Miss Universe 1978 Explained

Winner:	Margaret Gardiner
Represented:	South Africa
Congeniality:	Sophia Titus (Trinidad and Tobago)
Best National Costume:	Alamjeet Kaur Chauhan (India)
Photogenic:	Maribel Fernández (Costa Rica)
Date:	24 July 1978
Broadcaster:	CBS (international) Televisa (official broadcaster)
Entrants:	75
Placements:	12
Before:	1977
Next:	1979

Miss Universe 1978 was the 27th Miss Universe pageant, held on 24 July 1978 at the Centro de Convenciones de Acapulco in Acapulco, Mexico. It was the first time in the pageant's history that the event was held in 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.

Results

Placements

Placement	Contestant
Miss Universe 1978	South Africa – Margaret Gardiner
1st runner-up	United States – Judi Andersen
2nd runner-up	Spain – Guillermina Ruiz
3rd runner-up	– Shirley Saenz
4th runner-up	– Cécilia Rodhe
Top 12	– Françoise Moens – Marianne Müller – Karen Gustafsson – Lorraine Enriquez – Dorit Jellinek – Alba Cervera – Olga Zumaran

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

– Palepa Sio Tauliili
– Delia Stella Maris Muñoz
– Margarita Marieta Tromp
– Beverly Frances Pinder
– Doris Elizabeth Anwander
– Dulcie Louise Millings
– Judy Margot Miller
– Françoise Hélène Julia Moens
– Christina Margarita Ysaguirre
– Madeline Francine Joell
– Raquel Roca Kuikanaga
– Corinne Rosseley Hernandez
Brazil – Suzana Araújo dos Santos
– Andrea Leslie Eng
– Marianne Müller Prieto
– Mary Shirley Sáenz Starnes
– Maribel Fernández García
– Solange Abigail de Castro
– Anita Heske
– Raquel Josefina Jacobo Jaar
– Mabel Ceballos Sangster
– Iris Ivette Mazorra Castro
– Beverly Isherwood
– Seija Kaarina Paakkola
– Brigitte Konjovic
– Eva Marie Gabrielle Gottschalk
Greece – Marieta Kountouraki
– Mary Lois Sampson
– Claudia María Iriarte
Netherlands – Karen Ingrid Gustafsson
Honduras – Olimpia Velásquez Medina
– Winnie Chan Man-Yuk
– Anna Björk Edwards
– Alamjeet Kaur Chauhan
– Lorraine Bernadette Enriquez
– Dorit Jellinek
– Andreina Mazzoti
Japan – Hisako Manda
Korea, Republic of – Jung-eun Shon
– Reine Antoine Semaan
Lesotho – Joan Libuseng Khoali
– Yasmin Yusoff
– Pauline Lewise Farrugia
– Alba Margarita Cervera Lavat
– Majida Tazi
– 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
– Angela Mary Kate McLeod
– Annie Mei Ling Lee
South Africa – Margaret Gardiner
Spain – Guillermina Ruiz Domenech
– Dlirukshi Wimalasooriya
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Gailene Collin
– Garrance Harriette Rustwijk
– Cécilia Rodhe
– Sylvia von Arx
Tahiti – Pascaline Tumia Teriireoo
– Pornpit Sakornvijit
– Sophia Titus
– Billur Lutfiye Bingol
– María del Carmen da Rosa
– Judi Lois Andersen
– Marisol Alfonzo Marcano
Virgin Islands, U.S. – Barbara Henderson
– Elizabeth Ann Jones

External links

Miss Universe official website