India at the Big Four beauty pageants explained

The following is a list of India's official representatives and their placements at the Big Four beauty pageants, considered the most important in the world. The country has won a total of ten victories with eighty-one placements in all four pageants:

National franchises and Organizations

The Indian franchise holders of the four major beauty pageants are the following:

India's Big Four titleholders

India won its first Big Four title when Reita Faria from India bagged the Miss World 1966 title, becoming the first Asian to win Miss World.[1] In 1994, Sushmita Sen won Miss Universe 1994, becoming the country's first ever Miss Universe titleholder.[2] Later that year, Aishwarya Rai added to the winning streak, picking up the Miss World 1994 title.[3]

Diana Hayden then won the Miss World 1997.[4] Actor and model Yukta Mookhey was later crowned Miss World 1999.[5] Six years after Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai's double wins, Lara Dutta for Miss Universe 2000 and Priyanka Chopra for Miss World 2000 replicated the feat in 2000, marking the most recent time (as of) that any country has won back-to-back at Miss World and, making India the last country to ever win at both Miss Universe and Miss World in the same year in the 20th century.[6] [7] India's appearances at the Miss Universe semifinals from 1992 to 2002 made it the first country in the Eastern Hemisphere to place annually at the pageant for at least 10 consecutive years.

In 2010, Nicole Faria from Bangalore became the first Indian woman to win the Miss Earth 2010 pageant. Manushi Chhillar won the Miss World 2017 title and became the sixth Indian woman to be crowned Miss World. Harnaaz Sandhu won the Miss Universe 2021 title, becoming the third Indian woman to be crowned Miss Universe and the most recent Big Four pageant titleholder from India as of .[8] [9]

Colour Key
  • Winner
  • Ended as Runner-up
  • Ended as one of the Finalists, Semi-finalists or Quarter-finalists
width=5%Yearwidth=15%Miss Universewidth=15%Miss Worldwidth=15%Miss Internationalwidth=15%Miss Earth
2026TBANikita Porwal
TBA		TBATBA
2025TBANandini Gupta
TBA		TBATBA
2024Rhea Singha
Top 30		Sini Shetty
Top 8		Rashmi ShindeGauri Gothankar
2023Shweta Sharda
Top 20		Praveena AanjnaPriyan Sain
Top 20
2022Divita Rai
Top 16		Zoya AfrozVanshika Parmar
2021 Harnaaz Sandhu
Miss Universe		Manasa Varanasi
Top 13		Rashmi Madhuri
2020Adline Castelino
3rd Runner-Up		Tanvi Kharote
2019Vartika Singh
Top 20		Suman Rao
2nd Runner-Up		Simrithi BathijaTejaswini Manogna
2018Nehal ChudasamaAnukreethy Vas
Top 30		Tanishqa BhosaleNishi Bhardwaj
2017Shraddha ShashidharManushi Chhillar
Miss World		Ankita KumariShaan Sumas Kumar
2016Roshmitha HarimurthyPriyadarshini Chatterjee
Top 20		Rewati ChetriRashi Yadav
2015Urvashi RautelaAditi AryaSupriya AimanAaital Khosla
2014Noyonita Lodh
Top 15		Koyal Rana
Top 10		Jhataleka MalhotraAlankrita Sahai
2013Manasi Moghe
Top 10		Navneet Dhillon
Top 20		Gurleen GrewalSobhita Dhulipala
2012Shilpa Singh
Top 16		Vanya Mishra
Top 7		Rochelle Rao
Top 15		Prachi Mishra
2011Vasuki SunkavalliKanishtha Dhankhar
Top 31		Ankita ShoreyHasleen Kaur
2010Ushoshi SenguptaManasvi MamgaiNeha Hinge
Top 15		Nicole Faria
Miss Earth
2009Ekta ChowdharyPooja Chopra
Top 16		Harshita SaxenaShriya Kishore
Top 16
2008Simran Kaur MundiParvathy Omanakuttan
1st Runner-Up		Radha BrahmbhattTanvi Vyas
2007Puja Gupta
Top 10		Sarah-Jane DiasEsha GuptaPooja Chitgopekar
Miss Earth – Air
2006Neha Kapur
Top 20		Natasha Suri
Top 17		Sonnalli Seygall
Top 12		Amruta Patki
Miss Earth – Air
2005Amrita ThaparSindhura Gadde
Top 15		Vaishali DesaiNiharika Singh
2004Tanushree Dutta
Top 10		Sayali BhagatMihika Verma
Top 15		Jyoti Brahmin
Top 16
2003Nikita AnandAmi Vashi
Top 5		Shonali Nagrani
1st Runner-Up		Shweta Vijay
2002Neha Dhupia
Top 10		Shruti Sharma
Top 20		Gauahar KhanReshmi Ghosh
2001Celina Jaitley
4th Runner-Up		Sara CornerKanwal Toor
Top 15		Shamita Singha
Top 10
2000Lara Dutta
Miss Universe		Priyanka Chopra
Miss World		Gayatri Joshi
Top 15		↑ No Pageant Held
(established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines)
1999Gul Panag
Top 10		Yukta Mookhey
Miss World		Srikrupa Murali
1998Lymaraina D'Souza
Top 10		Annie ThomasShwetha Jaishanker
2nd Runner-Up
1997Nafisa Joseph
Top 10		Diana Hayden
Miss World		Diya Abraham
1st Runner-Up
1996Sandhya Chib
Top 10		Rani Jeyraj
Top 5		Fleur Xavier
1995Manpreet Brar
1st Runner-Up		Preeti MankotiaPriya Gill
1994Sushmita Sen
Miss Universe		Aishwarya Rai
Miss World		Fransesca Hart
1993Namrata Shirodkar
Top 6		Karminder Kaur-VirkPooja Batra
Top 15
1992Madhu Sapre
2nd Runner-Up		Shyla LopezKamal Sandhu
1991Christabelle HowieRitu Singh
Top 10		Preeti Mankotia
Top 15
1990Suzanne Sablok
Top 10		Naveeda Mehdi×
1989Dolly Minhas××
1988×Anuradha KotturShikha Swaroop
1987Priyadarshini PradhanManisha KohliErika Maria de Souza
Top 15
1986Mehr JessiaMaureen LestourgeonPoonam Gidwant
1985Sonu WaliaSharon ClarkeVinita Vasan
1984Juhi ChawlaSuchita KumarNalanda Bhandar
Top 15
1983Rekha HandeSweety GrewalSahila Chadha
1982Pamela Chaudry SinghUttara Mhatre KherBetty O'Connor
1981Rachita KumarDeepti DivakarMeenakshi Seshadri
1980Sangeeta BijlaniElizabeth Anita Reddi
Top 15		Ulrika Bredemeyer
1979Swaroop SampatRaina MendonicaNita Pinto
1978Alamjeet Kaur ChauhanKalpana Iyer
Top 15		Sabita Dhanrajgir
1977Bineeta Bose×Joan Stephens
1976Naina Balsavar×Nafisa Ali
2nd Runner-Up
1975Meenakshi KurpadAnjana Sood
Top 15		Indira Bredemeyer
2nd Runner-Up
1974Shailini Dholakia
Top 12		Kiran DholakiaLeslie Hartnett
1973Farzana Habib
Top 12		×Lynette Williams
1972Roopa Satyan
Top 12		Malathi Basappa
4th Runner-Up		Indira Muthanna
1971Raj GillPrema NarayanSamita Mukherjee
1970Veena SajnaniHeather Faville
Top 15		Patricia D'Souza
Top 15
1969Kavita BhambhaniAdina ShellimWendy Vaz
1968Anjum Mumtaz BargJane CoelhoSumita Sen
Top 15
1967Nayyara Mirza××
1966Yasmin Daji
3rd Runner-Up		Reita Faria
Miss World		↑ No Pageant Held
1965Persis Khambatta××
1964Meher Castelino Mistri××
1963×××
1962×Ferial Karim
Top 15		Sheila Chonkar
1961×Veronica TorcatoDiana Valentine
1960×Iona PintoIona Pinto
1st Runner-Up
1959×Fleur Ezekiel↑ No Pageant Held
(established in 1960 in California, United States and then it was transferred in 1968 in Tokyo, Japan)
1958×↑ No Pageant Held
(established in 1951 in England, United Kingdom. India sent their first delegate in 1959.)
1957×
1956×
1955×
1954×
1953×
1952Indrani Rehman
1951↑ No Pageant Held
(established in 1952 in California, United States and then it was transferred in 1960 in Florida, United States)

× Did not compete
↑ No pageant held
PageantPlacementsBest result
Miss Universe28Winner (1994 • 2000 • 2021)
Miss World29Winner (1966 • 1994 • 1997 • 1999 • 2000 • 2017)
Miss International181st Runner-Up (1960 • 1997 • 2003)
Miss Earth7Winner (2010)
Total8210 Titles

Hostings

YearpageantLocationVenueContestants
1996Miss WorldBangalore, KarnatakaM. Chinnaswamy Stadium88
2023Mumbai, MaharashtraJio World Convention Center112

List of crossovers

Crossover winners of a national pageant wins in another major national pageant and then participate in the line of international beauty pageants.

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Manushi Chhillar's Miss World win draws India level with Venezuela with 6 titles. AFP. 2017-11-19. Livemint. 2017-12-11.
  2. Web site: Video of Manushi Chillar's meeting Sushmita Sen goes viral. www.thenews.com.pk. en. 2017-12-11.
  3. News: This answer got Aishwarya Rai Bachchan the Miss World crown. News. Times Now. 17 November 2017. Times Now. 11 December 2017.
  4. News: This touching answer by Manushi Chhillar ensured that Miss World 2017 crown was hers. Oneindia. 2017-12-11. en.
  5. News: ABC's 'Nightline' mistakes Priyanka Chopra with Yukta Mookhey, furnishes apology on Twitter. 2015-09-30. The Indian Express. 2017-12-11. en-US.
  6. News: Beauty Queens, Then and Now: How Different Aishwarya, Sushmita, Priyanka Look. NDTV.com. 2017-12-11.
  7. News: Lara Dutta: after Priyanka Chopra, Dia Mirza and me there have been no international pageant winners. DNA. Chaya Unnikrishnan. 2017-12-11. en-US.
  8. News: Sushmita Sen bumped into Manushi Chhillar on a flight. Here's how the beauty queens bonded.. Hindustan Times. Correspondent. 1 December 2017. Hindustan Times. 11 December 2017.
  9. News: Miss India Nicole Faria is the new Miss Earth - Times of India. The Times of India. 2017-12-11.

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