Miss World 1971

Miss World 1971 was the 21st Miss World pageant, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England, United Kingdom, on 10 November 1971.

Jennifer Hosten of Grenada crowned Lúcia Petterle of Brazil at the end of the event. Although Petterle completed her reign as Miss World, she fell and broke her arm in the final month of her year and was unable to travel to London to participate in the Miss World 1972 contest.

Contestants

 * 🇿🇦 South Africa – Gaily Ryan
 * 🇦🇷 Argentina – Alicia Beatriz Daneri
 *  Netherlands Antilles – Maria Elizabeth Bruin
 * 🇦🇺 Australia – Valerie Roberts
 * 🇦🇹 Austria – Waltraud Lucas
 * 🇧🇸 Bahamas – Frances Clarkson
 * 🇧🇪 Belgium – Martine De Hert
 * 🇧🇲 Bermuda – Rene Furbert
 * 🇧🇷 Brazil – Lúcia Petterle
 * 🇨🇦 Canada – Lana Drouillard
 *  Dominion of Ceylon – Gail Abayasinghe
 * 🇨🇾 Cyprus – Kyriaki Koursoumba
 * 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic – Haydée Kuret
 * 🇪🇨 Ecuador – María Cecilia Gómez
 * 🇫🇮 Finland – Mirja Halme
 * 🇫🇷 France – Myriam Stocco
 *  West Germany – Irene Neumann
 * 🇬🇮 Gibraltar – Lisette Chipolina
 * 🇬🇷 Greece – Maria Maltezou
 * 🇬🇺 Guam – Deborah Bordallo Nelson
 * 🇬🇾 Guyana – Nalini Moonsar
 *  Holland – Monica Strotmann
 * 🇮🇸 Iceland – Fanney Bjarnadóttir
 * 🇮🇳 India – Prema Narayan
 * 🇮🇪 Ireland – June Glover
 * 🇮🇱 Israel – Miri Ben-David
 * 🇮🇹 Italy – Maria Pinnone
 * 🇯🇲 Jamaica – Ava Joy Gill
 * 🇯🇵 Japan – Emiko Ikeda
 * 🇰🇷 South Korea – Lee Young-eun
 * 🇱🇺 Luxembourg – Mariette Werckx
 * 🇲🇾 Malaysia – Daphne Munro
 * 🇲🇹 Malta – Doris Abdilla
 * 🇲🇺 Mauritius – Marie-Anne Ng Sik Kwong
 * 🇲🇽 Mexico – Lucía Arellano
 * 🇳🇿 New Zealand – Linda Ritchie
 * 🇳🇮 Nicaragua – Soraya Herrera
 * 🇳🇴 Norway – Kate Starvik
 * 🇵🇦 Panama – María de Lourdes Rivera
 * 🇵🇾 Paraguay – Rosa María Duarte
 * 🇵🇭 Philippines – Onelia Ison Jose
 * 🇵🇹 Portugal – Ana Paula de Almeida
 * 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico – Raquel Quintana
 * 🇸🇨 Seychelles – Nadia Morel du Boil
 * 🇿🇦 South Africa – Monica Fairall
 * 🇪🇸 Spain – María García
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden – Simonetta Kohl
 * 🇨🇭 Switzerland – Patrice Sollner
 * 🇹🇭 Thailand – Boonyong Thongboon
 * 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago – Maria Jordan
 * 🇹🇳 Tunisia – Souad Keneari
 * 🇹🇷 Turkey – Nil Menemencioglu
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Marilyn Ann Ward
 * 🇺🇸 United States – Brucene Smith
 * 🇻🇪 Venezuela – Ana María Padrón Ibarrondo
 *  Yugoslavia – Zlata Petković †

Returns

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