The 73rd edition of the Miss Universe pageant will take place tonight, and it will be held in Mexico City for the first time since 2007.
The contest, which has already passed its preliminary stages, will announce this day the new queen of world beauty, who will be crowned by the Nicaraguan Sheynnis Palacios, crowned queen in 2023.
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The winner of the contest will be crowned with a beautiful piece of jewelry, which is created by Lebanese jeweler Mouawad, which has diamond and sapphire inlays with 993 stones.
Throughout history, nine contestants from the United States have managed to take home the prize, the first being Miriam Stevenson in 1954, while the last American beauty queen to win the prestigious pageant was R’Bonney Gabriel in 2022.
With these nine beauty queens, American women are the ones who have won the pageant the most times, followed by Venezuela with seven, and Puerto Rico with five.
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List of Miss Universe winners
These are the Miss Universe winners since its creation in 1952:
- 2024?
- 2023 Sheynnis Palacios, Nicaragua
- 2022 R’Bonney Gabriel, USA
- 2021 Harnaaz Sandhu, India
- 2020 Andrea Meza, Mexico
- 2019 Zozibini Tunzi, South Africa
- 2018 Catriona Gray, Philippines
- 2017 Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, South Africa
- 2016 Iris Mittenaere, France
- 2015 Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, Philippines
- 2014 Paulina Vega Dieppa, Colombia
- 2013 Gabriela Isler, Venezuela
- 2012 Olivia Culpo, USA
- 2011 Leila Lopes, Angola
- 2010 Ximena Navarrete, Mexico
- 2009 Stefania Fernandez, Venezuela
- 2008 Dayana Mendoza, Venezuela
- 2007 Riyo Mori, Japan
- 2006 Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza, Puerto Rico
- 2005 Natalie Glebova, Canada
- 2004 Jennifer Hawkins, Australia
- 2003 Amelia Vega Polanco, Dominican Republic
- 2002 Justine Pasek, Panama
- 2001 Denise M. Quiñones, Puerto Rico
- 2000 Lara Dutta, India
- 1999 Mpule Kwelagobe, Botswana
- 1998 Wendy Fitzwilliam, Trinidad and Tobago
- 1997 Brook Lee, USA
- 1996 Alicia Machado, Venezuela
- 1995 Chelsi Smith, USA
- 1994 Sushmita Sen, India
- 1993 Dayanara Torres, Puerto Rico
- 1992 Michelle McLean, Namibia
- 1991 Lupita Jones, Mexico
- 1990 Mona Grudt, Norway
- 1989 Angela Visser, Netherlands
- 1988 Porntip Nakhirunkanok, Thailand
- 1987 Cecilia Bolocco, Chile
- 1986 Barbara Palacios Teyde, Venezuela
- 1985 Deborah Carthy-Deu, Puerto Rico
- 1984 Yvonne Ryding, Sweden
- 1983 Lorraine Downes, New Zealand
- 1982 Karen Baldwin, Canada
- 1981 Irene Saez, Venezuela
- 1980 Shawn Weatherly, USA
- 1979 Maritza Sayalero, Venezuela
- 1978 Margaret Gardiner, South Africa
- 1977 Janelle Commissiong, Trinidad and Tobago
- 1976 Rina Messinger, Israel
- 1975 Anne Marie Puhtamo, Finland
- 1974 Amparo Muñoz, Spain
- 1973 Margie Moran, Philippines
- 1972 Kerry Anne Wells, Australia
- 1971 Georgina Rizk, Lebanon
- 1970 Marisol Malaret, Puerto Rico
- 1969 Gloria Diaz, Philippines
- 1968 Martha Vasconcellos, Brazil
- 1967 Sylvia Hitchcock, USA
- 1966 Margareta Arvidsson, Sweden
- 1965 Apasra Hongsakula, Thailand
- 1964 Corinna Tsopei, Greece
- 1963 Idea Maria Vargas, Brazil
- 1962 Norma Nolan, Argentina
- 1961 Marlene Schmidt, Germany
- 1960 Linda Bement, USA
- 1959 Akiko Kojima, Japan
- 1958 Luz Marina Zuluaga, Colombia
- 1957 Gladys Zender, Peru
- 1956 Carol Morris, USA
- 1955 Hellevi Rombin, Sweden
- 1954 Miriam Stevenson, USA
- 1953 Christiane Martel, France
- 1952 Armi Kuusela, Finland