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Results

Continental Queens of Beauty

Contestants

* – Diana Sarti * – Sonja Russ * – Irène Godin * – Rosario Lopera * – Vera Lúcia Ferreira Maia * – Jane Kmita * – Jennifer Ann Fonseka * – María del Pilar Aguirre * – María Eugenia Cucalón Venegas * – Maro Zorna * – Aino Korwa * – Marja-Liisa Ståhlberg * – Muguette Fabris * – Susie Gruner * – Athanasia Idromenou * – Hanny Ijsbrants * – María Ragnarsdóttir * – Joan Power * – Sara Talmi * –

Carole Joan Crawford Carole Joan Crawford (born 13 February 1943) is a Jamaican model and beauty queen who won the Miss World contest in 1963, She was also the first winning delegate from both Jamaica and the Caribbean to have won Miss World. At the time of her ...

* – Miyako Harada * – Despo Drakolakis * – Choi Keum-shil * – Ethel Zoe Norman * – Catherine Paulus * – Catherine Loh * – Ana Beatriz Martínez Solórzano * – Elaine Miscall * – Gina Onyejiaka * – Lucía Buonnani * – Maria Penedo * – Louise Crous * – Encarnación Zalabardo * – Virginia Blanche Hardjo * – Grete Qviberg * – Claudine Younes * – Gulseren Kocaman * – Diana Westbury * – Michele Metrinko * – Milagros Galíndez

Notes

Debuts

* Chile, Colombia, Liberia, Malaysia , Mexico and Nigeria competed in Miss World for the first time.

Returning countries

* Tunisia last competed in

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

. * Peru last competed in

1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...

. * Bolivia, Ceylon, Suriname, and Turkey last competed in

1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (K ...

Other notes

* Denmark placed as 1st runner-up in Miss Universe 1963. * Ceylon becomes a finalist for the second time, last in 1953. *United Kingdom placed as 1st runner-up in

Miss International 1963 Miss International 1963, the 4th Miss International pageant, was held on 16 August 1963 at the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach, California, United States. 46 contestants competed for the pageant. Gudrun Bjarnadóttir from Iceland wa ...

References

External links

Miss World official website

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