India at Big Four international beauty pageants

The following is a list of India's official representatives and their placements at the Big Four international beauty pageants, considered the most important in the world. The country has won three of the Big Four pageants:

In 1994, India won both Miss Universe and Miss World, with Sushmita Sen (Universe) and Aishwarya Rai (World). In 2000, India repeated this feat with Lara Dutta (Universe) and Priyanka Chopra (World).

The criteria for the Big Four inclusion is based on SPECIFIC STANDARDS such as the pageants global prominence and prestige approved by worldwide media, the quality and quantity of crowned delegates recognized by international franchisees and pageant aficionados, the winner's post pageant activities; the pageants longevity, consistency, and history; the sincerity of the pageant's specific cause, platform, and advocacy; the overall pre-pageant activities, production quality and global telecast; the enormity of internet traffic; and the extent of popularity amongst pageant fans across the globe.[1][2][3]

Color Key
  •      Ended as Runner-up
  •      Ended as one of the Finalists or Semi-finalists
Year Miss Universe Miss World Miss International Miss Earth
2016 Roshmitha Harimurthy Priyadarshini Chatterjee Rewati Chetri Rashi Yadav
2015
 Urvashi Rautela Aditi Arya Supriya Aiman Aaital Khosla
2014 Noyonita Lodh
Top 15		 Koyal Rana
Top 11		 Jhataleka Malhotra
 Alankrita Sahai
2013 Manasi Moghe
Top 10		 Navneet Kaur Dhillon
Top 20		 Gurleen Grewal Sobhita Dhulipala
2012 Shilpa Singh
Top 16		 Vanya Mishra
6th Runner Up		 Rochelle Maria Rao
Top 15		 Prachi Mishra
2011 Vasuki Sunkavalli Kanishtha Dhankhar
Top 31		 Ankita Shorey Hasleen Kaur
2010 Ushoshi Sengupta Manasvi Mamgai Neha Hinge
Top 15		 Nicole Faria
WINNER
2009 Ekta Chowdhary Pooja Chopra
Top 16		 Harshita Saxena Shriya Kishore
Top 16
2008 Simran Kaur Mundi Parvathy Omanakuttan
1st Runner Up		 Radha Brahmbhatt Tanvi Vyas
2007 Puja Gupta
Top 10		 Sarah Jane Dias Esha Gupta Pooja Chitgopekar
1st Runner-up
2006 Neha Kapur
Top 20		 Natasha Suri
Top 17		 Sonal Sehgal
Top 12		 Amruta Patki
1st Runner-up
2005 Amrita Thapar Sindhura Gadde
Top 15		 Vaishali Desai Niharika Singh
2004 Tanushree Dutta
Top 10		 Sayali Bhagat Mihika Verma
Top 15		 Jyoti Brahmin
Top 16
2003 Nikita Anand Ami Vashi
Top 5		 Shonali Nagrani
1st Runner-up		 Shweta Vijay
2002 Neha Dhupia
Top 10		 Shruti Sharma
Top 15		 Gauhar Khan Reshmi Ghosh
2001 Celina Jaitley
4th Runner-up		 Sara Corner Kanwal Toor
Top 15		 Shamita Singha
Top 10
2000 Lara Dutta
WINNER		 Priyanka Chopra
WINNER		 Gayatri Joshi
Top 15 		↑ No Pageant Held
(established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines)
1999 Gul Panag
Top 10		 Yukta Mookhey
WINNER		 Srikrupa Murali
1998 Lymaraina D'Souza
Top 10		 Annie Thomas Shwetha Jaishanker
2nd Runner-up
1997 Nafisa Joseph
Top 10		 Diana Hayden
WINNER		 Diya Abraham
1st Runner-up
1996 Sandhya Chib
Top 10		 Rani Jeyraj
3rd Runner Up		 Fleur Xavier
1995 Manpreet Brar
1st Runner-up		 Preeti Mankotia Priya Gill
1994 Sushmita Sen
WINNER		 Aishwarya Rai
WINNER		 Fransesca Hart
1993 Namrata Shirodkar
Top 6		 Karminder Kaur-Virk
Best National Costume		 Pooja Batra
Top 15
1992 Madhu Sapre
2nd Runner-up		 Shyla Lopez Kamal Sandhu
1991 Christabelle Howie Ritu Singh
6th Runner Up		 Preeti Mankotia
Top 15
1990 Suzanne Sablok
Top 10		 Naveeda Mehdi ×
1989 Dolly Minhas × ×
1988 × Anuradha Kottur Shikha Swaroop
1987 Priyadarshini Pradhan Manisha Kohli Erika Maria de Souza
Top 15
1986 Mehr Jessia Maureen Mary Lestourgeon Poonam Pahlet Gidwant
1985 Sonu Walia Sharon Mary Clarke Vinita Seshadri Vasan
1984 Juhi Chawla Suchita Kumar Nalanda Ravindra Bhandar
Top 15
1983 Rekha Hande Sweety Grewal Sahila Chadha
1982 Pamela Chaudry Singh Uttara Mhatre Kher Betty O'Connor
1981 Rachita Kumar Deepti Divakar Meenakshi Seshadri
1980 Sangeeta Bijlani Elizabeth Anita Reddi
Top 15		 Ulrika Karen Bredemeyer
1979 Swaroop Sampat Raina Winifred Mendonica Nita Pinto
1978 Alamjeet Kaur Chauhan Kalpana Iyer
Top 15		 Sabita Dhanrajgir
1977 Bineeta Bose Veena Prakash Joan Stephens
1976 Naina Sudhir Balsavar Naina Balsavar Nafisa Ali
2nd Runner-up
1975 Meenakshi Kurpad Anjana Sood
Top 15		 Indira Maria Bredemeyer
2nd Runner-up
1974 Shailini Bhavnath Dholakia
Top 12 		Kiran Dholakia Leslie Jean Hartnett
1973 Farzana Habib
Top 12 		× Lynette Williams
1972 Roopa Satyan
Top 12 		Malathi Basappa
4th Runner-up		 Indira Muthanna
1971 Raj Gill Prema Narayan Samita Mukherjee
1970 Veena Sajnani Heather Corinne Faville
Top 15		 Patricia D'Souza
Top 15
1969 Kavita Bhambhani Adina Shellim Wendy Leslie Vaz
1968 Anjum Mumtaz Barg Jane Coelho Sumita Sen
Top 15
1967 Nayyara Mirza × ×
1966 Yasmin Daji
3rd Runner-up		 Reita Faria
WINNER		 ↑ No Pageant Held
1965 Persis Khambatta × ×
1964 Meher Castelino Mistri × ×
1963 × × ×
1962 × Ferial Karim
Top 15		 Sheila Chonkar
1961 × Veronica Leonora Torcato Diana Valentine
1960 × Iona Pinto Iona 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 × ×
1957 × ×
1956 × ×
1955 × ×
1954 × ×
1953 × ×
1952 Indrani 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

Name of Pageant Placements Best Result
Miss Universe 22 Winner (1994, 2000)
Miss World 23 Winner (1966, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000)
Miss International 18 1st Runner-up (1960, 1997, 2003)
Miss Earth 6 Winner (2010)
Total 68 8 Winners

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 21, 2014. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  2. ↑ International Beauty Pageant Ranking
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on October 14, 2014. Retrieved October 14, 2014.

See also

Femina Miss India
I AM She – Miss Universe India

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