Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss Universe 1979	Venezuela Miss Venezuela The Miss Venezuela contest is the national beauty pageant of Venezuela and has been held since 1952. It is responsible for selecting the country's representatives to the Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss Earth and Miss International pageants .Under the direction of Osmel Sousa, Venezuela has... - Maritza Sayalero Maritza Sayalero Maritza Sayalero is a former beauty queen who was crowned Miss Venezuela in 1979 and became her country's first Miss Universe titleholder...
1st runner-up	Bermuda - Gina Swainson
2nd runner-up	Kingdom of England - Carolyn Seaward
3rd runner-up	Brazil - Martha Jussara da Costa
4th runner-up	Sweden - Annette Marie Ekström
Top 12	South Africa - Veronika Wilson  Belize - Sarita Diana Acosta  United States - Mary Therese Friel Mary Therese Friel Mary Therese Friel is a beauty queen and business woman from New York who has held the title Miss USA 1979.Friel, who grew up in Pittsford, New York won the titles Miss New York USA and Miss USA. She was later a model, and opened her own modelling agency in 1987...  Germany - Andrea Hontschik  Kingdom of Scotland - Lorraine Davidson  Argentina - Adriana Virginia Álvarez  Wales - Janet Beverly Hobson

Semifinal Scores

Country	Preliminary Average	Interview	Swimsuit	Evening Gown	Semifinal Average
Venezuela	8.461 (1)	9.362 (1)	9.135 (1)	9.416 (1)	9.305 (1)
	7.578 (9)	8.872 (2)	9.027 (2)	9.100 (2)	9.000 (2)
	8.227 (2)	8.671 (3)	8.591 (4)	8.936 (3)	8.733 (3)
	7.715 (5)	8.509 (4)	8.764 (3)	8.818 (4)	8.697 (4)
	7.800 (4)	8.300 (5)	8.127 (7)	8.409 (6)	8.279 (5)
South Africa	8.103 (3)	7.918 (10)	8.330 (5)	8.454 (5)	8.234 (6)
	7.654 (7)	8.118 (7)	8.279 (6)	8.118 (10)	8.172 (7)
United States	7.676 (6)	8.100 (8)	7.709 (12)	8.335 (7)	8.048 (8)
	7.542 (10)	8.125 (6)	7.882 (10)	8.118 (10)	8.042 (9)
	7.609 (8)	7.764 (11)	8.118 (8)	8.218 (8)	8.033 (10)
	7.515 (11)	8.009 (9)	8.045 (9)	8.021 (12)	8.025 (11)
	7.345 (12)	7.380 (12)	7.818 (11)	8.150 (9)	7.783 (12)

Winner

First Runner-up

Second Runner-up

Third Runner-up

Fourth Runner-up

Top 12 Semifinalist Rank in each round of competition

Special Awards

Contestants

•   Antigua
  Antigua
  Antigua , also known as Waladli, is an island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region, the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua means "ancient" in Spanish and was named by Christopher Columbus after an icon in Seville Cathedral, Santa Maria de la...
  
  – Elsie Maynard
•  Argentina – Adriana Virginia Álvarez
•  Aruba – Lugina Liliana Margareta Vilchez
•  Australia – Kerry Dunderdale
•  Austria – Karin Zorn
•  The Bahamas – Lolita Louise Ambrister
•  Barbados – Barbara Bradshaw
•  Belgium – Christine Linda Bernadette Cailliau
•  Belize – Sarita Diana Acosta
•  Bermuda – Gina Ann Cassandra Swainson
•  Bolivia – María Luisa Rendón
•  Bophuthatswana – Alina Moeketse
•   Brazil
  Miss Brasil
  The Miss Brasil Pageant is a beauty contest that has been held almost every year since 1954 between winners of the Brazilian state pageants.It is one of the most important beauty contest of the world, with USA and Venezuela...
  
  – Martha Jussara da Costa
•  British Virgin Islands – Eartha Ferdinand
•  Canada – Heidi Quiring
•  Chile – María Cecilia Serrano Gildemeister
•   Colombia
  Miss Colombia
  Señorita Colombia is an annual national beauty contest in Colombia that selects representatives to Miss Universe and Miss International...
  
  – Ana Milena Parra Turbay
•  Costa Rica – Carla Facio Franco
•  Denmark – Lone Gladys Joergensen
•   Dominican Republic – Viena Elizabeth García Javier
•  Ecuador – Margarita Plaza
•  El Salvador – Judith Ivette López Lagos
•  Kingdom of England – Carolyn Ann Seaward
•  Fiji – Tanya Whiteside
•  Finland – Päivi Uitto
•   France
  Miss France
  Miss France is the trademark of an annual beauty pageant. Rights to the trademark were obtained in 2002 by the Dutch television production company Endemol through its subsidiary Miss France SAS, whose director general is Sylvie Tellier, Miss France 2002. Endemol also holds the rights in France to...
  
  – Sylvie Hélène Marie Parera
•   Germany
  Miss Germany
  Miss Germany is a national beauty pageant for unmarried women in Germany. In 1927, the contest was held for the first time.In the past there were several organisations which claimed the title: In the 1920s already, German jurisdiction decided that the title Miss Germany could not be patented or...
  
  – Andrea Hontschik
•  Greece – Katia Koukidou
•  Guam – Marie Cruz
•  Guatemala – Michelle Marie Domínguez Santos
• ' – Eunice Bharatsingh
•  Honduras – Gina Maria Weidner Cleaves
• ' – Olivia Chang Man-Ai
•  Iceland – Halldora Björk Jonsdóttir
•   India
  Miss India
  Miss India or Femina Miss India is a national beauty pageant in India, one of the most recognized contests to produce international beauty queens in the 90s, which annually selects three winners to compete globally. It is organized by Femina, a women's magazine published by Bennett, Coleman & Co...
  
  – Swaroop Sampat
  Swaroop Sampat
  Swaroop Sampat is a Bollywood actress who has acted in several Hindi language films such as Naram Garam. She won the Miss India contest in 1979 and represented her country at Miss Universe 1979.-Early life:...
  
  
•  Republic of Ireland – Lorraine Marion O'Conner
•  Israel – Vered Polgar
•  Italy – Elvira Puglisi

•  Japan – Yurika Kuroda
• ' – Jae-hwa Seo
•   Malaysia
  Miss Malaysia
  Miss Malaysia represents Malaysia in two of the major international pageants.Miss Universe is a beauty pageant run by the New York-based partnership between NBC and Donald Trump....
  
  – Irene Wong Sun Ching
•  Malta – Dian Borg Bartolo
•  Mauritius – Marie Chanea Allard
•  Mexico – Blanca María Luisa Díaz Tejeda New Zealand
  New Zealand at Miss Universe
  Miss Universe New Zealand is the New Zealand national beauty pageant which feeds into the international Miss Universe competition. Qualification for Miss Universe New Zealand is based on regional pageants and/or personal interviews .New Zealanders have contested 44 Miss Universe pageants since its...
  
  – Andrea Kake
•  Northern Mariana Islands – Barbara Torres
•  Norway – Unni Margrethe Öglaend
•  Panama – Yahel Cecile Dolande
•  Papua New Guinea – Molly Misbut
•  Paraguay – Patricia Lohman Bernie
•  Peru – Jacqueline Brahm
•  Philippines – Criselda Flores Cecilio
•  Portugal – Marta Maria Mendoça de Gouveia
•   Puerto Rico
  Miss Puerto Rico
  Miss Puerto Rico is the common name or sash used to identify a Puerto Rican representative in an international pageant. Currently, Miss Universe Puerto Rico, Miss Mundo de Puerto Rico and Miss Earth Puerto Rico are the official national preliminaries to the Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss Earth...
  
  – Teresa López
•  Réunion – Isabelle Jacquemart
•   Saint Kitts
  Saint Kitts
  Saint Kitts Saint Kitts Saint Kitts (also known more formally as Saint Christopher Island (Saint-Christophe in French) is an island in the West Indies. The west side of the island borders the Caribbean Sea, and the eastern coast faces the Atlantic Ocean...
  
  – Cheryl Chaderton
•   St. Vincent
  Saint Vincent (island)
  Saint Vincent is a volcanic island in the Caribbean. It is the largest island of the chain called Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It is located in the Caribbean Sea, between Saint Lucia and Grenada. It is composed of partially submerged volcanic mountains...
  
  – June de Nobriga
•  Kingdom of Scotland – Lorraine Davidson
•  Singapore – Elaine Tan Kim Lian
•  South Africa – Veronica Wilson
•   Spain
  Miss Spain
  Miss España is the main annual beauty pageant of Spain that selects the official representative to the Miss Universe pageant. Runners-up go to Miss World, Miss International and Miss Earth.-History:...
  
  – Gloria María Valenciano Rijo
•  Sri Lanka – Vidyahari Vanigasooriya
• ' – Sergine Lieuw-A-Len
•   Sweden
  Miss Sweden
  Miss Sweden , is the title of the Swedish beauty pageant, which ran from 1949-2003, by the female magazine VeckoRevyn and production company Strix in partnership with MTG. The competition qualified delegates to the global contests Miss Universe and first runner ups to Miss World...
  
  – Annette Marie Ekström
•  Switzerland – Birgit Krahl
• ' – Fabienne Tapare
•   Thailand
  Miss Thailand Universe
  Miss Thailand Universe is an annual national beauty pageant that selects Thailand's representative to the Miss Universe pageant since 2000.The reigning Miss Thailand Universe is Chanyasorn Sakornchan who was crowned on March 26, 2011 in Bangkok by Ximena Navarrete, Miss Universe 2010...
  
  – Wongduan Kerdpoom
•  Transkei – Lindiwe Bam
•  Trinidad and Tobago – Marie Noelle Diaz
•  Turkey – Fusin Tahire Dermitan
•  Uruguay – Elizabeth Busti
•   USA
  Miss USA
  The Miss USA beauty contest has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA...
  
  – Mary Therese Friel
  Mary Therese Friel
  Mary Therese Friel is a beauty queen and business woman from New York who has held the title Miss USA 1979.Friel, who grew up in Pittsford, New York won the titles Miss New York USA and Miss USA. She was later a model, and opened her own modelling agency in 1987...
  
  
•  United States Virgin Islands – Linda Torres
•   Venezuela
  Miss Venezuela
  The Miss Venezuela contest is the national beauty pageant of Venezuela and has been held since 1952. It is responsible for selecting the country's representatives to the Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss Earth and Miss International pageants .Under the direction of Osmel Sousa, Venezuela has...
  
  – Maritza Sayalero Fernández
  Maritza Sayalero
  Maritza Sayalero is a former beauty queen who was crowned Miss Venezuela in 1979 and became her country's first Miss Universe titleholder...
  
  
•  Wales – Janet Beverly Hobson

Preliminary Swimsuit Scores

• 8.673 Venezuela
• 8.382 England
• 8.218 South Africa
• 7.936 Belize
• 7.899 Sweden
• 7.791 Wales
• 7.773 Brazil
• 7.600 Uruguay
• 7.591 Singapore
• 7.582 Austria
• 7.564 Scotland
• 7.536 Germany
• 7.491 Holland
• 7.455 Portugal
• 7.445 Bermuda
• 7.418 Réunion
• 7.418 Spain
• 7.409 Peru
• 7.400 Switzerland

• 7.373 USA
• 7.173 France
• 7.141 Hong Kong
• 7.127 Australia
• 7.127 St. Vincent
• 7.077 Finland
• 6.991 Denmark
• 6.945 Colombia
• 6.936 Argentina
• 6.873 Costa Rica
• 6.845 Mexico
• 6.818 Canada
• 6.809 Bophuthatswana
• 6.800 Japan
• 6.736 Dominican Republic
• 6.727 New Zealand
• 6.718 Ireland
• 6.718 Sri Lanka
• 6.655 Malta

• 6.636 Norway
• 6.627 Chile
• 6.563 Trinidad & Tobago
• 6.555 Barbados
• 6.545 Israel
• 6.545 Puerto Rico
• 6.536 Honduras
• 6.518 Malaysia
• 6.473 Surinam
• 6.439 Korea
• 6.427 Philippines
• 6.409 Guatemala
• 6.309 Turkey
• 6.291 Thailand
• 6.286 Paraguay
• 6.209 Belgium
• 6.155 Bolivia
• 6.127 Greece
• 6.118 Iceland

• 6.109 Guam
• 6.091 El Salvador
• 6.082 India
• 6.068 Italy
• 6.064 Aruba
• 5.982 Bahamas
• 5.882 Tahiti
• 5.791 Ecuador
• 5.727 Panama
• 5.727 US Virgin Islands
• 5.641 Northern Mariana Islands
• 5.591 Transkei
• 5.582 Antigua
• 5.582 Fiji
• 5.545 Mauritius
• 5.364 British Virgin Islands
• 5.355 Papua New Guinea

Trivia

• Bophuthatswana, Fiji, and Transkei competed in Miss Universe for the first time.
• Belize and Bermuda made the semi-finals for the first (and in Belize's case, only thus far) time. Bermuda placed 1st runner-up in Miss Universe and was also crowned as Miss World 1979
  Miss World 1979
  Miss World 1979, the 29th Miss World pageant, was held on November 15, 1979 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Gina Swainson from Bermuda...
  
   four months later.
• England, Scotland and Wales had made into the semi-finals in Miss Universe for the second time after 1976. England, however, placed as 2nd runner-up in Miss Universe. She also became the 1st runner-up in Miss World 1979
  Miss World 1979
  Miss World 1979, the 29th Miss World pageant, was held on November 15, 1979 in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winner was Gina Swainson from Bermuda...
  
   four months later, represented as Miss United Kingdom.
• Other than Bermuda and England, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mauritius also competed in Miss World four months later. Germany, Andrea Hontschik made into the semi-finals in both Miss Universe and Miss World at the same year. Austria's Karin Zorn made the semi-finals here and later the finals of Miss World that same year. She also won the award for Miss Photogenic in Miss World.
• 20 contestants were involved in the collapse of part of the stage after contestants and news photographers rushed to the throne of the new Miss Universe. Costa Rica, Carla Facio Franco, and Philippines, Criselda Flores Cecilio, had suffered bruises. Malta, Dian Borg Bartolo, and Turkey, Fusin Tahire Dermitan, had leg injuries.

Panel of Judges

• Ita Buttrose
  Ita Buttrose
  Ita Clare Buttrose, AO, OBE is an Australian journalist and businesswoman. She was the founding editor of Cleo, a high-circulation magazine aimed at women aged 20 to 40 that was ground-breakingly frank about sexuality , and later as the editor of the more sedate Australian Women's Weekly...
  
  
• Lana Cantrell
  Lana Cantrell
  Lana Eleanor Cantrell AM is an Australian-American singer and entertainment lawyer. She was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in the Grammy Awards of 1968.-Music career:...
  
  
• Yves Cornassiere
• Don Galloway
  Don Galloway
  Donald "Don" Galloway was an American actor of stage, film and television, a political libertarian and journalist, perhaps best-known for his role as Raymond Burr's protégé, Detective Sergeant Ed Brown, on the long-running crime drama Ironside...
  
  
• Apasra Hongsakula
  Apasra Hongsakula
  Apasra Hongsakula is a Thai beauty queen who has held the title Miss Universe 1965. She is the daughter of Group Captain "Perm" and Kayoon Hongsakula...
  
  
• Julio Iglesias
  Julio Iglesias
  Julio José Iglesias de la Cueva , better known simply as Julio Iglesias, is a Spanish singer who has sold over 300 million records worldwide in 14 languages and released 77 albums. According to Sony Music Entertainment, he is one of the top 15 best selling music artists in history,...
  
  

• Tony Martin
  Tony Martin
  Anthony or Tony Martin may refer to:Education*Tony Martin , professor at Wellesley College known for racial controversies in the early 1990s.*Donald A...
  
  
• Robin Moore
  Robin Moore
  Robert Lowell "Robin" Moore, Jr. was an American writer who is most known for his books The Green Berets, The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy and, with Xaviera Hollander and Yvonne Dunleavy, The Happy Hooker: My Own Story.Moore also co-authored...
  
  
• Rossana Podestà
  Rossana Podestà
  Rossana Podestà is a former Italian actress.-Life:She was born in the Italian colony of Libya, where she spent her first years in Tripoli and later moved to Rome after World War II...
  
  
• Anne Marie Pohtamo
  Anne Marie Pohtamo
  Anne Marie Pohtamo was the second woman from Finland to capture the Miss Universe crown. She claimed the Miss Universe crown in 1975 at the pageant held in El Salvador....
  
  
• Constance Towers
  Constance Towers
  -Early life:Towers was born in Whitefish, Montana, the daughter of Ardath L. and Harry J. Towers. According to her official Web site, a contract from Paramount Pictures was offered to her at age 11 but was declined...
  
  

External links

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