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

•  Argentina – Graciela Marino
•  Australia – Stefane Meurer
•  Austria – Eva Rueber-Staier^[1]
•  Bahamas – Wanda Pearce
•  Belgium – Maud Alin
•  Brazil – Ana Cristina Rodrigues
•  Canada – Jacquie Perrin
•  Chile – Ana María Nazar
•  Colombia – Lina María García Ogliastri
•  Costa Rica – Damaris Ureña
•  Cyprus – Flora Diaouri
•  Czechoslovakia – Marcela Bitnarova
•  Denmark – Jeanne Perfeldt
•  Dominican Republic – Sandra Simone Cabrera Cabral
•  Ecuador – Ximena Aulestia Díaz
•  Finland – Päivi Ilona Raita
•  France – Suzanne Angly
•  Gambia – Marie Carayol
•  West Germany – Christa Margraf^[1]
•  Gibraltar – Marilou Chiappe
•  Greece – Heleni Alexopoulou
•  Guyana – Pamela Patricia Lord^[1]
•  Holland – Nente van der Vliet
•  Iceland – Ragnheiður Pétursdóttir
•  India – Adina Shellim
•  Ireland – Hillary Clarke
•  Israel – Tehila Selah
•  Jamaica – Marlyn Elizabeth Taylor
•  Japan – Emiko Karashima
•  South Korea – Kim Seung-hee
•  Lebanon – Roula Majzoub
•  Liberia – Antoinette Coleman
•  Luxembourg – Jacqueline Schaeffer
•  Malta – Mary Brincat
•  Mexico – Gloria Leticia Hernández Martín del Campo
•  New Zealand – Carole Robinson
•  Nicaragua – Carlota Marina Brenes López
•  Nigeria – Morenike Faribido
•  Norway – Kjersti Jortun
•  Paraguay – Blanca Zaldívar
•  Philippines – Feliza Teresa Miro
•  Seychelles – Sylvia Labonte
•  South Africa – Linda Meryl Collett
•  Sweden – Ing-Marie Ahlin
•  Tunisia – Zohra Tabania
•  Turkey – Sermin Elmasi
•  United Kingdom – Sheena Drummond
•  United States – Gail Renshaw
•  Venezuela – Marzia Rita Gisela Piazza Suprani^[1]
•  Yugoslavia – Radmila Živković

Notes

Debuts

•  Seychelles

Withdraws

•  Malaysia – Pauline Chai Siew Phin

Returns

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