Anne Marie Pohtamo

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Anne Marie Pohtamo
Born	Anne Marie Pohtamo (1955-08-15) 15 August 1955 (age 66) Helsinki, Finland
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Title	Miss Finland 1975 Miss Universe 1975
Beauty pageant titleholder
Hair color	Blonde
Eye color	Green
Major competition(s)	Miss Finland 1975 (Winner) Miss Universe 1975 (Winner)

Anne Marie Pohtamo (born 15 August 1955) is a Finnish actress, model and beauty queen who was the second woman from Finland to capture the Miss Universe crown. She claimed the Miss Universe crown in 1975 at the pageant held in El Salvador.^{[citation needed]}

Pohtamo was crowned by Miss Universe 1972 Kerry Anne Wells, not by her predecessor Amparo Muñoz, as Muñoz resigned after six months reign, when she refused a trip to Japan.^[1]

Pohtamo is partly of Russian descent.^[2]

References[]

^ "Amparo Muñoz muere a los 56 años". El Periódico de Catalunya. EFE. 28 August 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
^ Veronica Shenshin (Aleksanteri Institute): VENÄLÄISET JA VENÄLÄINEN KULTTUURI SUOMESSA Archived 20 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine (PDF) (in Finnish)

External links[]

Anne Marie Pohtamo at IMDb

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Amparo Muñoz	Miss Universe 1975	Succeeded by Rina Messinger

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1950s	Armi Kuusela (1952) Christiane Martel (1953) Miriam Stevenson (1954) Hillevi Rombin (1955) Carol Morris (1956) Gladys Zender (1957) Luz Marina Zuluaga (1958) Akiko Kojima (1959)
1960s	Linda Bement (1960) Marlene Schmidt (1961) Norma Nolan (1962) Iêda Maria Vargas (1963) Corinna Tsopei (1964) Apasra Hongsakula (1965) Margareta Arvidsson (1966) Sylvia Hitchcock (1967) Martha Vasconcellos (1968) Gloria Diaz (1969)
1970s	Marisol Malaret (1970) Georgina Rizk (1971) Kerry Anne Wells (1972) Margie Moran (1973) Amparo Muñoz (1974) Anne Marie Pohtamo (1975) Rina Messinger (1976) Janelle Commissiong (1977) Margaret Gardiner (1978) Maritza Sayalero (1979)
1980s	Shawn Weatherly (1980) Irene Sáez (1981) Karen Baldwin (1982) Lorraine Downes (1983) Yvonne Ryding (1984) Deborah Carthy-Deu (1985) Bárbara Palacios (1986) Cecilia Bolocco (1987) Porntip Nakhirunkanok (1988) Angela Visser (1989)
1990s	Mona Grudt (1990) Lupita Jones (1991) Michelle McLean (1992) Dayanara Torres (1993) Sushmita Sen (1994) Chelsi Smith (1995) Alicia Machado (1996) Brook Lee (1997) Wendy Fitzwilliam (1998) Mpule Kwelagobe (1999)
2000s	Lara Dutta (2000) Denise Quiñones (2001) Oxana Fedorova/Justine Pasek (2002) Amelia Vega (2003) Jennifer Hawkins (2004) Natalie Glebova (2005) Zuleyka Rivera (2006) Riyo Mori (2007) Dayana Mendoza (2008) Stefanía Fernández (2009)
2010s	Ximena Navarrete (2010) Leila Lopes (2011) Olivia Culpo (2012) Gabriela Isler (2013) Paulina Vega (2014) Pia Wurtzbach (2015) Iris Mittenaere (2016) Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters (2017) Catriona Gray (2018) Zozibini Tunzi (2019)
2020s	Andrea Meza (2020)

show v t Miss Finland winners in the Big Four international beauty pageants
Miss Universe	Armi Kuusela (1952) Anne Marie Pohtamo (1975)
Miss World	Marita Lindahl (1957)
Miss International	Anneli Björkling (1973)
Miss Earth	-
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