Miss Universe 1958

Miss Universe 1958
Date	26 July 1958
Presenters	Byron Palma
Venue	Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach, California, USA
Entrants	36
Placements	15
Debuts	Colombia, Poland, Surinam
Withdraws	Austria, Iceland, Martinique, Morocco, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Ceylon
Returns	Australia, British Guiana, Chile, Holland, Singapore, USA, West Indies
Winner	Luz Marina Zuluaga Colombia
Congeniality	Tomoko Moritake  Japan
Photogenic	Corine Rottschäfer  Holland

Participating Nations and Results.

The 7th Miss Universe pageant, Miss Universe 1958 was held in Long Beach, California, USA for the 7th time. In this pageant, thirty six contestants competed, where finally, Miss Colombia, 19-year-old Luz Marina Zuluaga won the competition. She was crowned by Miss Universe 1957, Gladys Zender from Peru.

Results

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss Universe 1958	Colombia - Luz Marina Zuluaga
1st runner-up	Brazil - Adalgisa Colombo
2nd runner-up	Hawaii - Geri Hoo
3rd runner-up	USA - Arlene Howell
4th runner-up	Poland - Alicja Bobrowska
Top 15	Chile - Raquel Molina Urrutia  Denmark - Evy Norlund  Germany - Marlies Jung Behrens  Greece - Marily Kalimopoulou  Israel - Miriam Hadar  Japan - Tomoko Moritake  Holland - Corine Rottschäfer  Peru - Beatriz Bolvart  Surinam - Gertrud Gummels  Sweden - Birgitta Elisabeth Gårdman

Special awards

Award	Contestant
Miss Congeniality	Japan - Tomoko Moritake
Miss Photogenic	Holland - Corine Rottschäfer
Most Popular Girl in Parade	Australia - Astrid Tanda Lindholm

Judges

Raúl Ferrada Jacob Gaudaur Ma Ma Loa James H. Noguer Vincent Trotta

Alberto Vargas Earl Wilson Miyoko Yanagida Roger Zeiler

Contestants

Alaska – Eleanor Moses  Argentina – Celina Mercedes Ayala  Australia – Astrid Tanda Lindholm  Belgium – Liliane Taelemans  Brazil – Adalgisa Colombo  British Guiana – Clyo Fernandes  Canada - Eileen Cindy Conroy  Chile – Raquel Molina Urrutia  Colombia – Luz Marina Zuluaga  Costa Rica – Eugenia María Valverde Guardia  Cuba – Arminia Pérez y González  Denmark – Evy Norlund  Ecuador – Alicia Vallejo Eljuri  England – Dorothy Hazeldine  France – Monique Boulinguez  Germany – Marlies Jung Behrens  Greece – Marily Kalimopoulou  Guatemala – Rogelia Cruz Martínez

Hawaii – Geri Hoo  Holland – Corine Rottschäfer  Israel – Miriam Hadar  Italy – Clara Copella  Japan- Tomoko Moritake  Korea – Oh Geum-soon  Mexico – Elvira Leticia Risser Corredor  Norway – Greta Andersen  Paraguay – Graciela Scorza Leguizamón  Peru – Beatriz Bolvarte  Poland – Alicja Bobrzowska  Singapore – Marion Willis  Surinam – Gertrud Gummels  Sweden – Birgitta Elisabeth Gårdman  Uruguay – Irene Augustyniak  USA – Arlene Howell  Venezuela – Ida Margarita Pieri  West Indies – Angela Tong

Did not compete:

•  Austria - Hanni Ehrenstrasser
•  Philippines - Carmen Remedios Tuazon

Historical significance

• Luz Marina Zuluaga of Colombia wins the only Miss Universe crown for her nation being the very first Colombian delegate in the history of the pageant. No other woman from her country has won the titlle, but there were three consecutive first-runner up placements in 1992–1994, a streak that has been unparalleled in competition history.

• Miss Holland, Corine Rottschafer won the Miss Europe 1957 title and then, she competed in the MU 1958 pageant, being placed between the semifinalists. She also went on to compete in Miss World 1959, placed as the Winner of that pageant in Baden-Baden, Germany.

• Miss Austria, who did not compete, won the Miss Europe 1958 pageant with venue in Istanbul, Turkey.

• Gertrud Gummels' placement marked the first and only time that Suriname made the semi-finals at the pageant.

External links

• Official Miss Universe website