Miss Norway
Miss Norway is an annual national beauty pageant for unmarried women in Norway. Even before the Second World War, young women were elected, who took part in the Miss Europe. Today's competition is called domestic Frøken Norge ( Miss Norway dt ) and goes back to the year 1950. At first he was then aligned by the newspaper Dagbladet until 1974 by the women's magazine Det Nye (Eng. The New ). In subsequent years, there were no elections: Candidates for international competitions have been handpicked by a modeling agency. Only in 1980 established himself again a Miss Norway contest of Miss Norway Models Agency Inc., which is organized by the Best Company AS since 1986.
With the competition Frøken Norge is elected "most beautiful Norwegian ". The Norwegian candidates for participation to Miss World will be determined in an extra choice to do so. Since 1953, Norway participates in it last year but has never won with a candidate to the Miss World Pageant. The best place for Miss World Ingeborg Sorensen had been reached in 1972 with the second place. Since 1988, the Norske Miss Universe is also chosen, initially at the same event, from 1999 to 2005 in a separate competition, but by the same organization. This candidate for Norway at the Miss Universe.
Some participants won both contests, so Bente Brunland 1988/89, Inger Lise Ebeltoft 1995/96, Kathrine Sørland 2002/ 04 and Helene Tråsavik 2005.
The Norwegian Agency Models & Artists by Geir Killing country organizes since 1983 the Miss Norway. Your winners will participate in the Miss Scandinavia and Miss Baltic Sea and Scandinavia and since 2004 at the Miss Europe since the 1980s. The Agency also claims to have the licenses for the Miss International, Miss Intercontinental and Miss Earth.