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Mauriziok/Miss World 1974
Date	22 November 1974
Presenters	Michael Aspel David Vine
Venue	Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom
Broadcaster	BBC
Entrants	58
Placements	15
Debuts	Barbados Guernsey Jersey Zambia
Withdrawals	Cyprus Iceland Luxembourg Mauritius Peru Portugal Seychelles Turkey
Returns	Costa Rica Denmark Ecuador Germany India Madagascar Nicaragua Tunisia
Winner	Helen Morgan United Kingdom (resigned) Anneline Kriel South Africa (successor)

Miss World 1974, the 24th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 22 November 1974 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom. The event was viewed by an estimated 30 million people, and was a "Wide World Special" on the ABC Television Network.

Helen Morgan of the United Kingdom was crowned the winner at the end of the event by Mrs. Julia Morley, becoming the second Welsh and fourth woman from the United Kingdom to win the title. Although it was known to the organizers at the time she was crowned Miss Wales and she was completely open about the issue with the media, Morgan resigned four days later over the intense pressure and media interest in that she had a child as a single mother. The wife of the child's father had given many media interviews in the hours following the contest, creating extremely negative and lurid headlines. Morgan was the first Miss World titleholder to officially resign, and the second not to finish her reign as Miss World, after Marjorie Wallace in 1973.

Morgan had represented Wales in Miss Universe 1974 pageant earlier that year and placed first runner-up to eventual winner Amparo Muñoz of Spain. When Muñoz relinquished her Miss Universe title later that year, Morgan had already been outed as a mother and, therefore, ineligible to succeed Muñoz as Miss Universe. Muñoz was not replaced by any of the other runners-up.

Anneline Kriel of South Africa was crowned the new Miss World after Morgan's resignation. This is the Second time that South Africa had won the title of Miss World.

Results

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results for Miss World 1974

Placements

Final results	Contestant
Miss World 1974	United Kingdom – Helen Morgan (resigned)
1st Runner-up	South Africa – Anneline Kriel (successor)
2nd Runner-up	Israel – Lea Klain
3rd Runner-up	Australia – Gail Margaret Petith
4th Runner-up	United States – Terry Ann Browning
Top 7	Japan – Chikako Shima Sweden – Jill Lindqvist
Top 15	Africa South – Evelyn Peggy Williams Barbados – Linda Yvonne Field Brazil – Mariza Sommer Ireland – Julie Ann Farnham Jamaica – Andrea Lyon New Zealand – Sue Nicholson Norway – Torill Mariann Larsen Spain – Natividad Rodríguez

Contestants

• Africa South – Evelyn Peggy Williams
• Argentina – Sara Barberi
• Aruba – Esther Angeli Luisa Marugg
• Australia – Gail Margaret Petith
• Austria – Eveline Engleder
• Bahamas – Monique Betty Cooper
• Barbados – Linda Yvonne Field
• Belgium – Anne-Marie Sophie Sikorski
• Bermuda – Joyce Ann de Rosa
• Botswana – Rosemary Moleti
• Brazil – Mariza Sommer
• Canada – Sandra Margaret Emily Campbell
• Colombia – Luz María Osorio Fernández
• Costa Rica – Rose Marie Leprade Coto
• Denmark – Jane Moller
• Dominican Republic – Giselle Scanlon Grullón
• Ecuador – Silvia Aurora Jurado Estrada
• Finland – Merja Talvikki Ekman
• France – Edna Tepava
• Germany – Sabrina Erlmeier
• Gibraltar – Patricia Orfila
• Greece – Evgenia (Nia) Dafni
• Guam – Rosemary Pablo Laguna
• Guernsey – Gina Elizabeth Ann Atkinson
• Holland – Gerarda (Gemma) Sophia Balm
• Honduras – Leslie Suez Ramírez
• Hong Kong – Judy Denise Anita Dirkin
• India – Kiran Dholakia
• Ireland – Julie Ann Farnham
• Israel – Lea Klain
• Italy – Zaira Zoccheddu
• Jamaica – Andrea Lyon
• Japan – Chikako Shima
• Jersey – Christine Marjorie Sangan
• Korea – Shim Kyoung-sook
• Lebanon – Gisèle Hachem
• Madagascar – Raobelina Harisoa
• Malaysia – Shirley Tan
• Malta – Mary Louis Elull
• Mexico – Guadalupe del Carmen Elorriaga Valdés
• New Zealand – Sue Nicholson
• Nicaragua – Francis (Fanny) Duarte de León Tapia
• Norway – Torill Mariann Larsen
• Philippines – Agnes Benisano Rustia
• Puerto Rico – Loyda Eunice Valle Blas Machado
• Singapore – Valerie Oh Choon Lian
• South Africa – Anneline Kriel
• Spain – Natividad Rodríguez Fuentes
• Sri Lanka – Vinodini Roshanara Jayskera
• Sweden – Jill Lindqvist
• Switzerland – Astrid Maria Angst
• Thailand – Orn-Jir Chaisatra
• Tunisia – Zohra Kehlifi
• United Kingdom – Helen Elizabeth Morgan
• United States – Terry Ann Browning
• Venezuela – Alicia Rivas Serrano
• Yugoslavia – Jadranka Banjac
• Zambia – Christine Munkombwe

Continental Queens of Beauty

• Africa--South Africa – Anneline Kriel
• Europe--Sweden – Jill Lindqvist
• Asia---Israel – Lea Klain
• Oceania---Australia – Gail Margaret Petith
• Americas--United States – Terry Ann Browning

Notes

Debuts

• Barbados
• Guernsey
• Jersey
• Zambia

Returns

• Last competed in 1961:
  • Madagascar
• Last competed in 1970:
  • Denmark
• Last competed in 1971:
  • Nicaragua
  • Tunisia
• Last competed in 1972:
  • Costa Rica
  • Ecuador
  • Germany
  • India

External links

• Pageantopolis – Miss World 1974

{{Miss World 1974 delegates}} [[:Category:Miss World]] [[:Category:1974 in London]] [[:Category:1974 beauty pageants]] [[:Category:Beauty pageants in the United Kingdom]] [[:Category:Events at the Royal Albert Hall]] [[:Category:November 1974 events in the United Kingdom]]