1961 Marlene Schmidt GERMANY

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1st runner-up     Rosemarie Frankland   WALES 2nd runner-up     Adriana Gardiazabal                        ARGENTINA 3rd runner-up   Arlette Dobson   AUSTRIA 4th runner-up     Sharon Renee Brown   USA SEMI-FINALISTS Maria Gloria Silva   CHILE Simone Darot   FRANCE Kristjana Magnusdottir   ICELAND Atida Pisanti   ISRAEL Seo Yang-hee   KOREA Carmela Stein Bedoya   PERU Wang Li-Ling   TAIWAN  (R.O.C.) Susan Jones   SCOTLAND Gunilla Knutsson   SWEDEN Liliane Burnier   SWITZERLAND

After placing consistently in the semi-finals and finals since 1952, Germany finally ran away with the Miss Universe title.  The closest they got before this was in 1956 with Marina Orschel who was first runner-up to Carol Morris of the USA.  Germany had no comment over the news that their delegate, Marlene Schmidt, had won the coveted Miss Universe crown.   Rosemarie Frankland of Wales, Marlene's runner-up, goes on to win Miss World 1961.

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