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The Miss Belgium (Dutch: Miss België, French: Miss Belgique, German: Miss Belgien) contest is the largest national beauty pageant of Belgium and has been held since 1969. It is responsible for selecting the country's representatives to the Miss World (winner), Miss Universe (winner or 1st runner-up) and Miss International pageants.

Miss Belgium 2008 Alizee Poulicek

Miss Belgium 2008 Training november Egypt

[edit] List of winners

Year	Miss Belgium	Province Represented	Comments
1969	Maud Alin	Hainaut	WINNER "Friendship Award" at Miss World
1970	Francine Martin	Liège
1971	Martine De Hert	Antwerp
1972	Anne-Marie Roger	Brussels	Semi-finalist and WINNER "Miss Photogenic Award" at Miss Universe
1973	Christiane De Visch	Antwerp	3rd Runner-up at Miss Europe
1974	Anne-Marie Sikorski	Liège
1975	Christine Delmelle	Liège
1976	Yvette Aelbrecht	Brussels
1977	Claudine Vasseur	Brussels
1978	Maggy Moreau	Brussels
1979	Christine Cailliau	Brussels	1st Runner-up at Miss Europe 1980
1980	Brigitte Billen	Limburg
1981	Dominique Van Eeckhoudt	Brussels	WINNER Miss United Nations, 4th Runner-up at Miss Universe, Semi-finalist at Miss World and Miss International, WINNER "Best National Costume Award" at Miss International
1982	Marie-Pierre Lemaître	Brussels
1983	Francoise Bostoen	West Flanders	Semi-finalist at Miss World, 3rd Runner-up at Miss Europe 1984
1984	Brigitte Muyshondt	Antwerp	2nd Runner-up at Miss International 1978
1985	An Van Den Broeck	Antwerp
1986	Goedele Liekens	Brabant (Flemish Brabant)
1987	Lynn Wesenbeek	Antwerp
1988	Daisy Van Cauwenbergh	Antwerp
1989	Anne De Baetzelier	Brabant (Flemish Brabant)
1990	Katia Alens	Antwerp	Semi-finalist at Miss International
1991	Anke Vandermeersch	Antwerp	Top 6 at Miss Universe 1992
1992	Sandra Joine	Antwerp
1993	Stephanie Meire	West Flanders
1994	Ilse De Meulemeester	Brabant (Flemish Brabant)	Christelle Roelandts was semi-finalist at Miss World
1995	Véronique De Kock	Antwerp
1996	Laurence Borremans	Walloon Brabant	Semi-finalist at Miss World 1996
1997	Sandrine Corman	Liège
1998	Tanja Dexters	Antwerp
1999	Brigitta Callens	East Flanders
2000	Joke van de Velde	East Flanders
2001	Dina Tersago	Antwerp
2002	Ann van Elsen	Antwerp
2003	Julie Taton	Namur
2004	Ellen Petri	Antwerp	WINNER "Designer Dress Award" at Miss World
2005	Tatiana Tavares	Brussels
2006	Virginie Claes	Limburg
2007	Annelien Coorevits	West Flanders
2008	Alizée Poulicek	Liège
2009^[1]	Zeynep Sever	Brussels	Top 15 at Miss Universe 2009

[edit] 2008 controversy

The election of Poulicek, a native speaker of French and Czech, has even been linked to the 2007 Belgian government formation. The reason is that, during the traditional language test, she failed to speak or understand Dutch. Knowledge of both national languages usually being an important prerequisite for a Miss Belgium^{[citation needed]}, the audience even booed her for this. [1]. The behaviour of the audience was noted across Europe [2] [3], and the Flemish newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws sarcastically put the headline "Miss Belgium doesn't speak Dutch. Our country is in a deep crisis". [4] Poulicek is the daughter of a Czech father and a Belgian mother, and has spent half her life in the Czech Republic [5] While she does not speak Dutch, she is not monolingual as the popular press often suggests - she speaks French and Czech natively as well as English[6].

[edit] Winners by province

Province	Titles
Antwerp	14 times
Brussels	9 times (4 consecutive titles)
Liège	5 times
Flemish Brabant	3 times
West Flanders	3 times
Limburg	2 times
East Flanders	2 times
Hainaut	1 time
Namur	1 time
Walloon Brabant	1 time

[edit] References

^ "Zeynep Sever is Miss Belgium 2009". http://www.zeynepsever.info/.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Miss België, Miss Belgique, Miss Belgien

[0] "Zeynep Sever is Miss Belgium 2009". http://www.zeynepsever.info/.

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