Miss Europe 1953

Miss Europe 1953 - Eloisa Cianni.

The 1953 Miss Europe competition was the fifth organized by the Mondial Events Organization (MEO). It 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, 1953 in Istanbul , Turkey. As in the previous year, there were 13 applicants.

The participants

country	Spelling at Pageantopolis	Spelling in the native language	Participation in other competitions
Placements
1. Italy	Eloisa Cianni	Eloisa Cianni
2. England	Marlene Ann Dee	Marlene Ann Dee	Miss World 1951 and 1952
3. France	Sylvaine Carpentier	Sylviane Carpentier
Other participants
Belgium	Sépia Degehet	Sépia Degehet
BR Germany	Marie-Louise Nagel
Finland	Maija-Riitta Tuomaala	Maija-Riitta Tuomaala	Miss World 1953
Greece	Antouanetta Rontopoulou	Αντουανέτα Ροντοπούλου (Antouaneta Rontopoulou)
Holland	Yvonne de Meijer	Yvonne Meyer	Miss World 1953
Monte Carlo	Elisabeth Chovisky		Miss World 1953: 5th place
Austria	Lore Felger	Lore Felger	Miss Universe 1953: semifinals
Sweden	Marianna Törnqvist
Switzerland	Eliane Pade
Turkey	Belgin Doruk	Belgin Doruk

Individual evidence

1. ↑ mixanitouxronou.gr (Greek)
2. ↑ misshollandnow.com

Web links

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