Miss Universe 1969

{{Short description|18th Miss Universe pageant}}

{{Infobox beauty pageant

| photo =

| winner = Gloria Diaz

| represented = Philippines

| date = 19 July 1969

|image= Abreu Sodré-Miss Universo e misses II (1969) (cropped).jpg

|caption= Gloria Diaz, Miss Universe 1969

| presenters = {{hlist|Bob Barker|June Lockhart}}

| venue = Miami Beach Auditorium, Miami Beach, Florida, United States

| broadcaster = CBS (WTVJ)

| entrants = 61

| placements = 15

| debuts =

| withdraws = {{Hlist|Haiti|Lebanon|Okinawa|South Africa|United States Virgin Islands}}

| returns = Suriname

| congeniality = Zohra Boufaden (Tunisia)

| best national costume = Sangduen Manwong (Thailand)

| photogenic = Carole Robinson (New Zealand)

| before = 1968

| next = 1970

}}

Miss Universe 1969 was the 18th Miss Universe pageant, held on 19 July 1969 at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. Gloria Diaz of the Philippines was crowned by Martha Vasconcellos of Brazil at the end of the event. Diaz became the first Filipino, second Southeast Asian and third Asian to win the pageant beating 60 other contestants from all around the world.{{cite news|title=Miss Philippines Wins Title of Miss Universe |work=The New York Times |date=July 20, 1969 |url=http://apps.beta620.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/07/20/90113279.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112182554/http://apps.beta620.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/07/20/90113279.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 12, 2013 }}File:Abreu Sodré-Miss Universo e misses II (1969).jpg

Results

=Placements=

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! Placement

! Contestant

Miss Universe 1969

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  • {{flagu|Philippines}} – Gloria Díaz{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=M_9UAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA6&dq=miss+universe+1969&article_id=1566,4093185&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYieuF25GMAxXCm68BHZaEEPsQ6AF6BAgHEAM#v=onepage&q=miss%20universe%201969&f=false |title=The Age |publisher=The Age |language=en}}
1st Runner-Up

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  • {{flagu|Finland}} – Harriet Eriksson
2nd Runner-Up

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  • {{flagu|Australia}} – Joanne Barret
3rd Runner-Up

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  • {{flagu|Israel}} – Chava Levy
4th Runner-Up

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  • {{flagu|Japan}}– Kikuyo Osuka
Top 15

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  • {{flagu|Austria}} – Eva Rueber-Staier
  • {{flagu|Brazil}} – Vera Fischer
  • {{flagu|Colombia}} – Margarita Reyes
  • {{flagu|Chile}} – Mónica Larson
  • {{flagu|Norway}} – Patricia Walker
  • {{flagu|Peru}} – María Mantilla
  • {{flagu|Sweden}} – Brigitta Lindloff
  • {{flagu|Switzerland}} – Patrice Sollner
  • {{flagu|United States}} – Wendy Dascomb
  • {{flagu|Yugoslavia}}– Natasa Kosir

Contestants

File:Miss Universe 1969 Map.PNGSixty-one contestants competed for the title.

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!Country/Territory

!Contestant

!Age{{efn|Ages at the time of the pageant}}

!Hometown

{{flagicon|Argentina}} Argentina

|Lidia Pepe

|23

|Corrientes

{{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles|1959}} Aruba

|Jeannette Geerman{{Cite news|date=20 June 1969|title=Jeanette Geerman, Miss Aruba 1969|language=en|pages=1, 7|work=Aruba Esso News|url=http://ufdc.ufl.edu/CA03400001/00774|access-date=1 May 2025|via=Digital Library of the Caribbean}}

|–

|Paradera

{{flagicon|Australia}} Australia

|Joanne Barret

|19

|Sydney

{{flagicon|Austria}} Austria

|Eva Rueber-Staier

|18

|Styria

{{flagicon|Bahamas|1964}} Bahamas

|Joan Bowe{{Cite news|date=2 August 1969|title=Among the fairest in the Universe|language=en|pages=3|work=The Bermuda Recorder|url=https://bnl.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15212coll1/id/14249/|access-date=1 May 2025|via=Bermuda National Library}}

|21

|Georgetown

{{flagicon|Belgium}} Belgium

|Danièle Roels{{Cite news|date=12 July 1969|title=Zeven „schonen", deelneemsters aan de komende „Miss Universe" verkiezing in Miami Beach|language=nl|pages=1|work=Leeuwarder courant|url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010618190:mpeg21:p001|access-date=18 October 2023|via=Delpher}}

|19

|Hainaut

{{flagicon|Bermuda}} Bermuda

|Maxine Bean{{Cite news|date=6 June 1969|title=Miss Bermuda 1969|language=en|pages=1|work=The Bermuda Recorder|url=https://bnl.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15212coll1/id/14156/rec/1|access-date=1 May 2025|via=Bermuda National Library}}

|20

|Hamilton

{{flagicon|Bolivia}} Bolivia

|Luz María Rojas{{Cite web |date=29 July 2017 |title=El título les dio alegrías, trabajo y fama que aún saborean |trans-title=The title gave them joy, work and fame that they still savor. |url=https://eldeber.com.bo/sociales/el-titulo-les-dio-alegrias-trabajo-y-fama-que-aun-saborean_32650 |access-date=17 October 2023 |website=El Deber |language=es-ES}}

|–

|Cochabamba

{{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles|1959}} Bonaire

|Julia Nicolaas{{Cite news|date=8 April 1969|title=Tica Nicolaas Miss Bonaire|language=nl|pages=9|work=Amigoe di Curacao|url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010463289:mpeg21:p009|access-date=1 May 2025|via=Delpher}}

|23

|Kralendijk

{{flagicon|Brazil|1968}} Brazil

|Vera Fischer

|18

|Blumenau

{{flagicon|Canada}} Canada

|Jacquie Perrin

|20

|Toronto

{{flagicon|Dominion of Ceylon|1951}} Ceylon

|Marlene Seneveratne

|–

|Colombo

{{flagicon|Chile}} Chile

|Mónica Larson

|25

|Santiago

{{flagicon|Colombia}} Colombia

|Margarita Reyes{{Cite news|date=12 November 1968|title=Del Valle la nueva soberana|language=es|pages=1, 14–16|work=El Tiempo|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pRQfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CowEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6935%2C1872965|access-date=18 October 2023|trans-title=The new sovereign from Valle|via=Google News Archive}}

|19

|Cali

{{flagicon|Congo-Kinshasa|1966}} Congo-Kinshasa

|Jeanne Mokomo

|–

|Kinshasa

{{flagicon|Costa Rica}} Costa Rica

|Clara Freda Antillón

|18

|San José

{{flagicon|Netherlands Antilles|1959}} Curaçao

|Yvonne Wardekker{{Cite news|date=23 June 1969|title=Miss Curacao 1969|language=nl|pages=1|work=Amigoe di Curacao|url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010463314:mpeg21:p001|access-date=1 May 2025|via=Delpher}}

|21

|Willemstad

{{flagicon|Denmark}} Denmark

|Jeanne Perfeldt

|21

|Copenhagen

{{flagicon|Dominican Republic}} Dominican Republic

|Rocío García

|18

|Samaná

{{flagicon|Ecuador}} Ecuador

|Rosana Vinueza

|20

|Guayaquil

{{flagicon|England}} England

|Myra Van Heck

|22

|London

{{flagicon|Finland}} Finland

|Harriet Eriksson

|22

|Turku

{{flagicon|France}} France

|Agathe Cognet

|24

|Paris

{{flagicon|Kingdom of Greece}} Greece

|Irene Diamantoglou

|18

|Athens

{{flagicon|Guam}} Guam

|Anita Johnston

|18

|Hagåtña

{{flagicon|Holland}} Holland

|Welmoed Hollenberg

|21

|Amsterdam

{{flagicon|Honduras|1949}} Honduras

|Viena Paredes

|18

|Choluteca

{{flagicon|British Hong Kong}} Hong Kong

|Christine Tam

|18

|Hong Kong

{{flagicon|Iceland}} Iceland

|María Baldursdóttir

|22

|Reykjanesbær

{{flagicon|India}} India

|Kavita Bhambani

|18

|Bombay

{{flagicon|Ireland}} Ireland

|Patricia Byrne

|25

|Dublin

{{flagicon|Israel}} Israel

|Chava Levy

|19

|Haifa

{{flagicon|Italy}} Italy

|Diana Coccorese

|23

|Rome

{{flagicon|Jamaica}} Jamaica

|Carol Gerrow

|–

|Kingston

{{flagicon|Japan}} Japan

|Kikuyo Osuka

|18

|Aichi

{{flagicon|Luxembourg}} Luxembourg

|Marie Antoniette Bertinelli

|–

|Esch-sur-Alzette

{{flagicon|Malaysia}} Malaysia

|Rosemary Wan

|20

|Petaling Jaya

{{flagicon|Malta}} Malta

|Natalie Quintana

|–

|Gżira

{{flagicon|Mexico}} Mexico

|Gloria Hernández

|20

|Guanajuato

{{flagicon|New Zealand}} New Zealand

|Carole Robinson

|22

|Auckland

{{flagicon|Nicaragua}} Nicaragua

|Soraya Herrera

|18

|Tipitapa

{{flagicon|Norway}} Norway

|Pia Walker

|20

|Oslo

{{flagicon|Peru}} Peru

|María Julia Mantilla

|19

|Trujillo

{{flagicon|Philippines|1936}} Philippines

|Gloria Diaz{{Cite web|last=Villano|first=Alexa|date=19 July 2019|title=LOOK BACK: Gloria Diaz, forever Miss Universe icon|url=http://r3.rappler.com/life-and-style/specials/miss-universe/235698-gloria-diaz-miss-universe-icon|access-date=18 October 2023|website=Rappler|language=en}}

|18

|Parañaque

{{flagicon|Puerto Rico|1952}} Puerto Rico

|Aída Betancourt{{Cite web|title=Reinas de Puerto Rico |url=http://www.arecibo.inter.edu/wp-content/uploads/biblioteca/reinas/reinas_belleza_pr_1932_1970.pdf|access-date=19 March 2025|language=es}}

|18

|Río Piedras

{{flagicon|Scotland}} Scotland

|Sheena Drumond

|18

|Coatbridge

{{flagicon|Singapore}} Singapore

|Mavis Young

|18

|Singapore

{{flagicon|South Korea|1948}} South Korea

|Lim Hyun-jung

|20

|Seoul

{{flagicon|Spain|1945}} Spain

|Amparo Rodrigo

|19

|Valencia

{{flagicon|Suriname (Kingdom of the Netherlands)}} Surinam

|Greta Natsier

|–

|Paramaribo

{{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden

|Brigitta Lindloff

|22

|Västra Götaland

{{flagicon|Switzerland}} Switzerland

|Patrice Sollner

|24

|Aargau

{{flagicon|Thailand}} Thailand

|Sangduen Manwong

|20

|Phra Nakhon

{{flagicon|Tunisia|1959}} Tunisia

|Zohra Boufaden{{Cite news|date=17 July 1969|title=Stuntman has close call|language=en|pages=16|work=The Miami News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/114903965/the-miami-news/|access-date=1 May 2025|via=Newspapers.com}}

|21

|Tunis

{{flagicon|Turkey}} Turkey

|Azra Balkan

|–

|Istanbul

{{flagicon|United States}} United States

|Wendy Dascomb{{cite news |date=May 25, 1969 |title=Wendy Dascomb, Stratford College Student, Named Miss U.S.A. 1969 |page=1 |work=The Danville Register |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/23421112/ |access-date=23 July 2023}}

|19

|Danville

{{flagicon|Uruguay}} Uruguay

|Julia Möller{{Cite web|last=|date=6 August 2016|title=Las confesiones de Julia Möller|url=https://www.elpais.com.uy/sabado-show/confesiones-julia-moeller.html|access-date=1 May 2025|website=El Pais|language=es}}

|20

|Montevideo

{{flagicon|Venezuela|1954}} Venezuela

|María José Yéllici

|24

|Aragua

{{flagicon|Wales}} Wales

|Shirley Jones{{Cite news|date=12 June 1969|title=Miss Wales is from Colwyn|language=en|pages=9|work=The North Wales Weekly News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110449093/miss-wales-1969/|access-date=1 May 2025|via=Newspapers.com}}

|22

|Colwyn Bay

{{flagicon|West Germany}} West Germany

|Gesine Froese{{Cite web|date=5 May 2019|title=5. Mai 1969: Eine Nürnbergerin ist die Schönste|url=https://www.nordbayern.de/region/nuernberg/5-mai-1969-eine-nurnbergerin-ist-die-schonste-1.8863909|access-date=1 May 2025|website=Nürnberger Nachrichten|language=de}}

|22

|Bavaria

{{flagicon|Yugoslavia}} Yugoslavia

|Nataša Košir{{Cite web|last=Kek|first=Franci|date=3 February 2019|title=Nataša Košir Mušič, miss Jugoslavije 1968: Obisk v Beli hiši in pri milijonarjih|url=https://www.dnevnik.si/1042860327|access-date=1 May 2025|website=Dnevnik|language=sl}}

|21

|Novo Mesto

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