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Mauriziok/Miss Universe 1977
Miss Universe 1977 Janelle Commissiong
Date	16 July 1977
Presenters	Bob Barker Helen O'Connell
Venue	National Theater, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Broadcaster	CBS (international) Color Visión (official broadcaster)
Entrants	80
Placements	12
Debuts	Antigua British Virgin Islands French Guiana Guadeloupe Réunion St. Kitts St. Lucia
Withdrawals	Guatemala Luxembourg Turkey
Returns	Belize Haiti Lebanon Tahiti
Winner	Janelle Commissiong Trinidad and Tobago
Congeniality	Pamela Mercer Canada
Best National Costume	Kim Sung-hee Korea
Photogenic	Janelle Commissiong Trinidad and Tobago

Miss Universe 1977, the 26th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 16 July 1977 at the National Theater in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Janelle Commissiong of Trinidad and Tobago was crowned by Rina Messinger of Israel at the end of the event.

Miss Universe was then owned by Gulf+Western Industries.

Results

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss Universe 1977	Trinidad & Tobago – Janelle Commissiong
1st Runner-up	Austria – Eva Düringer
2nd Runner-up	Scotland – Sandra Bell
3rd Runner-up	Colombia – Aura María Mojica Salcedo
4th Runner-up	Germany – Marie-Luise Gassen
Top 12	Argentina – Maritza Jurado Dominican Republic – Blanca Sardiñas Holland – Ineke Berends Nicaragua – Beatriz Obregón Spain – Luz Hernández USA – Kimberly Tomes Venezuela – Cristal Montañez

Contestants

Miss Universe 1977 participating nations and results

• Antigua - Sheryl Ann Gibbons
• Argentina - Maritza Elizabet Jurado
• Aruba - Margareth Eldrid Oduber
• Australia - Jill Maree Minaham
• Austria - Eva Maria Duringer
• Bahamas - Paulette Rosetta Ogylvie Borghardt
• Barbados - Margaret Sonia Rouse
• Belgium - Claudine Marie Vasseur
• Belize - Dora Maria Phillips
• Bermuda - Connie Marie Frith
• Bolivia - Liliana Gutiérrez Paz
• Brazil - Cássia Janys Moraes Silveira
• British Virgin Islands - Andria Dolores Norman
• Canada - Pamela Mercer
• Chile - Priscilla Raquel Brenner
• Colombia - Aura María Mojica Salcedo
• Costa Rica - Claudia Maria Garnier Arias
• Curaçao - Regine Tromp
• Denmark - Inge Eline Erlandsen
• Dominican Republic - Blanca Aurora Sardiñas
• Ecuador - Lucía del Carmen Hernández Quiñones
• El Salvador - Altagracia Arévalo
• England - Sarah Louise Long
• Finland - Armi Aavikko †
• France - Véronique Fagot
• French Guiana - Evelyne Randel
• Germany - Marie-Luise Gassen
• Greece - Maria Spantidaki
• Guadeloupe - Catherine Reinette
• Guam - Lisa Ann Caso
• Haiti - Françoise Elie
• Holland - Ineke Berends
• Honduras - Carolina Rosa Rauscher Sierra
• Hong Kong - Loletta Chu Ling-Ling
• Iceland - Kristjana Þrainsdóttir
• India - Bineeta Bose
• Indonesia - Siti Mirza Nuria Arifin
• Ireland - Jakki Moore
• Israel - Zehava Vardi
• Italy - Paola Biasini
• Japan - Kyoko Sato
• Korea - Kim Sung-hee
• Lebanon - Hyam Saadé
• Liberia - Welma Albertine Wani Campbell
• Malaysia - Leong Li Ping
• Malta - Jane Benedicta Saliba
• Mauritius - Danielle Marie Françoise Bouic
• Mexico - Felicia Mercado
• New Zealand - Donna Anne Schultze
• Nicaragua - Beatriz Obregón Lacayo
• Northern Mariana Islands - Margarita Benavente Camacho
• Norway - Åshild Jenny Ottesen
• Panama - Marina Valenciano
• Papua New Guinea - Sayah Karakuru
• Paraguay - María Leticia Zarza Perriet
• Peru - María Isabel Frías Zavala
• Philippines - Anna Lorraine Tomas Kier
• Puerto Rico - Maria del Mar Rivera
• Réunion - Yolaine Morel
• American Samoa - Virginia Caroline Suka
• Scotland - Sandra Bell
• Singapore - Marilyn Choon May Sim
• South Africa - Glynis Dorothea Fester
• Spain - Luz María Polegre Hernández
• Sri Lanka - Sobodhini Nagesan
• Saint Kitts - Annette Emelda Frank
• Saint Lucia - Iva Lua Mendes
• Sint Maarten - Marie Madeleine Boirard
• Surinam - Marlene Roesmienten Saimo
• Sweden - Birgitta Lindvall
• Switzerland - Anja Kristin Terzi
• Tahiti - Donna Aunoa
• Thailand - Laddawan In-Yah
• Trinidad and Tobago - Janelle Commissiong
• Uruguay - Adriana María Umpierre Escudero
• United States - Kimberly Tomes
• Venezuela - Cristal Montañez
• Virgin Islands - Denise Naomi George
• Wales - Christine Anne Murphy
• Yugoslavia - Ljiljana Sobajić

Notes

Debuts

• Antigua
• British Virgin Islands
• French Guiana
• Guadeloupe
• Réunion
• Saint Kitts
• Saint Lucia

Returns

Last competed in 1962:

• Tahiti

Last competed in 1975:

• Belize
• Haiti
• Lebanon

Withdrawals

• Guatemala - Marta Elisa Tirado Richardson
• Luxembourg - Jeannette Henriette Colling
• Turkey - Manolya Onur was disqualified for competing twice.

Did not Compete

• Martinique - Patricia Vatble

Awards

• Canada - Miss Amity (Pamela Mercer)
• Trinidad and Tobago - Miss Photogenic (Janelle Commissiong)
• Korea - Best National Costume (Kim Sung-hee)

General references

• West, Donald (ed.). "Miss Universe 1977". pageantopolis.com. Archived from the original on February 7, 2012.

External links

• Miss Universe official website

[[:Category:Miss Universe|1977]] [[:Category:1977 beauty pageants]] [[:Category:1977 in the Dominican Republic]] [[:Category:Beauty pageants in the Dominican Republic]] [[:Category:July 1977 events in North America]]