{{Short description|21st Miss World pageant}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}} {{EngvarB|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox beauty pageant | photo = | caption = | winner = [[Lúcia Petterle]]<ref name="google.com">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19811113&id=rqErAAAAIBAJ&pg=5188,2713766&hl=en|title=''The Telegraph''|access-date=27 January 2016}}</ref> | represented = Brazil | date = 10 November 1971 | presenters = {{hlist|[[Michael Aspel]]|[[David Vine]]}} | venue = [[Royal Albert Hall]], [[London]], [[England]], United Kingdom | broadcaster = [[BBC]] | entrants = 56 | placements = 15 | debuts = {{Hlist|Bermuda|Guam}} | returns = {{Hlist|Aruba|Panama|Paraguay|Trinidad and Tobago}} | withdraws = {{Hlist|Colombia|Denmark|Gambia|Grenada|Hong Kong|Lebanon|Liberia|Nigeria}} | before = [[Miss World 1970|1970]] | next = [[Miss World 1972|1972]] }}
'''Miss World 1971''' was the 21st [[Miss World]] pageant, held at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in [[London]], [[England]], United Kingdom, on 10 November 1971.<ref>{{cite web | title=Miss World Competition Through the Years | website=[[E!]] | date=December 12, 2014 | url=http://www.eonline.com/photos/14545/miss-world-competition-through-the-years/443152| access-date=January 23, 2016}}</ref>
[[Jennifer Hosten]] of Grenada crowned [[Lúcia Petterle]] of Brazil at the end of the event.<ref name="google.com1">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2002&dat=19711111&id=VWslAAAAIBAJ&pg=4402,3437049&hl=en|title=''Beaver County Times''|access-date=27 January 2016}}</ref> Although Petterle completed her reign as Miss World, she fell and broke her arm in the final month of her year and was unable to travel to London to participate in the [[Miss World 1972]] contest.
This edition marked the debut of Bermuda and Guam, and the return of Aruba and Trinidad and Tobago, which last competed in [[Miss World 1966|1966]], Panama last competed in [[Miss World 1967|1967]] and Paraguay last competed in [[Miss World 1969|1969]].
Colombia, Denmark, the Gambia, Grenada, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Liberia and Nigeria, withdrew from the competition for unknown reasons.
== Results == [[File:Miss World 1971 Map.PNG|thumb|250px|Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1971<ref name="google.com1"/><ref name="google.com2">{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19711111&id=KyEsAAAAIBAJ&pg=3888,1850717&hl=en|title=''Times Daily''|access-date=27 January 2016}}</ref>]]
=== Placements === {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" |- ! Placement ! Contestant |- | '''Miss World 1971''' | * '''{{flag|Brazil|1968}}''' – '''[[Lúcia Petterle]]'''<ref name="google.com"/><ref name="google.com1"/> |- | 1st runner-up | * {{flag|United Kingdom}} – Marilyn Ann Ward<ref name="google.com1"/> |- | 2nd runner-up | * {{flag|Portugal}} – Ana Paula de Almeida<ref name="google.com1"/> |- | 3rd runner-up | * {{flag|Guyana}} – Nalini Moonsar |- | 4th runner-up | * {{flag|Jamaica}} – Ava Joy Gill |- | Top 7 | * {{flag|France}} – Myriam Stocco * {{flag|United States}} – [[Brucene Smith]]<ref name="google.com2"/><ref name="google.com1"/> |- | Top 15 | * {{flag|Australia}} – Valerie Roberts * {{flag|Austria}} – Waltraud Lucas * {{flag|Guam}} – Deborah Bordallo Nelson * {{flag|Israel}} – Miri Ben-David * {{flag|South Africa|1928}} – Monica Fairall * {{flag|Spain|1945}} – María García * {{flag|Sweden}} – Simonetta Kohl * {{flag|Venezuela|1954}} – Ana María Padrón |}
==Contestants== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * '''{{flag|Argentina|alt}}''' – Alicia Beatriz Daneri * '''{{flag|Netherlands Antilles|1959|name=Aruba}}''' – Maria Elizabeth Bruin * '''{{flag|Australia}}''' – Valerie Roberts * '''{{flag|Austria}}''' – Waltraud Lucas * '''{{flag|Bahamas|1953}}''' – Frances Clarkson * '''{{flag|Belgium}}''' – Martine De Hert * '''{{flag|Bermuda}}''' – Rene Furbert * '''{{flag|Brazil|1968}}''' – '''[[Lúcia Petterle]]'''<ref name="google.com"/> * '''{{flag|Canada}}''' – Lana Drouillard * '''{{flag|Dominion of Ceylon|name=Ceylon}}''' – Gail Abayasinghe * '''{{flag|Cyprus}}''' – Kyriaki Koursoumba * '''{{flag|Dominican Republic|civil}}''' – Haydée Kuret * '''{{flag|Ecuador}}''' – María Cecilia Gómez * '''{{flag|Finland}}''' – Mirja Halme * '''{{flag|France}}''' – Myriam Stocco * '''{{flag|Gibraltar|ensign}}''' – Lisette Chipolina * '''{{flag|Greece|1970}}''' – Maria Maltezou * '''{{flag|Guam}}''' – Deborah Bordallo Nelson * '''{{flag|Guyana}}''' – Nalini Moonsar * '''{{flag|Holland}}''' – Monica Strotmann * '''{{flag|Iceland}}''' – Fanney Bjarnadóttir * '''{{flag|India}}''' – [[Prema Narayan]] * '''{{flag|Ireland}}''' – June Glover * '''{{flag|Israel}}''' – Miri Ben-David * '''{{flag|Italy}}''' – Maria Pinnone * '''{{flag|Jamaica}}''' – Ava Joy Gill * '''{{flag|Japan|1947}}''' – Emiko Ikeda * '''{{flag|Luxembourg}}''' – Mariette Werckx * '''{{flag|Malaysia}}''' – Daphne Munro * '''{{flag|Malta}}''' – Doris Abdilla * '''{{flag|Mauritius}}''' – Marie-Anne Ng Sik Kwong * '''{{flag|Mexico}}''' – Lucía Arellano * '''{{flag|New Zealand}}''' – Linda Ritchie<ref>{{cite news |title=Blonde winner of contest |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/press/1971/06/08/14 |work=[[The Press]] |page=14 |access-date=2 January 2026 |date=8 June 1971 |location=[[Christchurch]], New Zealand |via=[[National Library of New Zealand#Papers Past|Papers Past]]}}</ref> * '''{{flag|Nicaragua}}''' – Soraya Herrera * '''{{flag|Norway}}''' – Kate Starvik * '''{{flag|Panama}}''' – María de Lourdes Rivera * '''{{flag|Paraguay|1954}}''' – Rosa María Duarte * '''{{flag|Philippines|1936}}''' – Onelia Ison Jose<ref>{{Cite news|last=Burton-Titular|first=Joyce|date=1 October 2013|title=From Vivien to Megan: The PH in Miss World history|url=https://www.rappler.com/entertainment/pageants/40304-philippines-miss-world-history/|access-date=28 April 2025|website=[[Rappler]]|language=en|archive-date=24 July 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724212547/https://onedio.com/haber/hepsi-zirveye-cikti-ancak-hepsi-orada-kalamadi-turkiye-nin-son-25-yildaki-turkiye-guzelleri-simdi-ne-yapiyor-860708|url-status=live}}</ref> * '''{{flag|Portugal}}''' – Ana Paula de Almeida * '''{{flag|Puerto Rico}}''' – Raquel Quintana * '''{{flag|Seychelles|1961}}''' – Nadia Morel du Boil * '''{{flag|South Africa|1928}}'''{{Efn|Black representative from South Africa competed as Miss Africa South in the pageant}} – Gaily Ryan * '''{{flag|South Africa|1928}}''' – Monica Fairall * '''{{flag|South Korea}}'''{{Efn|Competed as Korea in the pageant}} – Lee Young-eun * '''{{flag|Spain|1945}}''' – María García * '''{{flag|Sweden}}''' – Simonetta Kohl * '''{{flag|Switzerland}}''' – Patrice Sollner * '''{{flag|Thailand}}''' – Boonyong Thongboon * '''{{flag|Trinidad and Tobago}}''' – Maria Jordan * '''{{flag|Tunisia}}''' – Souad Keneari * '''{{flag|Turkey}}''' – Nil Menemencioğlu<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=tr|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> * '''{{flag|United Kingdom}}''' – Marilyn Ann Ward * '''{{flag|United States}}''' – [[Brucene Smith]] * '''{{flag|Venezuela|1954}}''' – Ana María Padrón Ibarrondo * '''{{flag|West Germany}}''' – Irene Neumann * '''{{flag|Yugoslavia}}''' – [[Zlata Petković]] {{div col end}}
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== References == {{reflist}}
{{Miss World}} {{Miss World 1971 delegates}}
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