Miss Universe 1968

Miss Universe 1968 was the 17th Miss Universe pageant, held on 13 July 1968 at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. Martha Vasconcellos of Brazil was crowned by Sylvia Hitchcock of the United States at the end of the event.^[1]

Miss Universe 1968
Martha Vasconcellos, Miss Universe 1968
Date	13 July 1968
Presenters	Bob Barker[1]
Venue	Miami Beach Auditorium, Miami Beach, Florida, United States
Broadcaster	CBS (WTVJ)
Entrants	65
Placements	15
Debuts	Congo-Kinshasa Malta Yugoslavia
Withdrawals	Cuba Panama Paraguay
Returns	Australia Ceylon Ecuador Haiti Jamaica Lebanon Nicaragua Thailand Tunisia
Winner	Martha Vasconcellos Brazil
Congeniality	Yasuyo Lino (Japan)
Best National Costume	Luz Elena Restrepo González (Colombia)
Photogenic	Daliborka Stojšić (Yugoslavia)
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Results

Placements

Placement	Contestant
Miss Universe 1968	Brazil – Martha Vasconcellos (Dethoned)  Curaçao – Anne Braafheid[1]
2nd runner-up	Finland – Leena Brusiin[1]
3rd runner-up	Venezuela – Peggy Kopp[1]
4th runner-up	United States – Dorothy Anstett[1]
Top 15	Canada – Nancy Wilson  Chile – Dánae Salas  England – Jennifer Summers  France - Elizabeth Cadren  Greece – Miranta Zafiropoulou  Israel – Miriam Fridman  Norway – Tone Knaran  Sweden – Anne Hellqvist  Thailand – Apantree Prayutsenee  Yugoslavia – Daliborka Stojšić

Contestants

Sixty-five contestants competed for the title.

Country/Territory	Contestant	Age[a]	Hometown
Argentina	María del Carmen Jordán Vidal	23	Buenos Aires
Aruba	Sandra Croes	18	Oranjestad
Australia	Laureen Jones	21	Sydney
Austria	Brigitte Krüger	24	Vienna
Bahamas	Brenda Fountain	20	Nassau
Belgium	Sonja Doumen[2]	20	Dilsen-Stokkem
Bermuda	Victoria Martin	23	Pembroke Parish
Bolivia	Roxana Bowles[3]	18	Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Bonaire	Ilse De Jong	18	Kralendijk
Brazil	Martha Vasconcellos	20	Salvador
Canada	Nancy Wilson	19	Chatham-Kent
Ceylon	Sheila Jayatilleke	18	Colombo
Chile	Dánae Salas	22	Santiago
Colombia	Luz Elena Restrepo[4]	18	Barranquilla
Congo-Kinshasa	Elizabeth Tavares	20	Kinshasa
Costa Rica	Ana María Rivera	19	San José
Curaçao	Anne Marie Braafheid	21	Willemstad
Denmark	Gitte Broge	20	Copenhagen
Dominican Republic	Ana María Ortiz	–	Santo Domingo
Ecuador	Priscila Álava	18	Guayaquil
England	Jennifer Lowe Summers	22	London
Finland	Leena Brusiin	22	Helsinki
France	Elizabeth Cadren	22	Paris
West Germany	Lilian Atterer	20	Bavaria
Greece	Miranta Zafiropoulou	22	Athens
Guam	Arlene Vilma Chaco	21	Agana
Haiti	Claudie Paquin	18	Port-au-Prince
Holland	Nathalie Heyl	21	The Hague
Honduras	Nora Guillén	19	Tegucigalpa
Hong Kong	Tammy Yung	18	Hong Kong
Iceland	Helen Knuttsdóttir	18	Reykjavík
India	Anjum Mumtaz Barg	23	Hyderabad
Ireland	Tiffany Scales	22	Dublin
Israel	Miriam Friedman	18	Tel Aviv
Italy	Cristina Businari	18	Rome
Jamaica	Marjorie Bromfield	–	Kingston
Japan	Yasuyo Lino	18	Tokyo
Lebanon	Sonia Fares	18	Beirut
Luxembourg	Lucienne Krier	18	Esch-sur-Alzette
Malaysia	Maznah Ali	20	Johor Bahru
Malta	Kathlene Farrugia	22	Qormi
Mexico	Perla Aguirre	18	Mexico City
New Zealand	Christine Antunovic	18	Auckland
Nicaragua	Margine Davidson	20	Matagalpa
Norway	Tone Knaran	18	Oslo
Okinawa	Sachie Kawamitsu	19	Naha
Peru	María Esther Brambilla	19	Lima
Philippines	Rosario Zaragoza[5]	18	Quezon City
Puerto Rico	Marylene Carrasquillo	18	Santurce
Scotland	Helen Davidson	22	Glasgow
Singapore	Yasmin Saif	19	Singapore
South Africa	Monica Fairall	20	Durban
South Korea	Kim Yoon-jung	18	Seoul
Spain	Yolanda Legarreta	18	Basque Country
Sweden	Anne-Marie Hellqvist	18	Hallsberg
Switzerland	Jeannette Biffiger	19	Zürich
Thailand	Apantree Prayutsenee	20	Phra Nakhon
Tunisia	Rekaia Dekhil	20	Tunis
Turkey	Zuhal Aktan	18	Istanbul
United States	Dorothy Anstett[6]	21	Kirkland
United States Virgin Islands	Sadie Sargeant	19	Charlotte Amalie
Uruguay	Graciela Minarrieta	20	Montevideo
Venezuela	Peggy Kopp	18	Caracas
Wales	Judith Radford	19	Swansea
Yugoslavia	Daliborka Stojsic	23	Belgrade

Notes

1. Ages at the time of the pageant

References

1. "Name Brazilian Miss Universe". The Journal Times. Associated Press. 14 Jul 1968. p. 1. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
2. "Sonja Doumen werd 50 jaar geleden eerste Limburgse Miss België". Het Belang van Limburg (in Dutch). 13 January 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2023 – via PressReader.
3. "El título les dio alegrías, trabajo y fama que aún saborean" [The title gave them joy, work and fame that they still savor.]. El Deber (in European Spanish). 29 July 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
4. "Atlantico, Reina Nacional 1968". El Tiempo (in Spanish). 13 November 1967. pp. 1, 31. Retrieved 17 October 2023 – via Google News Archive.
5. Lo, Ricky (11 March 2014). "Beauty is in the blood". Philippine Star. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
6. "Miss USA Says Title Means Little at Home". Roanoke Times. Associated Press. May 20, 1968. p. 4. Retrieved 23 July 2023.