Miss Universe 1977

Miss Universe 1977 was the 26th Miss Universe pageant, held on 16 July 1977 at the National Theater in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It was the first time in the pageant's history that the event was held in Dominican Republic. Janelle Commissiong of Trinidad and Tobago was crowned by Rina Messinger of Israel at the end of the event. This was the first time a Black woman won Miss Universe. African American singer Dionne Warwick, one of the 12 judges, burst into tears when Commissiong won.

The other judges were Dominican industrialist José Armando Bermúdez, fashion designer Roberto Cavalli, model Wilhelmina Cooper, actress Linda Cristal, film producer Robert Evans, film and television producer Howard W. Koch, Miss Universe 1970, Marisol Malaret of Puerto Rico, and photographer Gordon Parks.

Miss Universe was then owned by Gulf+Western Industries.

Results

Placements

Placement	Contestant
Winner	Template:Flagu – Janelle Commissiong
1st runner-up	Template:Flagu – Eva Düringer
2nd runner-up	Template:Flagu – Sandra Bell
3rd runner-up	Template:Flagu – Aura María Mojica
4th runner-up	Template:Flagu – Marie-Luise Gassen
Top 12	Template:Flagu – Maritza Jurado Template:Flagu – Blanca Sardiñas Template:Flagu – Ineke Berends Template:Flagu – Beatriz Obregón Template:Flagu – Luz Hernández Template:Flagu – Kimberly Tomes Template:Flagu – Cristal Montañez

Special awards

Award	Contestant
Miss Amity	Template:Flagu – Pamela Mercer
Miss Photogenic	Template:Flagu – Janelle Commissiong

Contestants

File:Cristal Montanez Miss Venezuela 1977 (29).jpg

Miss Venezuela, Peru and Honduras with Miss Universe 1976, Rina Messinger.

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Miss Universe 1977 participating countries and territories.

Sixty-one contestants competed for the title.

Country/Territory	Contestant	Age	Hometown
Template:Flagicon American Samoa	Virginia Caroline Suka	17	Pago Pago
Template:Flagicon Antigua	Sheryl Ann Gibbons	20	St. John's
Template:Flagu	Maritza Jurado	24	La Plata
Template:Flagicon Aruba	Margareth Eldrith Oduber	22	Oranjestad
Template:Flagu	Jill Minaham	19	Melbourne
Template:Flagu	Eva Düringer	18	Bodensee
Template:Flagu	Paulette Borghardt	20	Nassau
Template:Flagu	Margaret Rouse	18	Saint James
Template:Flagu	Claudine Vasseur	18	Brussels
Template:Flagu	Dora Maria Phillips	18	Belmopan
Template:Flagicon Bermuda	Connie Marie Frith	23	St. George's Parish
Template:Flagu	Liliana Gutiérrez	18	Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Template:Flagu	Cássia Janys Moraes Silveira	21	Indaiatuba
Template:Flagicon British Virgin Islands	Andria Norman	21	Road Town
Template:Flagu	Pamela Mercer	20	Burnaby
Template:Flagu	Priscilla Brenner	18	Santiago
Template:Flagu	Aura María Mojica	18	Valle de Cauca
Template:Flagu	Claudia María Garnier	18	San José
Template:Flagicon Curaçao	Regine Tromp	22	Willemstad
Template:Flagu	Inge Erlandsen	23	Copenhagen
Template:Flagu	Blanca Aurora Sardiñas	23	Santo Domingo
Template:Flagu	Lucía del Carmen Hernández	18	Chone
Template:Flagu	Altagracia Arévalo	19	San Salvador
Template:Flagicon England	Sarah Louise Long	19	Bristol
Template:Flagu	Armi Aavikko	18	Helsinki
Template:Flagu	Véronique Fagot	17	Poitou
Template:Flagicon French Guiana	Evelyne Randel	17	Cayenne
Template:Flagu	Maria Spantidaki	–	Athens
Template:Flagicon Guadeloupe	Catherine Reinette	–	Basse-Terre
Template:Flagicon Guam	Lisa Ann Caso	20	Agana
Template:Flagu	Françoise Elie	19	Port-au-Prince
Template:Flagu	Ineke Berends	25	Amsterdam
Template:Flagu	Carolina Rosa Rauscher	19	Siguatepeque
Template:Flagicon Hong Kong	Loletta Chu	18	Hong Kong
Template:Flagu	Kristjana Þrainsdóttir	24	Reykjavík
Template:Flagu	Bineeta Bose	18	Delhi
Template:Flagu	Siti Mirza Nuria Arifin	24	Palembang
Template:Flagu	Jakki Moore	18	Dublin
Template:Flagu	Zehava Vardi	21	Haifa
Template:Flagu	Paola Biasini	22	Milan
Template:Flagu	Kyoko Sato	19	Tokyo
Template:Flagu	Hyam Saadé	–	Beirut
Template:Flagu	Welma Campbell	21	Monrovia
Template:Flagu	Leong Li Ping	23	Ipoh
Template:Flagu	Jane Saliba	18	Żurrieq
Template:Flagu	Danielle Marie Bouic	22	Port Louis
Template:Flagu	Felicia Mercado	17	Baja California
Template:Flagu	Donna Anne Schultze	20	Auckland
Template:Flagu	Beatriz Obregón	18	Rivas
Template:Flagicon Northern Mariana Islands	Margarita Camacho	19	Saipan
Template:Flagu	Åshild Jenny Ottesen	22	Oslo
Template:Flagu	Marina Valenciano	19	Panama City
Template:Flagu	Sayah Karakuru	24	Port Moresby
Template:Flagu	María Leticia Zarza	17	Concepción
Template:Flagu	María Isabel Frías	22	Lima
Template:Flagu	Anna Lorraine Kier	17	Baguio
Template:Flagicon Puerto Rico	Maria del Mar Rivera	20	Ponce
Template:Flagicon Réunion	Yolaine Morel	–	Saint-Denis
Template:Flagicon Saint Kitts	Annette Frank	20	Basseterre
Template:Flagicon Saint Lucia	Iva-Lua Mendes	18	Castries
Template:Flagicon Scotland	Sandra Bell	18	Glasgow
Template:Flagu	Marilyn Choon	17	Singapore
Template:Flagicon Sint Maarten	Marie Madeleine Boirard	19	Marigot
Template:Flagu	Glynis Fester	19	Cape Town
Template:Flagu	Kim Sung-hee	18	Seoul
Template:Flagu	Luz María Polegre	19	Tenerife
Template:Flagu	Sobodhini Nagesan	19	Colombo
Template:Flagu	Marlene Roesmienten Saimo	19	Paramaribo
Template:Flagu	Birgitta Lindvall	21	Luleå
Template:Flagu	Anja Kristin Terzi	17	Geneva
Template:Flagicon Tahiti	Donna Aunoa	–	Papeete
Template:Flagu	Laddawan Intriya	–	Bangkok
Template:Flagu	Janelle Commissiong	24	Port of Spain
Template:Flagu	Kimberly Tomes	21	Houston
Template:Flagicon United States Virgin Islands	Denise George	17	Charlotte Amalie
Template:Flagu	Adriana María Umpierre	19	Salto
Template:Flagu	Cristal Montañez	17	Caracas
Template:Flagicon Wales	Christine Anne Murphy	23	Swansea
Template:Flagu	Marie-Luise Gassen	24	Munich
Template:Flagu	Ljiljana Sobajić	–	Belgrade

External links

• Miss Universe official website