MISS YOUNG INTERNATIONAL 1979

1979 August 3

Front of Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

40 contestants

Results

1 IRELAND - Patricia Ward

2 HAWAII - Corrine Gail Carvalho

3 UNITED STATES - Lonni Lynn Jones

Semi-finalists

(none were called)

Awards

Miss Friendship : Venezuela  

Miss Photogenic : Portugal 

Miss Kimono : Finland 

Remainder

AUSTRALIA - Ngaire Hallam

AUSTRIA - Margaret Hamarc

BELGIUM

BOLIVIA - Maria Luisa López

BRITAIN - Susan Walker

CANADA - Brigitte June Hofmann  (World 78)

CHILE - Gabriela Ward Vargas

COLOMBIA - Maria Patricia Fernández Fernández

COSTA RICA - Maria Alejandra Rodríguez

DENMARK - Pia Petersen

FINLAND - Pia Irmeli Ann-Marie Nieminen (World 81)

FRANCE - Patricia Barzyk (2nd RU World '80)

GERMANY - Kathrin Glotzl (Universe '80)

GREECE - Diana Zachou (3rd RU Teen Intercontinental '79)

GUAM - Louise Aguon (Asia '80) 

HOLLAND - Carmen Roog

HONDURAS - Ana Esther Vivas

ICELAND - Stella Karlsdóttir

INDIA - Anuja Chitre

ISRAEL - Ronit Ben Basat

ITALY

JAPAN - Misako Ari

KOREA - Mi-ho Kim

MALAYSIA - Kathy Siew Ken Thoung

MALTA - Josette Salargi

MEXICO - Patricia Fojaco Cortez

NICARAGUA - Maria Mercedes Saavedra

NORWAY - Nina Lovendal (Teen Intercontinental '79)

PHILIPPINES - Maria Teresa Gerodias Carlson

PORTUGAL - Laura Vera Diogo

SINGAPORE - Jennifer Liong Lye Fong

SPAIN - María Jesús Pineda Rufino 

SWEDEN

SWITZERLAND - Margrit Kilchoer  (Universe 80 & World 81)

TURKEY

URUGUAY - Lydia Salas

VENEZUELA - Nina Korschunov Kondryn

REPLACED:

AUSTRALIA  Helen Denz

VENEZUELA  Diana Maria Fernanda Ramirez (disqualified in Venezuela)