Past winners

Contest # (Year)	1st Prize Winner 🥇	2nd Prize Winner🥈	3rd Prize Winner🥉
1st (1959)	Susanna Mildonian, Belgium	Suzan Hacket McDonald, USA	Edward Witsenburg, Holland
2nd (1962)	Lynn Turner, USA	Guiliana Albisetti, Italy	Brigitte Deshais du Portail, France
3rd (1965)	Martine Geliot, France	Emilia Moskvitina, USSR	Natalia Strebkova, USSR
4th (1970)	Chantal Mathieu, France	Catherine Michel, France	Ayoko Shinokazi, Japan
5th (1973)	Nancy Allen, USA	Grace Wong, USA	Caitriona Yeats, Ireland
6th (1976)	Ivan Ion Roncea, Romania	Frédérique Cambreling, France	Hazel Kathleen Kienzie, USA
7th (1979)	Emily Mitchell, USA	Barbara Allen, USA	Irena Kaganovska, Israel
8th (1982)	Alice Giles, Australia	Linda Aiella, USA and Patricia Tassini, Italy	—
9th (1985)	Naoko Yoshino, Japan	No Second Prize Winner	Ieuan Jones, Wales (UK)
10th (1988)	Isabelle Moretti, France	Lucy Wakeford, UK	—
11th (1992)	Marie-Pierre Langlamet, France	Yana Boushkova, Czech Republic	Mariko Anraku, Canada
12th (1994)	No First Prize Winner	Anna Makarova, Russia	Godelive Shram, Netherlands
13th (1998)	Gwyneth Wentink, Netherlands	Christina Bianchi, Italy	Kyo-Jin Lee, Korea
14th (2001)	Letizia Belmondo, Italy	Jessica Li Zhou, China	Lavinia Meijer, Netherlands
15th (2003)	Varvara Ivanova, Russia	Julie Bunzel, Israel	Albane Mahe, France
16th (2006)	Sivan Magen, Israel	Cécile Maudire, France	Etsuko Chida, Japan
17th (2009)	No First Prize Winner	Ina Zdorovetchi, Moldova	Remy van Kesteren, Netherlands
18th (2012)	Anaïs Gaudemard, France	Agne Keblyte, Lithuania	Mai Fukui, Japan
19th (2015)	Yuying Chen, China	Anaelle Tourett, France	Eva Tomsic, Slovenia
20th (2018)	Lenka Petrović, Serbia	Joel von Lerber, Switzerland	Marina Fradin, Israel
21st (2021)	Claudia Lucia Lamanna, Italy	Lea Maria Löffler, Germany	Beatriz Cortesão, Portugal