How many Miss Universe 1967 candidates competed in Miami Beach, Florida?

Representing Sweden, Margareta Arvidsson was 18 years old when she was crowned Miss Universe 1966 at the Miami Beach Auditorium on July 16, 1966. She bested 57 other candidates.

Miss Universe 1967

On July 15, 1967, Arvidsson crowned her successor at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. It is the 16th edition of the international beauty pageant founded by Catalina Swimwear manufacturer Pacific Knitting Mills, which was based in California, USA.

Bob Barker, then 43, hosted the coronation ceremony, which aired on CBS. Bonaire was represented in the competition for the first time.

A total of 56 women competed for the Miss Universe 1967 crown. These were the candidates:

Amalia Yolanda Scuffi (Argentina)
Ivonne Maduro (Aruba)
Christl Bartu (Austria )
Elizabeth Knowles (Bahamas)
Mauricette Sironval (Belgium)
Cheryl Michele Smith (Bermuda)
Marcela Montoya García (Bolivia)
Cristina Landwier (Bonaire)
Carmen Silva De Barros Ramasco (Brazil)
Donna Marie Barker (Canada)
Ingrid Vila Riveros (Chile)
Elsa María Garrido Cajiao (Colombia)
Rosa María Fernández (Costa Rica)
Imelda Thodé (Curacao)
Gitte Rhein Knudsen (Denmark)
Jeannette Rey García (Dominican Republic)
Jennifer Lynn Lewis (England)
Ritva Helena Lehto (Finland)
Anne Vernier (France)
Elina Salavarría (Free Cuba)
Fee Von Zitzewitz (Germany)
Elia Kalogeraki (Greece)
Hope Marie Navarro Alvarez (Guam)
Irene Van Campenhout (Holland)
Denia María Alvorado Medina (Honduras)
Laura Arminda Da Costa Roque (Hong Kong)
Guðrún Pétursdóttir (Iceland)
Nayyara Mirza (India)
Patricia Armstrong (Ireland)
Batia Kabiri (Israel)
Paola Rossi (Italy)
Kayoko Fujikawa (Japan)
Hong Jung-ae (Korea)
Marie-Jossee Mathgen (Luxembourg)
Monkam Anne Lowe Siprasome (Malaysia)
Valentina Vales Duarte (Mexico)
Pamela McLeod (New Zealand)
Gro Goskor (Norway)
Etsuko Okuhira (Okinawa)
Mirna Norma Castillero (Panama)
María Eugenia Torres (Paraguay)
Mirtha Calvo Sommaruga (Peru)
Pilar Delilah Veloso Pilapil (Philippines)
Ivonne Coll Mendoza (Puerto Rico)
Lena MacGarvie (Scotland)
Bridget Ong Mei-Lee (Singapore)
Windley Ballenden (South Africa)
Francisca Delgado Sánchez (Spain)
Eva-Lisa Svensson (Sweden)
Elsbeth Ruegger (Switzerland)
Ayse Yelda Gurani (Turkey)
Mayela Berton Martínez (Uruguay)
Sylvia Louise Hitchcock (United States)
María Elena Pérez Branger (Venezuela)
Gail Garrison (US Virgin Islands)
Denise Elizabeth Page (Wales)

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