Miss Universe 1968 was the 17th Miss Universe pageant, held on 13 July 1968 at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. Martha Vasconcellos of Brazil was crowned by Sylvia Hitchcock of the United States at the end of the event.[1]

Miss Universe 1968
Martha Vasconcellos, Miss Universe 1968
Date13 July 1968
PresentersBob Barker[1]
VenueMiami Beach Auditorium, Miami Beach, Florida, United States
BroadcasterCBS (WTVJ)
Entrants65
Placements15
Debuts
Withdrawals
Returns
WinnerMartha Vasconcellos
Brazil
CongenialityYasuyo Lino (Japan)
Best National CostumeLuz Elena Restrepo González (Colombia)
PhotogenicDaliborka Stojšić (Yugoslavia)
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Results

Placements

Placement Contestant
Miss Universe 1968
1st runner-up
2nd runner-up
3rd runner-up
4th runner-up
Top 15

Contestants

Sixty-five contestants competed for the title.

Country/Territory Contestant Age[a] Hometown
  Argentina María del Carmen Jordán Vidal 23 Buenos Aires
  Aruba Sandra Croes 18 Oranjestad
  Australia Laureen Jones 21 Sydney
  Austria Brigitte Krüger 24 Vienna
  Bahamas Brenda Fountain 20 Nassau
  Belgium Sonja Doumen[2] 20 Dilsen-Stokkem
  Bermuda Victoria Martin 23 Pembroke Parish
  Bolivia Roxana Bowles[3] 18 Santa Cruz de la Sierra
  Bonaire Ilse De Jong 18 Kralendijk
  Brazil Martha Vasconcellos 20 Salvador
  Canada Nancy Wilson 19 Chatham-Kent
  Ceylon Sheila Jayatilleke 18 Colombo
  Chile Dánae Salas 22 Santiago
  Colombia Luz Elena Restrepo[4] 18 Barranquilla
  Congo-Kinshasa Elizabeth Tavares 20 Kinshasa
  Costa Rica Ana María Rivera 19 San José
  Curaçao Anne Marie Braafheid 21 Willemstad
  Denmark Gitte Broge 20 Copenhagen
  Dominican Republic Ana María Ortiz Santo Domingo
  Ecuador Priscila Álava 18 Guayaquil
  England Jennifer Lowe Summers 22 London
  Finland Leena Brusiin 22 Helsinki
  France Elizabeth Cadren 22 Paris
  West Germany Lilian Atterer 20 Bavaria
  Greece Miranta Zafiropoulou 22 Athens
  Guam Arlene Vilma Chaco 21 Agana
  Haiti Claudie Paquin 18 Port-au-Prince
  Holland Nathalie Heyl 21 The Hague
  Honduras Nora Guillén 19 Tegucigalpa
  Hong Kong Tammy Yung 18 Hong Kong
  Iceland Helen Knuttsdóttir 18 Reykjavík
  India Anjum Mumtaz Barg 23 Hyderabad
  Ireland Tiffany Scales 22 Dublin
  Israel Miriam Friedman 18 Tel Aviv
  Italy Cristina Businari 18 Rome
  Jamaica Marjorie Bromfield Kingston
  Japan Yasuyo Lino 18 Tokyo
  Lebanon Sonia Fares 18 Beirut
  Luxembourg Lucienne Krier 18 Esch-sur-Alzette
  Malaysia Maznah Ali 20 Johor Bahru
  Malta Kathlene Farrugia 22 Qormi
  Mexico Perla Aguirre 18 Mexico City
  New Zealand Christine Antunovic 18 Auckland
  Nicaragua Margine Davidson 20 Matagalpa
  Norway Tone Knaran 18 Oslo
  Okinawa Sachie Kawamitsu 19 Naha
  Peru María Esther Brambilla 19 Lima
  Philippines Rosario Zaragoza[5] 18 Quezon City
  Puerto Rico Marylene Carrasquillo 18 Santurce
  Scotland Helen Davidson 22 Glasgow
  Singapore Yasmin Saif 19 Singapore
  South Africa Monica Fairall 20 Durban
  South Korea Kim Yoon-jung 18 Seoul
  Spain Yolanda Legarreta 18 Basque Country
  Sweden Anne-Marie Hellqvist 18 Hallsberg
   Switzerland Jeannette Biffiger 19 Zürich
  Thailand Apantree Prayutsenee 20 Phra Nakhon
  Tunisia Rekaia Dekhil 20 Tunis
  Turkey Zuhal Aktan 18 Istanbul
  United States Dorothy Anstett[6] 21 Kirkland
  United States Virgin Islands Sadie Sargeant 19 Charlotte Amalie
  Uruguay Graciela Minarrieta 20 Montevideo
  Venezuela Peggy Kopp 18 Caracas
  Wales Judith Radford 19 Swansea
  Yugoslavia Daliborka Stojsic 23 Belgrade

Notes

  1. ^ Ages at the time of the pageant

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Name Brazilian Miss Universe". The Journal Times. Associated Press. 14 Jul 1968. p. 1. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Sonja Doumen werd 50 jaar geleden eerste Limburgse Miss België". Het Belang van Limburg (in Dutch). 13 January 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2023 – via PressReader.
  3. ^ "El título les dio alegrías, trabajo y fama que aún saborean" [The title gave them joy, work and fame that they still savor.]. El Deber (in European Spanish). 29 July 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  4. ^ "Atlantico, Reina Nacional 1968". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 13 November 1967. pp. 1, 31. Retrieved 17 October 2023 – via Google News Archive.
  5. ^ Lo, Ricky (11 March 2014). "Beauty is in the blood". Philippine Star. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
  6. ^ "Miss USA Says Title Means Little at Home". Roanoke Times. Associated Press. May 20, 1968. p. 4. Retrieved 23 July 2023.