Miss World 1969

Miss World 1969 was the 19th edition of the Miss World pageant, held for the first time at the Royal Albert Hall on 27 November 1969, broadcast for the first time in colour by the BBC. 50 delegates vied for the crown won by Eva Rueber-Staier of Austria.^[1][2] She was crowned by actor Omar Sharif, not by Miss World 1968 winner Penelope Plummer of Australia.

Miss World 1969
Eva Rueber-Staier, Miss World 1969
Date	27 November 1969
Presenters	Michael Aspel, Pete Murray
Entertainment	Frank Ifield, Lionel Blair & his Dancers
Venue	Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
Broadcaster	BBC
Entrants	50
Placements	15
Debuts	Seychelles
Withdrawals	Ceylon Ghana Italy Kenya Morocco Peru Thailand Uganda
Returns	Czechoslovakia Gambia Iceland Lebanon Paraguay
Winner	Eva Rueber-Staier[1][2] Austria
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Results

Placement	Contestant
Miss World 1969	Austria – Eva Rueber-Staier[1][2]
1st runner-up	United States – Gail Renshaw[2]
2nd runner-up	West Germany – Christa Margraf[2]
3rd runner-up	Guyana – Pamela Lord
4th runner-up	Venezuela – Marzia Piazza
Top 7	Norway – Kjersti Jortun  South Africa – Linda Collett
Top 15	Czechoslovakia – Marcela Bitnarova  Finland – Päivi Ilona Raita  France – Suzanne Angly  Israel – Tehila Selah  Jamaica – Marlyn Elizabeth Taylor  Malta – Mary Brincat  New Zealand – Carole Robinson  United Kingdom – Sheena Drummond

Contestants

•  Austria – Eva Rueber-Staier^[1]

•  Czechoslovakia – Marcela Bitnarova

•  Finland – Päivi Ilona Raita
•  France – Suzanne Angly

•  West Germany – Christa Margraf^[1]

•  Guyana – Pamela Patricia Lord^[1]

•  Israel – Tehila Selah
•  Jamaica – Marlyn Elizabeth Taylor

•  Malta – Mary Brincat

•  New Zealand – Carole Robinson

•  Norway – Kjersti Jortun

•  South Africa – Linda Meryl Collett

•  United Kingdom – Sheena Drummond
•  United States – Gail Renshaw
•  Venezuela – Marzia Rita Gisela Piazza Suprani^[1]

Notes

Debuts

•  Seychelles

Withdraws

•  Malaysia – Pauline Chai Siew Phin

Returns

• Last competed in 1959:
  •  Paraguay
• Last competed in 1967:
  •  Czechoslovakia
  •  Gambia
  •  Iceland
  •  Lebanon

References

1. "Miss World Competition Through the Years". E!. 12 December 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
2. The Morning Record

External links

• Pageantopolis – Miss World 1969