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Find sources: "Miss International 1962" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Beauty pageant Miss International 1962 Date August 18, 1962 Venue Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach, California, United States Entrants 51 Placements 15 Debuts Dominican Republic Liberia Nicaragua West Indies Withdrawals Burma Denmark France Guatemala Hong Kong Madagascar Spain Returns Jordan Singapore Winner Tania Verstak Australia Congeniality Sue Burgess England Photogenic Tania Verstak Australia ← 1961 1963 → **Miss International 1962** was the 3rd [Miss International](/source/Miss_International) pageant, held on August 18, 1962 at the [Long Beach Municipal Auditorium](/source/Long_Beach_Municipal_Auditorium) in [Long Beach, California](/source/Long_Beach%2C_California), [United States](/source/United_States). 50 contestants competed for the pageant. Finally, [Tania Verstak](/source/Tania_Verstak) from [Australia](/source/Australia) was crowned as Miss International 1962 by outgoing titleholder, [Stam van Baer](/source/Stam_van_Baer) from [Holland](/source/Netherlands). ## Results ### Placements Placement Contestant Miss International 1962 Australia – Tania Verstak 1st Runner-Up Argentina – Maria Bueno 2nd Runner-Up Panama – Ana Maruri 3rd Runner-Up Holland – Catharina Lodders 4th Runner-Up United States – Carolyn Joyner Top 15 Ecuador – Margarita Arosemena Gómez England – Sue Burgess Finland – Eeva Malinen Germany – Erni Jung Iceland – Maria Gudmundsdóttir Ireland – Mona Burrows Israel – Nurit Newman Japan – Kaoru Maki Taiwan – Anne Yui Fang Venezuela – Olga Antonetti ### Special awards Award Contestant Miss Friendship England – Sue Burgess Miss Photogenic Australia – Tania Verstak first runner-up: Israel – Nurit Newman second runner-up: United States – Carolyn Joyner third runner-up: Italy – Maria Vianello fourth runner-up: Philippines – Cynthia Lucero Miss Popularity Scotland – Elizabeth Burns[a] Preliminary Competition Winners Awards Contestant Best in Playsuit Day 1: Israel – Nurit Newman Day 2: Argentina – Maria Bueno Day 3: South Africa – Aletta Strydom Best in Evening Gown Day 1: Australia – Tania Verstak Day 2: United States – Carolyn Joyner Day 3: Holland – Catharina Lodders Best National Costume Day 1: Scotland – Elizabeth Burns Day 2: Ireland – Mona Burrows Day 3: Taiwan – Anne Yui Fang ## Contestants - [Argentina](/source/Argentina) - Maria Bueno - [Australia](/source/Australia) - **[Tania Verstak](/source/Tania_Verstak)** - [Austria](/source/Austria) - Inge Jaklin - [Belgium](/source/Belgium) - Danièle Defrère - [Bolivia](/source/Bolivia) - Olga Pantoja Antelo - [Brazil](/source/Brazil) - Julieta Strauss - [British Guiana](/source/British_Guiana) - Ave Henriques - [Canada](/source/Canada) - Susan Peters - [Ceylon](/source/Dominion_of_Ceylon) - Jennifer Labrooy - [Colombia](/source/Colombia) - Sonia Heidman Gómez - [Dominican Republic](/source/Dominican_Republic) - Milagros García Duval - [Ecuador](/source/Ecuador) - Margarita Arosemena Gómez - [England](/source/England) - Sue Burgess - [Finland](/source/Finland) - Eeva Malinen - [Germany](/source/West_Germany) - Erni Jung - [Greece](/source/Greece) - Ioanna Delakou - [Holland](/source/Netherlands) - [Catharina Lodders](/source/Catharina_Lodders) - [Iceland](/source/Iceland) - Maria Gudmundsdóttir - [India](/source/India) - Sheila Chonkar - [Ireland](/source/Republic_of_Ireland) - Mona Burrows - [Israel](/source/Israel) - Nurit Newman - [Italy](/source/Italy) - Maria Vianello - [Japan](/source/Japan) - Kaoru Maki[1] - [Jordan](/source/Jordan) - Vivian Nazzal - [South Korea](/source/South_Korea) - Sohn Yang-ja - [Lebanon](/source/Lebanon) - Mona Slim - [Liberia](/source/Liberia) - Agnes Anderson - [Luxembourg](/source/Luxembourg) - Brita Gerson - [Malaya](/source/Federation_of_Malaya) - Brenda Maureen Alvisse - [Morocco](/source/Morocco) - Therese Gonzalez - [New Zealand](/source/New_Zealand) - [Maureen Waaka](/source/Maureen_Waaka)[2] - [Nicaragua](/source/Nicaragua) - María Hasbani - [Norway](/source/Norway) - Beate Brevik Johansen - [Panama](/source/Panama) - Ana Cecilia Maruri - [Paraguay](/source/Paraguay) - Gloria Alderete Irala - [Peru](/source/Peru) - Rosa Isabel Raschio - [Philippines](/source/Philippines) - Cynthia Lucero Ugalde - [Puerto Rico](/source/Puerto_Rico) - Agnes Toro - [Scotland](/source/Scotland) - Elizabeth Burns - [Singapore](/source/Singapore) - Nancy Liew - [South Africa](/source/South_Africa) - Aletta Strydom - [Sweden](/source/Sweden) - Karin Hyldgaard Jensen - [Switzerland](/source/Switzerland) - Rosemarie Loeliger - [Tahiti](/source/French_Polynesia) - Yolanda Flohr - [Taiwan](/source/Taiwan) - Anne Yui Fang - [Turkey](/source/Turkey) - Güler Samuray - [Uruguay](/source/Uruguay) - Silvia Romero - [United States](/source/United_States) - Carolyn Joyner - [Venezuela](/source/Venezuela) - [Olga Antonetti](/source/Olga_Antonetti) - [Wales](/source/Wales) - Diane Thomas - [West Indies](/source/West_Indies_Federation) - Anne Marie Sutherland (Port of Spain, Trinidad) ### Withdrawals - [Borneo](/source/North_Borneo) - Jane Lim (due to illness) - [France](/source/France) - Michèle Wargnier (fainted during the preliminaries) - [Haiti](/source/Haiti) - Mireille Hollant - [Spain](/source/Spain) - Acidalia Medina ## Notes 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Voted by parade viewers. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-tokyo_2-0)** ["MAIDS IN JAPAN"](https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/23306234/). *[Danville Register](/source/Danville_Register_%26_Bee)*. June 21, 1962. Retrieved 13 April 2016. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["ALLOWANCE ON TRIP: Cut For "Miss N.Z.""](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/press/1962/08/02/15). *[The Press](/source/The_Press)*. [Christchurch](/source/Christchurch), New Zealand. 2 August 1962. p. 15. Retrieved 2 February 2026 – via [Papers Past](/source/National_Library_of_New_Zealand#Papers_Past). v t e Miss International 1962 national titleholders Tania Verstak Catharina Lodders Maureen Kingi Olga Antonetti v t e Miss International 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Titleholders Runners-up and finalists Editions --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Miss International 1962](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_International_1962) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_International_1962?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). 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