India at big four international beauty pageants

This is a list of India's representatives and their placements at the Big Four international beauty pageants. The country has won three of the Big Four pageants, Miss International being the only exception. It has won two Miss Universe crowns, five Miss World crowns and one Miss Earth crown, for a total of eight Big 4 titles. The only countries with more Big 4 titles are Venezuela (22), the United States (14) and the Philippines (12). In 1994, India won both Miss Universe and Miss World, with Sushmita Sen (Universe) and Aishwarya Rai (World). In 2000, India repeated this feat with Lara Dutta (Universe) and Priyanka Chopra (World).

Color Key

•      Ended as runner-up
•      Ended as one of the Finalists or Semi-finalists
•      Ended as one of the quarter finalists in Miss World

Year	Miss Universe	Miss World	Miss International	Miss Earth
2016	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
2015	Urvashi Rautela	Aditi Arya	Supriya Aiman	Aaital Khosal
2014	Noyonita Lodh Top 15	Koyal Rana Top 11	Jhataleka Malhotra	Alankrita Sahai
2013	Manasi Moghe Top 10	Navneet Kaur Dhillon Top 20	Gurleen Grewal	Sobhita Dhulipala
2012	Shilpa Singh Top 16	Vanya Mishra 6th Runner Up	Rochelle Maria 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 WINNER
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 1st Runner-up
2006	Neha Kapur Top 20	Natasha Suri Top 17	Sonal Sehgal Top 12	Amruta Patki 1st Runner-up (Miss Earth – Air)
2005	Amrita Thapar	Sindhura Gadde Top 15	Vaishali Desai	Niharika Singh
2004	Tanushree Dutta Top 10	Sayali Bhagat	Mihika Verma Top15	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 15	Gauhar Khan	Reshmi Ghosh
2001	Celina Jaitley 4th Runner-up	Sara Corner	Kanwal Toor	Shamita Singha Top 10, Best in National Costume
2000	Lara Dutta WINNER Best in Swimsuit	Priyanka Chopra WINNER Continental Queen of Asia and Oceania	Gayatri Joshi Top 15	↑ No Pageant Held
1999	Gul Panag Top 10	Yukta Mookhey WINNER Continental Queen of Asia and Oceania	Srikrupa Murali
1998	Lymaraina D'Souza Top 10	Annie Thomas	Shwetha Jaishanker 2nd Runner-up
1997	Nafisa Joseph Top 10	Diana Hayden WINNER Miss Photogenic Spectacular Swimwear	Diya Abraham 1st Runner-up
1996	Sandhya Chib Top 10	Rani Jeyraj 3rd Runner Up Continental Queen of Beauty – Asia and Oceania Spectacular Evening Gown	Fleur Xavier
1995	Manpreet Brar 1st Runner-up	Preeti Mankotia	Priya Gill
1994	Sushmita Sen WINNER	Aishwarya Rai WINNER Miss Photogenic	Fransesca Hart
1993	Namrata Shirodkar Top 6	Karminder Kaur-Virk Best National Costume	Pooja Batra Top 15
1992	Madhu Sapre 2nd Runner-up	Shyla Lopez	Kamal Sandhu
1991	Christabelle Howie	Ritu Singh 6th Runner Up	Preeti Mankotia Top 15
1990	Suzanne Sablok Top 10	Naveeda Mehdi	×
1989	Dolly Minhas	×	×
1988	×	Anuradha Kottur	Shikha Swaroop
1987	Priyadarshini Pradhan	Manisha Kohli	Erika Maria de Souza Top 15
1986	Mehr Jessia	Maureen Mary Lestourgeon	Poonam Pahlet Gidwant
1985	Sonu Walia	Sharon Mary Clarke	Vinita Seshadri Vasan
1984	Juhi Chawla Best National Costume	Suchita Kumar	Nalanda Ravindra Bhandar Top 15
1983	Rekha Hande	Sweety Grewal	Sahila Chadha
1982	Pamela Chaudry Singh	Uttara Mhatre Kher	Betty O'Connor
1981	Rachita Kumar	Deepti Divakar	Meenakshi Seshadri
1980	Sangeeta Bijlani	Elizabeth Anita Reddi Top 15	Ulrika Karen Bredemeyer
1979	Swaroop Sampat	Raina Winifred Mendonica	Nita Pinto
1978	Alamjeet Kaur Chauhan	Kalpana Iyer Top 15	Sabita Dhanrajgir
1977	Bineeta Bose	Veena Prakash	Joan Stephens
1976	Naina Sudhir Balsavar	Naina Balsavar	Nafisa Ali 2nd Runner-up
1975	Meenakshi Kurpad	Anjana Sood Top 15	Indira Maria Bredemeyer 2nd Runner-up
1974	'Shailini Bhavnath Dholakia Top 12	Kiran Dholakia	Leslie Jean Hartnett
1973	'Farzana Habib Top 12	×	Lynette Williams
1972	'Roopa Satyan Top 12	Malathi Basappa 4th Runner-up	Indira Muthanna
1971	Raj Gill	Prema Narayan	Samita Mukherjee
1970	Veena Sajnani	Heather Corinne Faville Top 15	Patricia D'Souza Top 15
1969	Kavita Bhambhani	Adina Shellim	Wendy Leslie Vaz
1968	Anjum Mumtaz Barg	Jane Coelho	Sumita Sen Top 15
1967	Nayyara Mirza	×	×
1966	Yasmin Daji 3rd Runner-up	Reita Faria WINNER	↑ No Peagent Held
1965	Persis Khambatta	×	×
1964	Meher Castelino Mistri	×	×
1963	×	×	×
1962	×	Ferial Karim Top 15	Sheila Chonkar
1961	×	Veronica Leonora Torcato	Diana Valentine
1960	×	Iona Pinto	Iona Pinto 1st Runner-up
1959	×	Fleur Ezekiel	↑ No Pageant Held
1958	×	×
1957	×	×
1956	×	×
1955	×	×
1954	×	×
1953	×	×
1952	Indrani Rehman	×
1951	↑ No Pageant Held	×

× Did not compete
↑ No pageant held

Pageant	Placements	Best result
Miss Universe	22	Winner (1994, 2000)
Miss World	22	Winner (1966, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2000)
Miss International	18	1st Runner-up (1960, 1997, 2003)
Miss Earth	6	Winner (2010)

References

• Femina Miss India official website
• Miss Universe country participation lists
• Miss World country participation lists
• Miss International country participation lists
• Miss Earth country participation lists

See also

Femina Miss India
I AM She – Miss Universe India