Representing Brazil, Martha Vasconcellos was 20 years old when she was crowned Miss Universe 1968 on July 13, 1968 at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida, United States. She bested 64 other candidates.
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Miss Universe 1969
On July 16, 1969, Vasconcellos crowned her successor at the Miami Beach Auditorium. It is the 18th edition of the international beauty pageant founded by Catalina Swimwear manufacturer Pacific Knitting Mills.
Bob Barker, then 45, hosted the coronation ceremony with “Petticoat Junction” star June Lockhart, 44. The show aired on CBS.
A total of 61 women competed for the Miss Universe 1969 crown. These were the candidates:
- Lidia Esther Pepe (Argentina)
- Jeannette Geerman (Aruba)
- Joanne Barret (Australia)
- Eva Rueber-Staier (Austria)
- Joan Bowe (Bahamas)
- Danièle Roels (Belgium)
- Maxine S. Bean (Bermuda)
- Luz María Rojas (Bolivia)
- Julia Nicolaas (Bonaire)
- Vera Lúcia Fischer (Brazil)
- Jacquie Perrin (Canada)
- Marlene Beverly Seneveratne (Ceylon)
- Mónica Larson Teuber (Chile)
- Margarita María Reyes Zawadsky (Colombia)
- Jeanne Mokomo (Congo)
- Clara Freda Antillón (Costa Rica)
- Yvonne Wardekker (Curacao)
- Jeanne Perfeldt (Denmark)
- Rocío García Báez (Dominican Republic)
- Rosana Vinueza Estrada (Ecuador)
- Myra Van Heck (England)
- Harriet Marita Eriksson (Finland)
- Agathe Cognet (France)
- Gesine Froese (Germany)
- Irene Diamantoglou (Greece)
- Anita Johnston (Guam)
- Welmoed Hollenberg (Holland)
- Viena Paredes (Honduras)
- Christine Tam Mei-Mei (Hong Kong)
- María Baldursdóttir (Iceland)
- Kavita Bhambani (India)
- Patricia Byrne (Ireland)
- Chava Levy (Israel)
- Diana Coccorese (Italy)
- Carol Gerrow (Jamaica)
- Kikuyo Osuka (Japan)
- Lim Hyun-jung (Korea)
- Marie Antoniette Bertinelli (Luxembourg)
- Rosemary Wan Chow Mei (Malaysia)
- Natalie Quintana (Malta)
- Gloria Hernández (Mexico)
- Carole Robinson (New Zealand)
- Soraya Herrera Chávez (Nicaragua)
- Patricia Ingrid Walker (Norway)
- María Julia Mantilla Mayer (Peru)
- Gloria Maria Aspillera Diaz (Philippines)
- Aída Betancourt (Puerto Rico)
- Sheena Drumond (Scotland)
- Mavis Young Siew Kim (Singapore)
- María Amparo Rodrigo Lorenzo (Spain)
- Greta Natsir (Surinam)
- Brigitta Lindloff (Sweden)
- Patrice Sollner (Switzerland)
- Saengduean Maenwongse (Thailand)
- Zohra Boufaden (Tunisia)
- Azra Balkan (Turkey)
- Wendy Jane Dascomb (United States)
- Julia Möller (Uruguay)
- María José Yéllici (Venezuela)
- Shirley Jones (Wales)
- Nataša Košir (Yugoslavia)
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