Most prestigious piano competition

[sehmett]

Winers of the Tchaikovsky.

1958: Van Cliburn, Liu Shi-kun won the second prize.
1962: Vladimir Ashkenazy and John Ogdon shared first prize.
1966: Grigory Sokolov
1970: Vladimir Krainev and John Lill shared first prize.
1974: Andrei Gavrilov
1978: Mikhail Pletnev
1982: No first prize awarded. Peter Donohoe and Vladimir Ovchinnikov shared second prize.
1986: Barry Douglas
1990: Boris Berezovsky
1994: No first prize awarded. Nikolai Lugansky won second prize.
1998: Denis Matsuev
2002: Ayako Uehara

Pretty respectable.

and...

2007: no first prize awarded; Miroslav Kultyshev won second prize
2011: Daniil Trifonov

Listen to Trifonov in London. I was simply stunned by his performance. He also won Chopin competition and A.Rubenstein competititon.

[celegorma]

Chopin takes place every 5 years. The longer the cycle, the tougher the competition, and the better pianists will rise through.

[maestro57]

The big five are Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Leeds, Queen Elizabeth, and Van Cliburn.  Of these, it seems that Chopin has had the most big-name winners - Argerich, Zimmerman, Uchida, Pollini, Ashkenazy, T'song, Ohlsson, etc.

I know you had the "etc." but I'd like to also name Janusz Olejniczak and Yundi Li as winners of the "Chopin" competition that have become big names from that