Miss World 1969


Miss World 1969 was the 19th edition of the Miss World pageant, held for the first time at the Royal Albert Hall on 27 November 1969, broadcast for the first time in colour by the BBC. Fifty delegates vied for the crown won by Eva Rueber-Staier of Austria. She was crowned by actor Omar Sharif, not by Miss World 1968 winner Penelope Plummer of Australia.

Debuts, returns, and, withdrawals

This edition marked the debut of Seychelles, and the return of Paraguay, which last competed in 1959, and Czechoslovakia, Gambia, Iceland and Lebanon, who last competed in 1967.
Ceylon, Ghana, Italy, Kenya, Morocco, Peru, Switzerland, Thailand and Uganda withdrew from the competition for unknown reasons.

Results

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Miss World 1969

Contestants

  • – Graciela Marino
  • – Stefane Meurer
  • – Eva Rueber-Staier
  • – Wanda Pearce
  • – Maud Alin
  • – Ana Cristina Rodrigues
  • – Jacquie Perrin
  • – Ana María Nazar
  • – Lina María García Ogliastri
  • – Damaris Ureña
  • – Flora Diaouri
  • – Marcela Bitnarova
  • – Jeanne Perfeldt
  • – Sandra Simone Cabrera Cabral
  • – Ximena Aulestia
  • – Päivi Ilona Raita
  • – Suzanne Angly
  • – Marie Carayol
  • – Marilou Chiappe
  • – Heleni Alexopoulou
  • – Pamela Patricia Lord
  • – Nente van der Vliet
  • – Ragnheiður Pétursdóttir
  • – Adina Shellim
  • – Hillary Clarke
  • – Tehila Selah
  • – Marlyn Elizabeth Taylor
  • – Emiko Karashima
  • – Roula Majzoub
  • – Antoinette Coleman
  • – Jacqueline Schaeffer
  • – Mary Brincat
  • – Gloria Leticia Hernández Martín del Campo
  • – Carole Robinson
  • – Carlota Marina Brenes López
  • – Morenike Faribido
  • – Kjersti Jortun
  • – Blanca Zaldívar
  • – Feliza Teresa Miro
  • – Sylvia Labonte
  • – Linda Meryl Collett
  • – Kim Seung-hee
  • – Ing-Marie Ahlin
  • – Zohra Tabania
  • – Şermin Ayşin
  • – Sheena Drummond
  • – Gail Renshaw
  • – Marzia Piazza
  • – Christa Margraf
  • – Radmila Živković

    Did not compete

  • – Pauline Chai Siew Phin