| Miss Universe 1982 | |
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| Date | 26 July 1982 |
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| Venue | Coliseo Amauta, Lima, Peru |
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| Entrants | 77 |
| Placements | 12 |
| Debuts | |
| Withdrawals | |
| Returns | |
| Winner | Karen Dianne Baldwin .svg.png){kind=small} Canada |
| Congeniality | Maureen Lewis .svg.png){kind=small} Cayman Islands |
| Best National Costume | María Francesca Zaza  Peru |
| Photogenic | Ava Marilyn Burke  Bahamas |
Miss Universe 1982, the 31st Miss Universe pageant, was held on 26 July 1982 at the Coliseo Amauta in Lima, Peru. A total of seventy-seven contestants competed in the pageant. Karen Dianne Baldwin of Canada was crowned by Irene Saez of Venezuela. This is the first time Canada won the pageant.
Results
Placements
| Final results | Contestant |
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| Miss Universe 1982 | |
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| 2nd Runner-up |
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| 4th Runner-up | |
| Top 12 |
Final Competition
| Nation | Preliminary Average | Interview | Swimsuit | Evening Gown | Semifinal Average |
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| Canada | 7.761 (9) | 8.400 (5) | 8.275 (3) | 8.525 (3) | 8.400 (2) |
 Guam | 7.892 (5) | 8.867 (1) | 8.692 (1) | 8.355 (4) | 8.638 (1) |
 Italy | 7.714 (11) | 7.925 (9) | 8.067 (5) | 8.608 (2) | 8.200 (4) |
 Greece | 7.847 (6) | 8.042 (8) | 8.325 (2) | 8.317 (5) | 8.228 (3) |
 United States | 8.131 (2) | 8.425 (4) | 8.192 (4) | 7.925 (8) | 8.181 (5) |
.svg.png){kind=small} South Africa | 8.406 (1) | 8.583 (2) | 7.225 (10) | 8.707 (1) | 8.172 (6) |
 England | 8.100 (3) | 8.433 (3) | 7.808 (7) | 8.167 (7) | 8.136 (7) |
| Peru | 7.797 (8) | 8.218 (6) | 7.508 (8) | 8.292 (6) | 8.006 (8) |
 Brazil | 8.011 (4) | 8.133 (7) | 7.892 (6) | 7.917 (9) | 7.981 (9) |
 Finland | 7.719 (10) | 7.808 (10) | 7.408 (9) | 7.908 (10) | 7.708 (10) |
 Uruguay | 7.594 (12) | 7.692 (11) | 7.167 (11) | 7.783 (11) | 7.547 (11) |
 Germany | 7.808 (7) | 7.204 (12) | 7.008 (12) | 7.483 (12) | 7.232 (12) |
Special Awards
| Special Awards | Winner |
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| Best National Costume |
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| Miss Photogenic |
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| Miss Amity |
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| Miss Press |
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Miss Universe 1982 participating nations and results
Contestants
Argentina – María Alejandra Basile
Aruba – Noriza Antonio Helder.svg.png)
Australia – Lou Ann Ronchi
Austria – Elisabeth Kawan
Bahamas – Ava Marilyn Burke.svg.png)
Belgium – Marie-Pierre Lemaitre
Belize – Sharon Kay Auxilliou
Bermuda – Heather Ross
Bolivia – Sandra Villaroel.svg.png)
Brazil – Celice Pinto Márques da Silva
British Virgin Islands – Luce Dahlia Hodge.svg.png)
Canada – Karen Baldwin.svg.png)
Cayman Islands – Maureen Theresa Lewis
Chile – Jenny Purto Arab
Colombia – Nadya Santacruz
Costa Rica – Liliana Corella Espinoza.svg.png)
Curaçao – Minerva Ranila Heiroms
Denmark – Tina Maria Nielsen
Dominican Republic – Soraya Morey
Ecuador – Jacqueline Burgos
El Salvador – Jeanette Marroquín
England – Della Frances Dolan
Finland – Sari Kaarina Aspholm
France – Martine Philipps
Germany – Kerstin Natalie Paeserack
Greece – Tina Roussou.svg.png)
Guadeloupe – Lydia Galin
Guam – Patty Chong Kerkos
Guatemala – Edith Whitbeck
Holland – Brigitte Diereckx
Honduras – Eva Lissethe Barahona.svg.png)
Hong Kong – Angie Leung
Iceland – Gudrun Moller
India – Pamela Chaudry Singh
Indonesia – Sri Yulyanti
Ireland – Geraldine Mary McGrory
Israel – Deborah Naomi Hess
Italy – Cinzia Fiordeponti.svg.png)
Japan – Eri Okuwaki
Korea – Sun-hee Park
Malaysia – Siti Rohani Wahid
Malta – Rita Falzon
Martinique – Corine Soler
Mexico – María del Carmen López.svg.png)
Namibia – Deseree Anita Kotze- New Caledonia – Lenka Topalovitch
New Zealand – Sandra Helen Dexter
Northern Marianas – Sheryl Sonoda Sizemore
Norway – Janett Krefting
Panama – Isora de Lourdes López
Papua New Guinea – Moi Eli.svg.png)
Paraguay – Maris Villalba
Peru – María Francesca Zaza Reinoso.svg.png)
Philippines – Maria Isabel Lopez
Portugal – Ana Maria Valdiz.svg.png)
Puerto Rico – Lourdes Milagros Mantero Hormazábal- Réunion – Marie Micheline Ginon
Scotland – Georgina Kearney
Singapore - Judicia Nonis- South Africa – Odette Octavia Scrooby
Spain – Cristina Pérez Cottrell
Sri Lanka – Ann Monica Tradigo.svg.png)
Sint Maarten – Liana Elviara Brown
Suriname – Vanessa de Vries
Sweden – Anna Kari Maria Bergström
Switzerland – Jeannette Linkenheill
Thailand – Nipaporn Tarapanich
Transkei – Noxolisi Mji
Trinidad and Tobago – Suzanne Traboulay
Turkey – Canan Kakmaci
Turks and Caicos – Jacqueline Astwood
Uruguay – Silvia Beatriz Vila Abavián
United States – Terri Utley
U.S. Virgin Islands – Ingeborg Hendricks.svg.png)
Venezuela – Ana Teresa Oropeza.svg.jpg)
Wales – Michelle Donelly
Western Samoa – Ivy Evelyn Warner
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Judges
- David Merrick
- Cicely Tyson - actress
- Mario Vargas
- Beulah Quo - actress
- Ron Duguay - NHL player and actor
- Franco Nero - actor
- Peter Marshall - TV game show host
- Carole Bouquet - actress
- Dong Kingman
- Ira von Furstenberg
- David Copperfield - American magician
- Gladys Zender - Miss Universe 1957 winner
Notes
Debut
Returns
Last competed in 1979:
Last competed in 1980:
Withdrawals
Cyprus – Sylvia Spanias Nitsa
Fiji
Gibraltar
Saint Kitts- Tahiti
Did not Compete
Lebanon – Dolly Michelle El-Koury
General references
- West, Donald (ed.). "Miss Universe 1982". pageantopolis.com. Archived from the original on 7 February 2012.