Miss World 1975

Miss World 1975
Date	20 November 1975
Presenters	David Vine
Venue	Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom
Broadcaster	BBC
Entrants	67
Debuts	Curaçao El Salvador Haiti St. Lucia Swaziland
Withdrawals	Botswana Ecuador Jamaica Madagascar Spain Zambia
Returns	Bolivia Cuba Iceland Luxembourg Mauritius Peru Seychelles Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Uruguay
Winner	Wilnelia Merced [1][2]  Puerto Rico
Congeniality	Maggie Siew Teen Sim  Singapore
Photogenic	Vinah Thembi Mamba  Swaziland

Results

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1975[2][3]

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss World 1975	Puerto Rico – Wilnelia Merced[1][2]
1st Runner-up	Germany – Marina Langner[3]
2nd Runner-up	United Kingdom – Vicki Harris[3]
3rd Runner-up	Cuba – Maricela Maxie Clark
4th Runner-up	Yugoslavia – Lidija Velkovska
5th Runner-up	Haiti – Joelle Apollon
6th Runner-up	Venezuela – María Conchita Alonso
Top 15	Australia – Anne Davidson  Finland – Leena Kaarina Vainio  India – Anjana Sood  Lebanon – Ramona Keram  Mauritius – Mariella Tse-Sik-Sun  St. Lucia – Sophia St Omer  South Africa – Rhoda Rademeyer  Uruguay – Carmen Abal

Contestants

•  Africa South – Lydia Gloria Johnstone
•  Argentina – Lilian Noemí De Asti
•  Aruba – Cynthia Marlene Bruin
•  Australia – Anne Davidson
•  Austria – Rosemarie Holzschuh
•  Bahamas – Ava Marilyn Burke
•  Barbados – Peta Hazel Greaves
•  Belgium – Christine Delmelle
•  Bermuda – Donna Louise Wright
•  Bolivia – María Mónica Guardia
•  Brazil – Zaida Souza Costa
•  Canada – Normande Jacques
•  Colombia – Amanda Amaya Correa
•  Costa Rica – María Mayela Bolaños Ugalde
•  Cuba – Maricela Clark
•  Curaçao – Elvira Nelly Maria Bakker
•  Denmark – Pia Isa Lauridsen
•  Dominican Republic – Carmen Rosa Arredondo Pou
•  El Salvador – Ana Stella Comas Durán
•  Finland – Leena Kaarina Vainio
•  France – Sophie Sonia Perin
•  Germany – Marina Langner
•  Gibraltar – Lillian Anne Lara
•  Greece – Bella Adamopoulou
•  Guam – Dora Ann Quintanilla Camacho
•  Guernsey – Carol Dawn Le Billon
•  Haiti – Joelle Apollon
•  Holland – Barbara Ann Neefs
•  Honduras – Etelinda Mejía Velásquez
•  Hong Kong – Teresa Chu Tsui-Kuen
•  Iceland – Halldóra Björk Jónsdóttir
•  India – Anjana Sood
•  Ireland – Elaine Rosemary O'Hara
•  Israel – Atida Mor
•  Italy – Vanna Bortolini
•  Japan – Chiharu Fujiwara
•  Jersey – Susan Maxwell de Gruchy
•  Korea – Lee Sung-hee
•  Lebanon – Ramona Karam
•  Luxembourg – Marie Thérèse Manderschied
•  Malaysia – Fauziah Haron
•  Malta – Marie Grace (Mary) Ciantar
•  Mauritius – Marielle Tse Sik-Sun
•  Mexico – Blanca Patricia López Esparza
•  New Zealand – Janet Andrea Nugent
•  Nicaragua – María Auxiliadora Mantilla
•  Norway – Sissel Gulbrandsen
•  Peru – Mary Orfanides Canakis
•  Philippines – Suzanne Gonzalez
•  Puerto Rico – Wilnelia Merced[1]
•  Saint Lucia – Sophia St. Omer
•  Seychelles – Amelie Lydia Michel
•  Singapore – Maggie Siew Teen Sim
•  South Africa – Rhoda Rademeyer †
•  Sri Lanka – Angela Seneviratne
•  Swaziland – Vinah Thembi Mamba
•  Sweden – Agneta Catharina Magnusson
•   Switzerland – Franziska Angst
•  Thailand – Raevadee Pattamaphong
•  Trinidad and Tobago – Donna Sandra Dalrymple
•  Tunisia – Monia Dida
•  Turkey – Harika Degirmenci
•  United Kingdom – Vicki Ann Harris
•  United States – Annelise Ilschenko
•  Uruguay – Carmen Abal
•  Venezuela – María Concepción Alonso Bustillo
•  Yugoslavia – Lidija Velkovska

Notes

Debuts

•  Curaçao
•  El Salvador
•  Haiti
•  St. Lucia
•  Swaziland

Returns

• Last competed in 1955:
  •  Cuba
• Last competed in 1965:
  •  Bolivia
  •  Uruguay
• Last competed in 1971:
  •  Trinidad and Tobago
• Last competed in 1973:
  •  Iceland
  •  Luxembourg
  •  Mauritius
  •  Peru
  •  Seychelles
  •  Turkey

Withdrawals

•  Spain – promptly withdrew from the competition, after an announcement that Francisco Franco, the ruler of Spain, had died on the morning of the pageant date. Pageant organizers concerned that she had been too upset by Franco's death to appear in the finals.

Replacements

•  Italy – Anna Vitale was replaced by Vanna Bortolini, her first runner-up of the Miss Italy beauty pageant, because she decided to return home to take care of her ill mother.
•  South Africa – Rhoda Rademeyer was the second runner-up of Miss South Africa beauty pageant. The official titleholder of this pageant, Vera Johns, was disqualified by the Miss World organizers when it was discovered that she came from Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Her Rhodesian nationality apparently violated the pageant's rules. The first runner-up, Crystal Coopers, went to London, but her father would not allow her to compete there because it was discovered that Vera Johns was not going to be officially stripped of her title.

References

1. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
2. Beaver County Times
3. The Evening Independent

External links

• Pageantopolis – Miss World 1975