Miss Universe 1982

{{Short description|31st Miss Universe pageant}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox beauty pageant | photo = | winner = [[Karen Dianne Baldwin|Karen Baldwin]] | represented = Canada | congeniality = Maureen Lewis (Cayman Islands) | best national costume = Francesca Zaza (Peru) | photogenic = Ava Marilyn Burke (Bahamas) | date = 26 July 1982 | venue = [[Coliseo Amauta]], Lima, Peru | broadcaster = {{Hlist|[[CBS]] (international)|[[Panamericana Televisión|Panamericana]] (official broadcaster)}} | acts = {{Hlist|[[Rex Smith (entertainer)|Rex Smith]]|[[José Luis Rodríguez (singer)|José Luis Rodríguez]]}} | presenters = {{Hlist|[[Bob Barker]]|[[Joan Van Ark]]}} | entrants = 77 | placements = 12 | debuts = {{Hlist|New Caledonia}} | withdrawals = {{Hlist|Cyprus|Fiji|Gibraltar||Saint Kitts|Tahiti}} | returns = {{Hlist|El Salvador|Indonesia|Papua New Guinea|Sint Maarten|Suriname}} | before = [[Miss Universe 1981|1981]] | next = [[Miss Universe 1983|1983]] }}

'''Miss Universe 1982''' was the 31st [[Miss Universe]] pageant, held at the [[Coliseo Amauta]] in [[Lima]], Peru, on 26 July 1982. It was the first time in the pageant's history that the event was held in South America. Seventy-seven contestants competed in the pageant. At the conclusion of the event, [[Karen Dianne Baldwin|Karen Baldwin]] of Canada was crowned by [[Irene Saez]] of Venezuela. This is the first time Canada won the pageant.<ref>{{Cite news |date=27 July 1982 |title=Canada Teen Miss Universe |pages=9 |work=[[The Pittsburgh Press]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RtYcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sl4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6901%2C4752657 |access-date=14 May 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilkinson |first=Tracy |date=27 July 1982 |title=Rough start for new Miss Universe |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/07/27/Rough-start-for-new-Miss-Universe/1401396590400/ |access-date=14 May 2022 |website=[[United Press International]] |language=en}}</ref>

The stadium where the contest was taking place was attacked with [[dynamite]] on 26 July, during the contest's finale.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Violencia política en el Perú: 1980-1988 |publisher=DESCO Centro de Estudios y Promoción del Desarrollo |year=1989 |location=Lima |pages=85 |language=es |url=https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/0DD72E3AC43606DC05257BE9006D9BAD/$FILE/1_pdfsam_desco00002.pdf |volume=1 |chapter=APENDICE: CUADROS CRONOLOGICOS SOBRE LA VIOLENCIA POLITICA}}</ref>

==Results== {{unreferenced section|date=July 2024}} [[File:Miss Universe 1982 Map.PNG|thumb|250px|Miss Universe 1982 participating nations and results]]

=== Placements === {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" |- ! Placement !! Contestant |- | Miss Universe 1982 | * {{flagu|Canada}} – [[Karen Dianne Baldwin|Karen Baldwin]] |- | 1st Runner-Up | * {{flagu|Guam}} – Patty Chong Kerkos |- | 2nd Runner-Up | * {{flagu|Italy}} – [[Cinzia De Ponti|Cinzia Fiordeponti]] |- | 3rd Runner-Up | * {{flagu|Greece}} – Tina Roussou |- | 4th Runner-Up | * {{flagu|United States}} – [[Terri Britt|Terri Utley]] |- | Top 12 | * {{flagu|Brazil}} – Celice Marques * {{flagu|England}} – Della Dolan * {{flagu|Finland}} – Sari Aspholm * {{flagu|Peru}} – Francesca Zaza * {{flagu|South Africa|1928}} – Odette Scrooby * {{flagu|Uruguay}} – Silvia Vila * {{flagu|West Germany}} – Kerstin Paeserack |}

====Final Scores==== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%" ! width="25%" |Country/Territory !Preliminary Average ! width="15%" |Interview ! width="15%" |Swimsuit ! width="15%" |Evening Gown ! width="15%" |Semifinal Average |- style="background-color:#FADADD;" |'''{{Flag|Canada}}'''<ref name=scores>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwX93WgTRjQ|title=Miss Universe 1982|work=Carlos 🇵🇪|via=[[YouTube]]|date=December 3, 2024|access-date=July 7, 2025}}</ref><ref name="upi1982">{{cite web |title=Karen Dianne Baldwin, 18, became the first Canadian to be named Miss Universe |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/07/27/Karen-Dianne-Baldwin-18-became-the-first-Canadian-to/7123396590400/ |website=United Press International |date=27 July 1982 |access-date=20 April 2026 }}</ref> |7.761 (9) |8.400 (5) |8.275 (3) |8.525 (3) |8.400 (2) |- |- style="background-color:#eadafd;" |'''{{Flag|Guam}}'''<ref name=scores/> |7.892 (5) |8.867 (1) |8.692 (1) |8.355 (4) |8.638 (1) |- |- style="background-color:#ccff99;" |'''{{Flag|Italy}}'''<ref name=scores/> |7.714 (11) |7.925 (9) |8.067 (5) |8.608 (2) |8.200 (4) |- |- style="background-color:#d9eefb;" |'''{{Flag|Greece}}'''<ref name=scores/> |7.847 (6) |8.042 (8) |8.325 (2) |8.317 (5) |8.228 (3) |- |- style="background-color:#ffff99;" |'''{{flag|United States}}'''<ref name=scores/> |8.131 (2) |8.425 (4) |8.192 (4) |7.925 (8) |8.181 (5) |- |- |'''{{Flag|South Africa|1928}}'''<ref name=scores/> |8.406 (1) |8.583 (2) |7.225 (10) |8.707 (1) |8.172 (6) |- |- |'''{{Flag|England}}'''<ref name=scores/> |8.100 (3) |8.433 (3) |7.808 (7) |8.167 (7) |8.136 (7) |- |- |'''{{Flag|Peru}}'''<ref name=scores/> |7.797 (8) |8.218 (6) |7.508 (8) |8.292 (6) |8.006 (8) |- |- |'''{{flag|Brazil}}'''<ref name=scores/> |8.011 (4) |8.133 (7) |7.892 (6) |7.917 (9) |7.981 (9) |- |- |'''{{Flag|Finland}}'''<ref name=scores/> |7.719 (10) |7.808 (10) |7.408 (9) |7.908 (10) |7.708 (10) |- |'''{{flag|Uruguay}}'''<ref name=scores/> |7.594 (12) |7.692 (11) |7.167 (11) |7.783 (11) |7.547 (11) |- |'''{{flag|West Germany|name=Germany}}'''<ref name=scores/> |7.808 (7) |7.204 (12) |7.008 (12) |7.483 (12) |7.232 (12) |}

== Contestants == * {{Flag|Argentina|alt}} – María Alejandra Basile * {{ABW}} – Noriza Antonio Helder * {{AUS}} – Lou Ann Ronchi * {{AUT}} – Elisabeth Kawan * {{BHS}} – Ava Marilyn Burke * {{BEL}} – Marie-Pierre Lemaitre * {{BLZ}} – Sharon Kay Auxilliou * {{BMU}} – Heather Ross * {{flag|Bolivia|1851}} – Sandra Villaroel * {{BRA}} – Celice Márques * {{VGB}} – Luce Dahlia Hodge * {{CAN}} – [[Karen Dianne Baldwin|Karen Baldwin]] * {{flag|Cayman Islands}} – Maureen Theresa Lewis * {{CHL}} – Jenny Purto Arab * {{COL}} – Nadya Santacruz * {{CRI}} – Liliana Corella Espinoza * {{CUR}} – Minerva Ranila Heiroms * {{DNK}} – Tina Maria Nielsen * {{DOM}} – Soraya Morey * {{flag|Ecuador|1900}} – Jacqueline Burgos * {{SLV}} – Jeanette Marroquín * {{ENG}} – Della Dolan * {{FIN}} – Sari Aspholm * {{FRA}} – Martine Philipps * {{GRC}} – Tina Roussou * {{flag|Guadeloupe|local}} – Lydia Galin * {{GUM}} – Patty Chong Kerkos * {{GTM}} – Edith Whitbeck * {{flag|Holland}} – Brigitte Diereckx * {{flag|Honduras|1949}} – Eva Lissethe Barahona * {{flag|British Hong Kong|name=Hong Kong}} – Angie Leung * {{ISL}} – Gudrun Moller * {{IND}} – [[Pamella Bordes|Pamela Singh]] * {{IDN}} – [[Sri Yulianti Soemardjo]] * {{IRL}} – Geraldine McGrory<ref>{{cite news |date=2 July 1982 |title=Miss Ireland |pages=3 |work=[[Irish Independent]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/irish-independent-miss-ireland/168374141/ |access-date=18 March 2026 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> * {{ISR}} – Deborah Naomi Hess * {{ITA}} – [[Cinzia De Ponti|Cinzia Fiordeponti]] * {{flag|Japan|1870}} – Eri Okuwaki * {{MYS}} – Siti Rohani Wahid * {{MLT}} – Rita Falzon * {{flag|Martinique|snake}} – Corine Soler * {{MEX}} – María del Carmen López * {{flagicon|South Africa|1982}} Namibia – Deseree Anita Kotze * {{flagicon|New Caledonia|local}} [[New Caledonia]] – Lenka Topalovitch * {{NZL}} – Sandra Dexter<ref>{{cite news |title=Sandy’s very happy |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/press/1982/04/26/1 |work=[[The Press]] |page=1 |access-date=30 January 2026 |date=26 April 1982 |location=[[Christchurch]], New Zealand |via=[[National Library of New Zealand#Papers Past|Papers Past]]}}</ref> * {{flag|Northern Mariana Islands}} – Sheryl Sonoda Sizemore * {{NOR}} – Janett Krefting * {{PAN}} – Isora de Lourdes López * {{PNG}} – Moi Eli * {{flag|Paraguay|1954}} – Maris Villalba * {{PER}} – Francesca Zaza * {{flag|Philippines|1936}} – [[Maria Isabel Lopez]] * {{POR}} – Ana Maria Valdiz * {{flag|Puerto Rico}} – Lourdes Milagros Mantero Hormazábal * {{flag|Réunion|local}} – Ginon Manthe * {{SCT}} – Georgina Kearney * {{SGP}} – Judicia Nonis * {{flag|Sint Maarten}} – Liana Elviara Brown * {{flag|South Africa|1911}} – Odette Scrooby * {{Flag|South Korea|1949}} – Sun-hee Park<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 May 1982 |title=Miss Park Sun-hi, 19, was crowned Miss Korea 1982... |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/05/15/Miss-Park-Sun-hi-19-was-crowned-Miss-Korea-1982/2071390283200/ |access-date=14 May 2022 |website=[[United Press International]] |language=en}}</ref> * {{ESP}} – Cristina Pérez Cottrell * {{LKA}} – Ann Monica Tradigo * {{SUR}} – Vanessa de Vries * {{SWE}} – Anna Kari Maria Bergström * {{CHE}} – Jeannette Linkenheill * {{THA}} – Nipaporn Tarapanich * {{flag|Transkei}} – Noxolisi Mji * {{TTO}} – Suzanne Traboulay * {{TUR}} – Canan Kakmaci * {{flag|Turks and Caicos Islands}} – Jacqueline Astwood * {{USA}} – [[Terri Britt|Terri Utley]] * {{flag|United States Virgin Islands}} – Ingeborg Hendricks * {{URY}} – Silvia Vila * {{flag|Venezuela|1954}} – Ana Teresa Oropeza * {{WAL}} – Michelle Donelly * {{flag|West Germany}} – Kerstin Paeserack * {{flag|Western Samoa}} – Ivy Evelyn Warner

==References== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:Miss Universe by year|1982]] [[Category:1982 beauty pageants]] [[Category:1982 in Peru]] [[Category:Beauty pageants in Peru]] [[Category:Organized events in Lima]] [[Category:July 1982 in South America]]