Grand Slam Ranking and Country of the Year 1957
11-England / UK; 12-Brazil; 13-Denmark; 14-Cuba; 15-Israel; 16-Italy; 17-South Africa; 18-Ceylon; 19-Hong Kong; 20-Mexico and Switzerland; 22-Uruguay; 23-Argentina and Austria; 25-Australia; 26-Canada; 27-Norway; 28-Hawaii; 29-El Salvador; 30-Tunisia; 31 -Belgium; 32-Panama; 33-Alaska, Philippines, and Turkey; 36-Chile and Costa Rica; 38-Guatemala, Honduras, and Morocco; 41-Netherlands; 42-Puerto Rico; 43-Iceland and Ireland; 45-Ecuador and Korea; 47-Monaco, New Zealand, and West Indies; 50-Dominican Republic, British Guyana, India, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Martinique, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Singapore, and Thailand.
GRAND SLAM RANKING IN 1957: FINLAND GOES UP TO 5TH; PERU LEADS IN LATIN AMERICA
What a year for Finland and Peru! Finland now has a Miss Universe (1952) and a Miss World (1957) and has gone two important notches up, reaching a top 5 position, in 5th place. After winning the first Miss Universe title for Latin America, Peru has advanced incredible 16 positions up in the Grand Slam Ranking, and is now #7, overtaking Venezuela, now 10th, as the major beauty pageant force among Latin nations. Japan (11th), no longer in the Top 10, remains the leading power in Asia, while Egypt, 9th, tops Africa.
Miss World Ranking in 1957 (Top 10): 1-.Sweden; 2-France; 3-Germany; 4-United States; 5-Egypt; 6-Finland; 7-Greece; 8-Venezuela; 9-Denmark; 10-Switzerland.
Miss Universe Ranking in 1957 (Top 10): 1-USA; 2-Sweden; 3-Germany; 4-Peru; 5-France; 6-Brazil; 7-Finland; 8-England; 9-Greece; 10-Japan.
COUNTRY OF THE YEAR 1957: TIED, FINLAND AND PERU SHARE HONORS
Once again we have two "Countries of the Year", instead of one: Finland and Peru. In 1957, only two Grand Slam pageants existed, the two mega events of beauty: Miss World and Miss Universe . Finland wins the Miss World title with a blonde bombshell called Marita Lindahl, while Peru becomes the first Latin America nation to win Miss Universe, with a striking brunette: Gladys Zender.
Peru did not participate in Miss World and Finland did not send a representative to Miss Universe, so both countries scored the same 3000 points, enough to "cover the year".
In 3rd place that year was Japan, with a 5th place in Miss World and a Top 15 semi-finalist in Miss Universe.