Miss Universe 1982
Miss Universe 1982 was the 31st Miss Universe pageant, held at the Coliseo Amauta in Lima, Peru, on 26 July 1982. It was the first time in the pageant's history that the event was held in South America. Seventy-seven contestants competed in the pageant. At the conclusion of the event, Karen Baldwin of Canada was crowned by Irene Saez of Venezuela. This is the first time Canada won the pageant.
The stadium where the contest was taking place was attacked with dynamite on 26 July, during the contest's finale.
Contestants
- – María Alejandra Basile
- – Noriza Antonio Helder
- – Lou Ann Ronchi
- – Elisabeth Kawan
- – Ava Marilyn Burke
- – Marie-Pierre Lemaitre
- – Sharon Kay Auxilliou
- – Heather Ross
- – Sandra Villaroel
- – Celice Pinto Márques da Silva
- – Luce Dahlia Hodge
- – Karen Baldwin
- – Maureen Theresa Lewis
- – Jenny Purto Arab
- – Nadya Santacruz
- – Liliana Corella Espinoza
- – Minerva Ranila Heiroms
- – Tina Maria Nielsen
- – Soraya Morey
- – Jacqueline Burgos
- – Jeanette Marroquín
- – Della Frances Dolan
- – Sari Kaarina Aspholm
- – Martine Philipps
- – Tina Roussou
- – Lydia Galin
- – Patty Chong Kerkos
- – Edith Whitbeck
- – Brigitte Diereckx
- – Eva Lissethe Barahona
- – Angie Leung
- – Gudrun Moller
- – Pamela Chaudry Singh
- – Sri Yulianti Soemardjo
- – Geraldine Mary McGrory
- – Deborah Naomi Hess
- – Cinzia Fiordeponti
- – Eri Okuwaki
- – Siti Rohani Wahid
- – Rita Falzon
- – Corine Soler
- – María del Carmen López
- Namibia – Deseree Anita Kotze
- New Caledonia – Lenka Topalovitch
- – Sandra "Sandy" Dexter
- – Sheryl Sonoda Sizemore
- – Janett Krefting
- – Isora de Lourdes López
- – Moi Eli
- – Maris Villalba
- – María Francesca Zaza Reinoso
- – Maria Isabel Lopez
- – Ana Maria Valdiz
- – Lourdes Milagros Mantero Hormazábal
- – Ginon Manthe
- – Georgina Kearney
- – Judicia Nonis
- – Liana Elviara Brown
- – Odette Octavia Scrooby
- – Sun-hee Park
- – Cristina Pérez Cottrell
- – Ann Monica Tradigo
- – Vanessa de Vries
- – Anna Kari Maria Bergström
- – Jeannette Linkenheill
- – Nipaporn Tarapanich
- – Noxolisi Mji
- – Suzanne Traboulay
- – Canan Kakmaci
- – Jacqueline Astwood
- – Terri Utley
- – Ingeborg Hendricks
- – Silvia Beatriz Vila Abavián
- – Ana Teresa Oropeza
- – Michelle Donelly
- – Kerstin Natalie Paeserack
- – Ivy Evelyn Warner