{{Short description|Beauty pageant edition}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2014}} {{Use British English|date=May 2014}} {{Infobox beauty pageant | image = File:Norma Cappagli in Argentina (cropped).jpg | caption = [[Norma Cappagli]] | winner = [[Norma Cappagli]]<ref name="Rose 2010">{{cite book | last=Rose | first=D. | title=Sexually, I'm More of a Switzerland: More Personal Ads from the London Review of Books | publisher=Scribner | year=2010 | isbn=978-1-4391-3149-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fSNpHWBeHucC&pg=PA150 | page=150}}</ref> | represented = Argentina | date = 8 November 1960 | presenters = {{Hlist|[[Bob Hope]]|[[Peter West]]}} | entrants = 39 | placements = 18 | venue = [[Lyceum Theatre, London|Lyceum Ballroom]], [[London]], United Kingdom | broadcaster = [[BBC]] | debuts = {{Hlist|Bolivia|Burma|Cyprus|Ecuador|French Polynesia|Kenya|Lebanon|Madagascar|Nicaragua|Spain|Tanganyika}} | returns = {{Hlist|Australia|Turkey}} | withdraws = {{Hlist|Austria|Ghana|Gibraltar|Hawaii|Honduras|Hong Kong|Jamaica|Paraguay|Peru|Portugal|Puerto Rico}} | before = [[Miss World 1959|1959]] | next = [[Miss World 1961|1961]] }}
'''Miss World 1960''' was the tenth [[Miss World]] pageant, held at the [[Lyceum Theatre, London|Lyceum Ballroom]], [[London]], United Kingdom, on 8 November 1960.
At the conclusion of the event, racing driver [[Stirling Moss]], one of the judges, crowned [[Norma Cappagli]] of Argentina as Miss World 1960. This is the first victory of Argentina in the history of the pageant.
Contestants from thirty-nine countries and territories participated in this year's pageant. The pageant was hosted by [[Bob Hope]], while [[Peter West]] provided commentary all throughout the competition.<ref>{{Cite news|date=8 November 1960|title=Who'll be Miss World?|language=en|pages=8|work=Evening Times|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HeRAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KacMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6520%2C938037|access-date=14 April 2025|via=[[Google News Archive]]}}</ref>
== Background == [[File:Lyceum_Theatre,_Wellington_St,_London.jpg|thumb|250x250px|Lyceum Ballroom, venue of Miss World 1960]]
=== Selection of participants === Thirty-nine contestants were selected to compete in the pageant. Three contestants were appointed to represent their countries after being a runner-up in their national pageants.
==== Replacements ==== Diane Medina was appointed to represent France after Yolanda Biecosai withdrew from the competition for undisclosed reasons. The first runner-up of Miss United States 1960, Judith Ann Achter, was appointed to represent her country, after it was discovered that Annette Driggers, the original winner, was married and only fifteen years old.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1 November 1960|title=Miss U.S.A. was "Mrs."... and aged only 15!|language=en|pages=9|work=Evening Times|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GORAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KacMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6022%2C46268|access-date=14 April 2025|via=[[Google News Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2 November 1960|title=Miss Amerika gediskwalificeerd|language=nl|trans-title=Miss America disqualified|pages=13|work=Nieuwsblad van het Noorden|url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010678671:mpeg21:p013|access-date=14 April 2025|via=Delpher}}</ref> The third runner-up of Miss Holland 1960, Carina Verbeek, was appointed to represent her country, as Miss Holland 1960, Ans Schoon, was abroad when the registration forms arrived.<ref>{{Cite news|date=3 November 1960|title=HOEWEL zij op de vierde plaats kwam bij de verkiezingen van "miss Holland", is Karma Verbeek gisteren toch naar Londen vertrokken om mee te dingen naar de titel "miss World".|language=nl|trans-title=ALTHOUGH she came in fourth place in the Miss Holland election, Karma Verbeek left for London yesterday to compete for the Miss World title.|pages=1|work=Het Parool|url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ABCDDD:010838970:mpeg21:p001|access-date=14 April 2025|via=Delpher}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|date=3 November 1960|title=Karma Verbeek naar Miss-World-wedstrijd|language=nl|trans-title=Karma Verbeek to Miss World contest|pages=1|work=Leeuwarder courant|url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:010615772:mpeg21:p001|access-date=14 April 2025|via=Delpher}}</ref>
==== Debuts, returns and withdrawals ==== This edition marked the debut of Bolivia, Burma, Cyprus, Ecuador, French Polynesia,{{Efn|Competed as Tahiti in the pageant}} Kenya, Lebanon, Madagascar, Nicaragua, Spain, and Tanganyika, and the return of Australia, which last competed in [[Miss World 1957|1957]] and Turkey, last competed in [[Miss World 1958|1958]].
Luise Kammermair of Austria chose not to participate in the competition after becoming a runner-up at [[Miss Europe 1960]]. Comfort Kwamena of Ghana withdrew after choosing to make her flight to London in August 1960 instead of November of the same year. Judith Willoughby of Jamaica, Lena Woo of Hong Kong, Mercedes Ruggia of Paraguay, Maricruz Gómez of Peru, and Maria Josebate Silva Santos of Portugal withdrew for undisclosed reasons.<ref>{{Cite web|date=25 June 2021|orig-date=27 June 1960|title=Missing Miss World, 1960|url=https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/esponsored/20210625/missing-miss-world-1960|access-date=14 April 2025|website=The Gleaner|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=16 August 1960|title=Mooiste meisje in Hongkong|language=nl|trans-title=Most beautiful girl in Hong Kong|pages=9|work=Twentsch dagblad Tubantia|url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMHCO02:163782040:mpeg21:p00009|access-date=14 April 2025|via=Delpher}}</ref> Gibraltar and Puerto Rico withdrew after their respective organizations failed to hold a national competition or appoint a delegate.
Marinka Polhammer of Chile, Marilyne Escobar of Morocco, Lorraine Nawa Jones of New Zealand, and Elaine Maurath of Switzerland were all set compete in this edition, but all withdrew for undisclosed reasons.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news|date=7 November 1960|title=Ansiosa vigilia a Londra per le belle concorrenti|language=it|trans-title=Anxious eve in London for the beautiful contestants|pages=9|work=La Stampa|url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,9/articleid,0077_02_1960_0266_0009_16558172/|access-date=14 April 2025}}</ref>
==Results== [[File:Miss World 1960 Map.PNG|thumb|250x250px|Miss World 1960 participating countries and territories.]]
=== Placements === {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" !Placement !Contestant |- |Miss World 1960 | * {{flag|Argentina}} – [[Norma Cappagli]]'''<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|date=10 November 1960|title=Beauty title to Argentina|language=en|pages=17|work=The Leader-Post|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99275622/beauty-title-to-argentina/|access-date=14 April 2025|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>''' |- |1st runner-up | * {{flag|Israel}} – [[Gila Golan]]'''<ref name=":2" />''' |- |2nd runner-up | * {{flag|South Africa|1928}} – Denise Muir'''<ref name=":2" />''' |- |3rd runner-up | * {{flag|West Germany}} – [[Ingrun Helgard Moeckel]]'''<ref name=":2" />''' |- |4th runner-up | * {{flag|United States}} – Judith Ann Achter'''<ref name=":2" />''' |- |Top 10 | * {{flag|Brazil|1960}} – Maria Edilene Torreão * {{flag|Ireland}} – Irene Ruth Kane<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|date=9 November 1960|title=L'elezione dell'argentina|language=it|trans-title=The election of Argentina|pages=3|work=La Stampa|url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,3/articleid,1576_02_1960_0268_0003_21987855/|access-date=14 April 2025}}</ref> * {{flag|Italy}} – Layla Rigazzi<ref name=":3" /> * {{flag|South Korea}} – Lee Young-hee * {{flag|United Kingdom}} – Hilda Fairclough |- |Top 18 | * {{flag|Canada|1957}} – [[Danica d'Hondt]] * {{flag|Cyprus}} – Mary Mavropoulos * {{flag|Denmark}} – Lise Bodin * {{flag|India}} – Iona Pinto * {{flag|Kenya|colonial}} – Jasmine Batty * {{flag|Norway}} – Grethe Solhoy<ref name=":3" /> * {{flag|Rhodesia and Nyasaland}} – Jenny Lee Scott * {{flag|Sweden}} – Barbro Olsson |}
== Pageant ==
=== Format === The number of placements in this edition has been increased to eighteen from eleven in the previous edition. The eighteen semi-finalists were selected through a preliminary competition held on the day of the final competition, consisting of a swimsuit and evening gown competition. The eighteen semifinalists competed in the swimsuit competition, and ten semi-finalists were eventually selected. The ten semi-finalists were interviewed by Bob Russell and paraded in front of the judges, and the five finalists were eventually selected to compete in the final interview.'''<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />'''
=== Selection committee === * Rajah Gunsekard – [[Sri Lanka|Ceylon]] diplomat<ref name=":3" /> * [[Oliver Messel]] – British artist<ref name=":3" /> * Lady F. Asafu-Adjaye – Wife of the Ambassador of Ghana to Great Britain<ref name=":3" /> * [[Stafford Somerfield]] – British newspaper editor<ref name=":3" /> * Fredericka Ann "Bobo" Sigrist – Wife of British film producer [[Kevin McClory]]<ref name=":3" /> * [[Stirling Moss]] – English [[Formula One]] racer<ref name=":3" /> * [[Bernard Delfont]] – Russian-born British theatrical [[impresario]]<ref name=":3" />
==Contestants== Thirty-nine contestants competed for the title. {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size: 95%;" !Country<!-- FOR NAMES OF COUNTRIES OR TERRITORIES, PLEASE STRICTLY ADHERE TO WP:COMMONNAME POLICIES, DO NOT CHANGE IT JUST BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT MISS WORLD USES. --> !Contestant !Age{{efn|Age at the time of the pageant|name=B}} !Hometown |- |{{flag|Argentina}} |[[Norma Cappagli]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=28 December 2020|title=Beauty queen Norma Cappagli passed away after being run over by a bus|url=https://beautypageants.indiatimes.com/miss-world/Beauty-queen-Norma-Cappagli-passed-away-after-being-run-over-by-a-bus/eventshow/79993952.cms|access-date=14 April 2025|website=[[The Times of India]]|language=en|archive-date=6 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306233015/https://beautypageants.indiatimes.com/miss-world/beauty-queen-norma-cappagli-passed-away-after-being-run-over-by-a-bus/eventshow/79993952.cms|url-status=dead}}</ref> |21 |[[Buenos Aires]] |- |{{flag|Australia}} |Margaret Nott<ref>{{Cite news|date=30 September 1960|title=Local girl wins Miss World contest|language=en|pages=1|work=Victor Harbour Times|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/186739113?searchTerm=%22Miss%20World%22|access-date=15 April 2025|via=Trove}}</ref> |19 |[[Victor Harbor, South Australia|Victoria Harbor]] |- |{{flag|Belgium}} |Huberte Bax<ref>{{Cite web |date=11 January 2010 |title=Erelijst Miss België |url=https://www.demorgen.be/tv-cultuur/erelijst-miss-belgie~b5723d4d/ |access-date=13 April 2025 |website=De Morgen |language=nl-NL}}</ref> |19 |[[Brussels]] |- |{{flag|Bolivia|civil}} |Dalia Monasteros |20 |[[La Paz]] |- |{{flag|Brazil|1960}} |Maria Edilene Torreão |18 |[[São José do Egito]] |- |{{flag|Burma|1948}} |Ma Sen Aye<ref name=":4" /> |24 |[[Yangon]] |- |{{flag|Canada|1957}} |[[Danica d'Hondt]]<ref>{{Cite news|date=8 November 1960|title=Miss Canada meets Miss Australia in World beauty pageant|language=en|pages=21|work=The Canberra Times|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/103109103?searchTerm=%22Miss%20World%22|access-date=15 April 2025|via=Trove}}</ref> |21 |[[Vancouver]] |- |{{flag|Cyprus}} |Mary Mavropoulos |20 |[[Limassol]] |- |{{flag|Denmark}} |Lise Bodin<ref>{{Cite web|date=2 December 2015|title=Danmarks smukkeste kvinder: Her er historien om 'Miss Danmark'-konkurrencen|url=https://www.bt.dk/content/item/3457|access-date=15 April 2025|website=B.T.|language=da}}</ref> |19 |[[Copenhagen]] |- |{{flag|Ecuador}} |[[Toty Rodríguez]]<ref name="uno">{{cite news |date=30 May 2013 |title=Toty Rodríguez, la sensibilidad en una escena |url=http://www.pichinchauniversal.com.ec/personajedelasemana/item/5113-toty-rodr%C3%ADguez,-la-sensibilidad-en-una-escena.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226141057/http://www.pichinchauniversal.com.ec/personajedelasemana/item/5113-toty-rodr%C3%ADguez,-la-sensibilidad-en-una-escena.html |archivedate=26 December 2014 |accessdate=9 March 2025 |work=Pichincha Universal |language=es}}</ref> |23 |[[Guayaquil]] |- |{{flag|Finland}} |Margaretha Schauman |18 |[[Helsinki]] |- |{{flag|France}} |Diane Medina |19 |[[Paris]] |- |{{flag|French Polynesia}} |Teura Bouwens<ref>{{Cite web|last=Harte|first=Helen|date=1 December 2015|title=Teura Bauwens, première Miss Tahiti est décédée|url=https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/polynesie/tahiti/teura-bauwens-premiere-miss-tahiti-est-decedee-311293.html|access-date=15 April 2025|website=Polynésie la 1ère|language=fr-FR}}</ref> |27 |[[Teahupoʻo|Teahupo'o]] |- |{{flag|Greece|old}} |Kalliopi Geralexi |– |[[Athens]] |- |{{flag|Holland}} |Carina Verbeek<ref name=":1" /> |19 |[[The Hague]] |- |{{flag|Iceland}} |Kristín Þorvaldsdóttir |18 |[[Reykjavík]] |- |{{flag|India}} |Iona Pinto<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sangghvi|first=Malavika|date=25 June 2012|title=A star is gone|url=https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/a-star-is-gone-169543|access-date=15 April 2025|website=Mid-Day|language=en}}</ref> |24 |[[Mumbai|Bombay]] |- |{{flag|Ireland}} |Irene Ruth Kane |18 |[[Derry|Londonderry]] |- |{{flag|Israel}} |[[Gila Golan]]<ref>{{Cite news|date=11 November 1960|title="Miss Israel" second|language=en|pages=12|work=The Australian Jewish Times|url=https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/austjewishtimes/1960/11/11/01/article/106/?srpos=2&e=------196-en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI-%22Miss+World%22----1960---------1|access-date=15 April 2025|via=[[National Library of Israel]]|archive-date=10 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310115605/https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/austjewishtimes/1960/11/11/01/article/106/?srpos=2&e=------196-en-20--1--img-txIN%7CtxTI-%22Miss+World%22----1960---------1|url-status=dead}}</ref> |20 |[[Tel Aviv]] |- |{{flag|Italy}} |Layla Rigazzi<ref>{{Cite web|last=Balzarotti|first=Leda|date=7 September 2016|title=Miss Italia: tutte le reginette dal 1939 a oggi - Foto iO Donna|url=https://www.iodonna.it/eventi-e-mostre/gallery/miss-italia-una-storia-scritta-da-73-reginette-2/|access-date=15 April 2025|website=IO Donna|language=it-IT}}</ref> |18 |[[Milan]] |- |{{flag|Japan|1947}} |Eiko Murai<ref>{{Cite news|date=9 November 1960|title=Hair-raising shampoo|language=en|pages=2|work=Herald-Journal|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NnksAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UcwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5217%2C1086244|access-date=15 April 2025|via=[[Google News Archive]]}}</ref> |24 |[[Niigata (city)|Niigata]] |- |{{flag|Jordan}} |Eriny Emile Sebella |22 |[[Amman]] |- |{{flag|Kenya|colonial}} |Jasmine Batty<ref>{{Cite web|last=Johnson|first=Elizabeth Ofosuah|date=24 February 2019|title=See the first-ever beauty queens from Africa|url=https://face2faceafrica.com/article/see-the-first-ever-beauty-queens-from-africa|access-date=15 April 2025|website=Face2Face Africa|language=en}}</ref> |21 |[[Nairobi]] |- |{{flag|Lebanon}} |Giséle Naser |21 |[[Beirut]] |- |{{flag|Luxembourg}} |Liliane Mueller |18 |[[Luxembourg City]] |- |{{flag|Madagascar}} |Rajaobelina Bedovoahangy<ref>{{Cite web|date=29 June 2016|title=Samantha Todivelou Rodriguez crowned Miss World Madagascar 2016|url=https://beautypageants.indiatimes.com/miss-world/samantha-todivelou-rodriguez-crowned-miss-world-madagascar-2016/articleshow/52973491.cms|access-date=15 April 2025|website=[[The Times of India]]|language=en|archive-date=7 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207000854/https://beautypageants.indiatimes.com/miss-world/samantha-todivelou-rodriguez-crowned-miss-world-madagascar-2016/articleshow/52973491.cms|url-status=dead}}</ref> |24 |[[Antananarivo]] |- |{{flag|Nicaragua}} |Carmen Isabel Recalde |18 |[[León, Nicaragua|León]] |- |{{flag|Norway}} |Grethe Solhoy |20 |[[Oslo]] |- |{{flag|Rhodesia and Nyasaland}} |Jenny Lee Scott<ref>{{Cite news|date=2 November 1960|title=Met het zelfstandig worden van ver|language=nl|trans-title=With becoming independent from afar|pages=9|work=Arnhemsche courant|url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKB19:000317028:mpeg21:p00009|access-date=15 April 2025|via=Delpher}}</ref> |18 |[[Kwekwe]] |- |{{flag|South Africa|1928}} |Denise Muir<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lambley|first=Garrin|date=8 November 2022|title=Miss SA: Every winner since 1956|url=https://www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/celeb-news/miss-sa-every-winner-since-1956-breaking/|access-date=15 April 2025|website=The South African|language=en-ZA|archive-date=10 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310082024/https://www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/celeb-news/miss-sa-every-winner-since-1956-breaking/|url-status=dead}}</ref> |19 |[[Johannesburg]] |- |{{flag|South Korea}}{{Efn|Competed as Korea in the pageant}} |Lee Young-hee<ref>{{Cite news|date=31 October 1960|title=In search of a world title|language=en|pages=10|work=Evening Times|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=l-VAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IqcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5183%2C7495983|access-date=15 April 2025}}</ref> |20 |[[Busan]] |- |{{flag|Spain|1945}} |Concepción Molinera |23 |[[Barcelona]] |- |{{flag|Sweden}} |Barbro Olsson<ref>{{Cite news|date=13 June 1960|title=Various "queens" of Sweden gather at Stockholm for a picture session|language=en|pages=12|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer-argyrol-the-p/38781175/|access-date=15 April 2025|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> |20 |[[Umeå]] |- |{{flag|Tanganyika}} |Carmen Lesley Woodcock |18 |[[Dar es Salaam]] |- |{{flag|Turkey}} |[[Nebahat Çehre]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Yarışmayla ünlü oldular!|url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/mahmure/galeri-yarismayla-unlu-oldular-34914444|access-date=15 April 2025|website=[[Hürriyet]]|date=November 2016 |language=tr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=4 May 2020|last=Tarihi|first=Güncelleme|title=Güzeller canlı yayında buluştu|trans-title=Beauties met on live broadcast|url=https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/galeri-1929dan-gunumuze-turkiye-guzelleri-41508916|access-date=29 April 2025|website=[[Hürriyet]]|language=Turkish|archive-date=2 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230102125519/https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/galeri-1929dan-gunumuze-turkiye-guzelleri-41508916|url-status=live}}</ref> |17 |[[Samsun]] |- |{{flag|United Kingdom}} |Hilda Fairclough<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=4 November 1960|title=Foursome of beauty|language=en|pages=14|work=Evening Times|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=G-RAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KacMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6535%2C475442|access-date=15 April 2025}}</ref> |23 |[[Lancashire]] |- |{{flag|United States}} |Judith Ann Achter<ref>{{Cite news|date=3 November 1960|title=First 'Miss U.S.' too young|language=en|pages=4|work=The Kane Republican|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/279652/3nov1960thekanerepublican/|access-date=15 April 2025|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> |18 |[[St. Louis]] |- |{{flag|Uruguay}} |Beatriz Benítez |20 |[[Montevideo]] |- |{{flag|West Germany}} |[[Ingrun Helgard Moeckel]]<ref name=":0" /> |18 |[[Düsseldorf]] |}
==Notes== <references group="lower-alpha" />
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.missworld.com Miss World official website]
{{Miss World}} {{Miss World 1960 delegates}}
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