Zhang Zilin

Zhang Zilin as Miss World 2007

Zhang Zilin ( Chinese  张 梓 琳 , Pinyin Zhāng Zǐlín ) or Zilin Zhang (born March 22, 1984 in Shijiazhuang , Hebei , People's Republic of China ) was elected Miss World on December 1, 2007 . Zhang was the first Miss World from East Asia.

Life

Zhang was born on March 22nd, 1984 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, and moved to Beijing to study business administration at the University of Science and Technology . She also worked as a model .

In October 2010, Zhang took part as a judge in the 60th Miss World election in Sanya , China . There she chose among others together with the former titleholders Denise Perrier (Miss World 1953), Ann Sidney (Miss World 1964), Mary Stävin (Miss World 1977), Agbani Darego (Miss World 2001), María Julia Mantilla (Miss World 2004) and Xenia Sukhinova (Miss World 2008) won the 18-year-old American Alexandria Mills .

Web links

Commons : Zhang Zilin  - Collection of Images

• Article about Zhang Zilin
• Article on Zhang Zilin at South Asian Biz

predecessor	Office	Successor
Taťána Kuchařová	Miss World 2007	Xenia Sukhinova

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Zhang is the family name here, Zilin is the first name.