Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Reita Faria was the first Indian woman to win the Miss World title of 1966. After winning the Miss Bombay crown earlier that year, she won the Eve's Weekly Miss India contest (not to be confused with the Femina Miss India competition won that year by Yasmin Daji.) She was the first Asian to win Miss World. After her one year tenure, she refused modeling and films and instead concentrated on medical studies. Now Dr. Reita Powell, she lives in Dublin, Ireland with her husband David Powell, and has two children and five grandchildren. Reita has come back to judge the Miss World competition on a few occasions.
1st Runner-up Yugoslavia - Nikica Marinovic
2nd Runner-up Greece - Efi Fontini Plumbi
3rd Runner-up Brazil - Marlucci Manvailler Rocha
4th Runner-up Italy - Gigliola Carbonara
Finalists Norway - Birgit Andersen
USA - Denice Estelle Blair
Finalists
Norway - Birgit Andersen
USA - Denice Estelle Blair
Semifinalists
Argentina - Graciela Guardone
Canada - Diane Coulter
Dominican Republic - Jeanette Dotel Montes de Oca
France - Michèle Boulé
Germany - Jutta Danske
Guyana - Umblita Van Sluytman
South Africa - Johanna Maud Carter
United Kingdom - Jennifer Lowe Summers
Disqualified
Nigeria - Uzor Okafor (married to a Briton, was not nationally crowned)
