Miss Universe 1985

Miss Universe 1985
Date	July 15, 1985
Presenters	Bob Barker, Joan Van Ark
Entertainment	John Denver, Clint Holmes
Venue	James L. Knight Convention Center, Miami, Florida, USA
Entrants	79
Placements	10
Debuts	Dominica
Withdraws	Aruba, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Namibia, South Africa, Switzerland, Turkey
Returns	Bahamas, Haiti, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Tahiti
Winner	Deborah Carthy-Deu  Puerto Rico
Congeniality	Lucy Carbullido Montinola  Guam
Best National Costume	Sandra Eugenia Borda Caldas  Colombia
Photogenic	Brigitte Bergman  Holland

Miss Universe 1985, the 34th Miss Universe pageant, was held at James L. Knight Convention Center, Miami, USA on July 15, 1985. Seventy-nine contestants competed in the 1985 Miss Universe Pageant. 19-year-old Deborah Carthy-Deu of Puerto Rico was crowned by outgoing titleholder Yvonne Ryding of Sweden.^[1]

This internationally televised event was expected to reach an estimated audience of 600 million television viewers in 45 countries.^[1]

Host city

In October 1984, the owners of the newly expanded West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Canada showed an interest in hosting the Miss Universe 1985 pageant there.^[2] This followed an unsuccessful attempt to host the Miss Universe 1984 pageant in Calgary, Canada the previous year.

Pageant organizers chose to host the pageant in Miami, Florida for the second consecutive year. George Honchar, president of Miss Universe Inc., expressed disappointment at a lack of local support for the event, which cost the city $2 million.^[1]

Results

Placements

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results.

Final results	Contestant
Miss Universe 1985	Puerto Rico - Deborah Carthy-Deu
1st runner-up	Spain - Teresa Sánchez López
2nd runner-up	Zaire - Kayonga Benita Mureka Tete
3rd runner-up	Venezuela - Silvia Martínez
4th runner-up	Uruguay - Andrea López
Top 10	Ireland - Olivia Marie Tracey  Canada - Karen Elizabeth Tilley  Chile - Claudia van Sint Jan del Pedregal  USA - Laura Martínez-Herring  Brazil - Márcia Giagio Canavezes de Oliveira

Semifinal scores

Delegate Preliminary Average Interview Swimsuit Evening Gown Semifinal Average  Spain 8.251 (1) 8.793 (1) 9.331 (1) 8.660 (6) 8.928 (1)  Zaire 7.710 (9) 8.648 (3) 8.705 (3) 8.983 (3) 8.778 (2)  Venezuela 8.140 (2) 8.693 (2) 8.455 (5) 9.000 (2) 8.716 (3)  Uruguay 7.824 (7) 8.560 (4) 8.805 (2) 8.730 (4) 8.698 (4)  Puerto Rico 8.035 (4) 8.365 (5) 8.536 (4) 9.057 (1) 8.652 (5)  Ireland 7.904 (6) 7.708 (8) 8.325 (7) 8.668 (5) 8.233 (6)  Canada 8.091 (3) 8.261 (6) 8.148 (8) 8.021 (10) 8.143 (7)  Chile 7.732 (8) 7.737 (7) 8.326 (6) 8.232 (7) 8.098 (8)  USA 8.016 (5) 7.650 (9) 7.538 (10) 8.164 (8) 7.784 (9)  Brazil 7.592 (10) 7.161 (10) 7.658 (9) 8.042 (9) 7.620 (10)

Winner      First Runner-up      Second Runner-up      Third Runner-up      Fourth Runner-up      Top 10 Semifinalist (#) Rank in each round of competition

Special awards

Award	Contestant
Best National Costume	Colombia - Sandra Eugenia Borda Caldas  Spain - Teresa Sánchez López  Israel - Hilla Kelmann
Miss Congeniality	Guam - Lucy Carbullido Montinola
Miss Photogenic	Holland - Brigitte Bergman
Most Followed by Media	El Salvador - Julia Haydee Mora

Contestants

Argentina - Yanina Castaño  Australia - Elizabeth Rowly  Austria - Martina Haiden  Bahamas - Cleopatra Adderly  Barbados - Elizabeth Wadman  Belgium - Anne van der Broeck  Belize - Jennifer Woods  Bermuda - Jannell Nadra Ford  Bolivia - Gabriela Orozco Brazil - Márcia Giagio Canavezes de Oliveira  British Virgin Islands - Jennifer Leonora Penn  Canada - Karen Elizabeth Tilley  Cayman Islands - Emily Hurston  Chile - Claudia van Sint Jan del Pedregal Colombia - Sandra Eugenia Borda Caldas  Cook Islands - Essie Apolonia Mokotupu  Costa Rica - Rosibel Chacón Pereira  Curaçao - Sheida Weber  Cyprus - Andri Andreou  Denmark - Susan Rasmussen  Dominica - Margaret Rose Cools Lartigue Dominican Republic - Melba Vicens Bello  Ecuador - María Elena Stangl  El Salvador - Julia Haydee Mora  England - Helen Westlake  Finland - Marja Kinnunen France - Suzanne Iskandar  Gambia - Batura Jallow Germany - Stefanie Angelika Roth  Gibraltar - Karina Hollands  Greece - Sabina Damianidis  Guam - Lucy Carbollido Montinola  Guatemala - Perla Elizabeth Prera Frunwirth  Haiti - Arielle Jeanty  Holland - Brigitte Bergman  Honduras - Diana Margarita García  Hong Kong - Shallin Tse Ming  Iceland - Hana Bryndis Jonsdóttir India - Sonia Wallia  Ireland - Olivia Marie Tracey

Israel - Hilla Kelmann  Italy - Anne Beatrice Popi  Japan - Hatsumi Furosawa  Korea - Choi Young Ok  Lebanon - Joyce Sahab  Luxembourg - Gabrielle Chiarini Malaysia - Agnes Chin Lai Hong  Malta - Fiona Micallef  Mexico - Yolanda de la Cruz New Zealand - Claire Glenister  Northern Marianas - Antoinette Marie Flores  Norway - Karen Margrethe Moe  Panama - Janette Iveth Vásquez Sanjur  Papua New Guinea - Carmel Vagi  Paraguay - Beverly Ocampo  Peru - María Gracia Galleno  Philippines - Joyce Ann Burton  Poland - Katarzyna Zawidzka  Portugal - Alexandra Gomes Puerto Rico - Deborah Carthy-Deu  Réunion - Dominique de Lort Serignan  Scotland - Jacqueline Hendrie  Senegal - Chantal Loubelo  Singapore - Lyana Chiok Spain - Teresa Sánchez López  Sri Lanka - Ramani Liz Bartholomeusz Sweden - Carina Marklund  Tahiti - Hinarii Kilian Thailand - Tarntip Pongsuk  Trinidad & Tobago - Brenda Joy Fahey  Turks & Caicos - Miriam Coralita Adams  Uruguay - Andrea López USA - Laura Martínez-Herring[3]  U.S. Virgin Islands - Mudite Alda Henderson Venezuela - Silvia Cristina Martínez Stapulionis  Wales - Barbara Christian  Western Samoa - Tracy Mihaljevich  Yugoslavia - Dinka Delić  Zaire - Kayonga Benita Mureka Tete

Crossovers

Miss World

• Miss World 1984: Gibraltar, Ireland (6th Runner Up), Tahiti, Turks & Caicos and Yugoslavia
• Miss World 1985: Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Finland, Holland, Norway, Poland (semi-finalist) and Zaire (semi-finalist)

Miss International

• Miss International 1983: Holland (semi-finalist)
• Miss International 1984: Belgium
• Miss International 1985: Austria, Denmark, Germany, Guatemala, Northern Marianas and Poland (semi-finalist)

Miss South Africa controversy

In April, 1985 the city of Miami requested that the Miss Universe organization insist that South Africa should not send a representative to pageant, due to the threat of demonstrations over her country's Apartheid policy.^[4] In mid May the nation announced that they would not send their titleholder, Andrea Steltzer, to the pageant because of fears for her safety.^[5] This was the first time since 1975 that the country did not participate in the pageant; they would not return to the event until 1995.^[6] Andrea Steltzer (half South African and half German) took part as Miss Germany in the 1989 Miss Universe pageant where she was a semi-finalist.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "79 Women Vie For Miss Universe Crown". Associated Press. 1985-07-15. 
2. ^ "Edmonton's new focus". The Globe and Mail. 1984-10-23. p. M1. 
3. ^ Leisner, Pat (1985-05-13). "Miss Texas, the New Miss USA, Will Represent USA in Miss Universe Pageant". Associated Press. 
4. ^ Reuters (1985-04-02). "Miami Worried About Miss South Africa". The San Francisco Chronicle. 
5. ^ "Protest Fears Force Miss South Africa Out Of Miss Universe Pageant". Associated Press. 1985-05-19. 
6. ^ "South African representatives to Miss Universe". Pageant Almanac. http://www.pageant-almanac.com/miss-universe/parade/south-africa.php. Retrieved 2007-04-21. 

External links

• Official Miss Universe website