Miss World 1977 Explained

Winner:	Mary Stävin
Represented:	Sweden
Date:	17 November 1977
Presenters:	Ray Moore† and Andy Williams†
Venue:	Royal Albert Hall, London, UK
Broadcaster:	BBC
Entrants:	62
Placements:	15
Debuts:	Cayman Islands, Isle of Man, Papua New Guinea, Samoa
Returns:	Bolivia, Nicaragua, Panama, Sri Lanka
Withdraws:	Africa South, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Liberia, Malaysia, Mauritius, Philippines, Singapore, Swaziland, Virgin Islands
Before:	1976
Next:	1978

Miss World 1977 was the 27th edition of the Miss World pageant, held on 17 November 1977 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, UK. The winner was Mary Ann-Catrin Stävin from Sweden.^[1] She was crowned by Miss World 1976, Cindy Breakspeare of Jamaica.^[2] Runner-up was Ineke Berends representing Holland, third was Dagmar Gabriele Winkler from West Germany, fourth was Madalena Sbaraini of Brazil, and fifth was Cindy Darlene Miller from United States. Stävin was awarded a $37,000 cash prize as the winner of the pageant.

Results

Placements

Placement	Contestant
Miss World 1977	Sweden – Mary Stävin
1st runner-up
2nd runner-up
3rd runner-up	Brazil – Madalena Sbaraini
4th runner-up
Top 7	Australia – Jaye-Leanne Hopewell United Kingdom – Madeleine Stringer
Top 15	Austria – Eva Düringer Denmark – Annette Simonsen Finland – Asta Seppälä France – Véronique Fagot Mexico – Elizabeth Aguilar Peru – Isabel Frías Spain – Guillermina Ruiz Switzerland – Danielle Haberli

Contestants

62 contestants competed for the title.^[1]

Country/Territory	Contestant	Age	Hometown
Argentina	Susana Stéfano	20	Salta
Aruba	Helene Croes	19	Oranjestad
Australia	Jaye-Leanne Hopewell	18	Perth
Austria	Eva Düringer	18	Bodensee
Bahamas	Laurie Lee Joseph	17	Nassau
Belgium	Claudine Vasseur	18	Brussels
Bermuda	Connie Frith	23	St. George's Parish
	Elizabeth Yanone	17	Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Brazil	Madalena Sbaraini	21	Porto Alegre
Canada	Marianne McKeen	23	Comber
Cayman Islands	Patricia Jackson-Patiño	18	Grand Cayman
Chile	Annie Garling	17	Santiago
Colombia	María Clara O'Byrne	20	Atlántico
Costa Rica	Carmen Núñez	17	San José
	Xiomara Winklaar	19	Willemstad
Cyprus	Georgia Georgiou	23	Nicosia
Denmark	Annette Simonsen	16	Copenhagen
Dominican Republic	Jacqueline Hernández	20	Santo Domingo
Ecuador	Lucía Hernández	18	Chone
El Salvador	Magaly Varela	19	San Salvador
Finland	Asta Seppäla	20	Helsinki
France	Véronique Fagot	18
	Dagmar Winkler	23	Nuremberg
Gibraltar	Lourdes Holmes	18	Gibraltar
Greece	Lina Ioannou	24	Athens
Guam	Diane Haun	17	Yigo
	Ineke Berends	25	Amsterdam
Honduras	Marlene Villela	21	Tegucigalpa
	Ada Lui	18	Hong Kong
Iceland	Sigurlaug Halldórsdóttir	18	Reykjavík
Ireland	Lorraine Enriquez	18	Dublin
	Helen Shimmin	20	Douglas
Israel	Ya'el Hovav	21	Jerusalem
Japan	Chizuru Shigemura	22	Saitama
	Blodwen Pritchard	18	St. Helier
	Kim Soon-ae	17	Seoul
Lebanon	Vera Alouane	18	Beirut
Luxembourg	Jeannette Colling	23	Luxembourg City
Malta	Pauline Farrugia	21	Żebbuġ
Mexico	Elizabeth Aguilar	22	Ameca
New Zealand	Michelle Hyde	21	Wellington
Nicaragua	Beatriz Obregón	18	Rivas
Norway	Åshild Ottesen	22	Oslo
Panama	Anabelle Vallarino	19	Panama City
Papua New Guinea	Sayah Karakuru	24	Port Moresby
Paraguay	María Elizabeth Giardina	21	Asunción
Peru	Isabel Frías	22	Cajamarca
Puerto Rico	Didriana del Río	17	Santurce
Samoa	Ana Decima Schmidt	21	Apia
South Africa	Vanessa Wannenburg	21	Johannesburg
Spain	Guillermina Ruiz	21	Barcelona
Sri Lanka	Sharmini Senaratna	19	Colombo
Sweden	Mary Stävin	20	Örebro
Switzerland	Danielle Haberli	19	Zürich
Tahiti	Therese Amo	18	Papeete
Thailand	Siriporn Savanglum	17	Bangkok
Trinidad and Tobago	Marlene Villafana	20	Port of Spain
Turkey	Kamer Bulutöte	22	Istanbul
United Kingdom	Madeleine Stringer	24	North Shields
United States	Cindy Darlene Miller	20	Chesapeake
Uruguay	Adriana Umpierre	20	Montevideo
	Jackeline van den Branden	22	Caracas

Contestants who withdrew in protest against the presence of Miss South Africa

• – Veena Prakash
• – Siti Mirza Nuria Arifin^[3]
• – Sandra Kong
• – Welma Campbell
• – Ingrid Desmarais
• – Ana Melissa (Peachy) Ofilada Veneracion
• – Veronica Lourdes
• – Zanella Tutu Tshabalala
• – Svetlana Višnjić

Judges

A panel of ten judges evaluated the performances of Miss World 62 contestants.^[1] The judges are:

• Joan Collins
• Micky Dolenz
• Claude François †
• Eric Morley † - CEO of Miss World Organization
• Robert Powell
• Barry Sheene †
• Oliver Tobias

.^[1]

Notes

Debuts

Returns

• Last competed in 1971:
• Last competed in 1975:

Withdrawals

• - The local pageant renamed Miss Black South Africa and withdrew.
• – Anna Maria Kanakis was disqualified from the pageant, because organizers discovered that she was underage.

Replacement

• – Janice Galea also had the same issue with age requirements, because her age was similar to Miss Italy before the pageant. At the last minute, she was replaced by her successor, and first runner-up, Pauline Lewise Farrugia.

Notes and References

1. News: Miss Sweden Now Miss World . Toledo Blade . 18 November 1977 . 2 . 29 May 2018 .
2. News: John Wayne is host of special at 9 p.m. (TV listings) . Boca Raton News . 25 November 1977 . 7 . 29 May 2018 .
3. News: Miss World Entries Quit Over South Africa Issue. The New York Times. November 17, 1977. April 8, 2023.