Miss World Sweden Miss World Sweden Miss World Sweden is a national Beauty pageant that has selected Sweden's representative to the Miss World pageant. Firstly, Miss Sweden which ran from 1949 to 2003, by the female magazine "VeckoRevyn" and production company "Strix" in partnership with MTG. The competition qualified delegates to the global contest Miss World. As the competition stopped running, it was replaced by separate pageants with various franchises, but lost the franchise in 2003. The pageant is under sponsorship by Studio Fashion Inc and the marketing is made by the women's magazine "Hänt Extra". Sweden has the longest unbroken participation at
Miss World was issued in Nigeria, but was declared null and void by the relevant Saudi Arabian authorities. Upon the pageant's return to England, many of the boycotting contestants chose to attend, including Miss Norway, Kathrine Sørland, who was ironically tipped in the last few days as the number one favourite for the crown she had previously boycotted. The eventual winner of the pageant was Azra Akın of Turkey, the first predominantly Muslim country to hold the title since Egypt in 1954. In Miss World 2013, protests by Islamic groups began a few weeks before the contest began, resulting in the pageant's