Miss Europe

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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.

Contents 1 Miss Europe 2006 2 Titleholders 3 Scoretable 4 Inactive 5 Reference

[edit] 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 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.

The youngest sister of the 1996 title holder, Claire-Marie Harrison, is now a professional *bridal make-up artist under her married name of Charlotte Greaves.

• NOTE: The pageant was cancelled 1939-47, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1983, 1986-87, 1989-90, 1998, 2000, 2004 and 2007.

[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 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 Gerault	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	Paris,France
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	Kyiv, Ukraine
2008	TBA

[edit] Scoretable

Country	Debut	Best Result	Titles
Albania	1992	4th Place 1995	0
Austria	1928	MISS EUROPE 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	MISS EUROPE 1995	1
Denmark	1928	MISS EUROPE 1932, 1981	2
Estonia	1991	3rd Place 1999	0
Finland	1934	MISS EUROPE 1934, 1937, 1938, 1955, 1968, 1976	6
France	1928	MISS EUROPE 1931, 1948, 1949, 1966, 2001, 2006	6
FYR Macedonia	1997	No placement	0
Georgia	1996	No placement	0
Germany	1928	MISS EUROPE 1991, 2005	2
Gibraltar	1981	No placement	0
Greece	1928	MISS EUROPE 1930, 1991, 1992, 1997	4
Hungary	1928	MISS EUROPE 1929, 2003	2
Iceland	1957	4th Place 1978, 1988	0
Ireland	1928	Semi-finalist 1981	0
Israel	1985	MISS EUROPE 1994	1
Italy	1928	MISS EUROPE 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
Montenegro	2006	No placement	0
Netherlands	1928	MISS EUROPE 1957, 1964, 1973	3
Norway	1933	MISS EUROPE 1963	1
Poland	1928	2nd Place 1988, 1997, 2001	0
Portugal	1960	2nd Place 1970, 1974	0
Romania	1991	5th Place 2002	0
Russia	1992	MISS EUROPE 1999, 2003	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	MISS EUROPE 1935, 1936, 1962, 1967, 1970, 1974, 1985	7
Sweden	1936	2nd Place 1956, 1972, 1982	0
Switzerland	1928	MISS EUROPE 1928	1
Turkey	1930	MISS EUROPE 1952, 1971, 1982, 1984, 1993	5
Ukraine	1993	2nd Place 2006	0
United Kingdom	1928	MISS EUROPE 1996	1

[edit] Inactive

Country	Last arrival	Best Result
Czechoslovakia	1992	2nd Place 1992	0
Serbia and Montenegro	2005	No placement	0
Soviet Union	1938	MISS EUROPE 1933	1
West Germany	1985	MISS EUROPE 1954, 1956, 1961, 1965, 1972	5
Yugoslavia	2002	MISS EUROPE 1969	1

[edit] Reference

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