Miss Universe 1980
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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....
1980 was held at Sejong Cultural Center
Sejong Center
Sejong Center for the Performing Arts is the largest arts and cultural complex in Seoul, South Korea. It has an interior area of 53,202m². It is situated in the center of the capital, on Sejongno, a main road that cuts through the capital city of the Joseon Dynasty. The center took 4 years to...
, Seoul
Seoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
, South Korea
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
on July 8, 1980. 20-year-old Shawn Weatherly of USA
Miss USA
The Miss USA beauty contest has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA...
was crowned as Miss Universe 1980. Sixty-nine contestants competed in the 1980 Miss Universe Pageant.
Placements
| Final results | Contestant |
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| Miss Universe 1980 | |
| 1st runner-up |
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| 2nd runner-up |
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| 3rd runner-up |
Chat Silayan Maria Rosario Silayan-Bailon better known as Chat Silayan was a Filipina beauty queen and actress. She won the 1980 Binibining Pilipinas Universe crown and became the third runner-up at Miss Universe 1980. A year after her stint in Miss Universe, her acting career began and she became one of the... |
| 4th runner-up |
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| Top 12 |
 Puerto Rico - Agnes Tañón Correa |
Semifinal Scores
| Country | Preliminary Average | Interview | Swimsuit | Evening Gown | Semifinal Average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 United States |
8.480 (1) | 8.317 (1) | 8.718 (1) | 8.883 (1) | 8.640 (1) |
| 7.885 (2) | 8.283 (2) | 8.400 (2) | 8.400 (3) | 8.361 (2) | |
| 7.572 (8) | 8.208 (3) | 8.250 (4) | 8.346 (4) | 8.268 (3) | |
| 7.662 (5) | 8.120 (4) | 8.033 (6) | 8.433 (2) | 8.196 (4) | |
| 7.785 (3) | 8.036 (5) | 8.273 (3) | 8.267 (5) | 8.192 (5) | |
| 7.711 (4) | 7.992 (6) | 8.200 (5) | 8.100 (6) | 8.097 (6) | |
| 7.598 (7) | 7.850 (7) | 7.892 (8) | 7.867 (10) | 7.870 (7) | |
| 7.636 (6) | 7.675 (10) | 7.942 (7) | 7.933 (9) | 7.850 (8) | |
| 7.525 (11) | 7.658 (11) | 7.750 (10) | 7.967 (8) | 7.792 (9) | |
| 7.531 (10) | 7.789 (8) | 7.729 (12) | 7.842 (11) | 7.787 (10) | |
| 7.514 (12) | 7.713 (9) | 7.742 (11) | 7.825 (12) | 7.760 (11) | |
| 7.566 (9) | 6.957 (12) | 7.858 (9) | 8.067 (7) | 7.627 (12) | |
- Winner
- First Runner-up
- Second Runner-up
- Third Runner-up
- Fourth Runner-up
- Top 12 Semifinalist Rank in each round of competition
Special Awards
| Award | Contestant |
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| Best National Costume |
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| Miss Congeniality |
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| Miss Photogenic |
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Contestants
- – Silvia Piedrabuena
- – Magaly Maduro
- – Katrina Redina
- – Isabel Muller
- – Darlene Davies
- – Brigitte Billen
- – Ellen Marie Clarke
- – Jill Murphy
- – Carmen Parada
- – Eveline Schroeter
- – Barbara Stevens
- – Teresa Lynn McKay
- – Dealia Devon Walter
- – María Gabriela Campusano Puelma
ColombiaMiss ColombiaSeñorita Colombia is an annual national beauty contest in Colombia that selects representatives to Miss Universe and Miss International...
– Maria Patricia Arbeláez- – Barbara Herrero
- – Hassana Hamoud
- – Jane Bill
Dominican RepublicMiss Dominican RepublicMiss Dominican Republic, or Miss República Dominicana in Spanish, is a pageant where women ranging from the ages of 18 to 26 compete, each representing a Dominican province, city, or community. The Miss Dominican Republic organization is managed by Magali Febles...
– Milagros Germán
EcuadorMiss EcuadorMiss Ecuador is an annual national beauty pageant that selects Ecuador's representatives to Miss Universe, Miss World, and Miss International....
– Verónica Rivas- – Julie Duckworth
- – Sirpa Viljamaa
FranceMiss FranceMiss France is the trademark of an annual beauty pageant. Rights to the trademark were obtained in 2002 by the Dutch television production company Endemol through its subsidiary Miss France SAS, whose director general is Sylvie Tellier, Miss France 2002. Endemol also holds the rights in France to...
– Brigitte Choquet- – Kathrin Glotzl
- – Roula Kanellapoulou
Guadeloupe – Elydie de Gage- – Dina Aportadera
- – Lizabeth Iveth Martínez Noack
- ' – Karin Gooyer
- – Etelvina Raudales Velásquez
- ' – Wanda Tai
- – Guðbjörg Sigurdardóttir
IndiaMiss IndiaMiss India or Femina Miss India is a national beauty pageant in India, one of the most recognized contests to produce international beauty queens in the 90s, which annually selects three winners to compete globally. It is organized by Femina, a women's magazine published by Bennett, Coleman & Co...
– Sangeeta Motilal Bijlani- – Andi Rivayate
- – Maura McMenamim
- – Ilana Shoshan
- – Loredana dal Santo
- – Hisae Hiyama
- – Kim Eun-Jung
MalaysiaMiss MalaysiaMiss Malaysia represents Malaysia in two of the major international pageants.Miss Universe is a beauty pageant run by the New York-based partnership between NBC and Donald Trump....
– Felicia Yong- – Isabelle Zammit
- – Ana Patricia Nuñez Romero New ZealandNew Zealand at Miss UniverseMiss Universe New Zealand is the New Zealand national beauty pageant which feeds into the international Miss Universe competition. Qualification for Miss Universe New Zealand is based on regional pageants and/or personal interviews .New Zealanders have contested 44 Miss Universe pageants since its...
– Diana Delyse Nottle - – Angelina Camacho Chong
- – Maiken Nielsen
- – Gloria Karamañites
- – Mispah Alwyn
- – Martha Galli
- – Marialice Ramos
- – Maria Rosario SilayanChat SilayanMaria Rosario Silayan-Bailon better known as Chat Silayan was a Filipina beauty queen and actress. She won the 1980 Binibining Pilipinas Universe crown and became the third runner-up at Miss Universe 1980. A year after her stint in Miss Universe, her acting career began and she became one of the...
Puerto RicoMiss Puerto RicoMiss Puerto Rico is the common name or sash used to identify a Puerto Rican representative in an international pageant. Currently, Miss Universe Puerto Rico, Miss Mundo de Puerto Rico and Miss Earth Puerto Rico are the official national preliminaries to the Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss Earth...
– Agnes Tañón Correa- – Marie Josephe Hoareau
- ' – Lucie Marie Davic
- – Linda Gallagher
- – Ann Chua Ai Choo
SpainMiss SpainMiss España is the main annual beauty pageant of Spain that selects the official representative to the Miss Universe pageant. Runners-up go to Miss World, Miss International and Miss Earth.-History:...
– Yolanda Hoyos- – Hyacinth Kurukulasuriya
SwedenMiss SwedenMiss Sweden , is the title of the Swedish beauty pageant, which ran from 1949-2003, by the female magazine VeckoRevyn and production company Strix in partnership with MTG. The competition qualified delegates to the global contests Miss Universe and first runner ups to Miss World...
– Eva Birgitta Andersson
SwitzerlandMiss SwitzerlandMiss Switzerland is a Swiss beauty pageant for young women. Candidates are selected by television viewers and a jury. The winner is awarded the title Miss Switzerland...
– Margrit Kilchoer- – Thilda Raina Fuller
ThailandMiss ThailandMiss Thailand is a beauty pageant held in Thailand for single Thai women, first held on December 10, 1934 in Phra Nakorn province or The National Capital, under the name of Miss Siam ....
– Artitaya Promkul- ' – Althea Rocke
- – Heyecan Gokoglou
- ' – Constance Lightbourne
- – Beatriz Antuñez
- USAMiss USA 1980Miss USA 1980, the 29th Miss USA pageant, was televised live on May 15 from the Gulf Coast Convention Center in Biloxi, Mississippi on CBS.The pageant was won by Shawn Weatherly of South Carolina, who was crowned by outgoing titleholder Mary Therese Friel of New York...
– Shawn Weatherly 
United States Virgin Islands – Deborah Velisa Mardenborough
VenezuelaMiss Venezuela 1980Miss Venezuela 1980 was held in Caraballeda, Vargas state, Venezuela, on May 8, 1980, after weeks of events. The winner of the pageant was Maye Brandt, Miss Lara....
– Maye BrandtMaye BrandtMaría Xavier Brandt Angulo was the Miss Venezuela titleholder for 1980, and was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss Universe 1980 pageant held in Seoul, Korea, on July 7, 1980. Brandt died in 1982 as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 22.-External links:**...- – Kim AshfieldKim AshfieldKim Ashfield is a former model who was Miss United Kingdom in 1980 and as Miss Wales competed in Miss Universe 1980. She placed as the 4th runner-up in the Miss World 1980 pageant.-References:...
Preliminary Swimsuit Scores
- 8.359 USA
- 7.750 New Zealand
- 7.745 Scotland
- 7.614 Canada
- 7.608 Iceland
- 7.602 Argentina
- 7.572 Brazil
- 7.554 Ireland
- 7.554 Tahiti
- 7.545 Germany
- 7.473 Holland
- 7.468 England
- 7.468 Guatemala
- 7.455 Venezuela
- 7.453 Panama
- 7.445 Puerto Rico
- 7.443 Norway
- 7.425 Colombia
- 7.425 Wales
- 7.408 Philippines
- 7.354 Denmark
- 7.322 Thailand
- 7.314 India
- 7.253 Sweden
- 7.177 Korea
- 7.149 Dominican Republic
- 7.127 Greece
- 7.089 Bermuda
- 7.068 Uruguay
- 7.066 Trinidad & Tobago
- 7.036 Spain
- 7.018 Japan
- 7.003 Peru
- 6.998 Austria
- 6.924 Costa Rica
- 6.921 Hong Kong
- 6.918 Switzerland
- 6.909 Australia
- 6.902 Ecuador
- 6.877 Mexico
- 6.872 Israel
- 6.866 Bolivia
- 6.865 Guadeloupe
- 6.838 Singapore
- 6.818 Réunion
- 6.817 Belgium
- 6.759 U.S. Virgin Islands
- 6.757 Paraguay
- 6.750 Honduras
- 6.749 Sri Lanka
- 6.743 France
- 6.740 Turkey
- 6.736 Chile
- 6.686 Italy
- 6.684 Malta
- 6.659 Cayman Islands
- 6.656 Aruba
- 6.638 Finland
- 6.618 Curaçao
- 6.591 Turks & Caicos Islands
- 6.584 Bahamas
- 6.582 Northern Mariana Islands
- 6.567 Malaysia
- 6.557 Guam
- 6.544 Belize
- 6.538 St. Martin
- 6.466 Papua New Guinea
- 6.401 British Virgin Islands
- ? Indonesia
Trivia
- In the Parade of Nations, contestants introduced themselves in alphabetical order, in which each candidate rapidly recites her name and country, without being introduced individually by Bob Barker. However, the alphabetical order was disrupted. Miss Bolivia introduced herself before Miss Bermuda,British Virgin Islands before Brazil, Cayman Islands introduce before Canada, England before Ecuador, Hong Kong before Honduras, India before Iceland, and more. When Miss Korea (to the left) had entered the stage, she let Miss Japan (to the right) introduce first. This changed back the introduction order. However the camera only showed Miss Korea and Miss Japan was not shown (her voice was only heard). Previously in the 1970s, Bob Barker would announce the country of each contestant in national costume before she stepped forward.
- During the preliminary swimsuit competition, only Miss USA got a score higher than 8.00.
- Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos competed in Miss Universe for the first time. Cayman Islands won the award for Miss Amity.
- Belgium, Cayman Islands, Denmark, Guatemala, Honduras, Norway, Papua New Guinea and Wales competed in Miss World 1980 in London four months later. Wales, Kim Ashfield crowned as Miss United Kingdom and then placed as 4th runner-up in Miss World.
- Tahiti, who was semi-finalist in Miss Universe, competed in Miss World 1979Miss World 1979Miss World 1979, the 29th Miss World pageant, was held on November 15, 1979 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Gina Swainson from Bermuda...
, along with Ireland and Paraguay.
- Venezuela, Maye BrandtMaye BrandtMaría Xavier Brandt Angulo was the Miss Venezuela titleholder for 1980, and was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss Universe 1980 pageant held in Seoul, Korea, on July 7, 1980. Brandt died in 1982 as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 22.-External links:**...
, who did not make the semi-finals, committed suicide in 1982. Twenty-four years later, Philippines, Maria Rosario SilayanChat SilayanMaria Rosario Silayan-Bailon better known as Chat Silayan was a Filipina beauty queen and actress. She won the 1980 Binibining Pilipinas Universe crown and became the third runner-up at Miss Universe 1980. A year after her stint in Miss Universe, her acting career began and she became one of the...
, who placed as 3rd runner-up, died of colon cancer.
Panel of Judges
- Luis Maria Anton
- Max Bostock
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- Margaret GardinerMargaret GardinerMargaret Gardiner, from Woodstock, South Africa is the winner of the Miss Universe pageant in 1978. She was 18 years old when she won the pageant.. , Palm Beach Post . , St...
- Kiyoshi Hara
- Jung Il-Yung
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- Oh Che Qum
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- Abigail Van Buren