Results
Placements
| Placement | Contestant |
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| Miss World 1975 | |
| 1st runner-up |
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| 2nd runner-up |
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| 3rd runner-up |
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| 4th runner-up |
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| Top 7 |
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| Top 15 |
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| Miss World 1975 | |
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| Date | 20 November 1975 |
| Presenters | † |
| Venue | Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom |
| Broadcaster | |
| Entrants | 67 |
| Placements | 15 |
| Debuts |
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| Withdrawals |
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| Returns |
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| Winner | Wilnelia Merced [1] [2] Puerto Rico |
| Congeniality | Maggie Siew Teen Sim Singapore |
| Photogenic | Vinah Thembi Mamba Swaziland |
Miss World 1975 was the 25th edition of the Miss World pageant, held on 20 November 1975 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom. 67 contestants took part in the pageant won by Wilnelia Merced of Puerto Rico. [1] [2] She was crowned by Anneline Kriel of South Africa. Runner-up was Germany, Marina Langer, third place was Vicki Harris representing the United Kingdom, fourth place was Maricela Maxie Clark of Cuba, and Yugoslavia's Ladija Verkovska completed the top five.
Anna Vitale of Italy was replaced by Vanna Bortolini, her first runner-up of the Miss Italy, because she decided to return home to take care of her ill mother and Rhoda Rademeyer of South Africa was the second runner-up of Miss South Africa. The official titleholder, Helga Vera Johns, was disqualified by the Miss World organizers when it was discovered that she came from Rhodesia. Her Rhodesian nationality apparently violated the pageant's rules. The first runner-up, Crystal Coopers, went to London, but her father would not allow her to compete there because it was discovered that Vera Johns was not going to be officially stripped of her title. This was the second time Helga Vera Johns was barred from competing in the Miss World contest and still to this day remains the only contestant to be barred at least twice from competing at Miss World. The first time was in 1972 when she tried to compete as Miss Rhodesia but was not allowed to compete due to her Rhodesian nationality. [3] [4]
This edition marked the debut of Curaçao, El Salvador, Haiti, Saint Lucia and Swaziland and the return of Bolivia, Cuba, Iceland, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Peru, Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey and Uruguay. Cuba, which last competed in 1955, Bolivia and Uruguay last competed in 1965, Trinidad and Tobago last competed in 1971 and Iceland, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Peru, Seychelles and Turkey last competed in 1973.
Botswana, Ecuador, Jamaica, Madagascar, and Zambia, withdrew from the competition for unknown reasons. Olga Fernández Pérez of Spain promptly withdrew from the competition, after an announcement that Francisco Franco, the ruler of Spain, had died on the morning of the pageant date. Pageant organizers concerned that she had been too upset by Franco's death to appear in the finals.
| Placement | Contestant |
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| Miss World 1975 | |
| 1st runner-up |
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| 2nd runner-up |
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| 3rd runner-up |
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| 4th runner-up |
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| Top 7 |
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| Top 15 |
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Argentina – Lilian Noemí De Asti [6] 
Aruba – Cynthia Marlene Bruin
Australia – Anne Davidson
Austria – Rosemarie Holzschuh [7] 
Bahamas – Ava Marilyn Burke
Barbados – Peta Hazel Greaves
Belgium – Christine Delmelle
Bermuda – Donna Louise Wright
Bolivia – María Mónica Guardia [8] 
Brazil – Zaida Souza Costa
Canada – Normande Jacques
Colombia – Amanda Amaya Correa
Costa Rica – María Mayela Bolaños Ugalde
Cuba – Maricela Clark [9] Curaçao – Elvira Nelly Maria Bakker
Denmark – Pia Isa Lauridsen
Dominican Republic – Carmen Rosa Arredondo Pou
El Salvador – Ana Stella Comas Durán
Finland – Leena Kaarina Vainio [10] 
France – Sophie Sonia Perin [11] 
Gibraltar – Lillian Anne Lara
Greece – Bella Adamopoulou
Guam – Dora Ann Quintanilla Camacho
Guernsey – Carol Dawn Le Billon [12] 
Haiti – Joelle Apollon
Holland – Barbara Ann Neefs
Honduras – Etelinda Mejía Velásquez
Hong Kong – Teresa Chu Tsui-Kuen
Iceland – Halldóra Björk Jónsdóttir
India – Anjana Sood
Ireland – Elaine Rosemary O'Hara
Israel – Atida Mor
Italy – Vanna Bortolini
Japan – Chiharu Fujiwara
Jersey – Susan Maxwell de Gruchy
Lebanon – Ramona Karam
Luxembourg – Marie Thérèse Manderschied [13] 
Malaysia – Fauziah Haron [14] 
Malta – Marie Grace Ciantar
Mauritius – Marielle Tse Sik-Sun
Mexico – Blanca Patricia López Esparza
New Zealand – Janet Andrea Nugent
Nicaragua – María Auxiliadora Paguaga Mantilla
Norway – Sissel Gulbrandsen
Peru – Mary Orfanides Canakis
Philippines – Suzanne Gonzalez [15] 
Puerto Rico – Wilnelia Merced [16] 
Saint Lucia – Sophia St. Omer
Seychelles – Amelie Lydia Michel [17] 
Singapore – Maggie Siew Teen Sim
South Africa [a] – Lydia Gloria Johnstone South Africa – Rhoda Rademeyer
South Korea [b] – Lee Sung-hee [18] 
Sri Lanka – Angela Seneviratne
Swaziland – Vinah Thembi Mamba [19] 
Sweden – Agneta Catharina Magnusson
Switzerland – Franziska Angst
Thailand – Raevadee Pattamaphong [20] 
Trinidad and Tobago – Donna Sandra Dalrymple
Tunisia – Monia Dida
Turkey – Harika Değirmenci [21] 
United Kingdom – Vicki Ann Harris [22] 
United States – Annelise Ilschenko
Uruguay – Carmen Abal
Venezuela – María Concepción Alonso Bustillo 
West Germany – Marina Langner [23] 
Yugoslavia – Lidija Velkovska Miss World 1975 national titleholders | |
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