Miss Universe 1985 (Jayverse)

Miss Universe 1985, the 34th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 15 July 1985 at the James L. Knight Convention Center in Miami, Florida, United States. Seventy-nine contestants competed in the pageant. Deborah Carthy-Deu of Puerto Rico was crowned by Yvonne Ryding of Sweden.

UBC broadcasted this event for viewers in the United States along with a Sub-Simulcast in Canada on CTV in Canada with a Stereo Simulcast which is Syndicated to Radio Stations including Rhythm Radio O&O's and is hosted by Bob Barker with Joan Van Ark and Miss Canada 1981 Dominique Dufour.

Contestants

 * Argentina - Yanina Castaño
 * Australia - Elizabeth Rowly
 * Austria - Martina Haiden
 * Bahamas - Cleopatra Adderly
 * Barbados - Elizabeth Wadman
 * Belgium - Anne van der Broeck
 * Belize - Jennifer Woods
 * Bermuda - Jannell Nadra Ford
 * Bolivia - Gabriela Orozco
 * Brazil - Márcia Giagio Canavezes de Oliveira
 * British Virgin Islands - Jennifer Leonora Penn
 * Canada - Karen Elizabeth Tilley
 * Cayman Islands - Emily Hurston
 * Chile - Claudia Emilia van Sint Jan del Pedregal
 * Colombia - Sandra Eugenia Borda Caldas
 * Cook Islands - Essie Apolonia Mokotupu
 * Costa Rica - Rosibel Chacón Pereira
 * Curaçao - Sheida Weber
 * Cyprus - Andri Andreou
 * Denmark - Susan Rasmussen
 * Dominica - Margaret Rose Cools Lartigue
 * Dominican Republic - Melba Vicens Bello
 * Ecuador - María Elena Stangl
 * El Salvador - Julia Haydee Mora
 * England - Helen Westlake
 * Finland - Marja Kinnunen
 * France - Suzanne Iskandar
 * Gambia - Batura Jallow
 * Germany - Stefanie Angelika Roth
 * Gibraltar - Karina Hollands
 * Greece - Sabina Damianidis
 * Guam - Lucy Carbollido Montinola
 * Guatemala - Perla Elizabeth Prera Frunwirth
 * Haiti - Arielle Jeanty
 * Holland - Brigitte Bergman
 * Honduras - Diana Margarita García
 * Hong Kong - Shallin Tse Ming
 * Iceland - Hana Bryndis Jonsdóttir
 * India - Sonia Wallia
 * Ireland - Olivia Marie Tracey
 * Israel - Hilla Kelmann
 * Italy - Anne Beatrice Popi
 * Japan - Hatsumi Furusawa
 * Korea - Choi Young-ok
 * Lebanon - Joyce Sahab
 * Luxembourg - Gabrielle Chiarini
 * Malaysia - Agnes Chin
 * Malta - Fiona Micallef
 * Mexico - Yolanda de la Cruz
 * New Zealand - Claire Glenister
 * Northern Marianas - Antoinette Marie Flores
 * Norway - Karen Margrethe Moe
 * Panama - Janette Iveth Vásquez Sanjur
 * Papua New Guinea - Carmel Vagi
 * Paraguay - Beverly Ocampo
 * Peru - María Gracia Galleno
 * Philippines - Joyce Burton
 * Poland - Katarzyna Zawidzka
 * Portugal - Alexandra Gomes
 * Puerto Rico - Deborah Carthy-Deu
 * Réunion - Dominique de Lort Serignan
 * Scotland - Jacqueline Hendrie
 * Senegal - Chantal Loubelo
 * Singapore - Lyana Chiok
 * Spain - Teresa Sánchez López
 * Sri Lanka - Ramani Liz Bartholomeusz †
 * Sweden - Carina Marklund
 * Tahiti - Hinarii Kilian
 * Thailand - Tarntip Pongsuk
 * Trinidad & Tobago - Brenda Joy Fahey
 * Turks & Caicos - Miriam Coralita Adams
 * Uruguay - Andrea López
 * USA - Laura Martínez-Herring
 * U.S. Virgin Islands - Mudite Alda Henderson
 * Venezuela - Silvia Martinez
 * Wales - Barbara Christian
 * Western Samoa - Tracy Mihaljevich
 * Yugoslavia - Dinka Delić †
 * Zaire - Kayonga Benita Mureka Tete

Debut

 * Dominica

Withdrawals

 * Aruba
 * French Guiana – participated in Miss France since this year
 * Guadeloupe – participated in Miss France since this year
 * Martinique – participated in Miss France since this year
 * Namibia – Alice Pfeiffer
 * South Africa – Andrea Stelzer (see Miss South Africa controversy below), later competed as Miss Germany in 1989.
 * Switzerland
 * Turkey

Awards

 * Guam - Miss Amity (Lucy Montinola)
 * Holland - Miss Photogenic (Brigitte Bergman)
 * Colombia - Best National Costume (Sandra Caldas)

Celebrity judges

 * Hardy Aimes
 * Simon MacCorkindale - actor
 * Rocío Jurado
 * Victor Banerjee
 * Lorraine Downes
 * Susan George - actress
 * Dong Kingman
 * Olga Guillot
 * Sheryl Lee Ralph
 * Robin Moore
 * June Taylor

Miss South Africa controversy
In April, 1985 the city of Edmonton requested that the Miss Universe organization insist that South Africa should not send a representative to pageant, due to the threat of demonstrations over her country's Apartheid policy. In mid May the nation announced that they would not send their titleholder, Andrea Steltzer, to the pageant because of fears for her safety. This was the first time since 1975 that the country did not participate in the pageant; they would not return to the event until 1995. Andrea Steltzer (half South African and half German) took part as Miss Germany in the 1989 Miss Universe pageant where she was a semi-finalist.