MISS UNIVERSE 1962

saturday, july 14, 1962

Convention Hall, Miami Beach Auditorium, Miami Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

91 contestants (51 international - 40 miss usa) 

total international contestants (including miss usa): 52

PRESENTER:  GENE RAYBURN 

commentators:  DAVE GARROWAY, ARLENE FRANCIS.

entertainment: -

Results

1  ARGENTINA  Norma Beatriz Nolan Figueredo

2  ICELAND  Anna Geirsdóttir

3  FINLAND  Anja Aulikki Järvinen

4  REPUBLIC OF CHINA  Helen Liu Shiu-Man

5  BRAZIL  Maria Olívia Rebouças Cavalcanti

 

Top 15

AUSTRIA  Christa Linder

CANADA  Marilyn McFatridge

COLOMBIA  Olga Lucia Botero Orozco (United Nations '63)

ENGLAND  Kim Carlton (Europe '62)

HAITI  Evelyne Miot

ISRAEL  Jehudit Mazor

KOREA  Bum-joo Seo 

LEBANON  Nouhad Cabbabe (United Nations '63)

NEW ZEALAND  Lesley Margaret Nichols

USA  Macel Patricia Leilani Wilson

 

Awards

Miss Amity  (tied) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC & WALES

Miss Photogenic  ENGLAND

Best National Costume  ENGLAND

Costume honourable mentions  GREECE, ISRAEL, JAPAN, KOREA

 

Remainder

BELGIUM  Christine Delit (5th RU World '62)

BOLIVIA  Gabriela "Gaby" Roca Díaz

CEYLON  Yvonne D'Rozario

COSTA RICA  Helvetia Albónico

CUBA (Free)  Aurora Prieto

DAHOMEY  Gilette Hazoume

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC  Sarah Olimpia Frómeta de González

ECUADOR  Elaine Ortega Hougen (International '61, World '62)

FRANCE  Sabine Surget (2nd RU United Nations '63, Europe '63)

GERMANY  Gisela Karschuck (Europe '63)  

GREECE  Christina Apostolou

HOLLAND  Marjan van der Heijden

HONG KONG  Shirley Pon Pik-Kong

IRELAND  Josie Dwyer

ITALY  Isa Stoppi

JAPAN  Kasuko Hirano

LUXEMBOURG  Fernande Kodesch (Europe '62)

MALAYSIA  Sarah Alhabshee Abdullah

MOROCCO  Ginette Buenaventes

NORWAY  Julie Ege

PARAGUAY  Corina Rolón Escuariza

PERU  Silvia Ruth Dedeking

PHILIPPINES  Josephine Brown Estrada

PORTUGAL  Maria José Santos Trindade Defolloy (Europe '63)

PUERTO RICO  Ana Celia Sosa

SCOTLAND  Vera Parker

SINGAPORE  Julie Koh Moot-Lei

SOUTH AFRICA  Lynette Gamble

SPAIN  Conchita Roig Urpi (World '62, United Nations '63)

SWEDEN  Monica Rågby (winner United Nations '63, 1st RU Scandinavia '63)

SWITZERLAND  Francine Delouille (Europe '62)

TAHITI  Catherine "Cathy" Banner

TURKEY  Behad Gulay Sezer

URUGUAY  Nelly Pettersen Vasigaluz

VENEZUELA  Virginia Elisabeth Bailey Lazzari

VIRGIN ISLANDS  Juanita Monell

WALES  Hazel Williams


NO SHOWS:

BAHAMAS  Brenda Major

BALI  

CURACAO  Peggy Van Riet

DENMARK  Birgitte Heiberg

GHANA  Mary J. (Miss Ghana 1961). It was announced she was going to compete in late 1961

GUADELOUPE 

INDIA  Veronica Leonora Torcato

INDONESIA  Suharni Rahman

JAMAICA  Marlene Murray

JORDAN  Aida Anis Saba

MACAU Yun Hiu  Ying 

RHODESIA  Philda Ragland

SURINAME  Kitty Essed

THAILAND  Jittra Waitanomsat


DEBUTS: Dahomey, Haiti, Malaya, Tahiti

WITHDRAWALS:  Burma, Chile, Denmark, Guatemala, Jamaica, Madagascar, Rhodesia

RETURNS:  Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Philippines, Portugal, Singapore


JUDGES:

01- Key-young Chang - Korea Times publisher and director of the Korean Cultural Motion Pictures Association and Broadcasting Corporation.

02- Edilson Cid Varela - Brazilian newspaper publisher and director of TV Brasilia.

03- Russell Patterson - Artist and illustrator.

04- Serge Mendjisky - French painter.

05- Yoshio Hayakowa - Japanese artist and lecturer.

06- Abraham Elias Issa - British West Indies industrialist who is president of the Jamaica Tourist Board. 

07- Earl Wilson - Syndicated columnist for the New York Post.