Renate Veronica Cerljen (born March 26, 1988, in

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, Sweden) is a Swedish model and beauty pageant titleholder who the first ever winner of the Miss Universe Sweden pageant, which she won on June 6, 2009.Miss Universe Sweden:Renate Cerljen
Cerljen represented

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at the Miss Universe 2009 pageant on the

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on August 23, 2009, and placed in the Top 15. Renate was the first non-winner of the Miss Sweden pageant since 1952 to represent Sweden at

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since Miss Sweden lost its rights to crown a contestant for Miss Universe earlier in 2009.
Cerljen represented Sweden in Miss Earth 2011, which took place in

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on December 3. She was chosen internally by the organization as Miss Earth Sweden 2011. In the final she made the Top 16. Cerljen has previously been an elite gymnast but had to quit in 2005 because of an injury during training.

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External links

Official website
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