Miss International 1960

Miss International 1960
Date	August 12, 1960
Presenters	Byron Palmer
Venue	Long Beach, California, USA
Entrants	52
Placements	15
Winner	Stella Márquez Zawadski  Colombia
Congeniality	Julia Ann Adamson  British Guiana
Photogenic	Sigridur Geirsdottir  Iceland

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results.

Miss International 1960, the first edition of International Beauty Congress Pageant was held on August 12, 1960 at Long Beach, California, USA. There are 52 delegates from all over the world competed the title. Miss Colombia, Stella Márquez Zawadski won the title. She became the first Miss International.

Final Results

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss International 1960	Colombia - Stella Márquez Zawadski
1st runner-up	India - Iona Pinto
2nd runner-up	Iceland - Sigridur Geirsdottir
3rd runner-up	England - Joyce Kay
4th runner-up	USA - Charlene Lundberg
Semi-Finalist	Austria - Elizabeth Hodacs  Germany - Helga Kirsch  Israel - Lili Dajani  Italy - Maria Grazia Jacomelli  Japan - Michiko Takagi  Paraguay - Gretel Hedger Carvallo  Philippines - Edita Resurreccion Vital  Poland - Marzena Malinowska  Singapore - Christl D'Cruz  Venezuela - Gladys Ascanio

Special awards

Award	Contestant
Miss Photogenic	Iceland - Sigridur Geirsdottir
Miss Friendship	British Guiana - Julia Ann Adamson
Most Popular Girl	Belgium - Caroline Lecerf

Delegates

Argentina - Slavica Lazaric  Australia - Joan Stanbury  Austria - Elizabeth Hodacs  Belgium - Caroline Lecerf  Bolivia - Edmy Arana Ayala  Borneo - Elizabeth Voon  Brazil - Magda Renate Pfrimer  British Guiana - Julia Ann Adamson  Canada - Margaret Powell  Ceylon - Yvonne Eileen Gunawardene  Colombia - Stella Márquez Zawadski  Denmark - Sonja Menzel  Ecuador - Magdalena Dávila Gonzalez  England - Joyce Kay  Finland - Marketta Nieminen  France - Jeanne Rossi  Germany - Helga Kirsch  Greece - Kiki Kotsaridou  Holland - Katinka Bleeker  Hong Kong - Lena Woo  Iceland - Sigridur Geirsdottir  India - Iona Pinto  Indonesia - Wiana Sulastini  Israel - Lili Dajani  Italy - Maria Grazia Jacomell  Japan - Michiko Takagi

Jordan - Gulnar Tucktuck  Korea - Kim Jung-ja  Lebanon - Juliana Reptsik  Luxembourg - Liliane Mueller  Malaya - Zanariak "Zena" Ahmad  Morocco - Raymonde Valle  Norway - Lise Hammer  Paraguay - Gretel Hedger Carvallo  Peru - Irma Vargas Fuller  Philippines - Edita Resurreccion Vital  Poland - Marzena Malinowska  Portugal - Maria Josabete Silva Santos  Puerto Rico - Carmen Sara Latimer  Singapore - Christl D'Cruz  South Africa - Nona Sherriff South Pacific - Patricia Apoliona  Spain - Elena Herrera Dávila-Núñez  Sweden - Gunilla Elm  Switzerland - Mylene Delapraz  Tahiti - Teura Bauwens  Taiwan - Janet Lin Chin-Yi  Tunisia - Habiba Ben Abdallah  Turkey - Guler Kivrak  Uruguay - Beatriz Liñares  USA - Charlene Lundberg  Venezuela - Gladys Ascanio

National Pageant Notes

Withdraws

•  Hawaii - Gordean Leilehua Lee
•  Yugoslavia - Tania Velic