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Miss World 1961 Date 9 November 1961 Presenters Michael Aspel Venue Lyceum Theatre, London, UK Broadcaster BBC Entrants 37 Debuts Republic of China and Suriname Withdraws Australia, Burma, Canada, Jordan, Kenya, Norway, Tahiti, and Tanganyika Returns Austria, Ceylon, New Zealand, and Venezuela Winner Rosemarie Frankland
United KingdomMiss World 1961, the 11th Miss World pageant, was won by Rosemarie Frankland of United Kingdom. It took place on November 9, 1961 at the Lyceum Theatre in London, UK.
Contents
Results
Final Results Contestant Miss World 1961 1st Runner-up - Republic of China - Grace Li Shiu-ying
2nd Runner-up - Spain - Maria del Carmen Cervera Fernández
3rd Runner-up - France - Michèle Wargnier
4th Runner-up - Denmark - Inge Jörgensen
Finalists - United States - Jo Ann Odum
- New Zealand - Leone Mary Main
Semifinalists Contestants
- Argentina - Susana Julia Pardal
- Austria - Hella Wolfsgrubej
- Belgium - Jacqueline Oroi
- Bolivia - Nancy Cortez Justiniano
- Brazil - Alda Maria Coutinho de Moraes
- Ceylon - Sushila Perera
- China, Republic of - Grace Li Shiu-Ying
- Cyprus - Andreava (Rita) Polydorou
- Denmark - Inge Jörgensen
- Ecuador - Magdalena Davila Varela
- Finland - Ritva Tuulikki Wächter
- France - Michèle Wargnier
- Germany - Romy März
- Greece - Efstathia (Efi) Karaiskaki
- Holland - Ria van Zuiden
- Iceland - Johanna Kolbrun Kristjansdóttir
- India - Veronica Leonora Torcato
- Ireland - Olive Ursula White
- Israel - Er'ela Hod
- Italy - Franca Cattaneo
- Japan - Chie Nurakami
- Korea - Hyun Chang-ae
- Lebanon - Leila Antaki
- Luxembourg - Vicky Schoos
- Madagascar - Jeanne Rakatomahanina
- New Zealand - Leone Mary Main
- Nicaragua - Thelma Arana
- Rhodesia & Nyasaland - Angela Joyce Moorcroft
- South Africa - Yvonne Brenda Hulley
- Spain - Maria del Carmen Cervera Fernández
- Suriname - Kitty Essed
- Sweden - Ingrid Margaretha Lundquist
- Turkey - Güler Samuray
- United Kingdom - Rosemarie Frankland
- United States - Jo Ann Odum
- Uruguay - Roma Spadachinni Aguerre
- Venezuela - Bexy Romero Tosta
Trivia
Returning countries and Debuts
- Republic of China and Suriname competed in Miss World for the first time.
- Ceylon last competed in 1955.
- New Zealand last competed in 1956.
- Venezuela last competed in 1958.
- Austria last competed in 1959.
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