User:Mauriziok/Miss Universe 1959
| Mauriziok/Miss Universe 1959 | |
|---|---|
 Miss Universe 1959 Akiko Kojima | |
| Date | 24 July 1959 |
| Presenters | Byron Palmer |
| Venue | Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach, California, United States |
| Broadcaster | KTTV |
| Entrants | 34 |
| Placements | 15 |
| Debuts | |
| Withdrawals | |
| Returns | |
| Winner | Akiko Kojima Japan |
| Congeniality | Sodsai Vanijvadhana  Thailand |
| Photogenic | Pamela Anne Searle  England |
Miss Universe 1959, the 8th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 24 July 1959 at Long Beach Municipal Auditorium in Long Beach, California, United States. 34 contestants competed and in the end Akiko Kojima of Japan won the competition, becoming the first Asian woman to win the title. She was crowned by Luz Marina Zuluaga from Colombia.[1] This was the last year that the pageant was held in Long Beach before it moved to Miami Beach, Florida in 1960, before the establishment of the Miss International pageant.
Results
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Placements
[edit]| Final results | Contestant |
|---|---|
| Miss Universe 1959 | |
| 1st Runner-up |
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| 2nd Runner-up | |
| 3rd Runner-up |
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| 4th Runner-up |
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| Top 15 |
Contestants
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Argentina - Liana Cortijo
Austria - Christine Spatzier
Belgium - Hélène Savigny
Bolivia - Corina Taborga
Brazil - Vera Regina Ribeiro
Burma - Than Than Aye
Canada - Eileen Butter
Colombia - Olga Pumajero Korkor
Costa Rica - Zianne Monturiol
Cuba - Irma Buesa Mas
Denmark - Lisa Stolberg
Ecuador - Carlota Elena Ayala
England - Pamela Anne Searle
France - Françoise Saint-Laurent
Germany - Carmela Künzel
Greece - Zoitsa Kouroukli
Guatemala - Rogelia Cruz Martínez
Hawaii - Patricia Visser
Holland - Peggy Erwich
Iceland - Sigríður Þorvaldsdóttir
Israel - Rina Issacov
Italy - Maria Grazia Buccella
Japan - Akiko Kojima
Korea - Oh Hyun-joo
Luxembourg - Josée Pundel
Mexico - Mirna García Dávila
Norway - Jorunn Kristjansen
Peru - Guadalupe Mariátegui Hawkins
Poland - Zuzanna Cembrzowska
Sweden - Marie Louise Ekström
Thailand - Sodsai Vanijvadhana
Turkey - Ecel Olcay
Uruguay - Claudia Bernat
United States - Terry Lynn Huntingdon
Notes
[edit]Designation
[edit]- Thailand - Sodsai Vanijvadhana was appointed by the pageant organizers in that time with the coordinations from the Royal Thai Consulate in Los Angeles.[2] Sodsai was an exchange student in UCLA at the time before she competed in the pageant.
Did not compete
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New Zealand - Arlenne Nesgitt
Philippines - Christine Matias
United Arab Republic - Nawal Ramli
Awards
[edit]- Thailand - Miss Friendship (Sodsai Vanijvadhana)
- England - Miss Photogenic (Pamela Anne Searle)
- Korea - Most Popular Girl (Oh Hyun-joo)
References
[edit]- ^ "Japanese Girl Beauty Queen". The Sydney Morning Herald. July 26, 1959. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
- ^ "Why did Sodsai Vanijvadhana compete in Miss Universe as Miss Thailand even though she didn't win any pageants?". Retrieved May 15, 2019.
[[:Category:Miss Universe|1959]] [[:Category:1959 in California]] [[:Category:1959 beauty pageants]] [[:Category:Beauty pageants in the United States]] [[:Category:July 1959 events]]