Miss Universe 1968
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Miss Universe 1968, the 17th Miss Universe
Miss Universe
Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....

 pageant, was won by 20-year-old Martha Vasconcellos
Martha Vasconcellos
Martha Vasconcellos , is a Brazilian who became that country's second Miss Universe winner, after Ieda Maria Vargas first achieved the feat in 1963. She also became the fifth Latin American to win the title, after Peru's Gladys Zender in 1957, Colombia's Luz Marina Zuluaga in 1958 and Argentina's...

 of Brazil
Miss Brasil
The Miss Brasil Pageant is a beauty contest that has been held almost every year since 1954 between winners of the Brazilian state pageants.It is one of the most important beauty contest of the world, with USA and Venezuela...

. It took place on 13 July 1968 at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on a barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter which separates the Beach from Miami city proper...

, USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

.

Placements

Final results Contestant
Miss Universe 1968
  •  Brazil - Martha Vasconcellos
    Martha Vasconcellos
    Martha Vasconcellos , is a Brazilian who became that country's second Miss Universe winner, after Ieda Maria Vargas first achieved the feat in 1963. She also became the fifth Latin American to win the title, after Peru's Gladys Zender in 1957, Colombia's Luz Marina Zuluaga in 1958 and Argentina's...

1st runner-up
  •  Curaçao - Anne Marie Braafheid
  • 2nd runner-up
  •  Finland - Leena Marketta Brusin
  • 3rd runner-up
  •  Venezuela - Peggy Kopp
    Peggy Kopp
    Peggy Kopp Arenas is a pageant titleholder, was born in Caracas, Venezuela on April 3, 1951. She is the Miss Venezuela titleholder for 1968, and was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss Universe 1968 pageant held in Miami Beach, Florida, USA, on July 13, 1968, when she won the title...

  • 4th runner-up
  •  United States - Dorothy Anstett
    Dorothy Anstett
    Dorothy Catherine Anstett is a pageant titleholder from Kirkland, Washington who held the Miss USA 1968 title.Anstett competed in the Miss Washington pageant in July 1967 and placed first runner-up. In April of the following year she won the Miss Washington USA 1968 crown title...

  • Top 15
  •  Canada - Nancy Wilson
  •  Chile - Dánae Monserrat Salas Savadell
  •  Kingdom of England - Jennifer Lowe Summers
  •  Early Modern France - Elizabeth Cadren
  •  Greece - Miranta Zafiropoulou
  •  Israel - Miriam Fridman
  •  Norway - Tone Knaran
  •  Sweden - Anne Marie Hellqvist
  •  Thailand - Apantree Prayuttasenee
    Apantree Prayuttasenee
    Apantree Prayuttasenee , nicknamed Pui was Miss Thailand 1967. She competed in the Miss Universe 1968 pageant competition held in the USA and she placed in the Top 15....

  •  Kingdom of Yugoslavia - Daliborka Stojsić

  • Special awards

    Award Contestant
    Miss Congeniality
    Miss Photogenic
  •  Kingdom of Yugoslavia - Daliborka Stojsić
  • Best National Costume
  •  Colombia - Luz Elena Restrepo Gonzales

  • Contestants


    •  Israel - Miriam Friedman
    •  Italy - Cristina Businari
    •  Jamaica - Marjorie Bromfield
    •  Japan - Yasuyo Iino
    • ' - Kim Yoon-jung
    •  Lebanon - Sonia Faris
    •  Luxembourg - Lucienne Krier
    •  Malaysia - Maznah Binte Mohammed Ali
    •  Malta - Kathlene Farrugia
    •  Mexico - Perla Olivia Aguirre Munoz
    •  New Zealand - Christine Mary Antunovic
    •  Nicaragua - Margine Davidson Morales
    •  Norway - Tone Knaran
    •  Okinawa Prefecture - Sachie Kawamitsu
    •  Peru - Maria Esther Brambilla
    •  Philippines - Sharina Rosello Zaragoza
    •  Puerto Rico - Marylene Carrasquillo
    •  Kingdom of Scotland - Helen Davidson
    •  Singapore - Yasmin Saif
    •  South Africa - Monica Fairall
    •  Spain - Yolanda Legarreta Urquijo
    •  Sweden - Anne-Marie Hellqvist
    •  Switzerland - Jeannette Biffiger
    •  Thailand - Apantree Prayuttasenee
      Apantree Prayuttasenee
      Apantree Prayuttasenee , nicknamed Pui was Miss Thailand 1967. She competed in the Miss Universe 1968 pageant competition held in the USA and she placed in the Top 15....

    •  Tunisia - Rekaia Dekhil
    •  Turkey - Zumal Aktan
    •  Uruguay - Graciela Minarrieta
    •  United States - Dorothy Catherine Anstett
      Dorothy Anstett
      Dorothy Catherine Anstett is a pageant titleholder from Kirkland, Washington who held the Miss USA 1968 title.Anstett competed in the Miss Washington pageant in July 1967 and placed first runner-up. In April of the following year she won the Miss Washington USA 1968 crown title...

    •  Venezuela - Peggy Kopp Arenas
      Peggy Kopp
      Peggy Kopp Arenas is a pageant titleholder, was born in Caracas, Venezuela on April 3, 1951. She is the Miss Venezuela titleholder for 1968, and was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss Universe 1968 pageant held in Miami Beach, Florida, USA, on July 13, 1968, when she won the title...

    •   Virgin Islands
      Virgin Islands
      The Virgin Islands are the western island group of the Leeward Islands, which are the northern part of the Lesser Antilles, which form the border between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean...

      - Sadie Sargeant
    •  Wales - Judith Radford
    •  Kingdom of Yugoslavia - Daliborka Stojsic
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