''Miss Scandinavia'' is a
beauty pageant
A beauty pageant is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include inner beauty, with criteria covering judging of personality, intelligence, ...
for
Nordic females. The contest was merged with the
Miss Baltic Sea
Miss Baltic Sea was a beauty pageant for countries that border the Baltic Sea: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Sweden. It merged with Miss Scandinavia for the years 2007 and 2008 and then that merged pagean ...
pageant for the years 2007 and 2008 and after that the merged pageant was also discontinued.
It was sponsored by
MTV3
MTV3 ( fi, MTV Kolme, sv, MTV Tre) is a Finnish commercial television station. It had the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels until Yle TV1 (from Yle) took the lead. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV (literally "Advertisement ...
.
In 2021, the Miss Scandinavia pageant is back with new organizers under the Miss Scandinavia Organization.
Titleholders
Winners by countries and territories
Hosts
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! Year
! Hosts (s)
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, 1963
, Jaakko Jahnukainen and
Jutta Zilliacus
Jutta Armelle Zilliacus (born 25 July 1925) is a Finnish-born ethnic Estonian journalist and author in the Swedish language. She was also a politician, and served as a Member of Parliament for the Swedish People's Party
The Swedish People's ...
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, 1964
,
Carl-Erik Creutz and
Lenita Airisto
Hymmi Lenita Aulikki Airisto (born 1 January 1937 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish business leader, promoter of Finnish industrial and cultural exports, TV journalist and author.
Biography
Maiden of Finland
Airisto began her public career in ...
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, 1965
,
Carl-Erik Creutz and Liisa Tähkä
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, 1966
, Hugo Ahlberg and
Lenita Airisto
Hymmi Lenita Aulikki Airisto (born 1 January 1937 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish business leader, promoter of Finnish industrial and cultural exports, TV journalist and author.
Biography
Maiden of Finland
Airisto began her public career in ...
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, 1967
, Hugo Ahlberg and Tuula Ignatius
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, 1971
, Voitto Kotilainen
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See also
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Miss Denmark
Miss Denmark () is a national Beauty pageant in Denmark. The pageant was founded in 1926, where the winners were sent to Miss Universe and other titleholders to Miss World, Miss International and Miss Supranational.
Organization
The Miss Dan ...
,
Miss Universe Denmark
Miss Denmark () is a national Beauty pageant in Denmark. The pageant was founded in 1926, where the winners were sent to Miss Universe and other titleholders to Miss World, Miss International and Miss Supranational.
Organization
The Miss D ...
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Miss World Denmark
Miss World Denmark is a beauty pageant that came into existence in 2004 when the Miss Denmark competition split into two separate competitions: Miss World Denmark and Miss Universe Denmark. The former Miss World 2008 contestant Lisa Lents, became ...
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Suomen Neito
Suomen Neito ( en, Maiden of Finland) was a traditional Finnish beauty pageant that was organized in the 1950s and 1960s, 1986 and from 1990 to 2007. In 1952, Armi Kuusela was crowned as the first Suomen Neito, which qualified her into the first-ev ...
,
Miss Finland
Miss Suomi (Finnish for ''Miss Finland'') is a national beauty pageant in Finland. The pageant was founded in 1931, where the winners were sent to Miss Universe.
History
Miss Suomi was held for the first time in 1931. Between 1952 and 1955 th ...
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Miss Iceland
Miss Iceland or Miss Universe Iceland ( is, Ungfrú Ísland) is a national beauty pageant in Iceland. Began 2023 the winner represents Iceland at Miss Universe pageant.
History
The competition has been carried out since 1950; in the first yea ...
,
Miss Universe Iceland
Miss Iceland or Miss Universe Iceland ( is, Ungfrú Ísland) is a national beauty pageant in Iceland. Began 2023 the winner represents Iceland at Miss Universe pageant.
History
The competition has been carried out since 1950; in the first yea ...
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Miss Norway
Miss Norway (formerly known as "Frøken Norge") is a national beauty pageant in Norway The pageant was founded in 1950, where the winners were sent to Miss Universe.
History
Miss Norway was held for first time in 1950 by Dagbladet Magazine. T ...
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Miss Sweden
Miss Sweden or Miss Universe Sweden (in Swedish: ''Fröken Sverige''), is the title of the Swedish beauty pageant, qualifying delegates to the Miss Universe competition. In 2009 the pageant renamed as Miss Universe Sweden and the first national ...
,
Miss Universe Sweden
Miss Sweden or Miss Universe Sweden (in Swedish: ''Fröken Sverige''), is the title of the Swedish beauty pageant, qualifying delegates to the Miss Universe competition. In 2009 the pageant renamed as Miss Universe Sweden and the first national ...
,
Miss World Sweden
Miss World Sweden is a national Beauty pageant that has selected Sweden's representative to the Miss World, and Miss Earth pageant.
History
Firstly, Miss Sweden which ran from 1949 to 2003, by the female magazine '' VeckoRevyn'' and productio ...
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Miss Universe
Miss Universe is an annual international beauty pageant that is run by a United States and Thailand based Miss Universe Organization.Natalie Tadena (July 2, 2015"Donald Trump's Miss USA Pageant Lands on Reelz Cable Channel". ''The Wall Stre ...
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Miss World
Miss World is the oldest existing international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951. Since his death in 2000, Morley's widow, Julia Morley, has co-chaired the pageant. Along with Miss Universe, Miss Int ...
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Miss International
Miss International (''Miss International Beauty'' or ''The International Beauty Pageant'') is a Japan-based international beauty pageant organized by the International Culture Association. First held in 1960, it is the fourth largest pageant i ...
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Miss Europe
Miss Europe is a beauty pageant for European women from all over Europe. It was established in February 1927 by Fanamet, the European distributor of Paramount, as a one-off event where the winner was to star in a film directed by Friedrich W ...
External links
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Scandinavia
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