice of the 18th-century English writer and feminist campaiger, Mary Wollstomecraft scored her the points enough to be crown the new Miss Universe.

The out-going Miss Universe, R'Bonney Gabriel of the United States handed over the crown to her successsor, Palacios whose ambition as the new beauty queen is to promote mental health and workplace salary gap between men and women.

R'Bonney Gabriel, who hails from the Philipines had her final walk as Miss Universe 2022 in top down red gown designed by her countryman designer, Ryan Fernandez who designed her evening gown for the 71st edition which she won.