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.