Miss Universe 1959 Akiko Kojima (児島 明子), then 24, of Japan crowned her successor at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida, United States on July 9, 1960. It was the ninth edition of the international beauty pageant organized by Catalina Swimwear manufacturer Pacific Knitting Mills, which was based in California.
It was the first time the competition is held in Florida. Journalist Charles Collingwood, then 53, made his debut as the coronation ceremony’s presenter.
Cameroon’s Sale Assouen, Mexico’s Lorena Velásquez, Poland’s Marzena Malinowska and Tahiti’s Maria Flohr withdrew from the competition while Haiti’s Claudinette Fourchard quit because she was getting married. Antje Moller was supposed to represent Denmark but she was only 16 years old so she was replaced by Lizzie Ellinor Hess.
Including Hess, 43 women competed for the Miss Universe 1960 crown. Here is the list of candidates:
- Rose Marie Lincke (Argentina)
- Elizabeth Hodacs (Austria)
- Huberte Bax (Belgium)
- Nancy Aguirre (Bolivia)
- Jean Gina MacPherson (Brazil)
- Myint Myint May (Burma)
- Edna Dianne McVicar (Canada)
- Marinka Polhammer Espinoza (Chile)
- Maria Stella Márquez Zawadzky (Colombia)
- Leila Rodríguez (Costa Rica)
- Flora Lauten Hoyos (Cuba)
- Lizzie Ellinor Hess (Denmark)
- Isabel Rolando Ceballos (Ecuador)
- Joan Ellinor Boardman (England)
- Maija-Leena Manninen (Finland)
- Florence Anne Marie Normand Eyrie (France)
- Ingrun Helgard Moeckel (Germany)
- Magda Passaloglou (Greece)
- Carina Verbeek (Holland)
- Vivian Cheung (Hong Kong)
- Svanhildur Jakobsdóttir (Iceland)
- Aliza Gur (Israel)
- Daniela Bianchi (Italy)
- Yayoi Furuno (Japan)
- Helen Giatanapoulus (Jordan)
- Sohn Miheeja (Korea)
- Gladys Tabet (Lebanon)
- Marie Venturi (Luxembourg)
- Marilyn Escobar (Morocco)
- Lorraine Nawa Jones (New Zealand)
- Ragnhild Aass (Norway)
- Mercedes Teresa Ruggia (Paraguay)
- Medallit Gallino (Peru)
- Maria Teresa Motta Cardoso (Portugal)
- Nicolette Joan Caras (South Africa)
- María Teresa del Río (Spain)
- Christine Jie Sam Foek (Surinam)
- Birgitta Öfling (Sweden)
- Elaine Maurath (Switzerland)
- Marie Louise Carrigues (Tunisia)
- Iris Teresa Ubal Cabrera (Uruguay)
- Linda Jeanne Bement (USA)
- Mary Quiróz Delgado (Venezuela)
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