India at the Big Four international beauty pageants

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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 a total of ten victories with seventy-eight placements in all four pageants:

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The representatives to these pageants are chosen from the pageants Miss Diva (Miss Universe), Femina Miss India (Miss World), Glamanand Supermodel India (Miss International) and, Miss Divine Beauty (Miss Earth) respectively.

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 2024) 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 2024. [8] [9]

Colour Key
Year Miss Universe Miss World Miss International Miss Earth
2024TBA Nandini Gupta
TBA		TBATBA
2023 Shweta Sharda
Top 20		 Sini Shetty
Top 8		Praveena Aanjna Priyan Sain
Top 20
2022 Divita Rai
Top 16		No Pageant Held Zoya Afroz Vanshika Parmar
2021 Harnaaz Sandhu
Miss Universe		 Manasa Varanasi
Top 13		No pageant held due to COVID-19 pandemic Rashmi Madhuri
2020 Adline Castelino
3rd Runner-Up		No pageant held due to COVID-19 pandemic Tanvi Kharote
2019 Vartika Singh
Top 20		 Suman Rao
2nd Runner-Up		 Simrithi Bathija Tejaswini Manogna
2018 Nehal Chudasama Anukreethy Vas
Top 30		 Tanishqa Bhosale Nishi Bhardwaj
2017 Shraddha Shashidhar Manushi Chhillar
Miss World		Ankita KumariShaan Sumas Kumar
2016 Roshmitha Harimurthy Priyadarshini Chatterjee
Top 20		 Rewati Chetri Rashi Yadav
2015 Urvashi Rautela Aditi Arya Supriya Aiman Aaital Khosla
2014 Noyonita Lodh
Top 15		 Koyal Rana
Top 10		 Jhataleka Malhotra Alankrita Sahai
2013 Manasi Moghe
Top 10		 Navneet Dhillon
Top 20		 Gurleen Grewal Sobhita Dhulipala
2012 Shilpa Singh
Top 16		 Vanya Mishra
Top 7		 Rochelle 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
Miss Earth
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
Miss Earth – Air
2006 Neha Kapur
Top 20		 Natasha Suri
Top 17		 Sonnalli Seygall
Top 12		 Amruta Patki
Miss Earth – Air
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 20		 Gauahar Khan Reshmi Ghosh
2001 Celina Jaitley
4th Runner-Up		 Sara Corner Kanwal Toor
Top 15		 Shamita Singha
Top 10
2000 Lara Dutta
Miss Universe		 Priyanka Chopra
Miss World		 Gayatri Joshi
Top 15		↑ No Pageant Held
(established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines)
1999 Gul Panag
Top 10		 Yukta Mookhey
Miss World		Srikrupa Murali
1998 Lymaraina D'Souza
Top 10		Annie Thomas Shwetha Jaishanker
2nd Runner-Up
1997 Nafisa Joseph
Top 10		 Diana Hayden
Miss World		Diya Abraham
1st Runner-Up
1996Sandhya Chib
Top 10		 Rani Jeyraj
Top 5		Fleur Xavier
1995 Manpreet Brar
1st Runner-Up		Preeti Mankotia Priya Gill
1994 Sushmita Sen
Miss Universe		 Aishwarya Rai
Miss World		Fransesca Hart
1993 Namrata Shirodkar
Top 6		Karminder Kaur-Virk Pooja Batra
Top 15
1992 Madhu Sapre
2nd Runner-Up		Shyla LopezKamal Sandhu
1991 Christabelle Howie Ritu Singh
Top 10		Preeti Mankotia
Top 15
1990 Suzanne Sablok
Top 10		Naveeda Mehdi×
1989 Dolly Minhas ××
1988×Anuradha Kottur Shikha Swaroop
1987Priyadarshini PradhanManisha KohliErika Maria de Souza
Top 15
1986 Mehr Jessia Maureen LestourgeonPoonam Gidwant
1985 Sonu Walia Sharon ClarkeVinita Vasan
1984 Juhi Chawla Suchita KumarNalanda Bhandar
Top 15
1983 Rekha Hande Sweety Grewal Sahila Chadha
1982 Pamela Chaudry Singh Uttara Mhatre KherBetty O'Connor
1981 Rachita Kumar Deepti Divakar Meenakshi Seshadri
1980 Sangeeta Bijlani Elizabeth Anita Reddi
Top 15		Ulrika Bredemeyer
1979 Swaroop Sampat Raina MendonicaNita Pinto
1978 Alamjeet Kaur Chauhan Kalpana Iyer
Top 15		Sabita Dhanrajgir
1977Bineeta Bose×Joan Stephens
1976 Naina 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 Gill Prema Narayan Samita Mukherjee
1970Veena SajnaniHeather Faville
Top 15		Patricia D'Souza
Top 15
1969Kavita BhambhaniAdina ShellimWendy Vaz
1968 Anjum Mumtaz Barg Jane CoelhoSumita Sen
Top 15
1967Nayyara Mirza××
1966 Yasmin Daji
3rd Runner-Up		 Reita Faria
Miss World		↑ No Pageant Held
1965 Persis 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×
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

PageantPlacementsBest result
Miss Universe 27Winner Star*.svg (1994 • 2000 • 2021)
Miss World 29Winner Star*.svg (1966 • 1994 • 1997 • 1999 • 2000 • 2017)
Miss International 181st Runner-Up(1960 • 1997 • 2003)
Miss Earth 7Winner Star*.svg (2010)
Total8110 Titles

Hostings

YearpageantLocationVenueContestants
1996 Miss World Bangalore, Karnataka M. Chinnaswamy Stadium 88
2023 Mumbai, Maharashtra Jio World Convention Center 112

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.

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