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Miss World Sri Lanka is a beauty contest held in Sri Lanka to select the country's representative to the Miss World.
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Miss Ceylon
The first national beauty pageant in Sri Lanka, initially titled Miss Ceylon, began in 1953 with Manel Illangakoon of Colombo as its first titleholder, who subsequently represented the nation at the Miss World 1953 pageant, finishing as 3rd Runner-up. The contest is considered the oldest national pageant in Sri Lanka.
The national pageant winner was typically crowned to represent the country at Miss World, with runners-up historically delegated to pageants like Miss Universe, Miss International, and Miss Asia Pacific International. Sri Lanka has one international winner from Miss Asia Pacific International, Bernadine Rosemarie Fernando Ramanyake in 1981, she was crowned the official winner in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Miss Sri Lanka
Ceylon was officially renamed Sri Lanka in 1972, and the national title was concurrently changed to Miss Sri Lanka.
Miss World Sri Lanka
Following the Miss Sri Lanka pageant in 1995, which was the last year of the original combined national competition, the process for selecting representatives changed. From 1997 onward, the national beauty pageants generally began to exist as separate, independent events to secure specific international franchises. Notably, Sri Lanka was not represented at the Miss Universe pageant for an eight-year period, from 1997 to 2004, due to the absence of a national franchise holder. The country resumed sending a delegate to Miss Universe in 2005.Sri Lanka did, however, continue to send delegates to the Miss World pageant during most of these years, with a new separate organization being responsible for that title.
From 2003, the new national pageant was established as the Miss World Sri Lanka pageant, with the winner representing the country at the Miss World competition. While this new, separate pageant format began in 2003, TV Derana was generally noted to have taken over the official hosting and organizing of the event from 2007 onwards. The current license holder is Siyatha TV
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- Declared as Winner
- Ended as runner-up
- Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
- Ended as special awards winner
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