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===Disqualified contestants=== ===Disqualified contestants===

Revision as of 19:36, 28 December 2014

Beauty pageant
Miss World 1952
Date14 November 1952
PresentersEric Morley
VenueLyceum Theatre, London, United Kingdom United Kingdom
Entrants11
Placements5
DebutsFinland, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland
WinnerMay Louise Flodin
 Sweden

Miss World 1952, the 2nd edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 14 November 1952 at the Lyceum Theatre, London, United Kingdom. 11 contestants competed for the Miss World title. The winner was May Louise Flodin, who represented Sweden. She became the second Swede to win Miss World, after Kiki Håkansson, who won the year before.

Results

Countries and territories which sent delegates and results.
Final Results Contestant
Miss World 1952
1st Runner-up
2nd Runner-up
  • Germany - Vera Marks
3rd Runner-up
4th Runner-up

Contestants

Disqualified contestants

  •  Belgium - Anne-Marie Pauwels (became disqualified because she refused to be parted from her boyfriend during the contest when he accompanied her to England)

Notes

  • Doreen Dawne (Britain) also competed in Miss World 1951, where she placed as the 2nd Runner-up. This year she got one more chance to win the Miss World crown for Great Britain, but she failed yet again and did not place at all.
  • 6 of the contestants of this year's Miss World pageant; Anne-Marie Pauwels (Belgium), Eeva Hellas (Finland), Nicole Drouin (France), Vera Marks (West Germany), Eithne Dunne (Ireland) and Sylvia Müller (Switzerland) also competed in Miss Europe 1952, held in Naples, Italy, on 19 August. All of them failed to place, except from Nicole Drouin (France), who became the 1st Runner-up.

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