{{Short description|32nd Miss Universe pageant}} {{Infobox beauty pageant | photo = File:Lorraine Downes in Oval Office (cropped).jpg | caption = Miss Universe 1983, [[Lorraine Downes]] | winner = [[Lorraine Downes]] | represented = New Zealand | date = 11 July 1983 | venue = [[Kiel Auditorium]], [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], United States | broadcaster = {{Hlist|[[CBS]] ([[KMOV|KMOX-TV]])}} | acts = {{Hlist|[[John Schneider (screen actor)|John Schneider]]|[[José Luis Rodríguez (singer)|José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma"]]}} | presenters = {{Hlist|[[Bob Barker]]|[[Joan Van Ark]]}} | congeniality = Abbey Scattrel Janneh<br>Gambia | best national costume = Jong-jun Kim<br>South Korea | photogenic = [[Lolita Morena]]<br>Switzerland | entrants = 80 | placements = 12 | debuts = {{Hlist|Cook Islands|Gambia}} | withdraws = {{Hlist|New Caledonia|Sint Maarten|Suriname}} | returns = {{Hlist|Cyprus|French Guiana|Gibraltar|Lebanon}} | before = [[Miss Universe 1982|1982]] | next = [[Miss Universe 1984|1984]] }}

'''Miss Universe 1983''' was the 32nd [[Miss Universe]] pageant, held at the [[Kiel Auditorium]] in [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], United States, on 11 July 1983. At the conclusion of the event, [[Lorraine Downes]] of [[New Zealand]] was crowned by [[Karen Dianne Baldwin|Karen Baldwin]] of [[Canada]].<ref name="Journal News">{{cite news |last1=Newhouse |first1=Eric |title=New Zealand model named Miss Universe |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/162839861/ |access-date=4 September 2023 |work=[[The Journal News]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=12 Jul 1983 |page=27 |language=en}}</ref> Eighty contestants competed in this year. This is the first, and so far the only time [[New Zealand]] won the pageant.

== Results == [[File:Miss Universe 1983 Map.PNG|thumb|250px|Miss Universe 1983 participating nations and results]]

=== Placements === {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" |- ! Placement ! Contestant |- | Miss Universe 1983 | * {{flagu|New Zealand}} – [[Lorraine Downes]]<ref name="Journal News"/> |- | 1st Runner-Up | * {{flagu|United States}} – [[Julie Hayek]]<ref name="Journal News"/> |- | 2nd Runner-Up | * {{flagu|Ireland}} – Roberta Brown<ref name="Journal News"/> |- | 3rd Runner-Up | * {{flagu|Switzerland}} – [[Lolita Morena]]<ref name="Journal News"/> |- | 4th Runner-Up | * {{flagu|England}} – Karen Moore<ref name="Journal News"/> |- | Top 12<ref name="Journal News"/> | * {{flagu|Finland}} – Nina Rekola * {{flagu|Italy}} – [[Federica Moro]] * {{flagu|Norway}} – Karen Dobloug * {{flagu|Singapore}} – Lee Lee Bang * {{flagu|Spain}} – Isabel Herrero * {{flagu|Venezuela|1954}} – [[Paola Ruggeri]] * {{flagu|West Germany}} – Loana Radecki |}

==Contestants== Eighty contestants competed for the title. {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%;" |- ! Country/Territory !! Contestant !! Age{{efn|name=A|Ages at the time of the pageant}} !! Hometown |- | {{flagicon|ARG}} Argentina || María Daniela Carara || 20 || [[Buenos Aires]] |- | {{flagicon|ABW}} Aruba || Milva Evertsz<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 May 1983 |title=Milva Evertsz winnares Miss-verkiezingsavond volop in teken commercie |language=nl |pages=5 |work=Amigoe |url=https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?query=%22Miss+Universe%22&facets%5Bperiode%5D%5B%5D=2%7C20e_eeuw%7C1980-1989%7C1983%7C&page=1&coll=ddd&sortfield=date&identifier=ddd:010640882:mpeg21:a0078&resultsidentifier=ddd:010640882:mpeg21:a0078&rowid=9 |access-date=24 March 2025 |via=Delpher}}</ref> || 24 || [[Oranjestad, Aruba|Oranjestad]] |- | {{flagicon|AUS}} Australia || Simone Cox<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 July 2018 |title=Social Seen: Sydney's best parties of the week |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/social-seen-sydneys-best-parties-of-the-week-20180711-h12k7t.html |access-date=24 March 2025 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}</ref> || 20 || [[Sydney]] |- | {{flagicon|Austria}} Austria || [[Mercedes Stermitz]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Neuman |first=Fritz |date=30 March 2015 |title=Miss Austria, der Unfall und das Motto vor der Tür |url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000013606935/miss-austria-der-unfall-das-motto-vor-der-tuer |access-date=24 March 2025 |website=Der Standard |language=de-AT}}</ref> || 25 || [[Styria]] |- | {{flagicon|BAH}} Bahamas || Christina Thompson || 18 || [[Nassau, The Bahamas|Nassau]] |- | {{flagicon|BEL}} Belgium || Françoise Bostoen<ref>{{Cite web |date=11 January 2010 |title=Erelijst Miss België |url=https://www.demorgen.be/tv-cultuur/erelijst-miss-belgie~b5723d4d/ |access-date=24 March 2025 |website=De Morgen |language=nl-NL}}</ref> || 20 || [[Roeselare]] |- | {{flagicon|BLZ}} Belize || Shirlene Dianne McKay || - || [[Belmopan]] |- | {{flagicon|Bermuda}} Bermuda || Angelita Diaz || 20 || [[St. George’s, Bermuda|St. George’s]] |- | {{flagicon|BOL}} Bolivia || Cecilia Zamora || - || [[Tarija]] |- | {{flagicon|BRA|1968}} Brazil || Mariza Fully Coelho || 21 || [[Manhumirim]] |- | {{flagicon|VGB}} British Virgin Islands || Anna Maria Joseph || 19 || [[Tortola]] |- | {{flagicon|CAN}} Canada || Jodi Yvonne Rutledge || 22 || [[Winnipeg]] |- | {{flagicon|CAY}} Cayman Islands || Effie Ebanks || 18 || [[George Town, Cayman Islands|George Town]] |- | {{flagicon|CHL}} Chile || María Josefa Isensee Ugarte || 20 || [[Santiago]] |- | {{flagicon|COL}} Colombia || Pauline Sáenz || 17 || [[Bogotá]] |- | {{flagicon|Cook Islands}} Cook Islands || Carmena Blake || - || [[Avarua]] |- | {{flagicon|CRI}} Costa Rica || María Gabriela Pozuelo || - || [[San José, Costa Rica|San José]] |- | {{flagicon|Curaçao|1981}} Curaçao || Maybelline Altagracia Snel || 22 || [[Willemstad]] |- | {{flagicon|Cyprus|1960}} Cyprus || Marina Elena Rauscher || 18 || [[Limassol]] |- | {{flagicon|DEN}} Denmark || Inge Ravn Thomsen || 19 || [[Copenhagen]] |- | {{flagicon|DOM}} Dominican Republic || Alexandra Astwood || 17 || [[Santo Domingo]] |- | {{flagicon|ECU}} Ecuador || Mariela García || 19 || [[Portoviejo]] |- | {{flagicon|El Salvador}} El Salvador || Claudia Oliva || 21 || [[San Salvador]] |- |- | {{flagicon|ENG}} England || Karen Moore || 21 || [[Southsea]] |- | {{flagicon|FIN}} Finland || Nina Marjaana Rekkola || 20 || [[Nakkila]] |- | {{flagicon|FRA}} France || Frederique Leroy || 20 || [[Bordeaux]] |- | {{flagicon|French Guiana|local}} French Guiana || Marie Georges Achamana || - || [[Cayenne]] |- | {{flagicon|Gambia}} Gambia || Abbey Scattrel Janneh || 19 || [[Banjul]] |- | {{flagicon|Gibraltar}} Gibraltar || Louise Gillingwater || 20 || [[Gibraltar]] |- | {{flagicon|Greece}} Greece || Plousia Farfaraki || 18 || [[Athens]] |- | {{flagicon|Guadeloupe|local}} Guadeloupe || Nicole LeBorgne || - || [[Basse-Terre]] |- | {{flagicon|Guam}} Guam || Pamela Booth || 18 || [[Yigo]] |- | {{flagicon|Guatemala}} Guatemala || Berta Victoria Gonzales || 20 || [[Escuintla]] |- | {{flagicon|Netherlands}} Holland || Nancy Lelleman Heynis || 18 || [[Zaandam]] |- | {{flagicon|Honduras|1949}} Honduras || Ollie Thompson || 18 ||[[Islas de la Bahía]] |- | {{flagicon|British Hong Kong}} Hong Kong || Cherona Yeung || 19 || [[Hong Kong]] |- | {{flagicon|ISL}} Iceland || [[Unnur Steinsson]] || 20 || [[Álftanes]] |- | {{flagicon|IND}} India || [[Rekha Hande]] || 18 || [[Bangalore]] |- | {{flagicon|Indonesia}} Indonesia || [[Andi Botenri]] || 18 || [[Jakarta]] |- | {{flagicon|IRE}} Ireland || Roberta Brown<ref>{{cite news |last1=Power |first1=Bairbre |date=17 August 1982 |title='Breakfast' with Miss Ireland |pages=3 |work=[[The Herald (Ireland)|Evening Herald]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-herald-breakfast-with-miss-ire/168021533/ |access-date=18 March 2026 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> || 20 || [[Derry]] |- | {{flagicon|Israel}} Israel || Shimona Hollender || 17 || [[Tel Aviv]] |- | {{flagicon|Italy}} Italy || [[Federica Moro]] || 18 || [[Milan]] |- | {{flagicon|JAP|1870}} Japan || Yuko Yamaguchi || 25 || [[Osaka]] |- | {{flagicon|Lebanon}} Lebanon || May Mansour Chahwan || 19 || [[Beirut]] |- | {{flagicon|MALAYSIA}} Malaysia || Puspa Mohammed || 21 || [[Alor Setar]] |- | {{flagicon|Malta}} Malta || Christine Bonnici || - || [[Sliema]] |- | {{flagicon|Martinique}} Martinique || Marie Lina Laupa || - || [[Fort-de-France]] |- | {{flagicon|MEX}} Mexico || Monica Rosas || 19 || [[Durango]] |- | {{flagicon|South Africa|1982}} Namibia || Astrid Klotzsch || 22 || [[Windhoek]] |- | '''{{flagicon|NZ}}''' New Zealand || '''[[Lorraine Downes]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=McKenzie-minifie |first=Martha |date=27 December 2006 |title=Catching up with: Lorraine Downes, dancing queen |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/icatching-up-withi-lorraine-downes-dancing-queen/ZX27HIMUJO4WPIRNECCYDS4I4U/ |access-date=24 March 2025 |website=NZ Herald |language=en-NZ}}</ref>''' || 18 || [[Auckland]] |- | {{flagicon|Northern Mariana Islands}} Northern Mariana Islands || Thelma Mafnas || 17 || [[Saipan]] |- | {{flagicon|Norway}} Norway || Karen Elizabeth Dobloug || 21 || [[Furnes, Norway|Furnes]] |- | {{flagicon|PAN}} Panama || Elizabeth Bylan Bennett || 17 || [[Balboa, Panama|Balboa]] |- | {{flagicon|Papua New Guinea}} Papua New Guinea || Shannelle Bray || 20 || [[Port Moresby]] |- | {{flagicon|PAR}} Paraguay || Mercedes Bosch || - || [[Asunción]] |- | {{flagicon|PER}} Peru || Vivien Griffiths || 22 || [[Lima]] |- | {{flagicon|Philippines|1936}} Philippines || Rosita Capuyon || 20 || [[Manila]] |- | {{flagicon|POR}} Portugal || Anabella Elisa Ananiades || - || [[Lisbon]] |- | {{flagicon|Puerto Rico|1952}} Puerto Rico || Carmen Batiz || 18 || [[Trujillo Alto]] |- | {{flagicon|Réunion|local}} Réunion || Eliane LeBeau || - || [[Saint-Denis, Réunion|Saint-Denis]] |- | {{flagicon|Scotland}} Scotland || Linda Renton || 22 || [[Edinburgh]] |- | {{flagicon|Singapore}} Singapore || Kathie Lee || 20 || [[Singapore]] |- | {{flagicon|South Africa|1928}} South Africa || Leanne Hosking || 18 || [[Durban]] |- | {{flagicon|South Korea|1949}} South Korea || Kim Jong-jun || - || [[Seoul]] |- | {{flagicon|Spain|1977}} Spain || Isabel Herrero || 18 || [[Zaragoza]] |- | {{flagicon|SRI}} Sri Lanka || Shyama Fernando || 20 || [[Colombo]] |- | {{flagicon|Sweden}} Sweden || Viveca Miriam Jung || 17 || [[Gothenburg]] |- | {{flagicon|Switzerland}} Switzerland || [[Lolita Morena]] || 22 || [[Locarno]] |- | {{flagicon|TH}} Thailand || Jinda Nernkrang || 22 || [[Bangkok]] |- | {{flagicon|Transkei}} Transkei || Nomxousi Xokelelo || - || [[Mthatha]] |- | {{flagicon|Trinidad}} Trinidad and Tobago || Sandra Williams || - || [[Saint George, Trinidad and Tobago|Saint George]] |- | {{flagicon|Turkey}} Turkey || Dilara Haraççı || - || [[Istanbul]] |- | {{flagicon|Turks and Caicos}} Turks and Caicos Islands || Lolita Ariza || 21 || [[Grand Turk]] |- | {{flagicon|US}} United States || [[Julie Hayek]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=13 May 1983 |title=Julie Hayek is Miss USA |language=en |pages=1 |work=Sarasota Herald-Tribune |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9RweAAAAIBAJ&sjid=b2gEAAAAIBAJ&dq=5%20foot%20julie-hayek&pg=2268%2C1727750 |access-date=24 March 2025}}</ref> || 20 || [[La Cañada Flintridge]] |- | {{flagicon|US Virgin Islands}} United States Virgin Islands || Julie Elizabeth Woods || - || [[Charlotte Amalie, US Virgin Islands|Charlotte Amalie]] |- | {{flagicon|URU}} [[Miss Uruguay|Uruguay]] || María Jacqueline Beltrán || 17 || [[Montevideo]] |- | {{flagicon|VEN}} Venezuela || [[Paola Ruggeri]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Garcés |first=Ever |date=16 November 2022 |title=Miss Venezuela: Ni tan niñas, ni tan venezolanas… |url=https://diariodelosandes.com/miss-venezuela-ni-tan-ninas-ni-tan-venezolanas/ |access-date=24 March 2025 |website=Diario de Los Andes |language=es}}</ref> || 21 || [[Caracas]] |- | {{flagicon|Wales}} Wales || Lianne Gray || 20 || [[Cardiff]] |- | {{flagicon|West Germany}} West Germany || Loana Katharina Radecki || 20 || [[Berlin]] |- | {{flagicon|Western Samoa}} Western Samoa || Falute Mama Aluni || - || [[Apia]] |}

== Notes == <references group="lower-alpha" />

== References == {{reflist}}

== External links == * [http://www.missuniverse.com/ Miss Universe official website]

{{Miss Universe}} {{Miss Universe 1983 delegates}}

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