MISS YOUNG INTERNATIONAL 1978

1978 August 4

Freeval Hall, Tokyo, Japan 

42 contestants

Results

1  COSTA RICA - Vivian del Carmen Unger Borbon

2  HAWAII - Brooke Alexander  (6th RU, World 80)

3  MEXICO - Martha Eugenia Ortiz Gómez  (3rd RU & Miss Photogenic, World 78)

Among the semi-finalists

FINLAND - Tii Heilimo 

NORWAY  Elisabeth Klaeboe (Teenage Intercontinental '78, 1st RU Scandinavia '79, World '78)

Awards

Miss Friendship : TURKEY

Miss Photogenic : CHILE

Best National Costume :  COSTA RICA

Miss Kimono : ISRAEL

Miss Kimono 1st runner-up : HOLLAND

Remainder

ARGENTINA - Delia Estella Maris-Muñoz Duran

AUSTRALIA - Deborah Ellen Jane Harber

AUSTRIA - Renate Karoline Schneider

BELGIUM - Chantal Marguerite Pirlet

BOLIVIA - Monica Ortiz

BRAZIL - Valeria de Rezende Chavis 

BRITAIN - Debbie Michelle Mason Lee

CANADA - Heather Anne Hazell

CHILE - Soledad Vio Benavente

COLOMBIA - Maria Constanza Mejia Navia

DENMARK - Lone Susan Meelby

FRANCE - Genevieve Marthe Baldi

GERMANY - Ulla Susanne Roder

GREECE - Kety Adamopoulou

GUAM - Elizabeth Calderon Lathrop (Asia '79)

HOLLAND - Nicole Cohen

HONDURAS - Emily Antonette Hawitt

ICELAND - Rosa Ingvarsdóttir

INDIA - Poonam Dhillon

INDONESIA - Letizia Mussry

IRELAND - Jackie Edmundson

ISRAEL - Tamar Liberman

ITALY - Patrizia Lecchi

JAPAN - Yukiko Seko

KOREA - Eun-hee Kim

MALAYSIA - Margaret Yvonne de Souza

MALTA - Suzette Theresa Schembri

NEW ZEALAND - Jillian Maree Bevins

NICARAGUA - Irene Gerstenkorn

PHILIPPINES - Anne Rose Thompson Blas

SINGAPORE - Violet Lee  (Asia '78, World 79)

SPAIN - Francisca Hoyos Jiménez (4th RU Teenage Intercontinental '78)

SWITZERLAND - Elvira Werth

TURKEY - Cagiayan Bingol

UNITED STATES - Karin Jill Hanks

URUGUAY - Varinia Roxana Govea Pazos  (World 82, winner Hawaiian Tropic '88)

VENEZUELA - Concetta Liliana Mantione Rizzo