Miss World 1971

Miss World 1971
Date	10 November 1971
Presenters	Michael Aspel David Vine†
Venue	Royal Albert Hall, London, England, United Kingdom
Broadcaster	BBC
Entrants	56
Placements	15
Debuts	Bermuda Guam
Withdrawals	Colombia Denmark Gambia Grenada Hong Kong Lebanon Liberia Nigeria
Returns	Aruba Panama Paraguay Trinidad and Tobago
Winner	Lúcia Petterle Brazil

Miss World 1971 was the 21st Miss World pageant, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England, United Kingdom, on 10 November 1971.

Jennifer Hosten of Grenada crowned Lúcia Petterle of Brazil at the end of the event. Although Petterle completed her reign as Miss World, she fell and broke her arm in the final month of her year and was unable to travel to London to participate in the Miss World 1972 contest.

Results

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1971

Placements

Placement	Contestant
Miss World 1971	Brazil – Lúcia Petterle
1st runner-up	United Kingdom – Marilyn Ann Ward
2nd runner-up	Portugal – Ana Paula de Almeida
3rd runner-up	Guyana – Nalini Moonsar
4th runner-up	Jamaica – Ava Joy Gill
Top 7	France – Myriam Stocco United States – Brucene Smith
Top 15	Australia – Valerie Roberts Austria – Waltraud Lucas Guam – Deborah Bordallo Nelson Israel – Miri Ben-David South Africa – Monica Fairall Spain – María García Sweden – Simonetta Kohl Venezuela – Ana María Padrón

Contestants

• Africa South – Gaily Ryan
• Argentina – Alicia Beatriz Daneri
• Aruba – Maria Elizabeth Bruin
• Australia – Valerie Roberts
• Austria – Waltraud Lucas
• Bahamas – Frances Clarkson
• Belgium – Martine De Hert
• Bermuda – Rene Furbert
• Brazil – Lúcia Petterle
• Canada – Lana Drouillard
• Ceylon – Gail Abayasinghe
• Cyprus – Kyriaki Koursoumba
• Dominican Republic – Haydée Kuret
• Ecuador – María Cecilia Gómez
• Finland – Mirja Halme
• France – Myriam Stocco
• West Germany – Irene Neumann
• Gibraltar – Lisette Chipolina
• Greece – Maria Maltezou
• Guam – Deborah Bordallo Nelson
• Guyana – Nalini Moonsar
• Holland – Monica Strotmann
• Iceland – Fanney Bjarnadóttir
• India – Prema Narayan
• Ireland – June Glover
• Israel – Miri Ben-David
• Italy – Maria Pinnone
• Jamaica – Ava Joy Gill
• Japan – Emiko Ikeda
• South Korea – Lee Young-eun
• Luxembourg – Mariette Werckx
• Malaysia – Daphne Munro
• Malta – Doris Abdilla
• Mauritius – Marie-Anne Ng Sik Kwong
• Mexico – Lucía Arellano
• New Zealand – Linda Ritchie
• Nicaragua – Soraya Herrera
• Norway – Kate Starvik
• Panama – María de Lourdes Rivera
• Paraguay – Rosa María Duarte
• Philippines – Onelia Ison Jose
• Portugal – Ana Paula de Almeida
• Puerto Rico – Raquel Quintana
• Seychelles – Nadia Morel du Boil
• South Africa – Monica Fairall
• Spain – María García
• Sweden – Simonetta Kohl
• Switzerland – Patrice Sollner
• Thailand – Boonyong Thongboon
• Trinidad and Tobago – Maria Jordan
• Tunisia – Souad Keneari
• Turkey – Nil Menemencioglu
• United Kingdom – Marilyn Ann Ward
• United States – Brucene Smith
• Venezuela – Ana María Padrón Ibarrondo
• Yugoslavia – Zlata Petković †

Notes

Debuts

• Bermuda
• Guam

Returns

• Last competed in 1966:
  • Aruba
  • Trinidad & Tobago
• Last competed in 1967:
  • Panama
• Last competed in 1969:
  • Paraguay