Miss World 1977

Miss World 1977
Miss World 1977 Titlecard
Date	17 November 1977
Presenters	Sacha Distel and Ray Moore
Venue	Royal Albert Hall, London, England, United Kingdom
Broadcaster	BBC
Entrants	62
Debuts	Cayman Islands, Isle of Man, Papua New Guinea, and Samoa
Withdraws	Africa South, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Liberia, Malaysia, Mauritius, Philippines, Singapore, Swaziland, Virgin Islands, and Yugoslavia
Returns	Bolivia, Nicaragua, Panama, and Sri Lanka
Winner	Mary Ann Catrin Stävin  Sweden

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results.

The 27th Miss World Pageant was held on November 17, 1977 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Mary Ann Catrin Stävin from Sweden. Runner up was Ineke Berends representing Holland, third was Dagmar Gabriele Winkler from Germany, fourth was Madalena Sbaraini of Brazil, and fifth was Cindy Darlene Miller from United States.

Results

Final results	Contestant
Miss World 1977	Sweden - Mary Ann Catrin Stävin
1st Runner-up	Holland - Ineke Berends
2nd Runner-up	Germany - Dagmar Gabriele Winkler
3rd Runner-up	Brazil - Madalena Sbaraini
4th Runner-up	United States - Cindy Darlene Miller
Finalists	United Kingdom - Madeleine Karen Stringer  Australia - Jaye-Leanne Hopewell
Semi-finalists	Austria - Eva-Maria Duringer  Denmark - Annette Dybdal Simonsen  Finland - Asta Seppälä  France - Véronique Fagot  Mexico - Elizabeth Aguilar González  Peru - Maria Isabel Frias Zavala  Spain - Guillermina Ruiz Doménech  Switzerland - Danielle Patricia Haberli

Special awards

• Personality: Maria Elizabeth Giardina (Paraguay)
• Photogenic: Dagmar Gabriele Winkler (Germany)

62 Contestants

Argentina - Susana Beatriz Stéfano  Aruba - Helene Marie Croes  Australia - Jaye-Leanne Hopewell  Austria - Eva Maria Duringer  Bahamas - Laurie Lee Joseph  Belgium - Claudine Marie Vasseur  Bermuda - Connie Marie Firth  Bolivia - Elizabeth Yanone Morón  Brazil - Madalena Sbaraini  Canada - Marianne McKeen  Cayman Islands - Patricia Jane Jackson-Patiño  Chile - Annie Marie Garling  Colombia - Maria Clara O'Byrne Aycardi  Costa Rica - Carmen Maria Nuñez Benavides  Curaçao - Xiomara Maria Winklaar  Cyprus - Georgia Georgiou  Denmark - Annette Dybdal Simonsen  Dominican Republic - Jacqueline Patricia Hernandez  Ecuador - Lucia del Carmen Hernandez Quiñones  El Salvador - Magaly Varela Rivera  Finland - Asta Seppäla  France - Véronique Fagot  Germany - Dagmar Gabriele Winkler  Gibraltar - Lourdes Holmes  Greece - Lina Ioannou  Guam - Diane Haun  Holland - Ineke Berends  Honduras - Maria Marlene Villela  Hong Kong - Ada Lui Shu-Yang  Iceland - Sigurlaug (Dilly) Halldórsdóttir  Ireland - Lorraine Bernadette Enriquez

Isle of Man - Helen Jean Shimmin  Israel - Ya'el Hovav  Japan - Chizuro Shigamura  Jersey - Blodwen Pritchard  Korea - Kim Soon-ae  Lebanon - Vera Alouane  Luxembourg - Jeannette Henriette (Jenny) Colling  Malta - Pauline Lewise Farrugia  Mexico - Elizabeth Aguilar González New Zealand - Michelle Jean Hyde  Nicaragua - Beatriz Obregón Lacayo  Norway - Åshild Jenny Ottesen  Panama - Anabelle Vallarino  Papua New Guinea - Sayah Karukuru  Paraguay - Maria Elizabeth Giardina  Peru - Maria Isabel Frias Zavala  Puerto Rico - Didriana (Dee Dee) del Rio  Samoa - Ana Decima Schmidt  South Africa - Vanessa Wannenberg  Spain - Guillermina Ruiz Domenech  Sri Lanka - Sharmini Senaratna  Sweden - Mary Ann Catrin Stävin  Switzerland - Danielle Patricia Haberli  Tahiti - Therese Amo  Thailand - Siriporn Savanglum  Trinidad and Tobago - Marlene Villafaña  Turkey - Kamer Bulutote  United Kingdom - Madeleine Karen Stringer  United States - Cindy Darlene Miller  Uruguay - Adriana María Umpierre Escudero Venezuela - Jackeline van den Branden Oquendo

Withdrew contestants in protest against the presence of a white Miss South Africa

India - Veena Prakash  Indonesia - Siti Mirza Nuria Arifin  Jamaica - Sandra Kong  Liberia - Welma Albertine Wani Campbell  Malaysia - Christine Mary Lim Lim Boey

Mauritius - Maria Ingrid Desmarais  Philippines - Ana Melissa (Peachy) Ofilada Veneracion  Singapore - Veronica Lourdes  Swaziland - Zanella Tutu Tshabalala  Yugoslavia - Svetlana Višnjić

Trivia

Returning countries and Debuts

• Cayman Islands, Isle of Man, Papua New Guinea, and Samoa competed in Miss World for the first time.
• Panama last competed in 1971.
• Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Sri Lanka last competed in 1975.

Withdrawals and Nations not competing

• Italy (Anna Maria Kanakis) was disqualified in the pageant, because organizers discovered that she competed in Miss World at the very young age of 15. Malta (Janice Galea) also had the same issue with age requirements, because her age was similar to Miss Italy before the pageant. At the very last minute, she was replaced by her successor, and first runner-up, Pauline Lewise Farrugia.

External sources

• Pageantopolis