MISS UNIVERSE 1972
saturday, july 29, 1972
Cerromar Beach Hotel, Dorado, Puerto Rico.
61 contestants
PRESENTERS: bob barker & helen o'connell
entertainment: THE LETTERMEN & CHUCHO AVELLANET
Results
1 AUSTRALIA Kerry Anne Wells
2 BRAZIL Rejane Vieira da Costa
3 VENEZUELA Maria Antonietta Cámpoli Prisco
4 ISRAEL Ilana Goren
5 ENGLAND Jennifer Mary McAdam (4th RU Europe '72, 6th RU World '72)
Top 12
BELGIUM Anne-Marie Roger (Europe '72, World '72)
GERMANY Heidemarie Renate Weber (World '72)
INDIA Roopa Satyan
JAPAN Harumi Maeda
PERU Carmen Amelia Ampuero Mosquetti
PHILIPPINES Armi Barbara Quiray Crespo
USA Tanya Denise Wilson
Awards
Miss Amity ZAIRE
Miss Photogenic BELGIUM
Best National Costume PERU
Remainder
ARGENTINA Norma Elena Dudik
ARUBA Ivonne Dirksz
AUSTRIA Ursula "Uschi" Pacher (3rd RU Europe '72, 3rd RU World '72)
BAHAMAS Deborah Jane Taylor
BERMUDA Helen Brown (World '72)
BOLIVIA María Alicia Vargas Vásquez
CANADA Bonny Brady (International '72, World '72, Queen of the Pacific '73)
CHILE Consuelo Fernández de Olivares
COLOMBIA Maria Luisa Lignarolo Martínez-Aparicio
COSTA RICA María Victoria "Vicki" Ross González (World '72)
CURACAO Ingrid Prade
DENMARK Marianne Schmidt (Europe '72)
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Ivonne Lucia Butler de los Montellanos
ECUADOR Susana Castro Jaramillo
EL SALVADOR Ruth Eugenia Romero Ramírez (Coffee '73)
FINLAND Maj-Len Linnea Eriksson (Europe '72 3rd RU Scandinavia '73)
FRANCE Claudine Cassereau (World '72, Europe '72)
GREECE Nancy Kapetanaki
GUAM Patricia Alvarez
HOLLAND Jenny Ten Wolde (Europe '72)
HONDURAS Doris Alicia Roca Pagán
HONG KONG Rita Leung Suet-Ling
ICELAND Maria Johannesdóttir
IRAQ Wijdan Burham El-Deen Sulyman
IRELAND Maree McGlinchey
ITALY Isabella Specia
JAMAICA Grace Marilyn Wright
KOREA Yeon-joo Park
LUXEMBOURG Anita Heck
MALAYSIA Helen Looi (Asia '73)
MALTA Doris Abdilla (International '71, World '71)
MEXICO María del Carmen Orozco Quibriera
NEW ZEALAND Kristine Dayle Allen (World '72)
NORWAY Liv Hanche Olsen (Europe '72)
PARAGUAY Maria Stela Volpe Martínez
PORTUGAL Iris Maria Rosário dos Santos (Europe '72)
PUERTO RICO Bárbara Torres Viñolo
SCOTLAND Elizabeth Joan Stevely (Europe '72)
SINGAPORE Jacqueline Hong Han Ghim (Queen of the Pacific '73)
SPAIN María del Carmen Muñoz Castañón (Europe '72)
SURINAM Carmen Cerna Muntslag
SWEDEN Britt Marie Johansson
SWITZERLAND Anneliese Weber (International '72)
THAILAND Nipaphat Sudsiri
TURKEY Neslihan Sunay
URUGUAY Christina Moller (International '72)
VIRGIN ISLANDS Carol Krieger
WALES Eileen Darroch
ZAIRE Ombayi Mukuta
NO SHOWS:
CEYLON Damayanthi Gunewardena (International '72)
CYPRUS Maria Koutrouza
LEBANON Christiane Accaoui (not sent to Puerto Rico because of the terrorist attack at the Lod airport in 1971. The guerrillas had been trained in Southern Lebanon and most of the people killed were Puerto Rican tourists. The Lebanese government feared reprisals)
IRAN Roya Rouhani Moghaddam
NICARAGUA Connie Ann Ballantyne Sequeira (International'72)
TAHITI Moea Arapari (International '72)
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO Elicia Irish
TUNISIA Souad Keneari
YUGOSLAVIA Daniela Krajcinovic (got sick before traveling to Puerto Rico)
DEBUTS: Iraq. (The Democratic Republic of Congo competed as Zaire)
WITHDRAWALS: Lebanon, Nicaragua, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia
RETURNS: Chile, Denmark, El Salvador, Hong Kong, Paraguay
JUDGES:
1- Mapita Cortez - Puerto Rican actress.
2- Earl Wilson - International columnist.
3- Lynn Redgrave - British actress.
4- Arnold Scaasi - Canadian fashion designer.
5- Sylvia Hitchcock-Carson - Miss Universe 1967 from the USA.
6- Curt Jurgens - German-Austrian stage actor.
7- Fred Williamson - Actor and former football player.
8- Line Renaud - French singer.
9- Edilson Cid Varela - Brazilian newspaper editor and director of TV Brasilia.
10- Jean-Louis Lindekens - US manager of Sabena Airlines.
11- Kiyoshi Hara - President of the NBC Japan network.