- Miss World 1963
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Miss World 1963 Date 7 November 1963 Presenters Michael Aspel Venue Lyceum Theatre, London, UK Broadcaster BBC Entrants 40 Debuts Chile, Colombia, Liberia, Malaysia, Mexico, and Nigeria Withdraws India, Italy, and Uruguay Returns Bolivia, Ceylon, Peru, Suriname, Tunisia, and Turkey Winner Carole Joan Crawford
Jamaica
Countries and territories which sent delegates and results.
Miss World 1963, the 13th Miss World pageant, was won by Carole Crawford of Jamaica. It took place on November 7, 1963 at the Lyceum Theatre in London, UK.
Contents
Results
Final Results Contestant Miss World 1963 - Jamaica - Carole Joan Crawford
1st Runner-up 
New Zealand - Elaine Miscall
2nd Runner-up 
Finland - Marja-Liisa Ståhlberg
3rd Runner-up 
Denmark - Aino Korwa
4th Runner-up 
Sweden - Grete Qviberg
Finalists 
United Kingdom - Diana Westbury
France - Muguette Fabris
Semifinalists 
Brazil - Vera Lúcia Ferreira Maia
Ceylon - Jennifer Anne Fonseka
Colombia - Maria Eugenia Cucalón Venegas
Korea - Choi Keum-shil
Liberia - Ethel Zoe Norman
Malaysia - Catherine Loh
United States - Michele Metrinko
Contestants
Argentina - Diana Sarti
Austria - Sonja Russ
Belgium - Irène Godin
Bolivia - Rosario Lopera- Brazil - Vera Lúcia Ferreira Maia
Canada - Jane Kmita- Ceylon - Jennifer Ann Fonseka
Chile - Maria del Pilar Aguirre- Colombia - Maria Eugenia Cucalón Venegas
Cyprus - Maro Zorna- Denmark - Aino Korwa
- Finland - Marja-Liisa Ståhlberg
- France - Muguette Fabris
Germany - Susie Gruner
Greece - Athanasia (Soula) Idromenou
Holland - Hanny Ijsbrandts
Iceland - Maria Ragnarsdóttir
Ireland - Joan Power
Israel - Sara Talmi- Jamaica - Carole Joan Crawford
Japan - Miyako Harada
Jordan - Despo Drakolakis- Korea - Choi Keum-shil
- Liberia - Ethel Zoe Norman
Luxembourg - Catherine Paulus- Malaysia - Catherine Loh
Mexico - Beatriz Martínez Solórzano- New Zealand - Elaine Miscall
Nigeria - Gina Onyejiaka
Peru - Lucia Buonnani
Portugal - Maria Penedo
South Africa - Louise Crous
Spain - Encarnación Zalabardo
Suriname - Virginia Blanche Hardjo- Sweden - Grete Qviberg
Tunisia - Claudine Younes
Turkey - Gulseren Kocaman- United Kingdom - Diana Westbury
- United States - Michele Metrinko
Venezuela - Milagros Galindez
Trivia
Returning countries and Debuts
- Chile, Colombia, Liberia, Malaysia, Mexico, and Nigeria competed in Miss World for the first time.
- Tunisia last competed in 1958.
- Peru last competed in 1959.
- Bolivia, Ceylon, Suriname, and Turkey last competed in 1961.
- Suriname Virginia Hardjo is a half Javanese.
Others
- Denmark placed as 1st runner-up in Miss Universe 1963.
- Ceylon becomes a finalist for the second time, last in 1953.
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