Miss Universe 1960

Miss Universe 1960
Date	9 July 1960
Presenters	Charles Collingwood
Venue	Miami Beach Auditorium , Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Entrants	43
Placements	15
Debuts	Jordan, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia
Withdraws	Guatemala, Hawaii, Mexico, Poland, Thailand, Turkey
Returns	Chile, Finland, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Morocco, New Zealand, Paraguay, South Africa, Suriname, Switzerland, Venezuela
Winner	Linda Bement USA
Congeniality	Myint Myint May  Burma Judy Rebecca Fletcher Louisiana[^]
Photogenic	Daniela Bianchi  Italy

Participating Nations and Results.

Miss Universe 1960, the 9th Miss Universe pageant, was won by 18-year-old Linda Bement of USA. It took place on 9 July 1960 at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.

Results

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss Universe 1960	USA - Linda Jeanne Bement
1st runner-up	Italy - Daniela Bianchi
2nd runner-up	Austria - Elizabeth Hodacs
3rd runner-up	South Africa - Nicolette Joan Caras
4th runner-up	Spain - María Teresa del Río
Top 15	Brazil - Jean Gina MacPherson  Colombia - María Stella Márquez Zawádzky  England - Joan Ellinor Boardman  Germany - Ingrun Helgard Moeckel  Greece - Magda Passaloglou  Israel - Aliza Gur  Japan - Yayoi Foruno  Korea - Sohn Miheeja  Norway - Ragnhild Aass  Switzerland - Elaine Maurath

Special awards

Award	Contestant
Miss Congeniality	Burma - Myint Myint May  Louisiana - Judy Rebecca Fletcher[^]
Miss Photogenic	Italy - Daniela Bianchi

^{^} Miss Universe and Miss USA were held jointly, and candidates from both of them were eligible for the special awards

Contestants

Argentina – Rose Marie Lincke  Austria – Elizabeth Hodacs  Belgium – Huberte Bax  Bolivia – Nancy Aguirre  Brazil – Jean Gina MacPherson  Burma – Myint Myint May  Canada - Edna Dianne McVicar  Chile – Marinka Polhammer Espinoza  Colombia – María Stella Márquez Zawádzky  Costa Rica - Leila Rodriguez  Cuba – Flora Lauten Hoyos  Denmark – Lizzie Ellinor Hess  Ecuador – Isabel Rolando Ceballos  England – Joan Ellinor Boardman  Finland – Marja Leena Manninen  France – Florence Anne Marie Normand Eyrie  Germany – Ingrun Helgard Moeckel  Greece – Magda Passaloglou  Holland – Carina Verbeek  Hong Kong - Vivian Cheung  Iceland – Svanhildur Jakobsdóttir  Israel – Aliza Gur

Italy – Daniela Bianchi  Japan - Yayoi Foruno  Jordan- Helen Giatanapoulus  Korea – Sohn Miheeja  Lebanon – Gladys Tabet  Luxembourg – Marie Venturi  Morocco – Marilyn Escobar  New Zealand – Lorraine Nawa Jones  Norway – Ragnhild Aass  Paraguay – Mercedes Teresa Ruggia  Peru – Medadit Gallino  Portugal – Maria Teresa Motta Cardoso  South Africa – Nicolette Joan Caras  Spain – María Teresa del Río  Suriname – Christine Jie Sam Foek  Sweden – Birgitta Öfling  Switzerland – Elaine Maurath  Tunisia – Marie Louise Carrigues  Uruguay - Iris Teresa Ubal Cabrera  USA – Linda Jeanne Bement (UT)  Venezuela – Mary Quiróz Delgado

Withdrawals

•  Cameroon (Sale Assouen)
•  Haiti (Claudinette Fourchard)
•  Mexico Lorena Velázquez
•  Poland (Marzena Malinowska)
•  Tahiti (Maria Flohr)

Replacements

•  Denmark (Antje Moller) was only 16 years old and had to be replaced by Lizzie Ellinor Hess.

Panel of Judges

Maxwell Arnow Claude Berr Irwin Hansen

Russell Patterson Vuk Vuchinich Miyoko Yanagida

External links

• Judges