1980 Shawn Weatherly USA

Seoul, South Korea

1st runner-up  Linda Gallagher  SCOTLAND 2nd runner-up     Delyse Nottle   NEW ZEALAND 3rd runner-up     Ma.Rosario Silayan PHILIPPINES 4th runner-up     Eva Brigitta Anderson  SWEDEN SEMI-FINALISTS Teresa Lynn MacKay   CANADA Maria Patricia Arbelaez Pelaez   COLOMBIA Guobjorg Sigurdardottir   ICELAND Kim Eun-jung   KOREA Gloria Karamanites Davis   PANAMA Agnes Tanon Correa   PUERTO RICO Thilda Raina Fuller   TAHITI

With new innovations along the way, this year marked the birth of the super fast Parade of Nations as each delegate merely shouted out her name and her country.   During her morning-after interview, Shawn Weatherly, the 5th American to win Miss Universe, said, “My job is not the exhibition of my body. Talking with people and making friends in all nations is my main duty.” Her ambitions then at the time of her reign were to become a sports commentator after her graduation from Clemson University with a communications degree. But fate went the other way and Shawn went on to become a popular television actress.

Shawn's official photograph as Miss Universe 1980

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