Miss World 1962

Miss World 1962
Catharina Lodders, Miss World 1962
Date	8 November 1962
Presenters	Michael Aspel
Venue	Lyceum Ballroom, London, United Kingdom
Broadcaster	BBC
Entrants	33
Placements	15
Withdrawals	Bolivia Ceylon Lebanon Madagascar Nicaragua Rhodesia and Nyasaland Suriname Turkey
Returns	Canada Jamaica Jordan Portugal
Winner	Catharina Lodders Holland
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Miss World 1962 was the 12th Miss World pageant, held at the Lyceum Ballroom, London, United Kingdom, on 8 November 1962. Rosemarie Frankland of the United Kingdom crowned Catharina Lodders of Holland at the conclusion of the event. ^[1] Lodders was the second woman from Holland to win Miss World title after Corine Rottschäfer in 1959. ^{[1] [2]}

Background

Selection of participants

Returns, and, withdrawals

This edition marked the return of Canada, Jamaica, Jordan, and Portugal. Jamaica and Portugal last competed in 1959, Canada and Jordan last completed in 1960. Bolivia, Ceylon, Lebanon, Madagascar, Nicaragua, Rhodesia and Nyasaland and Suriname withdrew from the competition due to their national organizations failed to hold a national competition or appoint a delegate.

Miss Turkey 1962, Zeynep Ziyal, withdrew from the competition for undisclosed reasons. ^[3]

Results

Miss World 1962 participating countries and territories.

Placement	Contestant
Miss World 1962	Holland – Catharina Lodders [4]
1st runner-up	Finland – Kaarina Leskinen [4]
2nd runner-up	France – Monique Lemaire [4]
3rd runner-up	South Africa – Yvonne Ficker [4]
4th runner-up	Japan – Teruko Ikeda [4]
Top 8	Belgium – Christine Delit Denmark – Rikke Stisager United States – Amadee Chabot [4]
Top 15	Argentina – Amalia Ramírez India – Ferial Karim [5] Israel – Ilana Porat Jamaica – Chriss Leon United Kingdom – Jackie White Uruguay – María Noel Genovese Venezuela – Betzabeth Franco

Contestants

Thirty-three contestants competed for the title.

Country	Contestant	Age [a]	Hometown
Argentina	María Amalia Ramírez [6]	17	Santa Fe
Austria	Inge Jaklin [7]	21	Vienna
Belgium	Christine Delit [8]	22	Liège
Brazil	Vera Lúzia Saba [9]	18	Guanabara
Canada	Marlene Leeson [10]	19	Nova Scotia
Cyprus	Magda Michailides	18	Nicosia
Denmark	Rikki Stisager [9]	19	Aalborg
Ecuador	Elaine Ortega	–	Pichincha
Finland	Kaarina Leskinen [11]	17	Helsinki
France	Monique Lemaire [12]	20	Paris
Greece	Glasmine Moraitou [13]	23	Athens
Holland	Catharina Lodders [14]	20	Haarlem
Iceland	Rannveig Ólafsdóttir [15]	18	Reykjavík
India	Ferial Karim [16]	23	Bombay
Ireland	Muriel O'Hanlon	19	Dublin
Israel	Ilana Porat	19	Tel Aviv
Italy	Raffaella da Carolis [17]	20	Umbria
Jamaica	Chriss Leon [18]	20	Kingston
Japan	Teruko Ikeda [19]	19	Himeji
Jordan	Leila Emile Khadder	18	Amman
Luxembourg	Brita Gerson	18	Luxembourg City
New Zealand	Maureen Waaka [20]	20	Rotorua
Portugal	Palmira Ferreira	18	Lisbon
Republic of China	Roxsana L.S. Chiang [21]	19	Taipei
South Africa	Yvonne Ficker [22]	18	Johannesburg
South Korea [b]	Chung Tae-ja [23]	23	Seoul
Spain	Conchita Roig	27	Barcelona
Sweden	Margareth Melin	21	Stockholm
United Kingdom	Jackie White [24]	20	Derbyshire
United States	Amadee Chabot [25]	17	Northridge
Uruguay	María Noel Genovese [26]	18	Montevideo
Venezuela	Betzabeth Franco [26]	20	Caracas
West Germany	Anita Steffen [27]	20	–

Judges

The performances of Miss World 1962 contestants were evaluated by a panel of judges, are: ^[1]

• Lord John Jacob Astor — Anglo-American journalist and owner of The Times of London
• Grace Fields — British actress, singer and comedian
• Leslie McDonnell — Scottish writer (who replaced businessman Billy Butlin at the last minute)
• Bob Hope — American actor and comedian
• Charles Eade — journalist and member of the Council of the Commonwealth Press Union
• Lady Margaret Simons-Kimberley, of the British High Society.
• Robert John Graham Boothby, Baron Boothby — British conservative politician
• Jenifer Unite-Armstrong-Jones — wife of Mayor Ronald Armstrong-Jones
• Richard Todd — Irish-born British film actor

Notes

1. Age at the time of the pageant
2. Competed as Korea in the pageant

References

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External links

• Miss World official website