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Miss Polonia

Miss Polonia is a national beauty pageantinPoland to select the official ambassador of Poland at the Miss World, Miss Earth, Miss Grand International, Miss Intercontinental and Miss Charm pageants.^[1][2] This pageant is the oldest beauty pageant in Poland.

Starting in 1927, winners entering Miss Europe. Traditionally, the winner of Miss Polonia represented Poland in Miss World and Miss Universe.

The 1984 Miss Polonia competition ran into multiple problems with rigging accusations. Accusations were made before the event which lead to a boycott. More controversy followed when Joanna Karska was initially chosen as the winner of the competition. The final vote was done a second time and Magdalena Jaworska ended up being declared the winner.^[3]

In the 1987 edition of the competition, there was more controversy. The winner of the competition, Monika Nowosadko, came in first place with the 10 male judges and came in last place with the 5 female judges^[4]

In 2007, Miss World took away the franchise from Miss Polonia and returned it to the non-related national contest Miss Polski. Since then, the winners of Miss Polonia represent PolandinMiss Universe and the runner-ups represent PolandinMiss Europe, Miss International, Miss Earth and Miss Baltic Sea. Both the Miss Europe and the Miss Baltic Sea pageants get discontinued in 2007 and 2008 respectively and as a result the winners and runner-ups represent the country in Miss Universe, Miss International and Miss Earth.

Since 2015, Miss Polonia lost franchises of Miss Earth and Miss International. Up to now it has only sent its winner to the Miss Universe pageant.

In 2016 after 3 years break, Miss Polonia pageant is back and new titleholder will be selected in October. Winner will represent PolandinMiss Universe 2016.

In 2018 the Miss Polonia is officially owning the franchise of Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss Grand International.

In 2019 Miss Polonia franchised the Miss Intercontinental pageant and relinquished its franchise for Miss Universe, after that, the Miss Universe franchise went to Miss Polski.

In 2020, Miss Polonia franchised the Miss Charm license.

After 7 years, Miss Polonia holds the Miss Earth franchise in 2022.

Note: contest not held in 1931, 1933–1956, 1959–1982, 2014-2015.
1932, 1934 and 1937 winners selected in France to represent Poland in Miss Europe.^[5]

Voivodeships	Titles	Year(s)
Masovia	7	1927, 1929, 1937, 1958, 1984, 1990, 2012
Lower Silesia	6	1993, 1995, 2002, 2008, 2009, 2023
Silesia	5	1986, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2020
Lesser Poland		1956, 1957, 1992, 2003, 2018
West Pomerania		1983, 1987, 1988, 2001, 2006
Łódź	3	2007, 2017, 2019
Greater Poland		1932, 1996, 2004
Lublin	2	1999, 2024
Podlasie		2010, 2022
Warmia-Masuria		1998, 2016
Pomerania		1989, 2011
Opole	1	2005
Kuyavia-Pomerania		2000
Lubusz		1985
Wilno****		1934
Lwów***		1930

• (***) As of 1991 Lwów or Lviv becomes part of the independent Ukraine.
• (****) The city of Wilno or Vilnius becomes part of Lithuania.

Voivodeships yet to win:

• Holy Cross
• Subcarpathia

Miss Polonia started to be franchise holder in 1983, from 1983 to 2007 the Miss Polonia was selecting the winner or runner-up to Miss World competition. From 2007 to 2014 the license of Miss World bought to Miss Polski and continued between 2015 and 2017 the Miss World Poland contest independently selected the winner to Miss World. Started in 2018 the Miss Polonia returned to be national franchise holder of Miss World.

This list includes all Polish representatives from 2002 up to the present who have gone to compete at Miss Earth.

Color key

Year	Voivodeship	Miss Earth Poland	National Title	Placement	Special Awards	Ref.
2023	Lower Silesia	Ewa Jakubiec[12]	Miss Polonia 2023	Unplaced
Miss Polonia
2022	Łódź	Julia Baryga	Miss Polonia 2022 (2nd Runner-Up)	Unplaced	Beach Wear (Air)	[13]
Miss Earth Poland
Did not compete in 2021
2020	West Pomerania	Sabina Półtawska	Miss Earth Air Poland 2019	Top 8	Long Gown (Europe) Resort Wear (Europe) JEWEL Beauty Strong Earth Ambassador (Top 15)	[14][15]
2019	Podlasie	Krystyna Sokołowska	Miss Earth Poland 2019	Top 10	Swimsuit (Fire)	[16][17][18]
2018	Warmia–Masuria	Aleksandra Grysz	Miss Earth Poland 2018	Unplaced	Beauty of Figure and Form Preliminary Round (Top 10)	[19][20][21]
Miss Egzotica
2017	Greater Poland	Dominika Szymańska	Miss Egzotica 2017	Unplaced	Resorts Wear (Group 1) Figure and Form (Top 16)	[22][23][24]
2016	Lublin	Magdalena Kucharska	Miss Egzotica 2016	Unplaced	Eco-Tourism & Environmental Conference (Team Europe)	[25][26][27]
2015	Silesia	Magdalena Ho	Miss Egzotica 2014	Unplaced		[28][29][30]
Miss Polonia
2014	Masovia	Patrycja Dorywalska	Miss Polonia 2012 (Top 5)	Unplaced	Best Swimsuit	[31][32][33]
2013	Masovia	Aleksandra Szczęsna	Miss Polonia 2012 (2nd Runner-Up)	Top 8	Miss Photogenic Miss Broadway Resorts Wear (Top 15)	[34][35][36]
2012	Greater Poland	Justyna Rajczyk	Miss Polonia 2011 (Top 8)	Top 16		[37][38][39]
2011	No Delegation
2010	Masovia	Beata Polakowska	Miss Polonia 2009 (Top 5)	Unplaced		[40][41]
2009	Łódź	Izabela Wilczek	Miss Polonia 2007 (Top 10)	Top 8		[42][43][44]
2008	Łódź	Karolina Filipkowska	Miss Polonia 2008 (Top 5)	Top 16		[45][46][47]
2007	Łódź	Barbara Tatara	Miss Polonia 2007	Unplaced		[48][49][50]
2006	Masovia Polish Community in Venezuela	Francys Sudnicka	Miss Polonia 2005 (Top 5)	Top 8		[51][52]
2005	Greater Poland	Katarzyna Borowicz	Miss Polonia 2004	Miss Water (2nd Runner-Up)	Miss Pond's	[53][54]
2004	Lesser Poland	Karolina Gorazda	Miss Polonia 2003	Top 16		[55][56]
2003	Lower Silesia	Marta Matyjasik	Miss Polonia 2002	Miss Fire (3rd Runner-Up)		[57][58][59]
Miss Polski
2002	West Pomerania	Agnieszka Portka	Miss Polski 1999 (Top 10)	Unplaced		[60][61]

Miss Polonia acquired the franchise of Miss Grand International for Poland in 2018.^[62][63] Previously, from 2013 to 2016, the license belonged to another national pageant, Miss Polski.^[64][65][66]

The main of Miss Polonia represents her country at Miss Universe. Since Miss Polonia is the only one who franchised the Miss Universe Organization, sometimes the organization designated the runner-up or contestant to be "Miss Universe Poland". Began 2019 the winner of Miss Polski competes at Miss Universe competition. On occasion, when the winner does not qualify (due to age) for either contest, a runner-up is sent.

In the beginning the winner of Miss Juwenaliów 1959 participated at Miss International. Since 1985 the Miss International Poland will be selected by Miss Polonia, Miss Polski or one of runners-up from Miss Polonia or Miss Polski pageant. As of 2015 Miss International franchise handled by Miss Polski Organization.

The winner of Miss Polonia also competed in the Miss Europe pageant.

• (***) The city of Wilno or Vilnius becomes part of the independent Lithuania.
• (****) As of 1991 Lwów or Lviv becomes part of the independent Ukraine.

• Miss Polski
• Miss World Poland
• Miss Earth Poland

• Official website (in Polish)