Miss Europe 1950

Contemporary aerial view of Rimini, the location of the event.

The competition for Miss Europe 1950 was the third organized by the Mondial Events Organization (MEO). This was founded by the French Roger Zeiler and Claude Berr, was based in Paris and organized the competition until 2002.

The candidates had been selected in their countries of origin by national organizing committees that had concluded license agreements with MEO.

The event took place on September 9, 1950 in the Italian Adriatic seaside resort of Rimini . There were 14 applicants.

The participants

country	Spelling at Pageantopolis	Spelling in the native language
Placements
1. Austria	Hanni Schall	Hanni Schall
2. Italy	Giovanna Pala
3. Sweden	Ebb Adrian
Other participants
Belgium	Nicole Poncelet
Denmark	Marianne Schleiss
BR Germany	Susanne Charlotte Erichsen	Susanne Erichsen
Finland	Hilkka Marjatta Ruuska	Hilkka Ruuska
France	Claude Renault
Holland	Hilda Lesman	Hilda Lesman
Norway	Aud Grenness	Aud Grenes
Portugal	Maria da Conceição Pinto Viergas Louro
San Marino	Graziana Simonici
Switzerland	Frances Freiburghaus
Turkey	Guler Ariman	Guler Arıman

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hilkka Ruuska in lempimissit (Finnish)
2. ↑ misshollandnow.com
3. ↑ onedio.com (Turkish)

Web links

• Mondial Events Organization (MEO) ( Memento from February 8, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
• Competitions 1948 to 1959 at pageantopolis.com (English)
• Movie of the election on YouTube (Italian)