Miss Universe 1978

Miss Universe 1978
Date 24 July 1978
Presenters Bob Barker, Helen O'Connell, Corinna Tsopei
Entertainment Robert Goulet and Violines Mágicos de Villafontana
Venue Centro de Convenciones de Acapulco, Acapulco, Mexico Mexico
Broadcaster CBS
Entrants 75
Placements 12
Debuts Lesotho, New Hebrides
Withdrawals Antigua, British Virgin Islands, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Indonesia, Liberia, Mauritius, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Maarten, Yugoslavia
Returns Bonaire, Guatemala, Morocco, St. Vincent, Turkey
Winner Margaret Gardiner
 South Africa
Congeniality Sophia Titus
 Trinidad & Tobago
Best National Costume Alamjeet Kaur Chauhan
 India
Photogenic Maribel Fernández
 Costa Rica

Miss Universe 1978, the 27th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 24 July 1978 at the Centro de Convenciones de Acapulco in Acapulco, Mexico. Margaret Gardiner of South Africa was crowned by Janelle Commissiong of Trinidad & Tobago at the end of the event. This is the first time South Africa won the pageant.

This particular Miss Universe pageant marked the first Mexican—and Televisa—appearance for 19-year-old Maribel Fernandez Garcia. She would become the most immediate success story from this pageant. Within a year of this pageant, she signed to appear in a Vicente Fernández movie, and, because there was already a Mexican actress named Maribel Fernandez, she signed with the network under her new stage name of Maribel Guardia.

Electronic scores were shown on screen for the first time. The scores were also notable for being some of the lowest to have ever been shown in the history of the competition, especially that of Miss Holland, who got 2.890 points in the swimsuit competition.

Results

Placements

Final results Contestant
Miss Universe 1978
1st runner-up
2nd runner-up
  •  Spain - Guillermina Ruiz Domenech
3rd runner-up
  •  Colombia - Mary Shirley Sáenz Starnes
4th runner-up
Semi-finalists
  •  Belgium - Françoise Moens
  •  Chile - Marianne Müller Prieto
  •  Israel - Dorit Jellinek
  •  Mexico - Alba Margarita Cervera Lavat
  •  Ireland - Lorraine Enriquez
  •  Peru - Olga Zumaran Burga
  •  Holland - Karen Gustafsson

Special awards

Awards Contestant
Best National Costume
Miss Congeniality
Miss Photogenic
Miss Press
  •  Aruba - Margarita Marieta Tromp

Semi-final scores

Delegate Interview Swimsuit Evening Gown Average
 U.S.A. 8.155 (1) 7.855 (1) 7.482 (2) 7.831 (1)
 Sweden 7.518 (2) 7.300 (2) 7.355 (3) 7.391 (2)
 Spain 6.500 (5) 6.870 (3) 7.545 (1) 6.972 (3)
 South Africa 6.791 (3) 6.590 (4) 6.373 (5) 6.685 (4)
 Colombia 6.645 (4) 6.282 (6) 6.545 (4) 6.491 (5)
 Belgium 6.230 (6) 6.364 (5) 5.709 (6) 6.101 (6)
 Chile 5.703 (7) 5.064 (7) 4.536 (9) 4.891 (7)
 Israel 5.260 (9) 4.280 (8) 4.945 (7) 4.828 (8)
 Mexico 5.320 (8) 3.260 (11) 4.145 (10) 4.242 (9)
 Ireland 3.889 (12) 3.800 (9) 4.756 (8) 4.148 (10)
 Peru 4.422 (10) 3.718 (10) 3.573 (11) 3.904 (11)
 Holland 3.911 (11) 2.890 (12) 3.573 (11) 3.458 (12)

     Winner
     First runner-up
     Second runner-up
     Third runner-up
     Fourth runner-up
     Top 12 semi-finalist
(#) Rank in each round of competition

Order of announcements

Top 12

  1. Ireland
  2. South Africa
  3. Israel
  4. Spain
  5. Holland
  6. Mexico
  7. Sweden
  8. U.S.A.
  9. Colombia
  10. Belgium
  11. Peru
  12. Chile

Top 5

  1. South Africa
  2. Spain
  3. Sweden
  4. U.S.A.
  5. Colombia

Judges

The following celebrities judged the final competition:[1]

Contestants

Notes

Withdrawals

Crossovers

Miss World
Miss International
Miss Teenage Intercontinental

Miss Ambar del Mundo
  • 1978:  El Salvador - Iris Ivette Mazorra Castro (Semi-finalist)
  • 1978:  Panama - Diana Leticia Conte Vergara (Semi-finalist, Miss Photogenic)
Reinado Internacional del Café
Miss Europe
  • 1978:  Spain - Guillermina Ruiz Domenech
  • 1978:  Ireland - Lorraine Bernadette Enriquez
Miss Scandinavia
  • 1979:  Finland - Seija Kaarina Paakkola (2nd runner-up)
  • 1979:  Norway - Jeanette Aarum (4th runner-up)
  • 1979:  Denmark - Anita Heske
Miss Asia

References

  1. "Once More... Who's the Fairest". Los Angeles Times. July 24, 1978. Retrieved 10 July 2011.

External links

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