Miss Universe 1969

Miss Universe 1969
Gloria Diaz
Date	19 July 1969
Presenters	Bob Barker June Lockhart
Venue	Miami Beach Auditorium, Miami Beach, Florida, United States
Broadcaster	CBS (WTVJ)
Entrants	61
Placements	15
Withdrawals	Haiti Lebanon Okinawa South Africa United States Virgin Islands
Returns	Suriname
Winner	Gloria Diaz Philippines
Congeniality	Zohra Boufaden (Tunisia)
Best National Costume	Sangduen Manwong (Thailand)
Photogenic	Carole Robinson (New Zealand)
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Miss Universe 1969 was the 18th Miss Universe pageant, held on 19 July 1969 at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. At the conclusion of the event, Gloria Diaz of the Philippines was crowned by Martha Vasconcellos of Brazil at the conclusion of the event. Diaz became the first Filipino, second Southeast Asian and third Asian to win the pageant beating 60 other contestants from all around the world. ^[1]

Miss Universe 1969 finalists in Brazil with Miss Brazil on the right side.

Results

Placements

Placement	Contestant
Miss Universe 1969	Philippines – Gloria Díaz [2]
1st Runner-Up	Finland – Harriet Eriksson [2]
2nd Runner-Up	Australia – Joanne Barret [2]
3rd Runner-Up	Israel – Chava Levy [2]
4th Runner-Up	Japan– Kikuyo Osuka [2]
Top 15	Austria – Eva Rueber-Staier  Brazil – Vera Fischer  Chile – Mónica Larson  Colombia – Margarita Reyes  Norway – Patricia Walker  Peru – María Mantilla  Sweden – Brigitta Lindloff   Switzerland – Patrice Sollner  United States – Wendy Dascomb  Yugoslavia – Natasa Kosir

Contestants

Miss Universe 1969 participating countries and territories

Sixty-one contestants competed for the title.

Country/Territory	Contestant	Age [a]	Hometown
Argentina	Lidia Pepe	23	Corrientes
Aruba	Jeannette Geerman [3]	–	Paradera
Australia	Joanne Barret	19	Sydney
Austria	Eva Rueber-Staier	18	Styria
Bahamas	Joan Bowe [4]	21	Georgetown
Belgium	Danièle Roels [5]	19	Hainaut
Bermuda	Maxine Bean [6]	20	Hamilton
Bolivia	Luz María Rojas [7]	–	Cochabamba
Bonaire	Julia Nicolaas [8]	23	Kralendijk
Brazil	Vera Fischer	18	Blumenau
Canada	Jacquie Perrin	20	Toronto
Ceylon	Marlene Seneveratne	–	Colombo
Chile	Mónica Larson	25	Santiago
Colombia	Margarita Reyes [9]	19	Cali
Congo-Kinshasa	Jeanne Mokomo	–	Kinshasa
Costa Rica	Clara Freda Antillón	18	San José
Curaçao	Yvonne Wardekker [10]	21	Willemstad
Denmark	Jeanne Perfeldt	21	Copenhagen
Dominican Republic	Rocío García	18	Samaná
Ecuador	Rosana Vinueza	20	Guayaquil
England	Myra Van Heck	22	London
Finland	Harriet Eriksson	22	Turku
France	Agathe Cognet [5]	24	Paris
Greece	Irene Diamantoglou	18	Athens
Guam	Anita Johnston	18	Hagåtña
Holland	Welmoed Hollenberg	21	Amsterdam
Honduras	Viena Paredes	18	Choluteca
Hong Kong	Christine Tam	18	Hong Kong
Iceland	María Baldursdóttir	22	Reykjanesbær
India	Kavita Bhambani	18	Bombay
Ireland	Patricia Byrne	25	Dublin
Israel	Chava Levy	19	Haifa
Italy	Diana Coccorese	23	Rome
Jamaica	Carol Gerrow	–	Kingston
Japan	Kikuyo Osuka	18	Aichi
Luxembourg	Marie Antoniette Bertinelli	–	Esch-sur-Alzette
Malaysia	Rosemary Wan	20	Petaling Jaya
Malta	Natalie Quintana	–	Gżira
Mexico	Gloria Hernández	20	Guanajuato
New Zealand	Carole Robinson	22	Auckland
Nicaragua	Soraya Herrera	18	Tipitapa
Norway	Pia Walker	20	Oslo
Peru	María Julia Mantilla	19	Trujillo
Philippines	Gloria Diaz [11]	18	Parañaque
Puerto Rico	Aída Betancourt [12]	18	Río Piedras
Scotland	Sheena Drumond	18	Coatbridge
Singapore	Mavis Young	18	Singapore
South Korea	Lim Hyun-jung	20	Seoul
Spain	Amparo Rodrigo	19	Valencia
Surinam	Greta Natsier	–	Paramaribo
Sweden	Brigitta Lindloff	22	Västra Götaland
Switzerland	Patrice Sollner	24	Aargau
Thailand	Sangduen Manwong	20	Phra Nakhon
Tunisia	Zohra Boufaden [13]	21	Tunis
Turkey	Azra Balkan	–	Istanbul
United States	Wendy Dascomb [14]	19	Danville
Uruguay	Julia Möller [15]	20	Montevideo
Venezuela	María José Yéllici	24	Aragua
Wales	Shirley Jones [16]	22	Colwyn Bay
West Germany	Gesine Froese [17]	22	Bavaria
Yugoslavia	Nataša Košir [18]	21	Novo Mesto

Notes

1. Ages at the time of the pageant

References

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2. The Age. The Age.
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4. "Among the fairest in the Universe". The Bermuda Recorder. 2 August 1969. p. 3. Retrieved 1 May 2025– via Bermuda National Library.
5. "Zeven "schonen", deelneemsters aan de komende "Miss Universe" verkiezing in Miami Beach". Leeuwarder courant (in Dutch). 12 July 1969. p. 1. Retrieved 18 October 2023– via Delpher.
6. "Miss Bermuda 1969". The Bermuda Recorder. 6 June 1969. p. 1. Retrieved 1 May 2025– via Bermuda National Library.
7. "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.
8. "Tica Nicolaas Miss Bonaire". Amigoe di Curacao (in Dutch). 8 April 1969. p. 9. Retrieved 1 May 2025– via Delpher.
9. "Del Valle la nueva soberana" [The new sovereign from Valle]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 12 November 1968. pp. 1, 14–16. Retrieved 18 October 2023– via Google News Archive.
10. "Miss Curacao 1969". Amigoe di Curacao (in Dutch). 23 June 1969. p. 1. Retrieved 1 May 2025– via Delpher.
11. Villano, Alexa (19 July 2019). "LOOK BACK: Gloria Diaz, forever Miss Universe icon". Rappler . Retrieved 18 October 2023.
12. "Reinas de Puerto Rico" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 March 2025.
13. "Stuntman has close call". The Miami News. 17 July 1969. p. 16. Retrieved 1 May 2025– via Newspapers.com.
14. "Wendy Dascomb, Stratford College Student, Named Miss U.S.A. 1969". The Danville Register . Associated Press. May 25, 1969. p. 1. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
15. "Las confesiones de Julia Möller". El Pais (in Spanish). 6 August 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
16. "Miss Wales is from Colwyn". The North Wales Weekly News. 12 June 1969. p. 9. Retrieved 1 May 2025– via Newspapers.com.
17. "5. Mai 1969: Eine Nürnbergerin ist die Schönste". Nürnberger Nachrichten (in German). 5 May 2019. Retrieved 1 May 2025.
18. Kek, Franci (3 February 2019). "Nataša Košir Mušič, miss Jugoslavije 1968: Obisk v Beli hiši in pri milijonarjih". Dnevnik (in Slovenian). Retrieved 1 May 2025.