MISS UNIVERSE 1977

Miss Universe 1977

1977 July 16

National Palace, Santo Domingo DOM

80 participants

Results

1  TRINIDAD & TOBAGO  Janelle "Penny" Commissiong

2  AUSTRIA  Eva Maria Düringer (SF World '77, winner Europe '78)

3  SCOTLAND  Sandra Bell (1st RU Young International-Britain '76)

4  COLOMBIA  Aura Maria Mojica Salcedo

5  GERMANY  Marie-Luise Gassen

Top 12

• ARGENTINA  Maritza Elizabet Jurad
• DOMINICAN REPUBLIC  Blanca Aurora Sardiñas
• HOLLAND  Ineke Berends (1st RU World '77)
• NICARAGUA  Beatriz Obregón Lacayo (World '77)
• SPAIN  Luz María Polegre Hernández (World '76)
• USA  Kimberly "Kim" Louise Tomes
• VENEZUELA  Cristal del Mar Montañez Arocha

Awards

Miss Amity  CANADA  

Miss Photogenic  TRINIDAD & TOBAGO  

Best National Costume  1) KOREA, 2) URUGUAY, 3) LEBANON  

Remainder

• ANTIGUA  Sheryl Ann Gibbons
• ARUBA  Margaret Eldrid Oduber
• AUSTRALIA  Jill Maree Minahan
• BAHAMAS  Paulette Rosetta Ogylvie Borghardt
• BARBADOS  Margaret Sonia Rouse
• BELGIUM  Claudine Marie Vasseur (World '77)
• BELIZE  Dora Maria Phillips
• BERMUDA  Connie Marie Frith (World '77)
• BOLIVIA  Liliana Gutiérrez Paz
• BRAZIL  Cássia Janys Moraes Silveira
• BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS  Andria Dolores Norman
• CANADA  Pamela Mercer (World '76)
• CHILE  Priscilla Raquel Brenner Conrads
• COSTA RICA  Claudia Maria Garnier Arias
• CURACAO  Regine Charlotte Tromp
• DENMARK  Inge Eline Erlandsen (Scandinavia '78)
• ECUADOR  Lucia del Carmen Hernández Quiñones (World '77)
• EL SALVADOR  Altagracia Arévalo (1st RU Teenage Intercontinental '77)
• ENGLAND  Sarah Louise Long (2nd RU Europe '78)
• FINLAND  Armi Anja Orvokki Aavikko (2nd RU Scandinavia '78)
• FRANCE  Véronique Fagot (World '77, Europe '78, International '78)
• FRENCH GUIANA  Evelyne Randel
• GREECE  Maria Spantidaki (Europe '78)
• GUADELOUPE  Catherine Reinette
• GUAM  Lisa Ann Caso
• HAITI  Françoise Elie
• HONDURAS  Carolina Rosa Rauscher Sierra
• HONG KONG  Loletta Chu Ling-Ling
• ICELAND  Kristjana Thrainsdóttir (Scandinavia '77)
• INDIA  Bineeta Bose
• INDONESIA  Siti Mirza Nuria Arifin (withdrew World '77)
• IRELAND  jakki mari moore (SF World '76, Young International '77)
• ISRAEL  Zehava Vardi
• ITALY  Paola Biasini
• JAPAN  Kyoko Satoh
• KOREA  Kim Sung-hee
• LEBANON  Hyam Saadé
• LIBERIA  Welma Albertine Wani Campbell (withdrew World '77)
• MALAYSIA  Leong Li Ping
• MALTA  Jane Benedicta Saliba (World '76)
• MAURITIUS  Danielle Marie Françoise Bouic
• MEXICO  Felicia Mercado Aguado
• NEW ZEALAND  Donna Anne Schultze
• NORTHERN MARIANAS  Margarita Benavente Camacho
• NORWAY  Åshild Jenny Ottesen (World '77, 1st RU Scandinavia '78, Europe '78)
• PANAMA  Marina Valenciano
• PAPUA NEW GUINEA  Sayah Karakuru (Asia '77, World '77)
• PARAGUAY  Maria Leticia Zarza Perriet
• PERU  Maria Isabel Frias Zavala (SF Ambar '76, SF World '77)
• PHILIPPINES  Anna Lorraine Tomas Kier
• PUERTO RICO  María del Mar Rivera Veglio
• REUNION  Yolaine Morel
• ST. KITTS  Annette Emelda Frank
• ST. LUCIA  Iva Lua Mendes
• ST. MAARTEN  Marie Madeleine Boirard
• SAMOA  Virginia Caroline Suka
• SINGAPORE  Marilyn Choon May Sim
• SOUTH AFRICA  Glynis Dorothea Fester
• SRI LANKA  Sobodhini Nagesan (World '77)
• SURINAM  Marlene Roesmienten Saimo
• SWEDEN  Birgitta Lindvall (winner Scandinavia '78)
• SWITZERLAND  Anja Kristin Terji
• TAHITI  Donna Aunoa
• THAILAND  Laddawan In-yah
• URUGUAY   Adriana María Umpierre Escudero (Young International '75, World '77)
• VIRGIN ISLANDS  Denise Naomi George
• WALES  Christine Anne Murphy
• YUGOSLAVIA  Ljiljana Sobajic

Disqualified

MARTINIQUE  Patricia Vatble (too young by 2 days before her 17th birthday)

TURKEY  Manolya Onur (not allowed to compete twice)