- Miss World 1952
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Miss World 1952 Date 14 November 1952 Presenters Eric Morley Venue Lyceum Theatre, London, UK Entrants 11 Placements 5 Debuts Egypt, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland Winner May Louise Flodin
SwedenMiss World 1952, the second annual Miss World pageant, was held on November 14, 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.
Contents
Results
Countries and territories which sent delegates and results.
Final Results Contestant Miss World 1952 1st Runner-up 
Switzerland - Sylvia Müller
2nd Runner-up 
Germany - Vera Marks
3rd Runner-up 
Finland - Eeva Hellas
4th Runner-up 
United States - Tally Richards
Contestants
Denmark - Lillian Christensen
Egypt - Unknown- Finland - Eeva Maria Hellas
France - Nicole Drouin- Germany - Vera Marks
Great Britain - Doreen Dawne
Holland - Sanny Weitner
Ireland - Eithne Dunne- Sweden - May Louise Flodin
- Switzerland - Sylvia Müller
United States - Tally Richards
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 (Great 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 (Germany), Eithne Dunne (Ireland) and Sylvia Müller (Switzerland) also competed in Miss Europe 1952, held in Naples, Italy, on August 19. All of them failed to place, except from Nicole Drouin (France), who became the 1st Runner-up.
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