Miss Universe 1968

Miss Universe 1968, the 17th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 13 July 1968 at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. Martha Vasconcellos of Brazil was crowned by Sylvia Hitchcock of the United States at the end of the event.[1]

Miss Universe 1968
Martha Vasconcellos, Miss Universe 1968
Date13 July 1968
PresentersBob Barker[1]
VenueMiami Beach Auditorium, Miami Beach, Florida, United States
BroadcasterCBS, WTVJ
Entrants65
Placements15
Debuts
Withdrawals
Returns
WinnerMartha Vasconcellos
 Brazil
CongenialityYasuyo Lino
 Japan
Best National CostumeLuz Elena Restrepo González
 Colombia
PhotogenicDaliborka Stojšić
 Yugoslavia

Results

Placements
Placement Contestant
Miss Universe 1968
1st runner-up
2nd runner-up
3rd runner-up
4th runner-up
Top 15

Contestants

Sixty-five contestants competed for the title.

Country/Territory Contestant Age[lower-alpha 1] Hometown
 Argentina María del Carmen Jordán Vidal 23 Buenos Aires
 Aruba Sandra Croes 18 Oranjestad
 Australia Laureen Jones 21 Sydney
 Austria Brigitte Krüger 24 Vienna
 Bahamas Brenda Fountain 20 Nassau
 Belgium Sonja Doumen[2] 20 Dilsen-Stokkem
 Bermuda Victoria Martin 23 Pembroke Parish
 Bolivia Roxana Bowles[3] 18 Santa Cruz de la Sierra
 Bonaire Ilse De Jong 18 Kralendijk
 Brazil Martha Vasconcellos 20 Salvador
 Canada Nancy Wilson 19 Chatham-Kent
 Ceylon Sheila Jayatilleke 18 Colombo
 Chile Dánae Salas 22 Santiago
 Colombia Luz Elena Restrepo[4] 18 Barranquilla
 Congo-Kinshasa Elizabeth Tavares 20 Kinshasa
 Costa Rica Ana María Rivera 19 San José
 Curaçao Anne Marie Braafheid 21 Willemstad
 Denmark Gitte Broge 20 Copenhagen
 Dominican Republic Ana María Ortiz – Santo Domingo
 Ecuador Priscila Álava 18 Guayaquil
 England Jennifer Lowe Summers 22 London
 Finland Leena Brusiin 22 Helsinki
 France Elizabeth Cadren 22 Paris
 Germany Lilian Atterer 20 Bavaria
 Greece Miranta Zafiropoulou 22 Athens
 Guam Arlene Vilma Chaco 21 Agana
 Haiti Claudie Paquin 18 Port-au-Prince
 Holland Nathalie Heyl 21 The Hague
 Honduras Nora Guillén 19 Tegucigalpa
 Hong Kong Tammy Yung 18 Hong Kong
 Iceland Helen Knuttsdóttir 18 Reykjavík
 India Anjum Mumtaz Barg 23 Hyderabad
 Ireland Tiffany Scales 22 Dublin
 Israel Miriam Friedman 18 Tel Aviv
 Italy Cristina Businari 18 Rome
 Jamaica Marjorie Bromfield – Kingston
 Japan Yasuyo Lino 18 Tokyo
 Lebanon Sonia Fares 18 Beirut
 Luxembourg Lucienne Krier 18 Esch-sur-Alzette
 Malaysia Maznah Ali 20 Johor Bahru
 Malta Kathlene Farrugia 22 Qormi
 Mexico Perla Aguirre 18 Mexico City
 New Zealand Christine Antunovic 18 Auckland
 Nicaragua Margine Davidson 20 Matagalpa
 Norway Tone Knaran 18 Oslo
United States Okinawa Sachie Kawamitsu 19 Naha
 Peru María Esther Brambilla 19 Lima
 Philippines Rosario Zaragoza[5] 18 Quezon City
 Puerto Rico Marylene Carrasquillo 18 Santurce
 Scotland Helen Davidson 22 Glasgow
 Singapore Yasmin Saif 19 Singapore
 South Africa Monica Fairall 20 Durban
 South Korea Kim Yoon-jung 18 Seoul
 Spain Yolanda Legarreta 18 Basque Country
 Sweden Anne-Marie Hellqvist 18 Hallsberg
  Switzerland Jeannette Biffiger 19 Zürich
 Thailand Apantree Prayutsenee 20 Phra Nakhon
 Tunisia Rekaia Dekhil 20 Tunis
 Turkey Zuhal Aktan 18 Istanbul
 United States Dorothy Anstett[6] 21 Kirkland
 United States Virgin Islands Sadie Sargeant 19 Charlotte Amalie
 Uruguay Graciela Minarrieta 20 Montevideo
 Venezuela Peggy Kopp 18 Caracas
 Wales Judith Radford 19 Swansea
 Yugoslavia Daliborka Stojsic 23 Belgrade

Notes
  1. Ages at the time of the pageant

References
  1. "Name Brazilian Miss Universe". The Journal Times. Associated Press. 14 Jul 1968. p. 1. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
  2. "Sonja Doumen werd 50 jaar geleden eerste Limburgse Miss België". Het Belang van Limburg (in Dutch). 13 January 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2023 – via PressReader.
  3. "El título les dio alegrías, trabajo y fama que aún saborean" [The title gave them joy, work and fame that they still savor.]. El Deber (in European Spanish). 29 July 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  4. "Atlantico, Reina Nacional 1968". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 13 November 1967. pp. 1, 31. Retrieved 17 October 2023 – via Google News Archive.
  5. Lo, Ricky (11 March 2014). "Beauty is in the blood". Philippine Star. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  6. "Miss USA Says Title Means Little at Home". Roanoke Times. Associated Press. May 20, 1968. p. 4. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
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