Miss Universe 1967

Miss Universe 1967
Date	15 July 1967
Presenters	Bob Barker
Venue	Miami Beach Auditorium, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Broadcaster	CBS
Entrants	56
Placements	15
Debuts	Bonaire
Withdrawals	Ecuador, Guyana, Jamaica, Lebanon, Morocco, Ceylon, Surinam, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago
Returns	Dominican Republic, Hong Kong, Mexico, Uruguay, US Virgin Islands
Winner	Sylvia Hitchcock  USA

Miss Universe 1967, the 16th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 15 July 1967 at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida, USA. Sylvia Hitchcock of USA was crowned by Margareta Arvidsson of Sweden at the end of the event.

This was Bob Barker's first time hosting the Miss Universe Pageant as well as his first time on the CBS Network, He would later be a regular on the network as host of The Price Is Right from 1972 to 2007.

Results

Participating Nations and Results

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss Universe 1967	USA - Sylvia Hitchcock †
1st runner-up	Venezuela - Mariela Pérez
2nd runner-up	England - Jennifer Lewis
3rd runner-up	Finland - Ritva Lehto †
4th runner-up	Israel - Batya Kabiri
Semi-finalists	Brazil - Carmen Ramasco  Denmark - Margrethe Knudsen  Greece - Elia Kalogeraki  Holland - Irene van Campenhout  Hong Kong - Laura Roque  Ireland - Patricia Armstrong  Italy - Paola Rossi  Spain - Francisca Delgado Sánchez  Sweden - Eva Lisa Svensson  Wales - Denise Elizabeth Page

Special awards

Awards	Contestant
Miss Congeniality	Scotland - Lena McGarvie
Miss Photogenic	Greece - Elia Kalogeraki
Best National Costume	Brazil - Carmen Silva De Barros Ramasco

Order of announcements^[1]

Top 15 England Hong Kong Finland Israel Sweden Denmark Holland Brazil Venezuela Wales Greece Italy Spain USA Ireland

Top 5 England Finland Israel USA Venezuela

Judges

• Gladys Zender - Miss Universe 1957 from Peru

Contestants

Argentina - Amalia Yolanda Scuffi  Aruba - Ivonne Maduro  Austria - Christl Bartu  Bahamas - Elizabeth Knowles  Belgium - Mauricette Sironval  Bermuda - Cheryl Michele Smith  Bolivia - Marcela Montoya García  Bonaire - Cristina Landwier  Brazil - Carmen Silva De Barros Ramasco  Canada - Donna Marie Barker  Chile - Ingrid Vila Riveros  Colombia - Elsa María Garrido Cajiao  Costa Rica - Rosa María Fernández  Cuba - Elina Salavarría  Curaçao - Imelda Thodé  Denmark - Gitte Rhein Knudsen  Dominican Republic - Jeannette Rey García  England - Jennifer Lynn Lewis  Finland - Ritva Helena Lehto †  France - Anne Vernier  Germany - Fee Von Zitzewitz  Greece - Elia Kalogeraki  Guam - Hope Marie Navarro Alvarez  Holland - Irene Van Campenhout  Honduras - Denia María Alvorado Medina  Hong Kong - Laura Arminda Da Costa Roque  Iceland - Guðrún Pétursdóttir  India - Nayyara Mirza

Ireland - Patricia Armstrong  Israel - Batia Kabiri  Italy - Paola Rossi  Japan - Kayoko Fujikawa  Korea - Hong Jung-ae  Luxembourg - Marie-Jossee Mathgen  Malaysia - Monkam Anne Lowe Siprasome  Mexico - Valentina Vales Duarte  New Zealand - Pamela McLeod  Norway - Gro Goskor  Okinawa - Etsuko Okuhira  Panama - Mirna Norma Castillero  Paraguay - María Eugenia Torres  Peru - Mirtha Calvo Sommaruga †  Philippines - Pilar Delilah Veloso Pilapil  Puerto Rico - Yvonne Coll  Scotland - Lena MacGarvie  Singapore - Mei-Lee Ong  South Africa - Windley Ballenden  Spain - Francisca Delgado Sánchez  Sweden - Eva-Lisa Svensson   Switzerland - Elsbeth Ruegger  Turkey - Ayse Yelda Gurani  Uruguay - Mayela Berton Martínez  USA - Sylvia Louise Hitchcock  Venezuela - Mariela Pérez Branger  Virgin Islands - Gail Garrison  Wales - Denise Elizabeth Page

Notes

Crossovers

Miss World 1959:  Argentina - Amalia Yolanda Scuffi (semi-finalist) 1967:  England - Jennifer Lynn Lewis (4th runner-up, as  United Kingdom) 1967:  Canada - Donna Marie Barker (semi-finalist) 1967:  Austria - Christl Bartu 1967:  Belgium - Mauricette Sironval 1967:  Luxembourg - Marie-Jossee Mathgen 1967:  New Zealand - Pamela McLeod Miss International 1971:  Curaçao - Imelda Thome (Miss Friendship) Miss Scandinavia 1968:  Finland - Ritva Helena Lehto (2nd runner-up) 1968:  Sweden - Eva-Lisa Svensson (winner) 1968:  Norway - Gro Goskor (1st runner-up) 1968:  Denmark - Gitte Rhein Knudsen (4th runner-up) 1968:  Iceland - Guðrún Pétursdóttir

Miss Europe 1967:  England - Jennifer Lynn Lewis 1967:  Finland - Ritva Helena Lehto 1967:  Holland - Irene Van Campenhout (1st runner-up) 1967:  Denmark - Gitte Rhein Knudsen 1967:  Turkey - Ayse Yelda Gurani (4th runner-up) 1967:  Belgium - Mauricette Sironval 1967:  France - Anne Vernier 1967:  Iceland - Guðrún Pétursdóttir 1967:  Luxembourg - Marie-Jossee Mathgen 1967:  Norway - Gro Goskor 1968:  Italy - Paola Rossi 1968:  Spain - Francisca Delgado Sánchez Queen of the Pacific 1968:  Canada - Donna Marie Barker (1st runner-up)

References

1. http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/Universe_1967.htm

External links

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