Miss Universe 1981

Miss Universe 1981 was the 30th anniversary of the Miss Universe pageant, held on 20 July 1981 at the Minskoff Theatre in New York City, New York. Irene Sáez of Venezuela was crowned by Shawn Weatherly of the United States. There were 77 contestants competing for the crown, but Miss Mauritius got homesick and withdrew. The pageant originally was scheduled to be held in Guatemala City, Guatemala. However, for financial and political reasons, Miss Universe was moved to New York City.

Results

File:Miss Universe 1981 Map.PNG

Miss Universe 1981 participating nations and results

Placements

Placement	Contestant
Miss Universe 1981	Template:Flagu – Irene Sáez
1st runner-up	Template:Flagu – Dominique Dufour
2nd runner-up	Template:Flagu – Eva-Lena Lundgren
3rd runner-up	Template:Flagu – Adriana Alves de Oliveira
4th runner-up	Template:Flagu – Dominique van Eeckhoudt
Top 12	Template:Flagu – Lucía Vinueza Template:Flagu – Ingrid Schouten Template:Flagu – Donella Thomsen Template:Flagu – Mona Olsen Template:Flagicon Tahiti – Tatiana Teraiamano Template:Flagu – Kim Seelbrede Template:Flagu – Marion Kurz

Key

	Winner
	First runner-up
	Second runner-up
	Third runner-up
	Fourth runner-up
(#)	Rank in each round of competition

Awards

Special Awards	Winners
Miss Amity	Template:Flagu - Linda Smith
Miss Photogenic	Template:Flagu - Tina Brandstrup
Best National Costume	Template:Flagu - Adriana Alves de Oliveira

Contestants

Seventy-six contestants competed for the title.

Country/Territory	Contestant	AgeTemplate:Efn	Hometown
Template:Flagicon Argentina	Susana Mabel Reynoso	20	Buenos Aires
Template:Flagicon Aruba	Synia Reyes	-	Brasília
Template:Flagicon Australia	Karen Sang	-	Sydney
Template:Flagicon Austria	Gudrun Gollop	-	Vienna
Template:Flagicon Bahamas	Linda Teresa Smith	21	Nassau
Template:Flagicon Belgium	Dominique van Eeckhoudt	20	Brussels
Template:Flagicon Belize	Ivette Zabaneh	-	Belmopan
Template:Flagicon Bermuda	Cymone Florie Tucker	21	Smith’s Parish
Template:Flagicon Bolivia	Vivian Zambrano	-	Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Template:Flagicon Brazil	Adriana Alves de Oliveira	18	Rio de Janeiro
Template:Flagicon British Virgin Islands	Carmen Nibbs	18	Tortola
Template:Flagicon Canada	Dominique Dufour	22	Laval
Template:Flagicon Cayman Islands	Donna Marie Myrie	20	George Town
Template:Flagicon Chile	María Soledad Hurtado Arellano	-	Valparaíso
Template:Flagicon Colombia	Ana Edilma Cano Puerta	18	Medellín
Template:Flagicon Costa Rica	Rosa Inés Solís Vargas	-	San José
Template:Flagicon Curaçao	Maria Maxima Croes	-	Willemstad
Template:Flagicon Cyprus	Katia Angelidou	18	Nicosia
Template:Flagicon Denmark	Tina Brandstrup	20	Copenhagen
Template:Flagicon Dominican Republic	Fausta Lucía Peña Veras	-	Puerto Plata
Template:Flagicon Ecuador	Lucía Isabel Vinueza Urejelles	18	Guayaquil
Template:Flagicon England	Joanna Longley	25	Windsor
Template:Flagicon Fiji	Lynn Michelle McDonald	-	Suva
Template:Flagicon Finland	Merja Orvokki Varvikko	-	Forssa
Template:Flagicon France	Isabelle Sophie Benard	23	Normandy
Template:Flagicon Gibraltar	Yvette Dominguez	19	Gibraltar
Template:Flagicon Greece	Maria Nikouli	-	Athens
Template:Flagicon Guadeloupe	Rosette Bivuoac	-	Basse-Terre
Template:Flagicon Guam	Bertha Antoinette Harmon	-	Hagåtña
Template:Flagicon Guatemala	Yuma Rossana Lobos Orellana	19	Guatemala City
Template:Flagicon Holland	Ingrid Johanna Marie Schouten	20	The Hague
Template:Flagicon Honduras	Leslie Nohemí Sabillón Dávila	-	Francisco Morazán
Template:Flagicon Hong Kong	Irene Lo Kam-Sheung	21	Hong Kong
Template:Flagicon Iceland	Elisabet Trausdóttir	17	Reykjavík
Template:Flagicon India	Rachita Kumar	19	Bombay
Template:Flagicon Ireland	Valerie Roe	21	Dublin
Template:Flagicon Israel	Dana Wexler	17	Giv'atayim
Template:Flagicon Italy	Anna Maria Kanakis	20	Messina
Template:Flagicon Japan	Mineko Orisaku	20	Kyoto
Template:Flagicon Malaysia	Audrey Loh Yin Fong	-	Kuala Lumpur
Template:Flagicon Malta	Susanne Galea	-	St Julians
Template:Flagicon Martinique	Ghislaine Jean-Louis	-	Fort-de-France
Template:Flagicon Mexico	Judith Grace González Hincks	18	Monterrey
Template:Flagicon Namibia	Antoinette Anuza	-	Windhoek
Template:Flagicon New Zealand	Donella Thomsen	21	Auckland
Template:Flagicon Northern Mariana Islands	Juanita Masga Mendiola	-	Tinian
Template:Flagicon Norway	Mona Olsen	20	Oslo
Template:Flagicon Panama	Ana María Henríquez Valdés	21	Panama City
Template:Flagicon Paraguay	María Isabel Urízar Caras	-	Asunción
Template:Flagicon Peru	Gladys Silva Cancino	-	Lima
Template:Flagicon Philippines	Maria Caroline de Vera Mendoza	-	Manila
Template:Flagicon Portugal	Ana Paula Machado Moura	-	Lisbon
Template:Flagicon Puerto Rico	Carmen Lotti Rodríguez	-	Guaynabo
Template:Flagicon Réunion	Patricia Abadie	-	Saint-Paul
Template:Flagicon Saint Kitts	Marva Warner	-	Sandy Point
Template:Flagicon Scotland	Anne McFarlane	18	Glasgow
Template:Flagicon Singapore	Florence Tan	21	Singapore
Template:Flagicon South Africa	Daniela di Paolo	-	Durban
Template:Flagicon South Korea	Lee Eun-jung	-	Seoul
Template:Flagicon Spain	Frances Ondiviela	24	Las Palmas
Template:Flagicon Sri Lanka	Renuka Varuni Jesudhason	-	Matale
Template:Flagicon Sweden	Eva-Lena Lundgren	19	Piteå
Template:Flagicon Switzerland	Bridget Voss	-	Bern
Template:Flagicon Tahiti	Tatiana Teraiamano	18	Papeete
Template:Flagicon Thailand	Massupha Karbprapun	21	Bangkok
Template:Flagicon Transkei	Kedibone Tembisa Letlaka	-	Tsolo
Template:Flagicon Trinidad and Tobago	Romini Samaroo	-	San Fernando
Template:Flagicon Turkey	Şenay Unlu	-	Ankara
Template:Flagicon Turks and Caicos Islands	Frances Gloria Rigby	-	Grand Turk
Template:Flagicon United States	Kim Seelbrede	20	Germantown
Template:Flagicon United States Virgin Islands	Marise Cecile James	-	Saint Croix
Template:Flagicon Uruguay	Griselda Dianne Anchorena	20	Montevideo
Template:Flagicon Venezuela	Irene Sáez Conde	19	Caracas
Template:Flagicon Wales	Karen Ruth Stannard	22	Newport
Template:Flagicon West Germany	Marion Kurz	20	Bavaria
Template:Flagicon Western Samoa	Lenita Marianne Schwalger	-	Apia

Withdrawals

• Template:Flagu - Carole Fitzgerald was homesick and then withdrew.

External links

• Miss Universe official website