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15th Miss Universe pageant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Miss Universe 1966 was the 15th Miss Universe pageant, held on 16 July 1966 at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. Apasra Hongsakula of Thailand crowned her successor Margareta Arvidsson of Sweden at the end of the event.
Miss Universe 1966 | |
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Date | 16 July 1966 |
Presenters | |
Venue | Miami Beach Auditorium, Miami Beach, Florida, United States |
Broadcaster | CBS |
Entrants | 58 |
Placements | 15 |
Debuts | |
Withdrawals | |
Returns | |
Winner | Margareta Arvidsson Sweden |
Congeniality | Elizabeth Sanchez (Curaçao) Paquita Torres (Spain)[1] |
Best National Costume | Aviva Israeli (Israel) |
Photogenic | Margareta Arvidsson (Sweden) |
Placement | Contestant |
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Miss Universe 1966 | |
1st runner-up | |
2nd runner-up | |
3rd runner-up | |
4th runner-up | |
Top 15 |
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Fifty-eight contestants competed for the title.
Country/Territory | Contestant | Age[lower-alpha 1] | Hometown |
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Argentina | Elba Beatriz Baso | 20 | Buenos Aires |
Aruba | Sandra Fang | – | Oranjestad |
Austria | Renate Polacek | 21 | Vienna |
Bahamas | Sandra Zoe Jarrett | 19 | Nassau |
Belgium | Mireille De Man[2] | 18 | Brussels |
Bermuda | Marie Clarissa Trott | 20 | Hamilton |
Bolivia | María Elena Borda[3] | – | Santa Cruz de la Sierra |
Brazil | Ana Cristina Ridzi | 19 | Rio de Janeiro |
Canada | Marjorie Anne Schofield | 18 | Burlington |
Ceylon | Lorraine Roosmalecocq | 20 | Colombo |
Chile | Stella Dunnage | 20 | Bíobío |
Colombia | Edna Margarita Rudd[4] | 19 | Bogotá |
Costa Rica | María Virginia Oreamuno | – | Cartago |
Cuba | Lesbia Murrieta | 20 | Miami, Florida |
Curaçao | Elizabeth Sanchez | 18 | Willemstad |
Denmark | Gitte Fleinert | 18 | Copenhagen |
Ecuador | Martha Cecilia Andrade | – | Quito |
England | Janice Whiteman | 21 | Southampton |
Finland | Satu Charlotta Ostring | 19 | Tampere |
France | Michele Boule | 19 | Cannes |
West Germany | Marion Heinrich | 19 | Mönchengladbach |
Greece | Katia Balafouta | 21 | Athens |
Guam | Barbara Jean Perez | 20 | Agana |
Guyana | Umblita Van Sluytman | 20 | Georgetown |
Holland | Margo Domen | 18 | The Hague |
Iceland | Erla Traustadóttir | 22 | Garðabær |
India | Yasmin Daji | 19 | Kanpur |
Ireland | Gladys Waller | 21 | Dublin |
Israel | Aviva Israeli | 18 | Tel Aviv |
Italy | Paola Bossalino | 20 | Rome |
Jamaica | Beverly Savory | – | Kingston |
Japan | Atsumi Ikeno | 18 | Yao |
Lebanon | Yolla Harb | 18 | Beirut |
Luxembourg | Gigi Antinori | 19 | Luxembourg City |
Malaysia | Helen Lee | 18 | Ipoh |
Morocco | Joelle Lesage | – | Rabat |
New Zealand | Heather Gettings | 20 | Auckland |
Norway | Siri Gro Nilsen | 21 | Oslo |
Okinawa | Yoneko Kiyan | 24 | Okinawa |
Panama | Dionisia Broce | 19 | Panama City |
Paraguay | Mirtha Martínez | 18 | Alto Paraguay |
Peru | Madeleine Hartog-Bel | 20 | Piura |
Philippines | Maria Clarinda Soriano[5] | 20 | Bacoor |
Puerto Rico | Carol Barajadas | 18 | Santurce |
Scotland | Linda Ann Lees | 20 | Glasgow |
Singapore | Margaret Van Meel | 19 | Singapore |
South Africa | Lynn De Jager | 19 | Pretoria |
South Korea | Yoon Gui-young | – | Seoul |
Spain | Paquita Torres | 18 | Málaga |
Suriname | Joyce Leysner | 22 | Paramaribo |
Sweden | Margareta Arvidsson | 18 | Gothenburg |
Switzerland | Hedy Frick | 18 | Schwyz |
Thailand | Cheranand Savetanand | 24 | Bangkok |
Trinidad and Tobago | Kathleen Hares | 20 | Port of Spain |
Turkey | Nilgun Arslaner | 18 | Istanbul |
United States | Maria Remenyi[6] | 20 | El Cerrito |
Venezuela | Magally Castro | 18 | Calabozo |
Wales | Christine Heller | 22 | Cardiff |
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