Miss World 1968, the 18th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held at the Lyceum Ballroom in London, UK on 14 November 1968. 53 contestants competed for the crown.

Madeline Hartog-Bel Madeleine Hartog-Bel (born January, 11 1946) is a Peruvian model and beauty queen who won the 1967 Miss World contest, representing Peru.

Penelope Plummer Penelope Plummer (born 26 October 1949) is an Australian actress, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss World 1968. The then 18-year-old librarian from Kempsey, New South Wales, became the first contestant from her country to win the titl ...

of Australia. This is the first time that an

Australian Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal A ...

won the Miss World title.

Results

Contestants

* – Viviana Roldán * –

* – Brigitte Krüger * – Rose Helena Dauchot * – Sonja Doumen * – Angela Carmelia Stecca * – Nancy Wilson * – Nilanthie Wijesinghe * – Carmen Smith * – Beatriz Sierra González * – Patricia Diers * – Diana Dimitropoulou * – Yet Schaufuss * – Ingrid García * – Marcia Virginia Ramos Christiansen * – Leena Sipilä * – Nelly Gallerne * – Margot Schmalzriedt * – Lovell Rosebud Wordie * – Sandra Sanguinetti * - Lia Malta * – Adrienne Harris * – Alida Grootenboer * – Jane Coelho * – June MacMahon * – Miri Zamir * – Maria Pia Gianporcaro * – Karlene Waddell * – Ryoko Miyoshi * – Josephine Moikobu * – Lee Ji-eun * – Wilhelmina Nadieh Brownell * – Irene Siedler * – Ursulina Grech * – Ana María Magaña * – Zakia Chamouch * – Christine Mary Antunovic * – Margine Davidson Morales * – Foluke Ogundipe * – Hedda Lie * – Ana Rosa Berninzon Devéscovi * – Arene Cecilia Amabuyok * – Mitsianna Stander * – Gunilla Friden * – Jeanette Biffiger * – Pinnarut Tananchai * – Zohra Boufaden * – Mine Kurkcuoglu * – Joy Lehai * – Kathleen Winstanley * – Johnine Leigh Avery * – Cherry Núñez Rodríguez * – Ivona Puhlera

Notes

Withdraws

* – María Amparo Rodrigo Lorenza

Nations not competing

* – Helga Jonsdóttir * – Marie-France Lablache

Disqualified

* – Lili Bissar (discovered the night before the finals to be only 15 years old)

External links

Miss World official site

{{Miss World Miss World 1968 in London 1968 beauty pageants Beauty pageants in the United Kingdom November 1968 events in the United Kingdom