Miss World 1976

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Miss World 1976
Date18 November 1976
Presenters
Venue Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom
Broadcaster
Entrants60
Placements15
Debuts
Withdrawals
Returns
Winner Cindy Breakspeare [1]
Jamaica
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Miss World 1976 was the 26th edition of the Miss World pageant, held on 18 November 1976 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom. The winner was Cindy Breakspeare [2] from Jamaica. [1] [3] She was crowned by Miss World 1975, Wilnelia Merced of Puerto Rico. Runner-up was Karen Jo Pini representing Australia, third was Diana Marie Roberts Duenas from Guam, fourth was Carol Jean Grant of United Kingdom, and fifth was Merja Helena Tammi from Finland.

Contents

Several entrants were forced by their national governments to withdraw to boycott the presence of separate black and white contestants from apartheid South Africa. [3]

Results

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1976 Miss World 1976 Map.PNG
Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1976

Placements

PlacementContestant
Miss World 1976
1st runner-up
2nd runner-up
  • Flag of Guam.svg  Guam – Diana Marie Duenas
3rd runner-up
4th runner-up
Top 7
Top 15

Contestants

60 contestants competed for the title. [3]

Country/TerritoryContestantAge [lower-alpha 1] Hometown
Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina Adriana Salguiero19 Tres Arroyos
Flag of Aruba.svg  Aruba Maureen Wever20 Oranjestad
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Karen Pini 19 Perth
Flag of Austria.svg  Austria Monika Mühlbauer17 Karlstetten
Flag of the Bahamas.svg  Bahamas Larona Miller19 Nassau
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium Yvette Aelbrecht18 Brussels
Flag of Bermuda.svg  Bermuda Vivienne Ann Hollis19 Smith's Parish
Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg  Brazil Adelaida Filha18 Brasília
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Pamela Mercer [4] 20 Ancaster
Flag of Chile.svg  Chile María Cristina Granzow18 Santiago
Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia María Loretta Celedón19 Valledupar
Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica Ligia Ramos23 San Jose
Flag of the Netherlands Antilles (1959-1986).svg  Curaçao Viveca Marchena18 Willemstad
Flag of Cyprus.svg  Cyprus Andri Tsangaridou20 Famagusta
Flag of Denmark.svg  Denmark Susanne Hansen18 Copenhagen
Civil Ensign of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic Jenny Corporán17 Santo Domingo
Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador Marie Clare Fontaine20 Guayaquil
Flag of El Salvador.svg  El Salvador Soraya Camondari17 San Salvador
Flag of Finland.svg  Finland Merja Tammi21 Helsinki
Flag of France.svg  France Monique Uldaric22 Paris
Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany Monika Schneeweiss†21 Frankfurt
Government Ensign of Gibraltar.svg  Gibraltar Rosemarie Parody19Gibraltar
Flag of Greece (1822-1978).svg  Greece Rania Theofilou20 Athens
Flag of Guam.svg  Guam Diana Marie Duenas17 Agana
Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala Marta Elisa Richardson21 Guatemala City
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Holland Stephanie Flatow23 Rotterdam
Flag of Honduras (1949-2022).svg  Honduras Maribel Ayala18 San Pedro Sula
Flag of Hong Kong 1959.svg  Hong Kong Christine Leung22Hong Kong
Flag of Iceland.svg  Iceland Sigríður Olgeirsdóttir19 Reykjavik
Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Jakki Moore17 Dublin
Flag of Israel.svg  Israel Levana Abarbanel17 Tel Aviv
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Antonella Lombrosi17 Milan
Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica Cindy Breakspeare 21 Kingston
Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan Noriko Asakuno19 Tokyo
Flag of Jersey (pre 1981).svg  Jersey Susan Hughes21 St. Helier
Flag of Lebanon.svg  Lebanon Suad Nachoul21 Beirut
Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg Monique Wilmes19 Echternach
Flag of Malta.svg  Malta Jane Saliba18 Żurrieq
Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico Carla Jean Evert19 Acapulco
Flag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand Anne Clifford22 Christchurch
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway Nina Rønneberg21 Oslo
Flag of Paraguay (1954-1988).svg  Paraguay María Cristina Fernández21 Asuncion
Flag of Peru.svg  Peru Rocío Lazcano21 Lima
Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico Ivette Rosado19 Bayamón
Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore Pauline Poh18Singapore
Flag of South Africa (1928-1982).svg  South Africa Veronica Mutsepe [lower-alpha 2] 21 Pretoria
Lynn Massyn18 Durban
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea Shin Byoung-sook19 Seoul
Flag of Spain (1945-1977).svg  Spain Luz María Polegre18 Tenerife
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Ann-Christine Gernandt19 Stockholm
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg   Switzerland Ruth Crottet21 Lugano
Flag of France.svg  Tahiti Patricia Servonnat18 Papeete
Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand Duangcheewan Komolsen20 Bangkok
Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago Patricia Anderson Leon21 San Fernando
Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey Jale Bayhan20 Ankara
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Carol Jean Grant19 Glasgow
Flag of the United States.svg  United States Kimberly Foley [4] 21 Southfield
Flag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay Sara Alaga19 Salto
Flag of Venezuela (1954-2006).svg  Venezuela Genoveva Rivero 19 Caracas
Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.svg  Virgin Islands Denise La Franque19 Saint Croix

Withdrawals in protest against South Africa

Notes

  1. ↑ Ages at the time of the pageant.
  2. ↑ Competed as "Miss Africa South"

Debuts

Returns

Did not compete

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  2. 1 2 "Jamaican is Miss World". The Modesto Bee . Modesto, California. Associated Press. 19 November 1976. Retrieved 16 September 2010.[ permanent dead link ]
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  4. 1 2 3 "The Southeast Missourian" . Retrieved 26 January 2016.
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  6. ↑ "Miss Rhodesia, 22 year old Jane Bird, reveals her shapely figure at her London hotel". Getty Images (in German). Retrieved 14 September 2017.
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