Results

1  USA  Sylvia Louise Hitchcock

2  VENEZUELA  María Elena "Mariela" Pérez Branger

3  ENGLAND  Jennifer Lynn Lewis (4th RU World '67, Europe '67)

4  FINLAND  Ritva Helena Lehto (5th RU Europe '67, 2nd RU Scandinavia '68)

5  ISRAEL  Batia Kabiri

Top 15

BRAZIL  Carmen Sílvia de Barros Ramasco

DENMARK  Margrethe "Gitte" Rhein Knudsen (Europe '67)

GREECE  Elya Kalligeraki

HOLLAND  Irene van Campenhout

HONG KONG  Laura Arminda da Costa Roque

IRELAND  Patricia Armstrong

ITALY  Paola Rossi (Europe '68)

SPAIN  Francisca Delgado Sánchez

SWEDEN  Eva-Lisa Svensson (winner Scandinavia '68)

WALES  Denise Elizabeth Page

Awards

Miss Amity SCOTLAND

Miss Photogenic GREECE

Best National Costume BRAZIL

15 Best in Swimsuit - BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, DENMARK, ENGLAND, GREECE, HOLLAND, HONG KONG, ISRAEL, ITALY, KOREA, PERU, SOUTH AFRICA, SWEDEN, USA, VENEZUELA

Remainder

ARGENTINA  Amalia Yolanda Scuffi (SF World 1959)

ARUBA  Ivonne Maduro

AUSTRIA  Christl Bartu (World '67)

BAHAMAS  Elizabeth Knowles

BELGIUM  Mauricette Sironval (Europe '67, (World '67)

BERMUDA  Cheryl Michele Smith

BOLIVIA  Marcela Montoya García

BONAIRE  Cristina Landwier

CANADA  Donna Marie Barker (SF World '67, Queen of the Pacific '68)

CHILE  Ingrid Virginia Vila Riveros

COLOMBIA  Elsa Maria Garrido Cajiao

COSTA RICA  Rosa María Fernández

CUBA (Free)  Elina Salabarría

CURACAO  Imelda Thodé (International '71)

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC  Jeannette Morena Rey García

FRANCE  Anne Vernier (Europe '67)

GERMANY  Fee von Zitzewitz

GUAM  Hope Marie Navarro Alvarez

HONDURAS  Denia Maria Alvarado Medina

ICELAND  Gudrun Petursdóttir (Europe '67, Scandinavia '68)

INDIA  Nayyara Mirza

JAPAN  Kayoko Fujikawa

KOREA  Jung-ae Hong 

LUXEMBOURG  Marie-Josée Mathgen (Europe '67, World '67)

MALAYSIA  Monkam Siprasome

MEXICO  Valentina Vales Duarte

NEW ZEALAND  Pamela McLeod (World '67)

NORWAY  Gro Goksor (Europe '67, 1st RU Scandinavia '68)

OKINAWA  Etsuko Okuhira

PANAMA  Mirna Norma Castillero

PARAGUAY  Maria Eugenia Torres Fretes

PERU  Mirtha Beatriz Calvo Sommaruga

PHILIPPINES  Pilar Delilah Veloso Pilapil

PUERTO RICO  Ivonne Coll Mendoza

SCOTLAND  Lena MacGarvie

SINGAPORE  Bridget Ong Mei-Lee

SOUTH AFRICA  Windley Ballenden

SWITZERLAND  Elsbeth Ruegger

TURKEY  Yelda Gurani (3rd RU Europe '67)

URUGUAY   Mayela Bertón Martínez

VIRGIN ISLANDS  Gail Garrison

DISQUALIFIED:

JAMAICA  Elham Warwar (DQ'd July 11 - arrived but was not a national pageant winner)

NO SHOWS:

CEYLON  Seedevi de Zoysas Tewaitta Ragama

GUATEMALA  Maria Porras Rottman

GUYANA  Bone Jay

ECUADOR  Laura Elena Baquero Palacios (underage)

EL SALVADOR  Maria Elena Barahona Castañeda

NICARAGUA  Milagros Argüello (Intl '67)

THAILAND  Prapussorn Panichkul (underage)

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO  Patsy Wilson

ANTIGUA  Gloria Abbott

AUSTRALIA  Patsy Earp

DOMINICA  Claudia Hill

GRENADA  Shirley McLawrence

LEBANON  Marlene Talih

MALTA  Patricia Best 

MOROCCO  Naima Benjelloun (underage)

PORTUGAL  Teresa Amaro

ST VINCENT  Marcelle Alves 

SYRIA  Firyal Jalal

TUNISIA  Rekhaia Dekhil (No time for visa, she was sent the following year)

REPLACED:

FRANCE  Jeanne Beck

DEBUTS: Bonaire

WITHDRAWALS:  Ceylon, Ecuador, Guyana, Jamaica, Lebanon, Morocco, Surinam, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago

RETURNS: Dominican Republic, Honduras, Hong Kong, Mexico, Uruguay, Virgin Islands

JUDGES:

01- Rossano Brazzi - Italian film actor.

02- Toshiro Mifune - Japanese actor.

03- Stanley Baker - English actor.

04- Earl Wilson - International syndicated columnist.

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

06- Mikael Katz - Newspaper publisher from Sweden.

07- Arthur Murray - American ballroom dancer.

08- Dong Kingman - Chinese-American artist.

09- Yousuf Karsh - Canadian portrait photographer.

10- Gladys Zender - Miss Universe 1957 from Peru.