Ingrid Finger is a German beauty queen who became the first representative from her country to win the Miss International

Miss International

Miss International is an annual international beauty pageant held since 1960.The current Miss International is Fernanda Cornejo, from Ecuador...

 pageant

Beauty contest

A beauty pageant or beauty contest, is a competition that mainly focuses on the physical beauty of its contestants, although such contests often incorporate personality, talent, and answers to judges' questions as judged criteria...

 in 1965.

Nicknamed Fifi, Finger bested a field of 44 delegates to win the title in Long Beach, California

Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...

. Since the successive edition of the pageant was held two years after her crowning in 1967, she holds the distinction for the longest reign of any Miss International winner. By the time she passed on her crown to Mirta Massa

Mirta Teresita Massa

Mirta Teresita Massa is the first delegate of Argentina to capture the Miss International crown in 1967. She is the second Latin American to win the beauty pageant after Maria Stella Márquez Zawadzky of Colombia did it in 1961....

 of Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, her reign had exceeded 20 months.