- Miss World 1968
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Miss World 1968 Date 14 November 1968 Presenters Michael Aspel Venue Lyceum Theatre, London, England, United Kingdom Broadcaster BBC Entrants 53 Debuts Thailand Withdraws Czechoslovakia, Honduras, Iceland, Lebanon, Panama, Portugal, Seychelles, Spain, and Tanzania Returns Bahamas, Colombia, India, and Nicaragua Winner Penelope Plummer
AustraliaMiss World 1968, the 18th Miss World pageant was held at Lyceum Theatre, London, United Kingdom on November 14, 1968. 53 contestants competed for the crown. Finally, Madeleine Hartog Bell of Peru crowned her successor Penelope Plummer of Australia.
Contents
Results
Countries and territories which sent delegates and results.
Placements
Final Results Contestant Miss World 1968 1st Runner-up 
United Kingdom - Kathleen Winstanley
2nd Runner-up 
Israel - Miri Zamir
3rd Runner-up 
Colombia - Beatriz Sierra Gonzalez
4th Runner-up 
Philippines - Arene Cecilia Amabuyok
Finalists Semi-finalists Contestants
Argentina - Viviana Roldan- Australia - Penelope Plummer
Austria - Brigitte Krüger
Bahamas - Rose Helena Dauchot
Belgium - Sonja Doumen
Brazil - Angela Carmelia Stecca
Canada - Nancy Wilson
Ceylon - Nilanthie Wijesinghe
Chile - Carmen Smith- Colombia - Beatriz Sierra Gonzalez
Costa Rica - Patricia Diers
Cyprus - Diana Dimitropoulou
Denmark - Yet Schaufuss
Dominican Republic - Ingrid García
Ecuador - Marcia Virginia Ramos Christiansen
Finland - Leena Sipilä
France - Nelly Gallerne
Germany - Margot Schmalzriedt
Ghana - Lovell Rosebud Wordie
Gibraltar - Sandra Sanguinetti
Greece- Lia Malta
Guyana - Adrienne Harris
Holland - Alida Grootenboer
India - Jane Coelho
Ireland - June MacMahon- Israel - Miri Zamir
Italy - Maria Pia Gianporcaro
Jamaica - Karlene Waddell
Japan - Ryoko Miyoshi
Kenya - Josephine Moikobu
Korea - Lee Ji-eun
Liberia - Wilhelmina Nadieh Brownell
Luxembourg - Irene Siedler
Malta - Ursulina (Lina) Grech
Mexico - Ana Maria Magaña
Morocco - Zakia Chamouch
New Zealand - Christine Mary Antunovic
Nicaragua - Margine Davidson Morales
Nigeria - Foluke Ogundipe
Norway - Hedda Lie
Peru - Ana Rosa Berninzon Devéscovi- Philippines - Arene Cecilia Amabuyok
South Africa - Mitsianna Stander†
Sweden - Gunilla Friden
Switzerland - Jeanette Biffiger
Thailand - Pinnarut Tananchai
Tunisia - Zohra Boufaden
Turkey - Mine Kurkcuoglu
Uganda - Joy Lehai- United Kingdom - Kathleen Winstanley
United States - Johnine Leigh Avery
Venezuela - Cherry Nuñez Rodriguez
Yugoslavia - Ivona Puhlera
Withdraws
Spain - Maria Amparo Rodrigo Lorenza
Nations did not compete
Iceland - Helga Jonsdóttir
Seychelles - Marie-France Lablache
Disqualified
Lebanon - Lili Bissar (discovered the night before the finals to be only 15 years old)
References
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- 1968 beauty pageants
- Beauty pageants in the United Kingdom
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