{{Short description|35th Miss Universe pageant}} {{pp-sock|small=yes}} <!-- good start. please don't delete this tag until the vast majority of claims are reliably sourced. See Talk. --> {{Infobox beauty pageant | photo = File:Bárbara Palacios.jpg | caption = [[Bárbara Palacios]] | winner = [[Bárbara Palacios]] | represented = Venezuela | congeniality = Dina Reyes Salas (Guam) | best national costume = [[Gilda García]] (Panama) | photogenic = Susanna Huckstep (Italy) | date = 21 July 1986 | presenters = {{Hlist|[[Bob Barker]]|[[Mary Frann]]}} | acts = [[Gloria Estefan|Miami Sound Machine]] | venue = [[Atlapa Convention Centre]], Panama City, Panama | broadcaster = [[CBS]] <small>(international)</small><br>[[TVN (Panama)|TVN]] <small>(official broadcaster)</small> | entrants = 77 | placements = 10 | debuts = Côte d'Ivoire | withdraws = {{Hlist|Bermuda|[[Cayman Islands]]|Dominica|Haiti|Senegal|[[Tahiti]]|[[Yugoslavia]]}} | returns = {{Hlist|Aruba|Jamaica|Switzerland|Turkey}} | before = [[Miss Universe 1985|1985]] | next = [[Miss Universe 1987|1987]] }}
'''Miss Universe 1986''' was the 35th [[Miss Universe]] pageant, held at the [[Atlapa Convention Centre]] in Panama City, Panama, on 21 July 1986. At the conclusion of the event, [[Bárbara Palacios]] of Venezuela was crowned by [[Deborah Carthy-Deu]] of Puerto Rico. Seventy-seven contestants competed in this year.
==Results== [[File:Miss Universe 1986 Map.PNG|thumb|250px|Miss Universe 1986 participating nations and results]]
=== Placements === {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" |- ! Placement !! Contestant |- | Miss Universe 1986 | * {{flagu|Venezuela|1954}} – [[Bárbara Palacios]]<ref name=lakeland/> |- | 1st Runner-Up | * {{flagu|United States}} – [[Christy Fichtner]] |- | 2nd Runner-Up | * {{Flagu|Colombia}} – [[María Mónica Urbina]] |- | 3rd Runner-Up | * {{flagu|Poland}} – Brygida Bziukiewicz |- | 4th Runner-Up | * {{Flagu|Finland}} – Tuula Irmeli Polvi |- | Top 10 | * {{flagu|Brazil|1968}} – [[Deise Nunes]] * {{Flagu|Chile}} – Mariana Villasante * {{flagu|Puerto Rico}} – Elizabeth Robison * {{Flagu|Switzerland}} – Eveline Glanzmann * {{Flagu|Zaire}} – Aimée Dobala |}
== Contestants == {{colbegin}} * {{Flagu|Argentina}} - María de los Ángeles Fernández Espadero * {{flagu|Aruba}} - Mildred Jacqueline Semeleer * {{Flagu|Australia}} - Christina Lucinda Bucat * {{Flagu|Austria}} - Manuela Redtenbacher * {{Flagu|Bahamas}} - Marie Brown * {{Flagu|Barbados}} - Roslyn Irene Williams * {{Flagu|Belgium}} - [[Goedele Liekens]] * {{Flagu|Belize}} - Romy Ellen Taegar * {{Flagu|Bolivia}} - Elizabeth O'Connor-d'Arlach * {{Flagu|Brazil}} - [[Deise Nunes]] * {{Flagu|British Virgin Islands}} - Shereen Desmona Flax * {{Flagu|Canada}} - Renee Newhouse * {{Flagu|Chile}} - Mariana Villasante Aravena * {{Flagu|Colombia}} - [[María Mónica Urbina]] * {{Flagu|Cook Islands}} - Lorna Sawtell * {{Flagu|Costa Rica}} - Aurora Velásquez Arigño * {{flagu|Côte d'Ivoire}} - Marie Françoise Kouame * {{Flagu|Curaçao}} - Christine Joyce Denise Sibilo * {{flagu|Cyprus|1960}} - Christina Vassaliadou * {{Flagu|Denmark}} - [[Helena Christensen]]<ref name=christensen/> * {{Flagu|Dominican Republic}} - Lissette Chamorro * {{Flagu|Ecuador}} - Verónica Lucía Sevilla Ledergerber * {{Flagu|El Salvador}} - Vicky Elizabeth Cañas Álvarez * {{Flagu|England}} - Joanne Ruth Sedgley * {{Flagu|Finland}} - Tuula Irmeli Polvi * {{Flagu|France}} - Catherine Carew * {{Flagu|Gambia}} - Rose Marie Eunson * {{Flagu|Gibraltar}} - Gail Anne May Francis * {{Flagu|Greece}} - Vasilia Mantaki * {{Flagu|Guam}} - Dina Ann Reyes Salas * {{Flagu|Guatemala}} - Christa Kalula Wellman Girón * {{flagu|Holland}} - Caroline Veldkamp * {{flagu|Honduras|1949}} - Sandra Natalie Navarrete Romero * {{flagu|British Hong Kong|name=Hong Kong}} - San Lee Robin Mae * {{Flagu|Iceland}} - Thora Thrastardóttir * {{Flagu|India}} - [[Mehr Jesia]] * {{Flagu|Ireland}} - Karen Ann Shevlin * {{Flagu|Israel}} - Nilly Drucker * {{Flagu|Italy}} - [[Susanna Huckstep]] * {{Flagu|Jamaica}} - Liliana Antoinette Cisneros * {{Flagu|Japan}} - Hiroko Esaki * {{Flagu|Lebanon}} - Reine Philip Barakat * {{Flagu|Luxembourg}}' - Martine Christine Georgette Pilot * {{Flagu|Malaysia}} - Betty Chee * {{Flagu|Malta}} - Antoinette Zerafa * {{Flagu|Mexico}} - Alejandrina Carranza Ancheta * {{Flagu|New Zealand}} - Christine Atkinson<ref>{{cite news |title=Beauty contest winner |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/press/1986/04/28/1 |work=[[The Press]] |page=1 |access-date=31 January 2026 |date=28 April 1986 |location=[[Christchurch]], New Zealand |via=[[National Library of New Zealand#Papers Past|Papers Past]]}}</ref> * {{flagu|Northern Mariana Islands}} - Christine Guerrero * {{Flagu|Norway}} - Tone Anette Henriksen * {{Flagu|Panama}} - [[Gilda García]] * {{Flagu|Papua New Guinea}} - Anna Wild * {{flagu|Paraguay|1954}} - Johanna Eugenia Kelner Toja * {{Flagu|Peru}} - Karin Mercedes Lindemann García * {{flagu|Philippines|1986}} - Violeta Naluz * {{flagu|Polish People's Republic|name=Poland}} - Brygida Bziukiewicz * {{Flagu|Portugal}} - Mariana Dias Carriço * {{flagu|Puerto Rico}} - Elizabeth Robison Latalladi * {{Flagu|Réunion}} - Geneviève Lebon * {{Flagu|Scotland}} - Natalie Devlin * {{Flagu|Singapore}} - Farah Lange * {{flagu|South Korea}} - Young-ran Bae * {{Flagu|Spain}} - Concepción Tur Espinosa * {{Flagu|Sri Lanka}} - Indra Kumari * {{Flagu|Sweden}} - Anne Lena Rahmberg * {{Flagu|Switzerland}} - Eveline Nicole Glanzmann * {{Flagu|Thailand}} - Thaveeporn Klungpoy * {{flagu|Trinidad and Tobago}} - Candace Jennings * {{Flagu|Turkey}} - Demet Başdemir * {{Flagu|Turks and Caicos Islands}} - Barbara Bulah Mae Capron * {{Flagu|United States}} - [[Christy Fichtner]] * {{flagu|United States Virgin Islands}} - Jasmine Olivia Turner * {{Flagu|Uruguay}} - Norma Silvana García Lapitz * {{flagu|Venezuela|1954}} - [[Bárbara Palacios]] * {{Flagu|Wales}} - Tracey Rowlands * {{flagu|West Germany}} - Birgit Jahn * {{flagu|Western Samoa}} - Tui Kaye Hunt * {{Flagu|Zaire}} - Aimee Likobe Dobala {{colend}}
==References== <references> <ref name=lakeland>{{cite news|agency=[[Associated Press]]|title=Miss Universe's reign means a delay in plans|newspaper=[[Lakeland Ledger]]|location=[[Lakeland, Florida]]|date=July 23, 1986|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bJIsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cPsDAAAAIBAJ&dq=&pg=4119%2C2949210|access-date=21 February 2011|archive-date=15 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191215184632/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bJIsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cPsDAAAAIBAJ&dq=&pg=4119,2949210|url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name=christensen>{{cite news|url=http://www.tribune.ie/archive/article/2003/aug/31/reversing-the-lens/ |title=Reversing the lens: Helena Christensen |first=Andrew |last=Mueller |date=August 31, 2003 |location=Ireland |newspaper=[[Sunday Tribune]] |access-date=2010-09-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150104180154/http://www.tribune.ie/archive/article/2003/aug/31/reversing-the-lens |archive-date=January 4, 2015 }} <br> {{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/helena-christensen-role-model-481685.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220515/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/helena-christensen-role-model-481685.html |archive-date=2022-05-15 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Helena Christensen: Role Model |first=James |last=Mottram |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |location=London |date=June 10, 2006 |access-date=2010-09-12 }}</ref> </references>
==External links== * [http://www.missuniverse.com Miss Universe official website]
{{Miss Universe}} {{Miss Universe 1986 delegates}}
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