1958
Luz Marina Zuluaga
COLOMBIA
Long Beach, California
USA
1st runner-up     Adalgisa Colombo   BRAZIL
2nd runner-up     Geri Hoo   HAWAII
3rd runner-up     Eurlyne Howell   USA
4th runner-up     Alicja Bobrowska   POLAND
SEMI-FINALISTS
Raquela Molina Urrutia   CHILE
Evy Norlund   DENMARK
Marlies Jung Behrens   GERMANY
Marily Kalimopoulou   GREECE
Corine Rottschafer   HOLLAND
Miriam Hadar   ISRAEL
Tomoko Moritake   JAPAN
Beatriz Boluarte   PERU
Gertrud Gummels   SURINAME
Birgitta Elisabet Gardman   SWEDEN
When Luz Marina Zuluaga won Colombia's first (and only) Miss Universe title in 1958, the entire nation rejoiced and Zuluaga came home a national hero. Postage stamps were issued in her honor, she was given a mansion and was declared tax-exempt for life.  Corinne Rottschafer of Holland, a semi-finalist, went on to win the Miss World title
a year later.
Official cover of the 1959 Miss Universe Program Book feauting Miss Universe 1958 Luz Zuluaga
The official photograph of Miss Universe 1958
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