Miss Europe

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Marina Tsintikidou, Miss Europe 1992.
Marina Tsintikidou, Miss Europe 1992.
Isavella Dara, Miss Europe 1997.
Isavella Dara, Miss Europe 1997.

Miss Europe is an annual, 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 French production company Endemol in 2003.

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[edit] Miss Europe 2006

Aliki Diplarakou, Miss Europe 1930.
Aliki Diplarakou, Miss Europe 1930.

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 Kyiv 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.

Alexandra Rosenfeld won Miss Europe 2006

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

[edit] Titleholders

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 Marlow Russia 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 -
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 Germany Vichy, France
Danièle Gerault France
1955 Inga-Britt Söderberg Finland Helsinki, Finland
1956 Margit Nünke Germany Stockholm, 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 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 Germany Nice, France
1966 Maria Dornier France Nice, France
1967 Paquita Torres Pérez Spain Nice, France
1968 Leena Marketta Brusiin Finland Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
1969 Sasa Zajc Yugoslavia Rabat, Morocco
1970 Noelia Alfonso Cabrera Spain Piraeus, Greece
1971 Filiz Vural Turkey Tunis, Tunisia
1972 Monika Sarp Germany Estoril, Portugal
1973 Anke Maria Groot Netherlands Kitzbühel, Austria
1974 Maria Isabel (Maribel) Lorenzo Saavedra Spain Vienna, Austria
1975 -
1976 Riitta Inkeri Väisänen Finland Rhodes, Greece
1977 -
1978 Eva Maria Düringer Austria Helsinki, Finland
1979 -
1980 Karin Zorn Austria Puerto de la Cruz, Spain
1981 Anne Mette Larsen Denmark Birmingham, England
1982 Nazlı Deniz Kuruoğlu Turkey Istanbul, Turkey
1983 -
1984 Neşe Erberk Turkey Bad Gastein, Austria
1985 Juncal Rivero Fadrique Spain Mainz, Germany
1986-87 -
1988 Michela Rocco di Torrepadula Italy Ragusa, Italy
1989-90 -
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 Marie-Claire Harrison England Tirana, Albania
1997 Isabelle Darras Greece Greece
1998 -
1999 Yelena Rogozhina Russia Beirut, Lebanon
2000 -
2001 Elodie Gossuin France Beirut, Lebanon
2002 Svetlana Koroleva Russia Beirut, Lebanon
2003 Zsuzsanna Laky Hungary Nogent-sur-Marne, France
2004 -
2005 Shermine Shahrivar Germany Paris, France
2006 Alexandra Rosenfeld France Kyiv, Ukraine

[edit] Scoretable

Miss Europe 1991, Silvia Maria Jato Núñez - Spain (2nd), Susanne Petry - Germany (original winner) & Katerina Michalopoulou - Greece (1st)
Miss Europe 1991, Silvia Maria Jato Núñez - Spain (2nd), Susanne Petry - Germany (original winner) & Katerina Michalopoulou - Greece (1st)

As of 2006:

Times Country
7 France, Germany, Spain,
6 Finland
5 Austria, Turkey
4 Greece
3 Italy, Netherlands, Russia
2 Denmark, Hungary, Switzerland
1 Czech Republic, England, Israel, Norway, Yugoslavia

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