Meet Miss Norway 2008

Lene Egeli (in photo wearing pageant dress), 21 year-old and a professional model from Stavanger, was crowned Froken Norge 2008 (Miss Norway) recently in a beauty pageant televised live on TVNorge. Lene stands 1.78 m tall, was 1st runner-up at the Norwegian Top Model tv show, the country's version of 'America's Next Top Model' created by Tyra Banks. She will be competing in the Miss World 2008 beauty pageant 2008 to take place in Johannesburg, South Africa next December and also in the Miss Universe 2009 beauty contest in a venue and date to be announced soon.

Meanwhile, the representative of Norway to this year's Miss Universe 2008 Beauty Pageant in Nha Trang, Vietnam on July 13 is Lisa Mari Moen Junge, who is one of the winners of the Froken Norge 2007 beauty contest. Lisa Marie stands 1.77 m tall and also a professional model from Molde.

The runners-up of this year's Froken Norge 2008 beauty pageant are Marianne Birkedal and Lena Bjornas.