1986 Barbara Palacios Teyde VENEZUELA

Panama City, Panama

1st runner-up     Christiane Fichtner   USA 2nd runner-up     Ma. Monica Urbina COLOMBIA 3rd runner-up     Brygida Bziukiewicz POLAND 4th runner-up     Tuula Polvi   FINLAND SEMI-FINALISTS Deise Nunes de Souza   BRAZIL Mariana Villasante   CHILE Elizabeth Robison Latalladi   PUERTO RICO Eveline Nicole Glanzmann   SWITZERLAND Aimee Likobe Dobala   ZAIRE

This would be the last Miss Universe to be held in July as later pageants would be staged in May.  Favorites this year included the perennial shoo-ins USA, Venezuela and Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Finland, and Panama.  Barbara won the title giving Venezuela it's third Miss Universe title after Maritza Sayalero in 1979 and Irene Saez Conde in 1981.  Zaire makes it to the semi-finals for the second year in a row.

Barbara is ecstatic after being announced as Miss Universe 1986.  Runner-up USA's Christi Fichtner congratulates her

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