User:Mauriziok/Miss Universe 1978

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 and Tobago at the end of the event. This is the first time South Africa won the pageant.

Judges
The following celebrities judged the final competition:
 * Christiane Martel – Miss Universe 1953 from France
 * Dewi Sukarno – Japanese socialite and former first lady of Indonesia
 * David Merrick – Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer
 * Line Renaud – French singer and actress
 * Miloš Forman – Film director from Czechoslovakia
 * Ursula Andress – Swiss actress and sex symbol of the 1960s
 * Melba Moore – American singer
 * Roberto Cavalli – Italian fashion designer
 * Wilhelmina Cooper – Founder of Wilhelmina Models
 * Anna Moffo – American opera singer
 * Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" – Mexican comedian and stage and film actor

Contestants

 * 🇦🇬 ATG - Nadine Defraites
 * 🇦🇷 – Delia Stella Maris Muñoz
 * 🇦🇼 – Margarita Marieta Tromp
 * 🇦🇺 – Beverly Frances Pinder
 * 🇦🇹 – Doris Elizabeth Anwander
 * 🇧🇸 – Dulcie Louise Millings
 * 🇧🇧 – Judy Margot Miller
 * 🇧🇪 – Françoise Hélène Julia Moens
 *  British Honduras – Christina Margarita Ysaguirre
 * 🇧🇲 – Madeline Francine Joell
 * 🇧🇴 – Raquel Roca Kuikanaga
 *  Netherlands Antilles – Corinne Rosseley Hernandez
 * 🇧🇷 Brazil – Suzana Araújo dos Santos
 * 🇨🇦 – Andrea Leslie Eng
 * 🇨🇱 – Marianne Müller Prieto
 * 🇨🇴 – Mary Shirley Sáenz Starnes
 * 🇨🇷 – Maribel Fernández García
 *  Netherlands Antilles – Solange Abigail de Castro
 * 🇩🇰 – Anita Heske
 * 🇩🇴 – Raquel Josefina Jacobo Jaar
 * 🇪🇨 – Mabel Ceballos Sangster
 * 🇸🇻 – Iris Ivette Mazorra Castro
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 – Beverly Isherwood
 * 🇫🇮 – Seija Kaarina Paakkola
 * 🇫🇷 – Brigitte Konjovic
 *  FRG – Eva Marie Gabrielle Gottschalk
 * 🇬🇷 Greece – Marieta Kountouraki
 * 🇬🇺 – Mary Lois Sampson
 * 🇬🇹 – Claudia María Iriarte
 * 🇳🇱 NLD – Karen Ingrid Gustafsson
 * 🇭🇳 – Olimpia Velásquez Medina
 *  British Hong Kong – Winnie Chan Man-Yuk
 * 🇮🇸 – Anna Björk Edwards
 * 🇮🇳  – Alamjeet Kaur Chauhan
 * 🇮🇪 – Lorraine Bernadette Enriquez
 * 🇮🇱 – Dorit Jellinek
 * 🇮🇹 – Andreina Mazzoti
 * 🇯🇵 Japan – Hisako Manda
 * 🇰🇷 KOR – Jung-eun Shon
 *  – Reine Antoine Semaan
 * '''🇱🇺 Luxembourg - Jeannette Henriette Colling
 * 🇱🇸 Lesotho – Joan Libuseng Khoali
 * 🇲🇶 Martinique - Catherine Marlin
 * 🇲🇺 - Maria Ingrid Desmarais
 * 🇲🇾 – Yasmin Yusoff
 * 🇲🇹 – Pauline Lewise Farrugia


 * 🇲🇽 – Alba Margarita Cervera Lavat
 * 🇲🇦 – Majida Tazi
 *  New Hebrides – Christine Spooner
 * 🇳🇿 – Jane Simmonds
 * 🇳🇮 – Claudia Herrera Cortés
 * 🇲🇵 – Julias Salas Concepción
 * 🇳🇴 – Jeanette Aarum
 * 🇵🇦 – Diana Leticia Conte Vergara
 * 🇵🇬 – Angelyn Muta Tukana
 * 🇵🇾 Paraguay – Rosa María Duarte Melgarejo
 * 🇵🇪 – Olga Roxana Zumarán Tapullima
 * 🇵🇭 Philippines – Jennifer Mitschek Cortez
 * 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico – Ada Cecilia Flores Perkins †
 * 🇷🇪 – Evelyn Pongerand
 * 🇦🇸 – Palepa Sio Tauliili
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 – Angela Mary Kate McLeod
 * 🇸🇬 – Annie Mei Ling Lee
 * 🇿🇦 South Africa – Margaret Gardiner
 * 🇪🇸 Spain – Guillermina Ruiz Domenech
 * 🇱🇰 – Dlirukshi Wimalasooriya
 * 🇻🇨 VCT – Gailene Collin
 *  Surinam – Garrance Harriette Rustwijk
 * 🇸🇪 – Cecilia Rhode
 * 🇨🇭 – Sylvia von Arx
 * 🇫🇷 Tahiti – Pascaline Tumia Teriireoo
 * 🇹🇭 – Pornpit Sakornujit
 * 🇹🇹 – Sophia Titus
 * 🇹🇷 – Billur Lutfiye Bingol
 * 🇺🇾 – María del Carmen da Rosa
 * 🇺🇸 – Judi Lois Andersen
 * 🇻🇪 Venezuela – Marisol Alfonzo Marcano
 * 🇻🇮 VIR – Barbara Henderson
 *  – Elizabeth Ann Jones

Debuts

 * 🇱🇸 Lesotho
 *  New Hebrides

Returns
Last competed in 1964: Last competed in 1969: Last competed in 1975: Last competed in 1976:
 * 🇻🇨 VCT
 *  Netherlands Antilles

Withdrawals

 * 🇬🇫 GUF
 * 🇬🇫 GUF


 * 🇭🇹 Haiti


 *  Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla
 * 🇱🇨 Saint Lucia
 *  Netherlands Antilles

Awards

 * 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago - Miss Amity (Sophia Titus)
 *  - Miss Photogenic (Maribel Fernández)
 * 🇮🇳 - Best National Costume (Alamjeet Kaur Chauhan)
 *  - Miss Press (Margarita Marieta Tromp)