Miss Universe 1968 | |
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Date | 13 July 1968 |
Presenters | Bob Barker [1] |
Venue | Miami Beach Auditorium, Miami Beach, Florida, United States |
Broadcaster | CBS (WTVJ) |
Entrants | 65 |
Placements | 15 |
Debuts | |
Withdrawals | |
Returns | |
Winner | Martha Vasconcellos Brazil |
Congeniality | Yasuyo Lino (Japan) |
Best National Costume | Luz Elena Restrepo González (Colombia) |
Photogenic | Daliborka Stojšić (Yugoslavia) |
Miss Universe 1968 was the 17th Miss Universe pageant, 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]
Placement | Contestant |
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Miss Universe 1968 | |
1st runner-up | |
2nd runner-up | |
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4th runner-up | |
Top 15 |
Sixty-five contestants competed for the title.
Country/Territory | Contestant | Age [lower-alpha 1] | Hometown |
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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 |
West 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 |
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 |
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