User:Mauriziok/Miss World 1968
Appearance
Mauriziok/Miss World 1968 | |
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Penelope Plummer, Miss World 1968. | |
Date | 14 November 1968 |
Presenters | Michael Aspel |
Venue | Lyceum Ballroom, London, United Kingdom |
Broadcaster | BBC |
Entrants | 53 |
Debuts | Thailand |
Withdrawals | Czechoslovakia, Honduras, Iceland, Lebanon, Panama, Portugal, Tanzania |
Returns | Bahamas, Colombia, India, Nicaragua |
Winner | Penelope Plummer |
Miss World 1968, the 18th edition Miss World pageant, was held at the Lyceum Ballroom in London, UK on 14 November 1968. 53 contestants competed for the crown. Madeline Hartog-Bel of Peru crowned her successor Penelope Plummer of Australia.
Results
[edit]Final results | Contestant |
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Miss World 1968 | |
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 | |
Top 15 |
Contestants
[edit]Argentina – Viviana Roldán
Australia – Penelope Plummer
Austria – Brigitte Krüger
Bahamas – Rose Helena Dauchot
Belgium – Sonja Doumen
Brazil – Angela Carmelia Stecca
Canada – Nancy Wilson
Ceylon – Nilanthie Wijesinghe
Chile – Carmen Smith
Colombia – Beatriz Sierra González
Costa Rica – Patricia Diers
Cyprus – Diana Dimitropoulou
Denmark – Yet Schaufuss
Dominican Republic – Ingrid García
Ecuador – Marcia Virginia Ramos Christiansen
Finland – Leena Sipilä
France – Nelly Gallerne
Germany – Margot Schmalzriedt
Ghana – Lovell Rosebud Wordie
Gibraltar – Sandra Sanguinetti
Greece- Lia Malta
Guyana – Adrienne Harris
Holland – Alida Grootenboer
India – Jane Coelho
Ireland – June MacMahon
Israel – Miri Zamir
Italy – Maria Pia Gianporcaro
Jamaica – Karlene Waddell
Japan – Ryoko Miyoshi
Kenya – Josephine Moikobu
Korea – Lee Ji-eun
Liberia – Wilhelmina Nadieh Brownell
Luxembourg – Irene Siedler
Malta – Ursulina (Lina) Grech
Mexico – Ana María Magaña
Morocco – Zakia Chamouch
New Zealand – Christine Mary Antunovic
Nicaragua – Margine Davidson Morales
Nigeria – Foluke Ogundipe
Norway – Hedda Lie
Peru – Ana Rosa Berninzon Devéscovi
Philippines – Arene Cecilia Amabuyok
South Africa – Mitsianna Stander†
Sweden – Gunilla Friden
Switzerland – Jeanette Biffiger
Thailand – Pinnarut Tananchai
Tunisia – Zohra Boufaden
Turkey – Mine Kurkcuoglu
Uganda – Joy Lehai
United Kingdom – Kathleen Winstanley
United States – Johnine Leigh Avery
Venezuela – Cherry Núñez Rodríguez
Yugoslavia – Ivona Puhlera
Notes
[edit]Withdraws
[edit]Spain – María Amparo Rodrigo Lorenza
Nations not competing
[edit]Iceland – Helga Jonsdóttir
Seychelles – Marie-France Lablache
Disqualified
[edit]Lebanon – Lili Bissar (discovered the night before the finals to be only 15 years old)
External links
[edit][[:Category:Miss World]] [[:Category:1968 in London]] [[:Category:1968 beauty pageants]] [[:Category:Beauty pageants in the United Kingdom]] [[:Category:November 1968 events in the United Kingdom]]