- Miss Universe 1969
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Miss Universe 1969 Date July 15, 1969 Presenters Bob Barker and June Lockhart Venue Miami Beach Auditorium, Miami Beach, Florida, USA Broadcaster CBS Entrants 61 Placements 15 Withdraws Haiti, Lebanon, South Africa, Okinawa, Virgin Islands Returns Suriname Winner Gloria Diaz
PhilippinesMiss Universe 1969, the 18th edition of the Miss Universe pageant, was held in Miami Beach, Florida, USA. The winner was Gloria Diaz, an eighteen year old Miss Philippines. Ms. Diaz became the first Philippine titleholder to win the title and the third Asian to do so.
Contents
Results
Placements
Final Results Contestant Miss Universe 1969 1st Runner-Up - Finland - Harriet Marita Eriksson
2nd Runner-Up - Australia - Joanne Barret
3rd Runner-Up - Israel - Chava Levy
4th Runner-Up - Japan - Kikuyo Osuka
Top 15 - Austria - Eva Rueber-Staier
- Brazil - Vera Fischer
- Chile - Monica Larson Teuber
- Colombia - Margarita María Reyes Zawadsky
- Norway - Patricia Ingrid Walker
- Peru - María Julia Mantilla Mayer
- Sweden - Brigitta Lindloff
- Switzerland - Patrice Sollner
- United States - Wendy Jane Dascomb
- Yugoslavia - Nataśa Kośir
Special awards
Award Contestant Miss Congeniality - Tunisia - Zohra Boufaden
Miss Photogenic - New Zealand - Carole Robinson
Best National Costume - Thailand - Sangduen Manwong
10 Best in Swimsuit - Australia - Joanne Barret
- Austria - Eva Rueber-Staier
- Brazil - Vera Fischer
- Colombia - Margarita María Reyes Zawadsky
- Finland - Harriet Marita Eriksson
- Israel - Chava Levy
- Peru - María Julia Mantilla Mayer
- Philippines - Gloria Diaz
- USA - Wendy Jane Dascomb
- Yugoslavia - Nataśa Kośir
Order of announcement of semifinalists
- Group 1: Australia, Finland, Peru, Austria, Norway, Philippines & Israel
- Group 2: USA, Yugoslavia, Brazil, Sweden, Colombia, Japan, Chile & Switzerland
Order of announcement of finalists
- Finland, Israel, Australia, Philippines & Japan
Judges
- Edilson Cid Varela
- Eileen Ford
- Dong Kingman
- David Merrick
- Norma Nolan
- Monique van Vooren
- Earl Wilson
Contestants
- Argentina - Lidia Esther Pepe
- Aruba - Jeannette Geerman
- Australia - Joanne Barret
- Austria - Eva Rueber-Staier
- Bahamas - Joan Bowe
- Belgium - Danièle Roels
- Bermuda - Maxine S. Bean
- Bolivia - Luz María Rojas
- Bonaire - Julia Nicolaas
- Brazil - Vera Fischer
- Canada - Jacquie Perrin
- Ceylon - Marlene Beverly Seneveratne
- Chile - Mónica Larson Teuber
- Colombia - Margarita María Reyes Zawadsky
- Congo-Kinshasa - Jeanne Mokomo
- Costa Rica - Clara Freda Antillón
- Curaçao - Yvonne Wardekker
- Denmark - Jeanne Perfeldt
- Dominican Republic - Rocío García Báez
- Ecuador - Rosana Vinueza Estrada †
- England - Myra Van Heck
- Finland - Harriet Marita Eriksson
- France - Agathe Cognet
- Germany - Gesine Froese
- Greece - Irene Diamantoglou
- Guam - Anita Johnston
- Holland - Welmoed Hollenberg
- Honduras - Viena Paredes
- Hong Kong - Christine Tam Mei-Mei
- Iceland - Maria Baldursdóttir
- India - Kavita Bhambani
- Ireland - Patricia Byrne
- Israel - Chava Levy
- Italy - Diana Coccorese
- Jamaica - Carol Gerrow
- Japan - Kikuyo Osuka
- Korea - Lim Hyun-jung
- Luxembourg - Marie Antoniette Bertinelli
- Malaysia - Rosemary Wan Chow Mui
- Malta - Natalie Quintana
- Mexico - Gloria Leticia Hernández Martín del Campo
- New Zealand - Carole Robinson
- Nicaragua - Soraya Herrera Chávez
- Norway - Patricia "Pia" Ingrid Walker
- Peru - María Julia Mantilla Mayer
- Philippines - Gloria Diaz
- Puerto Rico - Aída Betancourt
- Scotland - Sheena Drumond
- Singapore - Mavis Young Siew Kim
- Spain - María Amparo Rodrigo Lorenzo
- Suriname - Greta Natsir
- Sweden - Brigitta Lindloff
- Switzerland - Patrice Sollner
- Thailand - Sangduen Manwong
- Tunisia - Zohra Boufaden
- Turkey - Azra Balkan
- Uruguay - Julia Moller
- USA - Wendy Jane Dascomb
- Venezuela - María José Yéllici Sánchez
- Wales - Shirley Jones
- Yugoslavia - Nataśa Kośir
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