The Miss Nederland is a national beauty pageant in the Netherlands. The pageant was founded in 1929 in Amsterdam.
History Former pageant From 1929 to 1931, the Netherlands held a national pageant in Amsterdam for the first time called "Miss Holland". From 1932 to 1949 the pageant was briefly discontinued and later recommenced in 1951 by the Miss Holland Organization.
In 1951 the Netherlands debuted at the Miss World pageant and the Miss Universe pageant in 1956. The national beauty pageant was called "Miss Holland" from 1950 until 1990, since that year the winner competed at the Miss Universe, while runners-up traditionally competed at the Miss World pageant and the Miss International pageant. Since 1991 it became known as "Miss Nederland" whose winner went on to the Miss World pageant. From 1991 to 2008 the Miss Universe representatives were selected from "Miss Universe Netherlands" pageant. The program was televised live on Veronica television.
Organizers 1929–1976 — “Het Leven” (the Life) 1977–1978 — Corinne Rottschaefer (De Telegraph) 1989–2008 — Hans Konings (CEO) Miss Nederland Organisatie in cooperation with RTL4 and SBS6 1991–1994 — Miss Universe Nederland by Veronica TV 2009–2019 — Kim Kötter 2020–Present — Monica van Ee (Hannah)
Miss Nederland Organisation In 2009, Kim Kötter became the national director of the Netherlands. She competed at the Miss Universe 2002 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Usually, the Miss Nederland titleholder will compete at both the Miss Universe and the Miss World pageant. In 2013, two winners were crowned as the Miss Netherlands Universe and Miss Netherlands World pageant to represent their country at the Miss Universe and Miss World pageants, respectively. In 2016, the Miss Nederland only had the Miss Universe franchise. In 2024, the Miss Nederland gave up the Miss Universe franchise and a new Miss Universe Netherlands pageant was established.
Titleholders The magazine “Het Leven” (the Life) organised the first Miss Holland pageant. The winners of Miss Holland between 1929 and 1935 attended International Pageant of Pulchritude (Miss Universe) in Galveston, USA. Later from 1991 to 2008 the Miss Universe Nederland pageant was broadcast live on Veronica television. In 2009 Kim Kötter got also the right to send a girl to the Miss World pageant. She also took over the Miss Nederland franchise. Since that year Miss Nederland winner goes to Miss Universe pageant.
YearMiss NederlandAgeCityProvinceNotes 1929 Johanna Koopman— ZaandamNorth Holland 1930 Emmy Kuster28 The HagueSouth Holland Disqualified for falsifying her age; the age limit is 25 and she was 28 at the time, and was a mother to an 8-year old childRie van der Rest—Ginneken en BavelNorth BrabantReplaced Emmy Kuster 1931 Mary van Lelyveld17AmsterdamNorth Holland Mary was just 17 when she won the pageant. She was a student but because she missed too many classes because of her duties as Miss Holland she was dispelled from school 1932 Carolina Geels18The HagueSouth Holland 1934 Sonja Coers——— 1935 Stella Elte23The HagueSouth Holland 1936 Mia Kramer——— 1937 Elisa Schimpf17GooiNorth HollandDid not compete at Miss Europe after her mother did not allow her to compete 1948 Mary Jochemse22AmsterdamNorth Holland 1950 Hilda Lesman21AmsterdamNorth Holland 1951 Elisabeth van Proosdij20AmsterdamNorth Holland Did not compete at Miss World 1952 because she got married during her reign as Miss Holland 1952 Yvonne Meyer20HaarlemNorth Holland 1954 Conny Harteveld22LeidenSouth Holland 1955 Angelina Kalkhoven18AmsterdamNorth Holland 1956 Rita Schmidt20AlkmaarNorth Holland When Rita got married in January 1957, Ans van Pothoven took over the duties of Miss Holland 1956 1957 Corine Rottschäfer19AmsterdamNorth Holland Miss Europe 1957, Miss World 1959 1958 Luciënne Struve19RotterdamSouth Holland 1959 Peggy Erwich21RotterdamSouth HollandDid not compete at Miss World 1959 due to commitments in modelling 1960 Ans Schoon20AmsterdamNorth HollandDid not compete at Miss World 1960 as she was in another country when her registration form came 1961 Anne Marie Brink20DoetinchemGelderland 1962 Catharina Lodders20HaarlemNorth Holland Miss World 1962 1963 Godelieve Sassen21The HagueSouth Holland 1964 Elly Koot20AmsterdamNorth Holland Miss Europe 1964 1965 Anja Maria Schuit21AmsterdamNorth Holland 1966 Margo Domen24The HagueSouth Holland 1967 Irene van Campenhout20The HagueSouth Holland 1968 Marjolein Abbing18AmsterdamNorth Holland 1969 Welmoed Hollenberg21AmsterdamNorth Holland 1970 Maureen Renzen— 1971 Laura Mulder-SmidNorth Holland 1972 Jenny ten WoldeGroningen 1973 Yildiz de Kat— 1974 Nicoline BroeckxNorth Brabant 1975 Lynda SnippeNorth Holland 1976 Lucie Visser — Dethroned 1977 Ineke BerendsNorth Holland Miss Holland - Corinne Rottschaefer (De Telegraph) directorship 1978 Karin Gustafsson North Holland 1979 Eunice BharatsingSouth Holland 1980 Karin GooyerGelderland 1981 Ingrid SchoutenSouth Holland 1982 Brigitte DierickxNorth Holland 1983 Nancy Lalleman-HeijnisNorth Holland 1984 Nancy NeedeNorth Holland 1985 Pasquale Somers— Dethroned (later retained title) 1986 Janny ter VeldeOverijssel 1987 Angelique Cremers— 1988 Angela VisserSouth Holland Miss Universe 19891989 Stephanie HalenbeekNorth Holland The last Miss Holland 1989 and renamed as Miss Universe Nederland in 1991 Liesbeth Caspers— Miss Netherlands Organization 1990 Gabriëlle Stap—1991 Paulien HuizingaUtrecht Miss Universe Nederland — Veronica TV Linda Egging—1992 Vivian JansenNorth Brabant Gaby van Nimwegen—1993 Angelique van ZalenNorth Holland Hilda VermeulenFriesland1994 South Holland Yoshka BonNorth Holland1995 Chantal van WoenselZeeland Miss Universe Nederland — Corinne Rottschaefer (De Telegraph) directorship Didie SchackmanGelderland1996 Marja de GraafDrenthe Petra Hoost North Holland 1997 Sonja Silva—1998 Jacqueline RotteveelNorth Holland Miss Universe Nederland — SBS6 directorship Nerena Ruinemans—2000 Chantal van RoesselNorth Brabant Raja MoussaouiLimburg2001 Reshma RoopramSouth Holland Irena Pantelic—2002 Kim KötterOverijssel President of Miss Nederland Elise BoulogneSouth Holland2003 Tessa BrixSouth Holland Sanne de Regt—2004 Lindsay Grace PronkNorth Brabant Miranda SlabberZeeland 2005 Sharita SopacuaUtrecht 2006 Sheryl Lynn Baas South Holland Mrs Globe 2012 2007 Melissa Sneekes South Holland2008 Charlotte LabeeSouth Holland Miss Universe Top Beauty Netherlands — Shaida Wever directorship Deniz AkkoyunUtrecht 2009 Avalon-Chanel Weyzig Flevoland Miss Nederland — Kim Kötter directorship 2010 Desirée van den Berg North Holland 2011 Kelly Weekers Limburg 2012 Nathalie den Dekker North Holland 2013 Stephanie Tency North Holland 2014 Yasmin Verheijen North Holland 2015 Jessie Jazz Vuijk North Holland 2016 Zoey Ivory Flevoland 2017 Nicky Opheij Utrecht 2018 Rahima Ayla Dirkse South Holland 2019 Sharon PieksmaSouth Holland 2020 Denise SpeelmanGroningen Monica van Ee (Hannah) directorship 2021 Julia SinningNorth Holland 2022 Ona MoodyNorth Holland 2023 Rikkie KolléNorth Brabant 2026 Melissa Bottema Groningen
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