Maria da Gloria Carvalho is the only delegate from Brazil who has won the Miss International title. (until 2008)She placed second runner-up in the Miss Brasil pageant, as the representative of Guanabara, in 1968.
Her knowledge of the Japanese language helped her win over the crowd and judges.
Her victory came in the same year that Martha Vasconcellos, winner of the Miss Brasil pageant, won the Miss Universe title.
