# Miss Universe 1985 > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Miss_Universe_1985 > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Miss_Universe_1985.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Universe_1985 > Source revision: 1352743374 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 34th Miss Universe pageant Miss Universe 1985 File:Miss Universe 1985 opening titles.jpg Date 15 July 1985 Presenters Bob Barker Joan Van Ark Entertainment John Denver Clint Holmes Venue James L. Knight Convention Center, Miami, Florida, United States Broadcaster CBS (WTVJ) Entrants 79 Placements 10 Debuts Dominica Withdrawals Aruba French Guiana Guadeloupe Martinique Namibia South Africa Switzerland Turkey Returns Bahamas French Polynesia Haiti Senegal Sri Lanka Winner Deborah Carthy Puerto Rico Congeniality Lucy Montinola (Guam) Best National Costume Sandra Borda (Colombia) Photogenic Brigitte Bergman (Holland) ← 1984 1986 → **Miss Universe 1985** was the 34th [Miss Universe](/source/Miss_Universe) pageant, held at the [James L. Knight Convention Center](/source/Knight_Center_Complex) in Miami, Florida, on 15 July 1985. Seventy-nine contestants competed in the pageant. At the conclusion of the event, [Deborah Carthy](/source/Deborah_Carthy_Deu) of Puerto Rico was crowned by [Yvonne Ryding](/source/Yvonne_Ryding) of Sweden.[1] ## Background ### Location and date In October 1984, the owners of the newly expanded [West Edmonton Mall](/source/West_Edmonton_Mall) in [Edmonton](/source/Edmonton), Alberta, Canada showed an interest in hosting the Miss Universe 1985 pageant there.[2] This followed an unsuccessful attempt to host the [Miss Universe 1984](/source/Miss_Universe_1984) pageant in [Calgary](/source/Calgary) Alberta the previous year. Pageant organizers chose to host the pageant in [Miami](/source/Miami), Florida for the second consecutive year. George Honchar, president of Miss Universe Inc., expressed disappointment at a lack of local support for the event, which cost the city $2 million.[1] ### Selection of participants In April, 1985 the city of Miami requested that the Miss Universe organization insist that South Africa should not send a representative to pageant, due to the threat of demonstrations over her country's [Apartheid](/source/Apartheid) policy.[3] In mid May the nation announced that they would not send their titleholder, Andrea Steltzer, to the pageant because of fears for her safety.[4] This was the first time since 1975 that the country did not participate in the pageant; they would not return to the event until 1995.[5] Andrea Steltzer (half South African and half German) took part as Miss Germany in the 1989 Miss Universe pageant where she was a semi-finalist. ## Results Miss Universe 1985 participating nations and results ### Placements Placement Contestant Miss Universe 1985 Puerto Rico – Deborah Carthy 1st Runner-Up Spain – Teresa Sánchez 2nd Runner-Up Zaire – Benita Murekatete 3rd Runner-Up Venezuela – Silvia Martínez 4th Runner-Up Uruguay – Andrea López Top 10 Brazil – Márcia Gabrielle Canada – Karen Tilley Chile – Claudia van Sint Jan Ireland – Olivia Tracey United States – Laura Harring ## Contestants - **[Argentina](/source/Argentina)** - Yanina Castaño - **[Australia](/source/Australia)** - Elizabeth Rowly - **[Austria](/source/Austria)** - Martina Haiden - **[Bahamas](/source/The_Bahamas)** - Cleopatra Adderly - **[Barbados](/source/Barbados)** - Elizabeth Wadman - **[Belgium](/source/Belgium)** - Anne van der Broeck - **[Belize](/source/Belize)** - Jennifer Woods - **[Bermuda](/source/Bermuda)** - Jannell Ford - **[Bolivia](/source/Bolivia)** - Gabriela Orozco - **[Brazil](/source/Brazil)** - Márcia Gabrielle - **[British Virgin Islands](/source/British_Virgin_Islands)** - Jennifer Leonora Penn - **[Canada](/source/Canada)** - [Karen Tilley](/source/Karen_Elizabeth_Tilley) - **[Cayman Islands](/source/Cayman_Islands)** - Emily Hurston - **[Chile](/source/Chile)** - Claudia van Sint Jan - **[Colombia](/source/Colombia)** - Sandra Borda - **[Cook Islands](/source/Cook_Islands)** - Essie Mokotupu - **[Costa Rica](/source/Costa_Rica)** - Rosibel Chacón - **[Curaçao](/source/Cura%C3%A7ao)** - Sheida Weber - **[Cyprus](/source/Cyprus)** - Andri Andreou - **[Denmark](/source/Denmark)** - Susan Rasmussen - **[Dominica](/source/Dominica)** - Margaret Rose Cools-Lartigue - **[Dominican Republic](/source/Dominican_Republic)** - Melba Vicens[6] - **[Ecuador](/source/Ecuador)** - María Elena Stangl - **[El Salvador](/source/El_Salvador)** - Julia Haydee Mora - **[England](/source/England)** - Helen Westlake - **[Finland](/source/Finland)** - Marja Kinnunen - **[France](/source/France)** - Suzanne Iskandar - **[Gambia](/source/The_Gambia)** - Batura Jallow - **[Gibraltar](/source/Gibraltar)** - Karina Hollands - **[Greece](/source/Greece)** - Sabina Damianidis - **[Guam](/source/Guam)** - Lucy Carbollido Montinola - **[Guatemala](/source/Guatemala)** - Perla Prera - **[Haiti](/source/Haiti)** - Arielle Jeanty - **[Holland](/source/Netherlands)** - Brigitte Bergman - **[Honduras](/source/Honduras)** - Diana García - **[Hong Kong](/source/British_Hong_Kong)** - Shallin Tse - **[Iceland](/source/Iceland)** - Hana Bryndís Jónsdóttir - **[India](/source/India)** - [Sonu Walia](/source/Sonu_Walia) - **[Ireland](/source/Republic_of_Ireland)** - [Olivia Tracey](/source/Olivia_Tracey) - **[Israel](/source/Israel)** - Hilla Kelmann - **[Italy](/source/Italy)** - Beatrice Popi - **[Japan](/source/Japan)** - Hatsumi Furusawa - **[Lebanon](/source/Lebanon)** - Joyce Sahab - **[Luxembourg](/source/Luxembourg)** - Gabrielle Chiarini - **[Malaysia](/source/Malaysia)** - Agnes Chin - **[Malta](/source/Malta)** - Fiona Micallef - **[Mexico](/source/Mexico)** - Yolanda Cádenas - **[New Zealand](/source/New_Zealand)** - Claire Glenister[7] - **[Northern Mariana Islands](/source/Northern_Mariana_Islands)** - Antoinette Flores - **[Norway](/source/Norway)** - Karen Moe - **[Panama](/source/Panama)** - Janette Vásquez - **[Papua New Guinea](/source/Papua_New_Guinea)** - Carmel Vagi - **[Paraguay](/source/Paraguay)** - Beverly Ocampo - **[Peru](/source/Peru)** - María Gracia Galleno - **[Philippines](/source/Philippines)** - Joyce Burton - **[Poland](/source/Polish_People's_Republic)** - Katarzyna Zawidzka - **[Portugal](/source/Portugal)** - Alexandra Gomes - **[Puerto Rico](/source/Puerto_Rico)** - [Deborah Carthy](/source/Deborah_Carthy_Deu) - **[Réunion](/source/R%C3%A9union)** - Dominique de Lort Serignan - **[Scotland](/source/Scotland)** - Jackie Hendrie - **[Senegal](/source/Senegal)** - Chantal Loubelo - **[Singapore](/source/Singapore)** - Lyana Chiok - **[South Korea](/source/South_Korea)** - Young-ok Choi - **[Spain](/source/Spain)** - [Teresa Sánchez](/source/Teresa_S%C3%A1nchez_L%C3%B3pez) - **[Sri Lanka](/source/Sri_Lanka)** - [Ramani Bartholomeusz](/source/Ramani_Bartholomeusz) - **[Sweden](/source/Sweden)** - Carina Marklund - **[Tahiti](/source/French_Polynesia)** - Hinarii Kilian - **[Thailand](/source/Thailand)** - Tarntip Pongsuk - **[Trinidad and Tobago](/source/Trinidad_and_Tobago)** - Brenda Joy Fahey - **[Turks and Caicos Islands](/source/Turks_and_Caicos_Islands)** - Miriam Adams - **[United States](/source/United_States)** - [Laura Harring](/source/Laura_Harring)[8] - **[United States Virgin Islands](/source/United_States_Virgin_Islands)** - Mudite Alda Henderson - **[Uruguay](/source/Uruguay)** - Andrea López - **[Venezuela](/source/Venezuela)** - Silvia Martínez - **[Wales](/source/Wales)** - Barbara Christian - **[West Germany](/source/West_Germany)** - Stefanie Roth - **[Western Samoa](/source/Samoa)** - Tracy Mihaljevich - **[Yugoslavia](/source/Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia)** - Dinka Delić - **[Zaire](/source/Zaire)** - Benita Murekatete ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-AP_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-AP_1-1) "79 Women Vie For Miss Universe Crown". Associated Press. 1985-07-15. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** "Edmonton's new focus". The Globe and Mail. 1984-10-23. p. M1. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** "Miami Worried About Miss South Africa". The San Francisco Chronicle. Reuters. 1985-04-02. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** "Protest Fears Force Miss South Africa Out Of Miss Universe Pageant". Associated Press. 1985-05-19. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["South African representatives to Miss Universe"](http://www.pageant-almanac.com/miss-universe/parade/south-africa.php). Pageant Almanac. Retrieved 2007-04-21.{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web)}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service)) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Gomez, Shirley (11 August 2025). ["Victoria Kjaer crowns Jennifer Ventura as Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2025: What happened to Celinee Santos?"](https://www.hola.com/us/celebrities/20250811849552/victoria-kjaer-crowns-jennifer-ventura-miss-dominican-republic-universe-2025/) [Victoria Kjaer crowns Jennifer Ventura as Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2025: What happened to Celinee Santos?]. *[Hola!](/source/%C2%A1Hola!)*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20250814091458/https://www.hola.com/us/celebrities/20250811849552/victoria-kjaer-crowns-jennifer-ventura-miss-dominican-republic-universe-2025/) from the original on 14 August 2025. Retrieved 14 August 2025. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Page 1"](https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/press/1985/04/22/1). *[The Press](/source/The_Press)*. [Christchurch](/source/Christchurch), New Zealand. 22 April 1985. p. 1. Retrieved 31 January 2026 – via [Papers Past](/source/National_Library_of_New_Zealand#Papers_Past). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Leisner, Pat (1985-05-13). "Miss Texas, the New Miss USA, Will Represent USA in Miss Universe Pageant". Associated Press. ## External links - [Miss Universe official website](http://www.missuniverse.com/) v t e Miss Universe 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 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 Countries Scorings v t e Miss Universe 1985 national titleholders CAN: Karen Tilley IND: Sonu Walia IRE: Olivia Tracey NOR: Karen Margrethe Moe PUR: Deborah Carthy-Deu (winner) ESP: Teresa Sánchez López SRI: Ramani Bartholomeusz USA: Laura Herring VEN: Silvia Martínez --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Miss Universe 1985](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Universe_1985) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Universe_1985?action=history)). 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