Miss Europe

Map of Miss Europe-winning countries as of 2008.

Miss Europe is a popular regional beauty pageant among female contestants from the nations of the European continent established at the end of World War II by Roger Zeiler of the French Committee of Elegance and Claude Berr. Most contestants won their respective national contests for Miss Universe, Miss World, and Miss Earth and participated as supplemental training for their respective competitions. If the titleholders have not succeeded in winning their international titles, titleholders eventually compete for the Miss Europe crown, such as the case of France's Elodie Gossuin who placed in the Top 10 at Miss Universe 2001 yet won the Miss Europe title in the subsequent year.

Recent editions have included contestants from Israel, and Lebanon. In fact, its 2001 and 2002 pageants were held in Lebanon, well outside of the geographic boundaries of Europe. The license to the pageant passed on to Dutch production company Endemol in 2003.

Miss Europe 2006

The casting tour among winners of Ukrainian regional beauty competitions will start in June and will last through July. The final is slated for October to November, 2006. The winner of the competition will be established through balloting by TV audience. According to Omar Arfush, the "Miss Europe - 2006" competition in Kiev became possible under purchase of the show. He also said that he is on a stage of negotiations with Hollywood actress Sharon Stone to head the jury of the competition.

Blonde Miss France, Alexandra Rosenfeld, won the Miss Europe 2006 title in the Ukrainian capital which hosted the annual contest for the second time (first in 1997). Rosenfeld, 19, from the southern Languedoc region, was chosen by an international jury headed by Italian fashion designer Roberto Cavalli.

Titleholders

The pageant was not held in 1939-47, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1983, 1986-87, 1989-90, 1998, 2000, 2004 and 2007-08.

Miss USSR 1933; Miss Europe 1933

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Miss Europe 1951

Miss Europe 1954-55

Miss Europe 2007

Year	Miss Europe	Country	Venue
1928	Stefanie Job	Switzerland	Paris, France
1929	Erzsébet (Böske) Simon	Hungary	Paris, France
1930	Aliki Diplarakou	Greece	Paris, France
1931	Jeanne Juilla	France	Paris, France
1932	Åse Clausen	Denmark	Nice, France
1933	Tatiana Maslow	Soviet Union	Madrid, Spain
1934	Ester Toivonen	Finland	Hastings, United Kingdom
1935	Alicia Navarro	Spain	Paris, France
1936	Antonia Arques	Spain	Tunis, Tunisia
1937	Britta Wikström	Finland	Alger, Algeria
1938	Sirkka Salonen	Finland	Copenhagen, Denmark
1939-47	NOT HELD
1948	Jacqueline Donny	France	Enghien-les-Bains, France
1949	Juliette Figueras	France	Palermo, Italy
1950	Hanni Schall	Austria	Rimini, Italy
1951	Jacqueline Genton	Switzerland	Palermo, Italy
1952	Günseli Başar	Turkey	Naples, Italy
1953	Eloisa Cianni	Italy	Istanbul, Turkey
1954	Christel Schaack	West Germany	Vichy, France
	Danièle Genault	France
1955	Inga Britt Söderberg	Finland	Helsinki, Finland
1956	Margit Nünke	West Germany	Stockholm, Sweden
	Ingrid Goude	Sweden
1957	Corine Rottschäfer	Netherlands	Baden-Baden, Germany
1958	Johanna (Hanni) Ehrenstrasser	Austria	Istanbul, Turkey
1959	Christine Spatzier	Austria	Palermo, Italy
1960	Anna Ranalli	Italy	Beirut, Lebanon
1961	Ingrun Helgard Möckel	West Germany	Beirut, Lebanon
1962	Maruja García Nicoláu	Spain	Beirut, Lebanon
1963	Mette Stenstad	Norway	Beirut, Lebanon
1964	Elly Konie Koot	Netherlands	Beirut, Lebanon
1965	Juliana Herm	West Germany	Nice, France
1966	Maria Dornier	France	Nice, France
1967	Paquita Torres Pérez	Spain	Nice, France
1968	Leena Marketta Brusiin	Finland	Kinshasa, DR Congo
1969	Saša Zajc	Yugoslavia	Rabat, Morocco
1970	Noelia Alfonso Cabrera	Spain	Piraeus, Greece
1971	Filiz Vural	Turkey	Tunis, Tunisia
1972	Monika Sarp	West Germany	Estoril, Portugal
1973	Anke Maria Groot	Netherlands	Kitzbühel, Austria
1974	Maria Isabel Lorenzo	Spain	Vienna, Austria
1976	Riitta Inkeri Väisänen	Finland	Rhodes, Greece
1978	Eva Maria Düringer	Austria	Helsinki, Finland
1980	Karin Zorn	Austria	Puerto de la Cruz, Spain
1981	Anne Mette Larsen	Denmark	Birmingham, United Kingdom
1982	Nazlı Deniz Kuruoğlu	Turkey	Istanbul, Turkey
1984	Neşe Erberk	Turkey	Bad Gastein, Austria
1985	Juncal Rivero Fadrique	Spain	Mainz, Germany
1988	Michela Rocco di Torrepadula	Italy	Ragusa, Italy
1991	Susanne Petry	Germany	Dakar, Senegal
	Katerina Michalopoulou	Greece
1992	Marina Tsintikidou	Greece	Athens, Greece
1993	Arzum Onan	Turkey	Istanbul, Turkey
1994	Lilach Ben-Simon	Israel	Istanbul,Turkey
1995	Monika Zidkova	Czech Republic	Istanbul,Turkey
1996	Claire Marie Harrison	United Kingdom	Tirana, Albania
1997	Isabelle Darras	Greece	Kiev, Ukraine
1999	Yelena Rogozhina	Russia	Beirut, Lebanon
2001	Elodie Gossuin	France	Beirut, Lebanon
2002	Svetlana Koroleva	Russia	Beirut, Lebanon
2003	Zsuzsanna Laky	Hungary	Nogent-sur-Marne, France
2005	Shermine Shahrivar	Germany	Paris, France
2006	Alexandra Rosenfeld	France	Kiev, Ukraine
2009	TBA

Scoretable

Country	Debut	Best Result	Titles
Albania	1992	4th Place (1995)	0
Armenia	2005	2nd Place(2005)	0
Austria	1928	Winner (1950, 1958, 1959, 1978, 1980)	5
Belarus	1995	2nd Place (1996)	0
Belgium	1928	2nd Place (1980)	0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2001	No placement	0
Bulgaria	1991	Semi-finalist (1993)	0
Croatia	1997	3rd Place (2001)	0
Cyprus	1972	7th Place (1976)	0
Czech Republic	1993	Winner (1995)	1
Denmark	1928	Winner (1932, 1981)	2
Estonia	1991	3rd Place (1999)	0
Finland	1934	Winner (1934, 1937, 1938, 1955, 1968, 1976)	6
France	1928	Winner (1931, 1948, 1949, 1966, 2001, 2006)	6
Macedonia	1997	No placement	0
Georgia	1996	No placement	0
Germany	1928	Winner (1991, 2005)	2
Gibraltar	1981	No placement	0
Greece	1928	Winner (1930, 1991, 1992, 1997)	4
Hungary	1928	Winner (1929, 2003)	2
Iceland	1957	4th Place (1978, 1988)	0
Ireland	1928	Semi-finalist (1981)	0
Israel	1985	Winner (1994)	1
Italy	1928	Winner (1953, 1960, 1988)	3
Latvia	1994	No placement	0
Lithuania	1991	Semi-finalist (2002)	0
Luxembourg	1928	Semi-finalist (1993)	0
Malta	1967	3rd Place (1972)	0
Moldova	1999	Semi-finalist (2001, 2006)	0
Monte Carlo	1953	No placement	0
Template:CRG	2006	No placement	0
Netherlands	1928	Winner (1957, 1964, 1973)	3
Norway	1933	Winner (1963)	1
Poland	1928	2nd Place (1929, 1930, 1988, 1997, 2001)	0
Portugal	1960	2nd Place (1970, 1974)	0
Romania	1991	5th Place (2002)	0
Russia	1992	Winner (1999, 2002)	2
San Marino	2001	No placement	0
Serbia	2006	No placement	0
Slovakia	1993	2nd Place (2003)	0
Slovenia	1997	Semi-finalist (1997)	0
Spain	1928	Winner (1935, 1936, 1962, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1985)	7
Sweden	1936	2nd Place (1956, 1972, 1982)	0
Switzerland	1928	Winner (1928)	1
Turkey	1930	Winner (1952, 1971, 1982, 1984, 1993)	5
Ukraine	1993	2nd Place (2006)	0
United Kingdom	1928	Winner (1996)	1

Inactive

Country	Last arrival	Best Result	Titles	Notes
Czechoslovakia	1992	2nd Place (1992)	0	Split into Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.
Serbia and Montenegro	2005	3rd Place (2003)	0	Split into Serbia and Montenegro in 2006.
Soviet Union	1938	Winner (1933)	1	Dissolved into 15 countries in 1991, only 10 are allowed to participate.
West Germany	1985	Winner (1954, 1956, 1961, 1965, 1972)	5	Reunited with East Germany in 1990.
Yugoslavia	2002	Winner (1969)	1	Dissolved into six countries in 1991.

References

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