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, representing

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. She wound up as the first runner-up. She was sent to

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to participate in the Miss International pageant three years later, eventually becoming the second

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representative to win the title, some 24 years after Ingrid Finger won it in

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Miss International winners Miss International 1989 delegates Living people Year of birth missing (living people) German beauty pageant winners {{Germany-model-stub