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 ninth 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