Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters of South Africa won Miss Universe 2017 at The AXIS in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States on November 26, 2017. She competed against 91 other candidates.

On December 17, 2018, Nel-Peters went to Pak Kret, Nonthaburi, Thailand where she crowned her successor Catriona Elisa Magnayon Gray. The former is the second Miss Universe from South Africa and the latter is the fourth Filipino winner of the international beauty pageant.

Representing South Africa, Margaret Gardiner won Miss Universe in 1978. The title was won by the Philippines through Maria Gloria Aspillera Diaz in 1969, Maria Margarita Roxas Moran in 1973 and Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach in 2015.

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Miss Universe 2018 results

JUDGES

  1. Bui Simon
  2. Iman Oubou
  3. Janaye Ingram
  4. Liliana Gil Valletta
  5. Michelle McLean
  6. Monique Lhuillier
  7. Richelle Singson-Michael

FINALISTS

PLACEMENTNAME (COUNTRY/TERRITORY)
Top 20
Francesca Hung (Australia)
Zoé Brunet (Belgium)
Mayra Dias (Brazil)
Dee-Ann Kentish-Rogers (Great Britain)
Enikő Kecskés (Hungary)
Sonia Fergina Citra (Indonesia)
Grainne Gallanagh (Ireland)
Emily Maddison (Jamaica)
Magdalena Swat (Poland)
Sarah Rose Summers (USA)
Top 10
Marta Stepien (Canada)
Natalia Carvajal (Costa Rica)
Akisha Albert (Curacao)
Manita Devkota (Nepal)
Sophida Kanchanarin (Thailand)
Top 5
Kiara Ortega (Puerto Rico)
H’Hen Nie (Vietnam)
Top 3
Catriona Gray (Philippines)
Tamaryn Green (South Africa)
Sthefany Gutierrez (Venezuela)

SPECIAL AWARDS

AWARDCANDIDATE
Miss CongenialityOrnella Gunesekere
Sri Lanka
Best National CostumeOn-anong Homsombath
Laos

WINNERS

PLACEMENT20182017
2nd
runner-up
Sthefany Gutierrez
Venezuela
Davina Bennett
Jamaica
1st
runner-up
Tamaryn Green
South Africa
Laura Gonzalez
Colombia
Miss Universe Catriona Gray
Philippines
Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters
South Africa

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