{{refimprove|date=September 2025}} {{pp-sock|small=yes}} {{Infobox beauty pageant | photo = LBarena.jpg | winner = [[Tania Verstak]] | represented = Australia | date = August 18, 1962 | venue = [[Long Beach Municipal Auditorium]], [[Long Beach, California]], [[United States]] | congeniality = Sue Burgess <br> England | photogenic = Tania Verstak <br> Australia | entrants = 51 | placements = 15 | debuts = {{Hlist|[[Dominican Republic]]|[[Liberia]]|[[Nicaragua]]|[[West Indies Federation|West Indies]]}} | withdraws = {{Hlist|[[Burma]]|[[Denmark]]|[[France]]|[[Guatemala]]|[[British Hong Kong|Hong Kong]]|[[Madagascar]]|[[Spain]]}} | returns = {{Hlist|[[Jordan]]|[[Singapore]]}} | before = [[Miss International 1961|1961]] | next = [[Miss International 1963|1963]] }} '''Miss International 1962''' was the 3rd [[Miss International]] pageant, held on August 18, 1962 at the [[Long Beach Municipal Auditorium]] in [[Long Beach, California]], [[United States]]. 50 contestants competed for the pageant. Finally, [[Tania Verstak]] from [[Australia]] was crowned as Miss International 1962 by outgoing titleholder, [[Stam van Baer]] from [[Netherlands|Holland]].
==Results== ===Placements=== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" |- ! Placement ! Contestant |- | '''Miss International 1962''' | * '''{{flag|Australia}}''' – '''[[Tania Verstak]]''' |- | 1st Runner-Up | * {{flag|Argentina}} – Maria Bueno |- | 2nd Runner-Up | * {{flag|Panama}} – Ana Maruri |- | 3rd Runner-Up | * {{flag|Holland}} – [[Catharina Lodders]] |- | 4th Runner-Up | * {{flag|United States}} – Carolyn Joyner |- | Top 15 | * {{flag|Ecuador}} – Margarita Arosemena Gómez * {{Flag|England}} – Sue Burgess * {{flag|Finland}} – Eeva Malinen * {{flag|Germany}} – Erni Jung * {{flag|Iceland}} – Maria Gudmundsdóttir * {{flag|Ireland}} – Mona Burrows * {{flag|Israel}} – Nurit Newman * {{flag|Japan|1947}} – Kaoru Maki * {{flag|Taiwan}} – Anne Yui Fang * {{flag|Venezuela|1954}} – [[Olga Antonetti]] |} ===Special awards=== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" |- ! Award ! Contestant |- |- | style="width: 30%;" |{{center|Miss Friendship}} |{{flag|England}} – Sue Burgess |- |{{center|Miss Photogenic}} |{{flag|Australia}} – [[Tania Verstak]] *first runner-up:<br />{{flag|Israel}} – Nurit Newman *second runner-up:<br />{{flag|United States}} – Carolyn Joyner *third runner-up:<br />{{flag|Italy}} – Maria Vianello *fourth runner-up:<br />{{flag|Philippines}} – Cynthia Lucero |- |{{center|Miss Popularity}} |{{flag|Scotland}} – Elizabeth Burns{{efn|Voted by parade viewers.}} |} {| class="wikitable" style="width: 33em;" |+Preliminary Competition Winners !Awards !Contestant |- | style="width: 30%;" |{{center|Best in Playsuit}} |Day 1: {{flag|Israel}} – Nurit Newman <br>Day 2: {{flag|Argentina}} – Maria Bueno<br>Day 3: {{flag|South Africa|1928}} – Aletta Strydom |- |{{center|Best in Evening Gown}} |Day 1: {{flag|Australia}} – [[Tania Verstak]]<br>Day 2: {{flag|United States}} – Carolyn Joyner<br>Day 3: {{flag|Holland}} – [[Catharina Lodders]] |- |{{center|Best National Costume}} |Day 1: {{flag|Scotland}} – Elizabeth Burns<br>Day 2: {{flag|Ireland}} – Mona Burrows<br>Day 3: {{flag|Taiwan}} – Anne Yui Fang |} ==Contestants== {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| * {{flag|Argentina}} - Maria Bueno * {{flag|Australia}} - {{strong|[[Tania Verstak]]}} * {{flag|Austria}} - Inge Jaklin * {{flag|Belgium}} - Danièle Defrère * {{flag|Bolivia}} - Olga Pantoja Antelo * {{flag|Brazil|1960}} - Julieta Strauss * {{flag|British Guiana}} - Ave Henriques * {{flag|Canada|1957}} - Susan Peters * {{flag|Ceylon|1951}} - Jennifer Labrooy * {{flag|Colombia}} - Sonia Heidman Gómez * {{flag|Dominican Republic}} - Milagros García Duval * {{flag|Ecuador}} - Margarita Arosemena Gómez * {{flag|England}} - Sue Burgess * {{flag|Finland}} - Eeva Malinen * {{flag|West Germany|name=Germany}} - Erni Jung * {{flag|Greece|old}} - Ioanna Delakou * {{flag|Holland}} - [[Catharina Lodders]] * {{flag|Iceland}} - Maria Gudmundsdóttir * {{flag|India}} - Sheila Chonkar * {{flag|Ireland}} - Mona Burrows * {{flag|Israel}} - Nurit Newman * {{flag|Italy}} - Maria Vianello * {{flag|Japan|1947}} - Kaoru Maki<ref name=tokyo/> * {{flag|Jordan}} - Vivian Nazzal * {{flag|South Korea}} - Sohn Yang-ja * {{flag|Lebanon}} - Mona Slim * {{flag|Liberia}} - Agnes Anderson * {{flag|Luxembourg}} - Brita Gerson * {{flag|Malaya}} - Brenda Maureen Alvisse * {{flag|Morocco}} - Therese Gonzalez * {{flag|New Zealand}} - [[Maureen Waaka]]<ref>{{cite news |title=ALLOWANCE ON TRIP: Cut For “Miss N.Z.” |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/press/1962/08/02/15 |work=[[The Press]] |page=15 |access-date=2 February 2026 |date=2 August 1962 |location=[[Christchurch]], New Zealand |via=[[National Library of New Zealand#Papers Past|Papers Past]]}}</ref> * {{flag|Nicaragua}} - María Hasbani * {{flag|Norway}} - Beate Brevik Johansen * {{flag|Panama}} - Ana Cecilia Maruri * {{flag|Paraguay}} - Gloria Alderete Irala * {{flag|Peru}} - Rosa Isabel Raschio * {{flag|Philippines}} - Cynthia Lucero Ugalde * {{flag|Puerto Rico}} - Agnes Toro * {{flag|Scotland}} - Elizabeth Burns * {{flag|Singapore}} - Nancy Liew * {{flag|South Africa|1928}} - Aletta Strydom * {{flag|Sweden}} - Karin Hyldgaard Jensen * {{flag|Switzerland}} - Rosemarie Loeliger * {{flag|Tahiti}} - Yolanda Flohr * {{flag|Taiwan}} - Anne Yui Fang * {{flag|Turkey}} - Güler Samuray * {{flag|Uruguay}} - Silvia Romero * {{flag|United States}} - Carolyn Joyner * {{flag|Venezuela|1954}} - [[Olga Antonetti]] * {{flag|Wales}} - Diane Thomas * {{flag|West Indies Federation|name=West Indies}} - Anne Marie Sutherland (Port of Spain, Trinidad) }} ===Withdrawals=== {{plainlist}} {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| * {{flag|North Borneo|name=Borneo}} - Jane Lim (due to illness) * {{flag|France}} - Michèle Wargnier (fainted during the preliminaries) * {{flag|Haiti}} - Mireille Hollant * {{flag|Spain|1945}} - Acidalia Medina }} {{endplainlist}} ==Notes== <references group="lower-alpha" /> ==References== <references>
<ref name=tokyo>{{cite news|title=MAIDS IN JAPAN|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/23306234/|access-date=13 April 2016|newspaper=[[Danville Register & Bee|Danville Register]]|date=June 21, 1962}}</ref>
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