User:Mauriziok/Miss Universe 1977

Miss Universe 1977, the 26th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 16 July 1977 at the National Theater in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Janelle Commissiong of Trinidad and Tobago was crowned by Rina Messinger of Israel at the end of the event.

Miss Universe was then owned by Gulf+Western Industries.

Contestants



 * 🇦🇬 ATG - Sheryl Ann Gibbons
 * 🇦🇷 - Maritza Elizabet Jurado
 * 🇦🇼 - Margareth Eldrid Oduber
 * 🇦🇺 - Jill Maree Minaham
 * 🇦🇹 - Eva Maria Duringer
 * 🇧🇸 - Paulette Rosetta Ogylvie Borghardt
 * 🇧🇧 - Margaret Sonia Rouse
 * 🇧🇪 - Claudine Marie Vasseur
 *  British Honduras - Dora Maria Phillips
 * 🇧🇲 - Connie Marie Frith
 * 🇧🇴 - Liliana Gutiérrez Paz
 * 🇧🇷 Brazil - Cássia Janys Moraes Silveira
 * 🇻🇬 - Andria Dolores Norman
 * 🇨🇦 - Pamela Mercer
 * 🇨🇱 - Priscilla Raquel Brenner
 * 🇨🇴 - Aura María Mojica Salcedo
 * 🇨🇷 - Claudia Maria Garnier Arias
 *  Netherlands Antilles - Regine Tromp
 * 🇩🇰 - Inge Eline Erlandsen
 * 🇩🇴 - Blanca Aurora Sardiñas
 * 🇪🇨 - Lucía del Carmen Hernández Quiñones
 * 🇸🇻 - Altagracia Arévalo
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 - Sarah Louise Long
 * 🇫🇮 - Armi Aavikko †
 * 🇫🇷 - Véronique Fagot
 * 🇬🇫 French Guiana - Evelyne Randel
 *  FRG - Marie-Luise Gassen
 * 🇬🇷 Greece - Maria Spantidaki
 * 🇬🇵 Guadeloupe - Catherine Reinette
 * 🇬🇺 - Lisa Ann Caso
 * 🇭🇹 Haiti - Françoise Elie
 * 🇳🇱 NLD - Ineke Berends
 * 🇭🇳 - Carolina Rosa Rauscher Sierra
 *  British Hong Kong - Loletta Chu Ling-Ling
 * 🇮🇸 - Kristjana Þrainsdóttir
 * 🇮🇳 - Bineeta Bose
 * 🇮🇩 - Siti Mirza Nuria Arifin
 * 🇮🇪 - Jakki Moore
 * 🇮🇱 - Zehava Vardi
 * 🇮🇹 - Paola Biasini
 * 🇯🇵 Japan - Kyoko Sato
 * 🇰🇷 KOR - Kim Sung-hee
 * 🇱🇧 - Hyam Saadé
 * 🇱🇷 - Welma Albertine Wani Campbell
 * 🇲🇾 - Leong Li Ping
 * 🇲🇹 - Jane Benedicta Saliba
 * 🇲🇺 - Danielle Marie Françoise Bouic
 * 🇲🇽 - Felicia Mercado
 * 🇳🇿 - Donna Anne Schultze
 * 🇳🇮 - Beatriz Obregón Lacayo
 * 🇲🇵 - Margarita Benavente Camacho
 * 🇳🇴 - Åshild Jenny Ottesen
 * 🇵🇦 - Marina Valenciano
 * 🇵🇬 - Sayah Karakuru
 * 🇵🇾 Paraguay - María Leticia Zarza Perriet
 * 🇵🇪 - María Isabel Frías Zavala
 * 🇵🇭 Philippines - Anna Lorraine Tomas Kier
 * 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico - Maria del Mar Rivera
 * 🇷🇪 - Yolaine Morel
 * 🇦🇸 - Virginia Caroline Suka
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 - Sandra Bell
 * 🇸🇬 - Marilyn Choon May Sim
 * 🇿🇦 South Africa - Glynis Dorothea Fester
 * 🇪🇸 Spain - Luz María Polegre Hernández
 * 🇱🇰 - Sobodhini Nagesan
 *  Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla - Annette Emelda Frank
 * 🇱🇨 Saint Lucia - Iva Lua Mendes
 *  Netherlands Antilles - Marie Madeleine Boirard
 *  Surinam - Marlene Roesmienten Saimo
 * 🇸🇪 - Birgitta Lindvall
 * 🇨🇭 - Anja Kristin Terzi
 * 🇫🇷 Tahiti - Donna Aunoa
 * 🇹🇭 - Laddawan In-Yah
 * 🇹🇹 - Janelle Commissiong
 * 🇺🇾 - Adriana María Umpierre Escudero
 * 🇺🇸 - Kimberly Tomes
 * 🇻🇪 Venezuela - Cristal Montañez
 * 🇻🇮 VIR - Denise Naomi George
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 - Christine Anne Murphy
 *  - Ljiljana Sobajić

Debuts

 * 🇦🇬 ATG
 * 🇬🇫 French Guiana
 * 🇬🇵 Guadeloupe
 *  Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla
 * 🇱🇨 Saint Lucia
 *  Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla
 * 🇱🇨 Saint Lucia

Returns
Last competed in 1962: Last competed in 1975:
 * '''🇫🇷 Tahiti
 *  British Honduras
 * 🇭🇹 Haiti

Withdrawals

 *  - Marta Elisa Tirado Richardson
 * 🇱🇺 - Jeannette Henriette Colling
 * 🇹🇷 - Manolya Onur was disqualified for competing twice.

Did not Compete

 * 🇲🇶 Martinique - Patricia Vatble

Awards

 * 🇨🇦 - Miss Amity (Pamela Mercer)
 * 🇹🇹 - Miss Photogenic (Janelle Commissiong)
 * 🇰🇷 KOR - Best National Costume (Kim Sung-hee)