Miss Brasil

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Carina Beduschi, Miss Brasil 2005.

The Miss Brasil Pageant is a beauty contest that has been held every year since 1954 between winners of the Brazilian state pageants. According the organizers, the 2007 edition venue is confirmed for April 14 in Vivo Rio concert house, in Rio de Janeiro, in national telecast on network Rede Bandeirantes at 10:00PM-12:00AM (Brazilian time, 01:00-03:00 GMT). The winner of Miss Brasil competes in the Miss Universe contest and the runner-up competes in the Miss International.

1 History
2 Organization
3 Locations and venues
4 The winners
5 Winners by state
6 External links

[edit] History

The pageant was created at 1954 in the imperial 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 São Paulo newspaper.

[edit] Organization

[edit] Under Diários Associados

In following year, Brazilian media businessman, mogul and journalist Assis Chateubriand took the rights of Miss Brasil pageant, when the winners take qualified to the Miss Universe, Miss World (participation began at 1958) and Miss International pageants (participation begin in 1960, when the pageant was created). The empire who created Diários Associados, was responsible for diffusion of the national beauties until 1980, when the network Rede Tupi was lost his concessions by order of Ministry of Communications.

On the named Miss Brazil's golden era, Rio Grande do Sul's Iêda Maria Vargas and Bahia's Martha Vasconcellos winner the 1963 and 1968 editions of Miss Universe. On the same year when Martha was crowned Guanabara's Maria da Gloria Carvalho winnered Miss International. In 1971, Lucia Tavares Petterle was elected Miss World.

Adalgisa Colombo and Rejane Vieira Costa was 1st runner ups in Miss Universe editions in 1958 and 1972 (the first live telecasted in colour in Brazil). (See the winners table for 1959, 1962, 1971 and 1979 results)

[edit] Under SBT

When the channels of defunct Tupi was redistributed for media businessman and TV animator Sílvio Santos and Russian-Brazilian journalist and owner of Manchete magazine Adolpho Bloch groups, in April 23, 1981, the new network SBT (one of the results of the Rede Associada inventary) ownered the Miss Brasil until 1989.

On the 80's, Miss Brasil pageant was known the most brega period, by oppinion of same fans and television critics. The last top 5 obteined by Brazilian representative in Miss Universe was in 1981, by the Rio de Janeiro candidate in national pageant, Adriana Alves de Oliveira. Because lack of ratings and announcers, SBT retired the promotion of Miss Brasil in April 1990, after the country not participied in Miss Universe 1990.

In this period, Miss Brazil pageant was held in separeted pageants for Miss Universe (the most expected and important), Miss World and Miss International. SBT telecasted too same state pageants, nationwide in Programa Sílvio Santos and locally by the affiliates, such as TV Alterosa (Minas Gerais) and TV Itapoan (Bahia).

[edit] Under Marlene Brito and others

In 1990, the SBT's former producer of the pageant, Marlene Brito, took the Miss Brasil rights and producion until 1993, when Leila Schuster was crowned without realization of traditional pageant, but her was indicated by the national direction for representative the country in Miss Universe 1993. From 1994, Miss Brasil was ownered by various directors, includding the former host in Tupi's period, Paulo Max.

The present directors, Nayla Micherif and Boanerges Gaeta Jr., assumed the functions by partnership in 2002. Since this year, the pageant national telecast is back, after some local broadcastings of it in 90's.

On the new phase, Miss Brasil was broadcasted first on Rede TV! and since 2003, Band network assumed the televiosion rights of the event, with venues in São Paulo (2003 and 2004), and Rio de Janeiro (2005-present).

[edit] Locations and venues

1954-1957-Palácio Quitandinha, Petrópolis (RJ);
1958-1972-Maracanãzinho Gymnasium, Rio de Janeiro;
1973-1980-Ginásio Presidente Médici, Brasília
1981-1987-Palácio das Convenções do Anhembi, São Paulo
1988-1989-Teatro Sílvio Santos (SBT Studios), São Paulo
1991-The Gallery, São Paulo
1992-Olympia (concert house), São Paulo

In 1993, the pageant was replaced by a little event, in a fine restaurant of São Paulo, named Leopolldo. At the place, Leila Schuster was crowned.

From 1994 to 1996, Miss Brazil was back to Rio de Janeiro. In 1997, it was held in northeastern city of Teresina. From 1998 to present, Rio and São Paulo alternate the right to venue the annual beauty telecast show, at first broadcasted by local affiliates from Rede Manchete, Rede Record and CNT.

[edit] The winners

Year	Miss Brasil	State Represented	Comments
1954	Martha Rocha	Bahia	Miss Universe 1st runner-up
1955	Emília Barreto Correia Lima	Ceará	Miss Universe top 15
1956	Maria José Cardoso	Rio Grande do Sul	Miss Universe top 15
1957	Teresinha Gonçalves Morango	Amazonas	Miss Universe 1st runner-up
1958	Adalgisa Colombo	Guanabara Federal District	Miss Universe 1st runner up
1959	Vera Regina Ribeiro	Guanabara Federal District	Miss Universe 4th runner up
1960	Gina MacPherson	Guanabara Federal District	Miss Universe top 15
1961	Staël Maria da Rocha Abelha	Minas Gerais	Resigned the title after Miss Universe 1961
1962	Maria Olívia Rebouças Cavalcanti	Bahia	Miss Universe 4th runner up
1963	Iêda Maria Brutto Vargas	Rio Grande do Sul	Miss Universe Winner.
1964	Ângela Teresa Reis Vasconcelos	Paraná	Miss Universe top 15 semifinalist
1965	Maria Raquel Helena de Andrade	Guanabara Federal District	Miss Universe top 15 semifinalist
1966	Ana Cristina Ridzi	Guanabara Federal District	Not placed in Miss Universe 1966
1967	Carmen Sílvia de Barros Ramasco	São Paulo	Miss Universe top 15 semifinalist and best national costume
1968	Martha Maria Cordeiro Vasconcellos	Bahia	Miss Universe Winner.
1969	Vera Fischer	Santa Catarina	Miss Universe Semifinalist
1970	Eliane Fialho Thompson	Guanabara Federal District	Miss Universe top 15 semifinalist
1971	Eliane Parreira Guimarães	Minas Gerais	Miss Universe 4th runner up
1972	Rejane Vieira Costa	Rio Grande do Sul	Miss Universe 1st runner-up
1973	Sandra Mara Ferreira	São Paulo	Miss Universe top 12 semifinalist
1974	Sandra Guimarães de Oliveira	São Paulo	Resigned after Miss Universe 1974, when she not placed
1975	Ingrid Budag	Santa Catarina	Miss Universe top 12 semifinalist
1976	Kátia Celestino Moretto	São Paulo	From this year until 1978, none of this national winners were placed in Miss Universe
1977	Cássia Janys Moraes Silveira	São Paulo	Not placed in Miss Universe
1978	Suzana Araújo dos Santos	Minas Gerais	Not placed in Miss Universe
1979	Marta Jussara da Costa	Rio Grande do Norte	Miss Universe 3rd runner-up
1980	Eveline Schroeter	Rio de Janeiro	Not placed in Miss Universe 1980, held in Seoul
1981	Adriana Alves de Oliveira	Rio de Janeiro	Miss Universe 3rd runner-up and best national costume
1982	Celice Pinto Marques da Silva	Pará	Miss Universe Semifinalist
1983	Mariza Fully Coelho	Minas Gerais	Miss South America 1st runner-up; not placed in Miss Universe 1983
1984	Ana Elisa Flores da Cruz	São Paulo	Miss Universe and Miss South America representative, but not classified in any pageants
1985	Márcia Giagio Canavezes de Oliveira	Mato Grosso	Miss Universe Semifinalist and International Coffee Queen (Reina Internacional de Café) winner
1986	Deise Nunes de Souza	Rio Grande do Sul	Miss Universe semifinalist and Miss South America 1st runner-up
1987	Jacqueline Ribeiro Meirelles	Distrito Federal	Miss Universe best national costume, but she not placed at top 10 semifinalists
1988	Isabel Cristina Beduschi	Santa Catarina	Miss South America winner
1989	Flávia Cavalcanti Rebelo	Ceará	Miss Universe best national costume
1990	-	-	there was no contest.
1991	Patrícia Maria Franco de Godói	São Paulo	Reina Sudamericana winner
1992	Maria Carolina Portella Otto	Paraná	She not placed in Miss Universe top 10, but according the unofficial results, the Brazilian candidate was 14th
1993	Leila Cristine Schuster	Rio Grande do Sul	Miss Universe semifinalist
1994	Valéria Melo Peris	São Paulo	Nuestra Belleza Internacional winner and 18th in Miss Universe final results
1995	Renata Bessa Soares	Minas Gerais	1st runner-up in best national costume
1996	Maria Joana Parizotto	Paraná	Nuestra Belleza Internacional winner
1997	Nayla Fernanda Affonso Micherif	Minas Gerais	Representative in Miss Universe and Nuestra Belleza Internacional, but she not placed in any pageants
1998	Michela Dauzacker Marchi	Mato Grosso do Sul	Miss Universe semifnalist
1999	Renata Fan	Rio Grande do Sul	Miss World University winner
2000	Josiane Kruliskoski	Mato Grosso	Since this year, the Miss Brasil winners is qualified only to the Miss Universe pageant. The runner-ups represents Brazil in another contests
2001	Juliana Borges	Rio Grande do Sul	Miss Universe representative, not placed at semifinals
2002	Taiza Thomsen	Santa Catarina	Josiane Oliveira was the winner, but was stripped of the crown because she was married at the time of her crowning.
2003	Gislaine Rodrigues Ferreira	Tocantins	Miss Universe finalist (TOP 10)
2004	Fabiane Niclotti	Rio Grande do Sul	Not placed at Miss Universe's top 15
2005	Carina Beduschi	Santa Catarina	Not placed at Miss Universe's top 15
2006	Rafaela Zanella	Rio Grande do Sul	Miss Universe top 20 Semifinalist

[edit] Winners by state

State	Titles
Rio Grande do Sul	9 times
São Paulo	8 times
Guanabara Federal District¹	6 times
Minas Gerais	6 times
Santa Catarina	5 times
Bahia	3 times
Paraná	3 times
Ceará	2 times
Mato Grosso	2 times
Rio de Janeiro²	2 times
Amazonas	1 time
Distrito Federal	1 time
Mato Grosso do Sul	1 time
Pará	1 time
Rio Grande do Norte	1 time
Tocantins	1 time

¹This federation unit competed at the national pageant until 1974, when the fusion of states of Rio de Janeiro and Guanabara was decreted by the military government of Ernesto Geisel.

²Includding only the results of 1980 and 1981 pageants.