Miss World 1971

Miss World 1971
Date	10 November 1971
Presenters	Michael Aspel David Vine†
Venue	Royal Albert Hall, London, England, United Kingdom
Broadcaster	BBC
Entrants	56
Placements	15
Debuts	Bermuda Guam
Withdrawals	Colombia Denmark Gambia Grenada Hong Kong Lebanon Liberia Nigeria
Returns	Aruba Panama Paraguay Trinidad and Tobago
Winner	Lúcia Petterle [1] Brazil
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Miss World 1971 was the 21st Miss World pageant, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England, United Kingdom, on 10 November 1971. ^[2]

Jennifer Hosten of Grenada crowned Lúcia Petterle of Brazil at the end of the event. ^[3] Although Petterle completed her reign as Miss World, she fell and broke her arm in the final month of her year and was unable to travel to London to participate in the Miss World 1972 contest.

This edition marked the debut of Bermuda and Guam, and the return of Aruba and Trinidad and Tobago, which last competed in 1966, Panama last competed in 1967 and Paraguay last competed in 1969.

Colombia, Denmark, the Gambia, Grenada, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Liberia and Nigeria, withdrew from the competition for unknown reasons.

Results

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1971

Placements

Placement	Contestant
Miss World 1971	Brazil – Lúcia Petterle [1] [3]
1st runner-up	United Kingdom – Marilyn Ann Ward [3]
2nd runner-up	Portugal – Ana Paula de Almeida [3]
3rd runner-up	Guyana – Nalini Moonsar
4th runner-up	Jamaica – Ava Joy Gill
Top 7	France – Myriam Stocco United States – Brucene Smith [4] [3]
Top 15	Australia – Valerie Roberts Austria – Waltraud Lucas Guam – Deborah Bordallo Nelson Israel – Miri Ben-David South Africa – Monica Fairall Spain – María García Sweden – Simonetta Kohl Venezuela – Ana María Padrón

Contestants

• Argentina – Alicia Beatriz Daneri
• Aruba – Maria Elizabeth Bruin
• Australia – Valerie Roberts
• Austria – Waltraud Lucas
• Bahamas – Frances Clarkson
• Belgium – Martine De Hert
• Bermuda – Rene Furbert
• Brazil – Lúcia Petterle ^[1]
• Canada – Lana Drouillard
• Ceylon – Gail Abayasinghe
• Cyprus – Kyriaki Koursoumba
• Dominican Republic – Haydée Kuret
• Ecuador – María Cecilia Gómez
• Finland – Mirja Halme
• France – Myriam Stocco
• Gibraltar – Lisette Chipolina
• Greece – Maria Maltezou
• Guam – Deborah Bordallo Nelson
• Guyana – Nalini Moonsar
• Holland – Monica Strotmann
• Iceland – Fanney Bjarnadóttir
• India – Prema Narayan
• Ireland – June Glover
• Israel – Miri Ben-David
• Italy – Maria Pinnone
• Jamaica – Ava Joy Gill
• Japan – Emiko Ikeda
• Luxembourg – Mariette Werckx
• Malaysia – Daphne Munro
• Malta – Doris Abdilla
• Mauritius – Marie-Anne Ng Sik Kwong
• Mexico – Lucía Arellano
• New Zealand – Linda Ritchie
• Nicaragua – Soraya Herrera
• Norway – Kate Starvik
• Panama – María de Lourdes Rivera
• Paraguay – Rosa María Duarte
• Philippines – Onelia Ison Jose ^[5]
• Portugal – Ana Paula de Almeida
• Puerto Rico – Raquel Quintana
• Seychelles – Nadia Morel du Boil
• South Africa ^[a] – Gaily Ryan
• South Africa – Monica Fairall
• South Korea ^[b] – Lee Young-eun
• Spain – María García
• Sweden – Simonetta Kohl
•   Switzerland – Patrice Sollner
• Thailand – Boonyong Thongboon
• Trinidad and Tobago – Maria Jordan
• Tunisia – Souad Keneari
• Turkey – Nil Menemencioğlu ^[6]
• United Kingdom – Marilyn Ann Ward
• United States – Brucene Smith
• Venezuela – Ana María Padrón Ibarrondo
• West Germany – Irene Neumann
• Yugoslavia – Zlata Petković †

Notes

1. Black representative from South Africa competed as Miss Africa South in the pageant
2. Competed as Korea in the pageant

References

1. "The Telegraph" . Retrieved 27 January 2016.
2. "Miss World Competition Through the Years". E! . 12 December 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
3. "Beaver County Times" . Retrieved 27 January 2016.
4. "Times Daily" . Retrieved 27 January 2016.
5. Burton-Titular, Joyce (1 October 2013). "From Vivien to Megan: The PH in Miss World history". Rappler . Archived from the original on 24 July 2024. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
6. Tarihi, Güncelleme (4 May 2020). "Güzeller canlı yayında buluştu" [Beauties met on live broadcast]. Hürriyet (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 2 January 2023. Retrieved 29 April 2025.