MISS UNIVERSE 1961

1961
Marlene Schmidt
GERMANY
Miami Beach, Florida
USA














1st runner-up Rosemarie Frankland WALES
2nd runner-up Adriana Gardiazabal
ARGENTINA
3rd runner-up Arlette Dobson AUSTRIA
4th runner-up Sharon Renee Brown USA
SEMI-FINALISTS
Maria Gloria Silva CHILE
Simone Darot FRANCE
Kristjana Magnusdottir ICELAND
Atida Pisanti ISRAEL
Seo Yang-hee KOREA
Carmela Stein Bedoya PERU
Wang Li-Ling TAIWAN (R.O.C.)
Susan Jones SCOTLAND
Gunilla Knutsson SWEDEN
Liliane Burnier SWITZERLAND



After placing consistently in the semi-finals and finals since 1952, Germany finally ran away with the Miss Universe title. The closest they got before this was in 1956 with Marina Orschel who was first runner-up to Carol Morris of the USA. Germany had no comment over the news that their delegate, Marlene Schmidt, had won the coveted Miss Universe crown. Rosemarie Frankland of Wales, Marlene's runner-up, goes on to win Miss World 1961.