Miss Universo Brasil

Miss Universo Brasil

Formation	1954
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	São Paulo
Location	Brazil
Membership	Miss Universe
Official language	Portuguese
President	João Apollinário
Website	missbrasiloficial.com

The Miss Universo Brasil beauty contest is launched in 1954. The partnership between Rede Bandeirantes and the Miss Universe Organization will be expanded. The Enter from event company Grupo Bandeirantes has signed a contract with Donald Trump and NBCUniversal to give a new impulse to beauty contests in Brazil. The control of 27 regional competitions in the Miss Universe will enter Brazil, which will be responsible for everything from selection of candidates for transmission of the event. The current Miss Universo Brasil is Marthina Brandt of Rio Grande do Sul.

History

Competition to win the crown of "Miss Brasil" began in the 1920s following a trend throughout the world during that period. A famous controversy occurred when Miss Brasil 1929 competed in the International Pageant of Pulchritude, known as "Miss Universe" in the 1930s, but failed to place in the competition, much less win.^[1] The angered Brazilians hosted their own international pageant in 1930 leading to two separate "Miss Universe" titles that year, not related to the modern Miss Universe competition created in 1952. In the Brazilian "Miss Universe", Miss Brasil won the title while in the other competition in the US, Miss United States received the crown of Miss Universe 1930.^[2] These competitions, like many others in the world, were discontinued as the Great Depression and World War II diverted the world's attention. The modern Miss Brasil pageant was created in 1954 in the city of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro. The first edition of Miss Brasil, won by Bahia's representative Martha Rocha, was sponsored by the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper.

Winners

Recent Winners

Year	Winner	State	Place
2012	Gabriela Markus	Rio Grande do Sul	Centro de Eventos do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE
2013	Jakelyne Oliveira	Mato Grosso	Minascentro, Belo Horizonte, MG
2014	Melissa Gurgel	Ceará	Centro de Eventos do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE
2015	Marthina Brandt	Rio Grande do Sul	Anhembi Parque, São Paulo, SP
2016	TBA	TBA	TBA

Winner's Gallery

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  Miss Brasil 1969
  Vera Fischer, SC.

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  Miss Brasil 1999
  Renata Fan, RS.

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  Miss Brasil 2005
  Carina Beduschi, SC.

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  Miss Brasil 2007
  Natália Guimarães, MG.

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  Miss Brasil 2009
  Larissa Costa, RN.

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  Miss Brasil 2010
  Débora Lyra, MG.

Winners by state

State	Titles	Winning Years
Rio Grande do Sul	13	1956, 1963, 1972, 1986, 1993, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011-12, 2015
Minas Gerais	8	1961, 1971, 1978, 1983, 1995, 1997, 2007, 2010
São Paulo	8	1967, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1984, 1991, 1994
Rio de Janeiro	8	1958, 1959, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1970, 1980, 1981
Santa Catarina	5	1969, 1975, 1988, 2002, 2005
Ceará	3	1955, 1989, 2014
Mato Grosso	3	1985, 2000, 2013
Paraná	3	1964, 1992, 1996
Bahia	3	1954, 1962, 1968
Rio Grande do Norte	2	1979, 2009
Tocantins	1	2003
Mato Grosso do Sul	1	1998
Distrito Federal	1	1987
Pará	1	1982
Amazonas	1	1957

• The extinct Guanabara State occupied the same territory of the city of Rio de Janeiro and was added to Rio de Janeiro State in 1975.

All Winners

Year	Delegate	State	Placement	Notes
1954	Martha Rocha	Bahia	1st Runner-Up
1955	Emília Corrêia	Ceará	Top 15
1956	Maria José Cardoso	Rio Grande do Sul	Top 15
1957	Terezinha Morango	Amazonas	1st Runner-Up
1958	Adalgisa Colombo	Rio de Janeiro	1st Runner-Up	(In Memoriam)
1959	Vera Regina Ribeiro	Rio de Janeiro	4th Runner-Up
1960	Jean "Gina" MacPherson	Rio de Janeiro	Top 15
1961	Staël Maria Abelha	Minas Gerais
1962	Olívia Rebouças	Bahia	4th Runner-Up
1963	Ieda Maria Vargas	Rio Grande do Sul	Miss Universe 1963
1964	Ângela Vasconcelos	Paraná	Top 15
1965	Raquel Helena de Andrade	Rio de Janeiro	Top 15
1966	Ana Cristina Ridzi Bercet	Rio de Janeiro
1967	Carmen Sílvia Ramasco	São Paulo	Top 15	Best National Costume
1968	Martha Vasconcellos	Bahia	Miss Universe 1968
1969	Vera Lúcia Fischer	Santa Catarina	Top 15	Best in Swimsuit
1970	Eliane Thompson	Rio de Janeiro	Top 15
1971	Eliane Guimarães	Minas Gerais	4th Runner-Up
1972	Rejane Vieira Costa	Rio Grande do Sul	1st Runner-Up	(In Memoriam)
1973	Sandra Mara Ferreira	São Paulo	Top 15
1974	Sandra Guimarães	São Paulo
1975	Ingrid Budag	Santa Catarina	Top 15
1976	Kátia Celestino Moretto	São Paulo		(In Memoriam)
1977	Cássia Moraes Silveira	São Paulo
1978	Suzana Araújo dos Santos	Minas Gerais
1979	Marta Jussara da Costa	Rio Grande do Norte	3rd Runner-Up
1980	Eveline Didier Schröeter	Rio de Janeiro
1981	Adriana Alves de Oliveira	Rio de Janeiro	3rd Runner-Up	Best National Costume
1982	Celice Pinto Marques	Pará	Top 12
1983	Marisa Fully Coelho	Minas Gerais		(In Memoriam)
1984	Ana Elisa Flores da Cruz	São Paulo
1985	Márcia Giagio Canavezes	Mato Grosso	Top 10
1986	Deise Nunes de Souza	Rio Grande do Sul	Top 10
1987	Jacqueline Ribeiro Meirelles	Distrito Federal		Best National Costume
1988	Isabel Cristina Bedüschi	Santa Catarina
1989	Flávia Cavalcanti Rebêlo	Ceará		Best National Costume
1991	Patrícia Franco de Godói	São Paulo
1992	Maria Carolina Portella	Paraná
1993	Leila Cristine Schüster	Rio Grande do Sul	Top 10
1994	Valéria Melo Peris	São Paulo
1995	Renata Bessa Soares	Minas Gerais
1996	Maria Joana Parizotto	Paraná
1997	Nayla Fernanda Micherif	Minas Gerais
1998	Michela Dauzacker Marchi	Mato Grosso do Sul	Top 10
1999	Renata Bonfiglio Fan	Rio Grande do Sul
2000	Josiane Kruliskoski	Mato Grosso
2001	Juliana Borges	Rio Grande do Sul
2002	Joseane Oliveira	Rio Grande do Sul
2003	Gislaine Ferreira	Tocantins	Top 10
2004	Fabiane Niclotti	Rio Grande do Sul
2005	Carina Beduschi	Santa Catarina
2006	Rafaela Zanella	Rio Grande do Sul	Top 20
2007	Natália Guimarães	Minas Gerais	1st Runner-Up
2008	Natália Anderle	Rio Grande do Sul
2009	Larissa Costa Silva	Rio Grande do Norte
2010	Débora Moura Lyra	Minas Gerais
2011	Priscila Machado	Rio Grande do Sul	2nd Runner-Up
2012	Gabriela Markus	Rio Grande do Sul	4th Runner-Up
2013	Jakelyne Oliveira	Mato Grosso	4th Runner-Up
2014	Melissa Gurgel	Ceará	Top 15
2015	Marthina Brandt	Rio Grande do Sul	Top 15
2016	TBA	TBA	TBA

Television acts

Actresses

Some Miss Brasil winners or finalists were acting in a lead or supporting roles in telenovelas and motion pictures after her reigns (nationwide or locally). By example:

• Natália Guimarães (Minas Gerais, winner, 2007 and 1st. runner up at Miss Universe 2007);
• Grazielli Massafera (Paraná, 2nd runner up, 2004);
• Marisa Fully Coelho (Minas Gerais, winner, 1983);
• Suzy Rego (Pernambuco, 1st runner-up, 1984);
• Vera Fischer (Santa Catarina, winner, 1969).

The hostesses

Some Miss Brasil winners or finalists acted or are still active hosting shows, sports programming or movie sessions aired in national television daily or weekly. They were/are:

• Brasília's resident and Cuiabá's native Jacqueline Meirelles (Cinema em Casa-SBT, 1988, Mulher 90 – Rede Manchete, 1989 and some works in TV Gazeta in the 1990s and SBT´s A Praça é Nossa late 2000s and early 2010s). She won Miss Universe 1987 best national costume;
• Rio Grande do Sul's Luize Altenhofen (Band Esporte Clube – Rede Bandeirantes, 2007–present and other works on the same network and also at Sportv basic cable channel) 1st runner-up, 1998, she did not compete at the Miss International of that year held in Tokyo due to illness.
• São Paulo's Adriana Colin (former host of sports programs in Rede Manchete and Rede Record from 1994 to 1997 and 1999 to 2002,former host of SBT´sFantasia from 1997 to 1998,former commercial host of Globo's Domingão do Faustão, 2002–2009) 1st runner-up, 1989.
• However, the most famous former Miss Brazil who became TV hostess is Renata Fan, from Rio Grande do Sul, winner of Miss Brazil 1999, but she unplaced Top 10 at Miss Universe from same year. She also won Miss World University 2000. She has also hosted the TV show Canal Aberto at Rede Bandeirantes.

Reality TV

Some Miss Brasil pageant contestants, finalists or winners have appeared in popular reality television programs broadcast nationwide:

• Paraná's Grazielli Massafera (Big Brother Brasil 5 – Runner-Up, Rede Globo, 2005) was 2nd runner-up at national pageant in earlier years. She represented the country at Miss International 2004, held in Beijing;
• São Paulo's Solange Frazão (Celebrity's House 3 – 4th Place, SBT, 2002) was 1st runner-up at the national pageant organized by the network of the program in 1982. Today, she is a very popular TV hostess in her country.
• Rio Grande do Sul's Joseane Oliveira (Big Brother Brasil 3 – 12th Place, Rede Globo, 2003 and Big Brother Brasil 10 – 16th Place, Rede Globo, 2010) lost her title on February 4 of that year after admitting to her marriage in a popular Sunday TV show, Domingão do Faustão.
• Pernambuco's Michelle Fernandes (Big Brother Brasil 9 – first evicted of the show in the season, Rede Globo, 2009) was Top 15 in the national pageant previously year.

See also

• Miss Brasil 2012
• Miss Brasil 2013
• Miss Brasil 2014

References

Preceded by Miss Brasil 1954–2011	Miss Universe franchise holder for Brazil 2012-present	Succeeded by Incumbent

Miss Brasil 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Winners Special Awards

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