Miyerkules, Setyembre 4, 2013

India Through the years in Miss Universe

Sushmita Sen
Miss Universe 1994
Power House India became one of the best of Miss Universe after placing in the semifinals for eleven years producing two Miss Universe’s namely Sushmita Sen who won Miss Universe 1994 in Manila Philippines being the first Miss Universe from India Six years later Larra Dutta won the title in 2000 in Cyprus.

India Produced not only two Miss Universe’s but also One Fourth Runner up, One Second Runner up, One Third Runner up, one First Runner up and twelve Semi Finals. The last time were placed was 2012 when Shilpa Signh placed in the top 15 but failed to do further in the competition.
 India was one of the candidates during the inauguration of Miss Universe in 1952 but failed to placed, they were not able to compete the following year until year 1963, and they were unable to participate again in 1988 in Taipei, Taiwan.

Lara Dutta Winning Moment
Miss Universe 2000
They also were awarded for best in National Costume twice in 1978 and 1984.               

India is till hoping for the third Miss Universe Crown.







Indias Delegates to Miss Universe

1952
Indrani Rahman


1953



1954



1955



1956



1957



1958



1959



1960



1961



1962



1963



1964
Meher Castelino Mistri


1965
Persis Khambatta


1966
Yasmin Daji
Third Runner Up

1967
Nayyara Mirza


1968
Anjum Mumtaz Barg


1969
Kavita Bhambani


1970
Veena Sajnani


1971
Raj Gill


1972
Roopa Satyan


1973
Farzana Habib
Top 15 Semi Finalist

1974
Shailini Bhavnath Dholakia
Top 15 Semi Finalist

1975
Meenakshi Kurpad


1976
Naina Sudhir Balsavar


1977
Bineeta Bose


1978
Alamjeet Kaur Chauhan

Best in National Costume
1979
Alamjeet Kaur Chauhan


1980
Sangeeta Motilal Bijlani


1981
Rachita Kumar


1982
Pamela Chaudry Singh


1983
Rekha Hande


1984
Juhi Chawla

Best in National Costume
1985
Sonia Wallia


1986
Mehr Jessia


1987
Priyadarshini Pradhan


1988



1989
Dolly Minhas


1990
Suzanne Sablok


1991
Christabelle Howie


1992
Madhu Sapre
Second Runner Up

1993
Namrata Shirodkar
Top 6 Semi Finalist

1994
Sushmita Sen
Miss Universe 1994

1995
Manpreet Brar
First Runner Up

1996
Sandhya Chib
Top 12 Semi Finalist

1997
Nafisa Joseph
Top 12 Semi Finalist

1998
Lymaraina D’ Souza
Top 10 Semi Finalist

1999
Gul Panag
Top 10 Semi Finalist

2000
Lara Dutta
Miss Universe 2000

2001
Celina Jaitley
Fourth Runner Up

2002
Neha Dhupia
Top 10 Semi Finalist

2003
Nikita Anand


2004
Tanushree Dutta
Top 10 Semi Finalist

2005
Amrita Thapar


2006
Neha Kapur
Top 20 Semi Finalist

2007
Puja Gupta
Top 10 Semi Finalist

2008
Simran Kaur Mundi


2009
Ekta Chowdhry


2010
Ushoshi Sengupta


2011
Vasuki Sunkavalli


2012
Shilpa Singh
Top 15 Semi Finalist

2013
TBA
TBA
TBA



Miss Universe: Sushmita Sen (Miss Universe 1994) Lara Dutta (Miss Universe 2000)
Last Placement: Shilpa Singh (2012)









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