Debut Placement in Miss Universe!

**bonner** Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:07 pm

Here are the countries who competed for the first time in Miss Universe and placed immediately in the semis... so do you think this is an advantage?? or they deserved it really. anyway not all who had its debut are lucky to placed.

We begin and consider the year

1952
the first ever Miss Universe Edition

From Left,
Finland - Armi Helena Kuusela (Miss Universe 1952)
Germany - Renate Hoy (4th runner up)
Greece - Ntaizy (Daisy) Mavraki (2nd runner up)
Hawaii - Elza Kananionapua Edsman (1st runner up)
Hong Kong - Judy Dan (3rd runner up)
Mexico - Olga Llorens Pérez-Castillo (Semifinalist)
South Africa - Catherine Edwina Higgins (Semifinalist)
Sweden - Anne Marie Thistler (Semifinalist)
USA - Jacqueleen "Jackie" Loughery (Semifinalist)
Uruguay - Gladys Rubio Fajardo (Semifinalist)

1953

Austria - Lore Felger (Semifinalist)

1954

Brazil - Martha Rocha (1st Runner Up)

Argentina - Ivana Olga Kislinger (Semifinalist)

Costa Rica - Marian Esquivel McKeown

1955

Ceylon (Sri Lanka) - Maureen Neliya Hingert (2nd Runner Up)

England - Margaret Rowe (Semifinalist)

Guatemala - María del Rosario Molina Chacón (Semifinalist)

1957

Morocco - Jacqueline Dorella Bonilla

1958

Colombia - Luz Marina Zuluaga (Miss Universe 1958)

Poland - Alicja Bobrowska (4th runner up)

Suriname - Gertrud Gummels (Semifinalist)

1960

Spain - María Teresa del Río (4th runner up)

1961

Wales - Rosemarie Frankland (1st runner up)/Miss World 1961

Republic of China (Taiwan) - Wang Li-Ling (Semifinalist)

Scotland - Susan Jones (Semifinalist)

1968

Yugoslavia - Daliborka Stojsić (Semifinalist)

1970

Czechoslovakia - Kristina Hanzalová (Semifinalist)

1993

Czech Republic - Pavlina Barbukova (Top 10 semifinalist/8th place)

1994

Slovak Republic - Silvia Lakatošová (Top 6 Finalist/4th runner up)

1999

Botswana - Mpule Kwelagobe (Miss Universe 1999)

2002

China - Zhuo Ling (2nd runner up)

Albania - Anisa Kospiri (Top 10 semifinalist/8th place)

2005

Latvia - Ieva Kokoreviča

2007

Tanzania - Flaviana Matata (Top 10 Semifinalist/6th place)

2008

Kosovo - Zana Krasniqi (Top 10 Semifinalist/6th place)

**reyna_USA** Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:45 pm

Isn't Czekhoslovakia and Czech Republic the same country? scratch

**JEANP** Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:52 pm

reyna_USA wrote:Isn't Czekhoslovakia and Czech Republic the same country?

chzekholvakia it's crzech republic and slovakia.

**Wojtek** Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:05 pm

reyna_USA wrote:Isn't Czekhoslovakia and Czech Republic the same country?

In 1993 Czechoslovakia split into Czech republic and Slovakia, so Czechoslovakia doesn't exist anymore.

**reyna_USA** Fri Jan 20, 2012 10:08 pm

Wojtek wrote:
reyna_USA wrote:Isn't Czekhoslovakia and Czech Republic the same country?

In 1993 Czechoslovakia split into Czech republic and Slovakia, so Czechoslovakia doesn't exist anymore.

Thanks