- Miss Universe 1972
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Miss Universe 1972 Date July 29, 1972 Presenters Bob Barker Venue Cerromar Beach Hotel, Dorado, Puerto Rico Broadcaster CBS Entrants 61 Placements 12 Debuts Iraq, Zaire Withdraws Congo-Kinshasa, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Panama, Tunisia Returns Chile, Denmark, El Salvador, Hong Kong, Paraguay Winner Kerry Anne Wells
AustraliaMiss Universe 1972 was held at Cerromar Beach Hotel in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, on July 29, 1972. Kerry Anne Wells earned Australia's first Miss Universe crown. The outgoing Miss Universe, Georgina Rizk of Lebanon, was not allowed to crown her successor due to government restrictions because of fears of a terrorist attack. Such fears were triggered when, two months prior to the pageant, bombings occurred outside the hotel in which Miss USA, Tanya Wilson, was then staying. In addition, a group of Japanese hired by Arab terrorists, attacked the international airport in Tel Aviv and killed twenty-two Puerto Rican tourists. The Puerto Ricans were en route to the Holy Land when the massacre occurred. Lebanon did not compete in 1972 and Georgina could not be there to crown Miss Universe 1972.
Contents
Results
Placements
Final results Contestant Miss Universe 1972 1st runner-up - Brazil - Rejane Vieira Costa
2nd runner-up 3rd runner-up - Israel - Ilana Goren
4th runner-up - England - Jennifer McAdam
Top 12 - Belgium - Anne Marie Roger
- Germany - Heidi-Marie Weber
- India - Roopa Satyan
- Japan - Harumi Maeda
- Peru - Carmen Amelia Ampuero Mosquetti
- Philippines - Armi Barbara Quiray Crespo
- USA - Tanya Wilson
Special awards
Award Contestant Miss Congeniality - Zaire - Ombayi Mukuta
Miss Photogenic - Belgium - Anne Marie Roger
Best National Costume - Peru - Carmen Amelia Ampuero Mosquetti
Contestants
- Argentina - Norma Elena Dudik
- Aruba - Ivonne Dirksz
- Australia - Kerry Ann Wells
- Austria - Uschi Pacher
- Bahamas - Deborah Jane Taylor
- Belgium - Anne-Marie Roger
- Bermuda - Helen Brown
- Bolivia - Maria Alicia Vargas Vasquez
- Brazil - Rejane Vieira Da Costa
- Canada - Bonny Brady
- Chile - Consuelo Fernandez De Olivares
- Colombia - Maria Luisa Lignarolo Martinez-Aparicio
- Costa Rica - Vicki Ross Gonzalez
- Curaçao - Ingrid Prade
- Denmark - Marianne Schmidt
- Dominican Republic - Ivonne Butler
- Ecuador - Susana Castro Jaramillo
- El Salvador - Ruth Eugenia Romero Ramirez
- England - Jennifer Mary McAdam
- Finland - Maj-Len Eriksson
- France - Claudine Cassereau
- Germany - Heidemarie Renate Weber
- Greece - Nansy Kapetanaki
- Guam - Patricia Alvarez
- Holland - Jenny Ten Wolde
- Honduras - Doris Alicia Roca Pagan
- Hong Kong - Rita Leung
- Iceland - Maria Johannesdottir
- India - Roopa Satyan
- Iraq - Wijdan Burham El-Deen Sulyman
- Ireland - Maree McGlinchey
- Israel - Ilana Goren
- Italy - Isabela Specia
- Jamaica - Grace Marilyn Wright
- Japan - Harumi Maeda
- Korea - Park Yeon-joo
- Luxembourg - Anita Heck
- Malaysia - Helen Looi
- Malta - Doris Abdilla
- Mexico - Maria Del Carmen Orozco Quibriera
- New Zealand - Kristine Dayle Allen
- Norway - Liv Hanche Olsen
- Paraguay - Maria Stela Volpe Martinez
- Peru - Carmen Amelia Ampuero Mosquetti
- Philippines - Armi Barbara Quiray Crespo
- Portugal - Iris Maria Rosario Dos Santos
- Puerto Rico - Barbara Torres
- Scotland - Elizabeth Joan Stevely
- Singapore - Jacqueline Hong
- Spain - Maria Del Carmen Munoz Castanon
- Suriname - Carmen Cerna Muntslag
- Sweden - Britt Marie Johansson
- Switzerland - Anneliese Weber
- Thailand - Nipapat Sudsiri
- Turkey - Neslihan Sunay
- United States Virgin Islands - Carol Krieger
- Uruguay - Christina Moller
- USA - Tanya Wilson
- Venezuela - Maria Antonieta Campoli Prisco
- Wales - Eileen Darroch
- Zaire - Ombayi Mukuta
Panel of Judges
- Edilson Cid Varela
- Mapita Cortez
- Kiyoshi Hara
- Sylvia Hitchcock
- Kurt Jurgen
- Jean-Louis Lindican
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