Editing Maritza Sayalero

{{notability|date=October 2024}}
{{short description|Venezuelan beauty pageant titleholder}}
{{family name hatnote|Sayalero|Fernández|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox pageant titleholder
| name=Maritza Sayalero
| title=[[Miss Venezuela 1979]]<br>[[Miss Universe 1979]]
| photo = Maritza Sayalero en Osmel Sousa.jpg
| caption = Sayalero in 2020
| birth_place= [[Caracas]], Venezuela
| birth_name= {{nowrap|Maritza Sayalero Fernández}}
| birth_date=   {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1961|2|16}} 
| height=5 ft 8 in   
| eye_color= Hazel
| hair_color= Light brown
| competitions=[[Miss Venezuela 1979]]<br>(Winner)<br>[[Miss Universe 1979]]<br>(Winner)
}}
'''Maritza Sayalero Fernández''' is a Venezuelan beauty pageant titleholder. In 1979, she was crowned both [[Miss Venezuela]] and [[Miss Universe]],<ref name=stage>{{Cite news|date=1979-07-20|title=Fall at Miss Universe Pageant|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/20/archives/fall-at-miss-universe-pageant.html|access-date=2021-05-27|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> the first woman from Venezuela to win this title.

== Miss Venezuela 1979 ==
Sayalero won [[Miss Venezuela 1979]], representing [[Vargas (state)|Miss Departamento Vargas]], and the right to represent her country in [[Miss Universe 1979]].

==Miss Universe==
Sayalero won [[Miss Universe 1979]], held in [[Perth, Australia]] on July 19.<ref name=stage/> She was the first titleholder from Venezuela.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.missuniverse.com/history/index.html Miss Universe official history], including photograph

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{{s-bef|before={{flagicon|RSA|1928}} [[Margaret Gardiner (beauty queen)|Margaret Gardiner]]}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[Miss Universe]]|years=[[Miss Universe 1979|1979]]}}
{{s-aft|after={{flagicon|USA}} [[Shawn Weatherly]]}}
{{succession box
| before = Marisol Alfonzo
| title  = [[Miss Venezuela]]
| years  = [[Miss Venezuela 1979|1979]]
| after  = Maye Brandt
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{{s-bef|before=Rita Briceño}}
{{s-ttl|title=[[Vargas (state)|Miss Departamento Vargas]]|years=1979}}
{{s-aft|after=[[Hilda Abrahamz]]}}
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{{Miss Universe 1979 delegates}}
{{Miss Universe titleholders}}
{{Miss Universe Organization titleholders
|Year = 1979
|Miss Universe= {{flagicon|VEN|1930}} Maritza Sayalero
|Miss USA= {{flagicon|New York}} [[Mary Therese Friel]]
}}
{{Big Four Pageants titleholders
| Year               = 1979
| Miss Universe      = {{flagicon|VEN|1930}} Maritza Sayalero
| Miss World         = {{flagicon|BER}} [[Gina Swainson]]
| Miss International = {{flagicon|PHI|1936}} [[Melanie Marquez]]
}}
{{Miss Venezuela winners in the Big Four pageants}}
{{Venezuela at Miss Universe|state=collapsed}}
{{Miss Universe Venezuela titleholders|state=collapsed}}
{{Miss Venezuela titleholders|state=collapsed}}
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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Miss Universe 1979 contestants]]
[[Category:Miss Universe winners]]
[[Category:Miss Venezuela winners]]
[[Category:Naturalized citizens of Mexico]]
[[Category:Models from Caracas]]
[[Category:Venezuelan beauty pageant winners]]
[[Category:Venezuelan emigrants to Mexico]]
[[Category:Venezuelan female models]]
[[Category:1961 births]]


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