List of Miss Intercontinental winners

Here is the list of Miss Intercontinental winners from different countries. The current Miss Intercontinental 2023 is Chatnalin Chotjirawarachat of Thailand, who was crowned on December 15, 2023, at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. ^{[1] [2]}

History

Miss Intercontinental

Miss Intercontinental logo
Formation	1971;53 years ago (1971)
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Panama, Germany
Location	Panama
Official language	English
President	Manoj Chatlani
Current titleholder	Chatnalin Chotjirawarachat  Thailand
Parent organization	The Miss Intercontinental Organization S.A.
Website	www.missintercontinental.de
Formerly called	Miss Teenage Intercontinental (1973–1979) Miss Teen Intercontinental (1979–1982)

Miss Intercontinental was founded in 1971 based in Panama. ^[3] In 1973 the pageant was officially called Miss Teenage Intercontinental. The parade was organized by Rene Lacle. The contest has its headquarters shared in Germany and Panama. Then in 1979 it was changed to Miss Teen Intercontinental until finally in 1982 the name was changed back to Miss Intercontinental until now.

From 1986 to 1991, Silverbird Group held the franchise of Miss Intercontinental, organizing the pageant in Nigeria from 1986 to 1991. Between 1991 and 1992, the Nigerian company lost the rights to the pageant to a German company, which moved the competition to Germany, and organized it there until 2003. ^{[4] [5]}

It is a popular contest with a great following in Europe and many African countries it also enjoys some popularity in the Philippines and the Caribbean, however, in most of America and Asia, it is known but little followed. The company that owns the pageant is The Miss Intercontinental Organization SA, which makes up the Miss Intercontinental Organization (MIO, for its acronym in English). This organization maintains trades and schedules the activities that needs of the titleholder as the main image being the acting Miss Intercontinental.

Since 2011, this pageant has been selecting continental regions (specifically by dividing between South America and North America, these being the American continent together) as its name indicates, with only one from each continent reaching the top 5. Miss Intercontinental is considered among the 7 most important beauty pageants in the world. Just like Miss Universe, Miss Intercontinental is also one of the beauty pageants with the largest number of host countries, including the Bahamas, Belarus, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Nigeria, Colombia, Venezuela, Seychelles and China. ^[6]

Titleholders

Main article: Miss Teen Intercontinental

Miss Intercontinental (MIO) is an annual international beauty pageant established in 1971. This pageant was first held in Oranjestad, Aruba as Miss Teenage Intercontinental (1973–1979), and in Lagos, Nigeria as Miss Teen Intercontinental (1979–1982). This is also known as the contest that confers it and is held annually, judging the overall beauty, elegance, personality, bearing, pose, communication and security of candidates from different countries (independent or autonomous). Each contestant represents only her country of origin and the winner of the title wears it for a period of about one year, adding to it the year in which she won it.

Year	Country/Territory	Winner	Venue	Entrants
2023  [ es ]	Thailand	Chatnalin Chotjirawarachat [7]	Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt	64
2022  [ es ]	Vietnam	Lê Nguyễn Bảo Ngọc [8] [9]		71
2021  [ es ]	Philippines	Cindy Obeñita [10]		72
2020	No competition held due to COVID-19 Pandemic
2019  [ es ]	Hungary	Fanni Mikó [11] [12]	Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt	75
2018  [ es ]	Philippines	Karen Gallman [13] [14]	Pasay, Philippines	83
2017  [ es ]	Mexico	Veronica Salas Vallejo [15]	Sunrise Grand Select Crystal Bay Resort, Hurghada , Egypt	80
2016  [ es ]	Puerto Rico	Heilymar Rosario Velázquez [16]	Stein Studios, Colombo , Sri Lanka	63
2015  [ es ]	Russia	Valentina Rasulova	Maritim Congress Hotel, Magdeburg , Germany	62
2014  [ es ]	Thailand	Patraporn Wang [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]	Scandic Maritim Hall, Magdeburg , Germany	68
2013  [ es ]	Russia	Ekaterina Plekhova	Maritim Hall, Maritim Hotel, Magdeburg , Germany	59
2012  [ es ]	Venezuela	Daniela Xanadú Chalbaud Maldonado	Eurogress Convention Center, Aachen , Germany	53
2011  [ es ]	United States	Jessica Ann Hartman	Teatro Circo, Orihuela , Spain	60
2010  [ es ]	Puerto Rico	Maydelise Columna Rodríguez	Taíno Theater, Barceló Resorts Hotel, Punta Cana , Dominican Republic	58
2009  [ es ]	Venezuela	Hannelly Quintero	Football Arena, Minsk , Belarus	56
2008  [ es ]	Colombia	Cristina Lucía Camargo de la Rans	Dom Muzyki i Tańca (House of Music and Dance), Zabrze , Poland	57
2007  [ es ]	Lebanon	Nancy Afouny	ICC, Mahé , Seychelles	41
2006  [ es ]	Slovak Republic	Katarína Manová	Kendal LG Isaacs Gymnasium, Nassau , Bahamas	44
2005  [ es ]	Venezuela	Emmarys Pinto	Municipal Stadium, Huangshan , China	61
2004  [ es ]	Colombia	Deisy Catalina Valencia Deossa	Hohhot , China	54
2003  [ es ]	Lebanon	Dominique El-Hourany	Berlin, Germany	34
2002	Curacao	Rychacviana Coffie	Furth, Germany	31
2001	Venezuela	Ligia Fernanda Petit Vargas	Coburg, Germany	31
2000	Germany	Sabrina Schepmann	Kaiserslautern , Germany	30
1999	Turkey	Mine Erbaykent	Bochum, Germany	24
1998	Brazil	Janaína Vizeu Berenhauser Borba	Bonn, Germany	23
1997	India	Lara Dutta	Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany	32
1996	Tahiti	Timeri Andréa Françoise Baudry	Trier, Germany	23
1995	United States Virgin Islands	Melissa Cortez	Dresden, Germany	23
1994	United States	Kimberly Anne Byers	Dusseldorf, Germany	22
1993	Germany	Verona Feldbusch	Bonn, Germany	15
1992	Germany	Susanne Petry	Eschweiler, Germany
1991	Russia	Elena Ivanova [lower-alpha 1]	Bonn, Germany	25
	Puerto Rico	Carmen Lynda Díaz [lower-alpha 2] [25] [26] [27] [4] [5]	Lagos, Nigeria
1990	Jamaica	Sandra Foster	Lagos, Nigeria	21
1989	Dominican Republic	Brenda Marte Lajara [lower-alpha 3] [25]
	Nigeria	Bianca Onoh [lower-alpha 4] [28] [29]
1988	Curacao	Joan Marie Maynard
1987	Peru	Patricia Anni Marie Kuypers Mirror		24
1986	Puerto Rico	Elizabeth Robinson Latalladi		13
1985	Dominican Republic	Sumaya Alejandrina Heinsen Pérez
1983	Holland	Brigitte Bergman	Oranjestad, Aruba	40
1982	United States	Jodee Joy Dominici	Cartagena de Indias, Colombia	42
1981	Brazil	Cristiane Lisita Passos	Barranquilla, Colombia	38
1980	Argentina	Elizabeth Patricia Gasiewicz	Punto Fijo, Venezuela	40
1979	United States	Maryanne Shaugnessey	Oranjestad, Aruba	30
1978	India	Elizabeth Anita Reddi		44
1977	England	Elizabeth Ann Jones		55
1976	Nicaragua	Ivania Dolores Navarro Genie		37
1975	Iran	Shohreh Raissi Nikpour		24
1974	Venezuela	Maria Emilia De Los Ríos		18
1973	United States	Barbara Jean Sergi		15
1972	Brazil	Jane Vieira Macambira
1971	Peru	Magnolia Martínez Rojas

Ranking of countries and territories

• 
  Map of countries who won in Miss Intercontinental through the years.

Country/Territory	Titles	Years earned
Venezuela	5	1974, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2012
United States		1973, 1979, 1982, 1994, 2011
Puerto Rico	4	1986, 1991, [lower-alpha 2] 2010, 2016
Russia	3	1991 [lower-alpha 1] , 2013, 2015
Germany		1992, 1993, 2000
Brazil		1972, 1981, 1998
Thailand	2	2014, 2023
Philippines		2018, 2021
Colombia		2004, 2008
Lebanon		2003, 2007
Curaçao		1988, 2002
India		1978, 1997
Dominican Republic		1985, 1989 [lower-alpha 3]
Peru		1971, 1987
Vietnam	1	2022
Hungary		2019
Mexico		2017
Slovakia		2006
Turkey		1999
Tahiti		1996
United States Virgin Islands		1995
Jamaica		1990
Nigeria		1989 [lower-alpha 4]
Netherlands		1983
Argentina		1980
England		1977
Nicaragua		1976
Iran		1975

Continental Queens

Edition	Miss South America Intercontinental	Miss North America Intercontinental	Miss Europe Intercontinental	Miss Asia Intercontinental	Miss Africa Intercontinental
2008	Brazil Vanessa Guimaraes	Dominican Republic Flor Elisa Jesis	Belarus Belarus Lyubov Yakovina	Singapore Lilian Lee	Seychelles Noele Joubert
2009	Venezuela Hannelly Quintero [30] [31] [32]	Puerto Rico Juliane Ruiz	Belarus Mariya Yesmna	South Korea Cha Ye-lin	Ethiopia Hiwot Tesfaye
2010	Peru Karen Schwarz [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38]	Puerto Rico - Maydelise Column	'  Poland' Izabela Wilczek	Philippines Christi Lynn McGarry [39]	Ethiopia Rodina Gebremariam
2011	United States Jessica Hartman	Jamaica Chavoy Gordon	England Gloria Martínez	China Gong Rui	Ethiopia Betelhem Hailu
2012	Venezuela Daniela Chalbaud	Puerto Rico Génesis Dávila	England Laura Ashfield	Thailand Natthida Pekkhad	South Africa Roxanne Amy Zeller
2013	Colombia Margarita Peralta	Puerto Rico Aleyda Ortiz	Russia Ekaterina Plekhova	Philippines Andrea Koreen Medina	South Africa Kayla Nel
2014	Argentina Nadina Vallina	Cuba Jeslie Mergal	Portugal Joana Martins	Philippines Kris Tiffany Janson	South Africa Donique Leonard
2015	Venezuela Katherine García	United States Brianne Bailey	Russia Valentina Rasulova	Philippines Christi Lynn McGarry [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46]	Zimbabwe Tendai Bongani Humda
2016	Venezuela Amal Karina Nemer	Puerto Rico Heylimar Rosario	Italy Fioriana Russo	Sri Lanka Tracy De Zilva	Ghana Silvia Commodore
2017	Brazil Amanda Cardoso	Mexico Verónica Salas	Netherlands Cathelijne Madelief Heppenhuis	Philippines Katarina Rodríguez	Nigeria Abigail Esther Ejike
2018	Colombia Hillary Hollmann Del Prado	Costa Rica Adriana Moya	Slovakia Laura Longauerová	Philippines Karen Juanita Gallman	Ethiopia Bella Lire Lapso
2019	Peru Tiffany Yoko Chong	United States Mónica Aguillar	Hungary Fanni Mikó	Thailand Jane Naruemon Kampan	South Africa Dane Venter
2021	Colombia María Paula Castillo	Mexico Paulina Uceda	United Kingdom Romy Simpkins	Philippines Cinderella Faye Obeñita	Seychelles Kelly-Mary Anette
2022	Brazil Maria Cecília Almeida de Sousa	Puerto Rico Mariela Pepín Solís	Germany Tatjana Genrich	Vietnam Lê Nguyễn Bảo Ngọc	Nigeria Joy Raimi Mojisola
2023	Colombia Marelis Salas	Mexico Cristina Villegas	Russia Daria Reshta	Vietnam Lê Nguyễn Ngọc Hằng	Sierra Leone Christiana Johnson

See also

• List of beauty pageants

Notes

1. In 1991, two editions of the pageant were held: the first took place in Lagos, Nigeria, where the candidate from Puerto Rico won, and the second took place in Bonn, Germany, where the candidate from Russia won.
2. Miss Intercontinental was held twice in 1991. Carmen Lynda Díaz from Puerto Rico won the first edition held in Lagos, Nigeria by Nigerian owners of the pageant, Silverbird Productions, which held the franchise from 1986 to 1991, and Elena Ivanova from Russia won the second edition held in Bonn, Germany by organizers working under the direction of the new owners of the pageant, a company from Germany, which held the competition in Europe from 1991 to 2003. Despite not being included in the official archive of the pageant by the current owners, Puerto Rico irrefutably won the first edition of 1991 in Nigeria, thus achieving its second Miss Intercontinental crown.
3. Originally crowned 1st Runner-Up. Assumed the title after winner resigned.
4. Resigned six months into her reign following press reports on her secret relationship with former Biafra president Emeka Ojukwu.

References

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External links

• Official Website