Miss Grand Spain

For the most recent edition, see Miss Grand Spain 2024.

Miss Grand Spain (Spanish: Miss Grand España) is a national female beauty pageant in Spain that has been held annually since 2016 to select the country representatives to compete in Miss Grand International pageant.^[1][2] Its inaugural edition was held in Seville with 24 provinces and autonomous communities participating; in which Adriana Sánchez Rivas of Málaga won the main title.^[3][4] The pageant has been owned by Vicente Gonzalez since the establishment.^[5][6]

Miss Grand Spain

Established	23 June 2016; 8 years ago (2016-06-23)
Founder	Vicente Gonzalez
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Seville
Location	Spain
Official language	Spanish
Key people	Vicente Gonzalez (President)
Parent organization	Miss Grand International Ltd.
Website	www.missgrandspain.es

Iris Méndez (center), who later was appointed Miss Grand Spain 2020, during the introduction parade of Miss Grand Spain 2019, held at Hotel Campomar in Cantabria

The reigning Miss Grand Spain is Alba Dunkerbeck of Costa Canaria who was crowned on 16 May 2021 at Hotel Orquídea, in Bahía Feliz.^[7] Dunkerbeck represented the country later at the Miss Grand International 2021 pageant in Bangkok, Thailand, on 4 December and finished as the Top 10 finalists.^[8]

Background

History

Miss Grand Spain was held for the first time in 2016 after Vicente Gonzalez took over the franchise from the former owner, Marcel Arnalot Salazar, in 2015.^[5] Few provincial pageants were held to select their representatives for the inaugural edition such as Miss Grand Sevilla, Miss Grand Huelva, and Miss Grand Ciudad Real.^[9][10][11] However, the number of its preliminary contest was significantly increased to 24 in the 2021 edition.^[12] In some provinces, for instance, Seville, Huelva, and Cádiz, local pageants are also held to determine delegates for the province competition,^[13][14] in which winners hold the title "Miss Grand (Province)" for the year of their reign.^[1] Some runners-up of the provincial pageants might be appointed to represent the neighboring provinces in case the directors of such provinces were lacking.^[15][16]

The pageant was canceled for the first time in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, originally scheduled to be held at the Fair Pavilion in the city of Daimiel in Ciudad Real Province on 3 October, with 31 provincial representatives.^[6][17][18] Nonetheless, all such candidates instead gained the right to participate in Las Palmas for the succeeding edition, Miss Grand Spain 2021.^[19][20] The event also featured the presence of Dori Rodríguez from Navarre, the first openly transgender contestant to compete for the Miss Grand Spain title.^[21]

Since 2018, the pageant, including its regional organs, has collaborated with many non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to raise funds available and provide necessities for the needed people,^{[22][23][24][25]} such as; the Pequeño Valiente Foundation, which is dedicated to providing the necessary support to children and families affected by childhood cancers,^[26][27] as well as the Mechones Solidarios, the Málaga-based NGO that produce and donate natural hair wigs to chemotherapy-induced and universal alopecia patients.^[23][24][25]

Date and Location

The following list is the edition detail of the Miss Grand Spain contest, since its inception in 2016.

Year	Edition	Date	Final venue	Host Province	Entrants	Ref.
2016	1st	18 July	Teatro de la Villa del Conocimiento y las Artes, Mairena del Alcor	Seville	24	[3][4]
2017	2nd	8 July			28	[28]
2018	3rd	30 June	Cerezo Theater, Carmona		34	[22][29]
2019	4th	6 July	Hotel Campomar, Arnuero	Cantabria	31	[30][24]
2020	The pageant was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.					[31]
2021	5th	16 May	Hotel Orquídea, Bahía Feliz	Las Palmas	27	[19][20]
2022	6th	2 May	South Park Auditorium, Maspalomas		34	[20][32]
2023	7th	25 March	Centro Comercial Martiánez Shopping Mall, Puerto de la Cruz	Santa Cruz de Tenerife		[33][34]
2024	8th	11 May	Teatro Municipal Horacio Noguera, Isla Cristina	Huelva	35	[35][36]
2025	9th	14 June	Teatro de la Axerquia, Córdoba	Córdoba

Regional pageants

Since 2016, several provinces have organized local contests to select representatives to compete in the Miss Grand Spain pageant, as detailed below.

• Andalusia: 8 pageants
  • Miss Grand Almería
  • Miss Grand Cádiz
  • Miss Grand Córdoba
  • Miss Grand Granada
  • Miss Grand Huelva
  • Miss Grand Jaén
  • Miss Grand Málaga
  • Miss Grand Sevilla
• Aragon: 2 pageants
  • Miss Grand Aragon
  • Miss Grand Zaragoza
• Asturias: no regional pageant
• Balearic Islands: 1 pageant
  • Miss Grand Balearic Islands
• Basque Country: 1 pageant
  • Miss Grand Euskadi

• Canary Islands: 2 pageants
  • Miss Grand Las Palmas
  • Miss Grand Tenerife
• Cantabria: 1 pageant
  • Miss Grand Cantabria
• Castile and León: no regional pageant
• Castilla–La Mancha: 2 pageants
  • Miss Grand Ciudad Real
  • Miss Grand Toledo
• Catalonia: 3 pageants
  • Miss Grand Barcelona
  • Miss Grand Catalonia
  • Miss Grand Girona
• Extremadura: 1 pageant
  • Miss Grand Extremadura

• Galicia:1 pageant
  • Miss Grand Galicia
• La Rioja: 1 pageant
  • Miss Grand La Rioja
• Madrid:1 pageant
  • Miss Grand Madrid
• Murcia: 1 pageant
  • Miss Grand Murcia
• Navarre: 1 pageant
  • Miss Grand Navarra
• Valencia:3 pageants
  • Miss Grand Alicante
  • Miss Grand Castellón
  • Miss Grand Valencia

Main pageant

The pre-pageant of Miss Grand Spain usually commenced a week before the grand final contest, consisting of the swimsuit competition, personal interview, national costume round, and preliminary competition.^[22] In the preliminary round, held 2–3 days before the grand final, all contestants will compete in swimwear, cocktail dresses, and evening gowns in front of a panel of preliminary judges.^[22][37] Each round of the preliminary competition together with the Swimsuit competition will determine the winner of the Best Evening Gown, Best cocktail dress, as well as the Best in Swimsuit awards, all such awards will be announced later in the grand final round.^[22][37] Moreover, the scores from all pre-pageant portions, also determine the quarterfinalists during the grand final telecast of the pageant.^[22][37]

Competition results

Year	Miss Grand Spain	Runners-Up				Ref.
		First runner-up	Second runner-up	Third runner-up	Fourth runner-up
2013	Las Palmas – Jenifer Guedes León	No runners-up, the titleholders were appointed to the position.				[38][39]
2014	Almería – Nazaret Hurtado					[40]
2015	Málaga – Andrea de Cozar					[41]
2016	Málaga – Adriana Sánchez Rivas	Salamanca – Susana Sanchez	Cantabria – Leticia Burgos	Seville – Cynthia Ruz	Valencia –  Lidia Regolf	[3][4]
2017	Balearic Islands – Mariana Rico	Seville – Susana Sanchez	Andalusia – Carolina Santos	Granada – Paola Morales	Jaén – Alba Maria Lara	[42]
2018	Seville – Mariola Partida Angulo[γ]	Murcia – Patricia López Verdes[α]	Madrid – Nicole Menayo[δ]	Valencia – Djabu Balde	Salamanca – Triana Almenara	[29]
2019	Cantabria – Ainara de Santamaría	Madrid – Andrea Ávila	Jaén – Miriam Herrera	Cádiz – Guadalupe Álvarez	Costa Gallega – Iris Miguélez	[1]
2020	Costa Gallega – Iris Miguélez[α]	No runners-up, the pageant was entirely canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic caused the organizer to appoint the 2019 runner-up to represent the country in the Miss Grand International 2020 pageant instead.				[31]
	Madrid – Andrea De las Heras[α][β]
	Cáceres – Sara González[γ]
2021	Costa Canaria – Alba Dunkerbeck	Tenerife – Corina Mrazek	Granada – Luisa Victoria	Cádiz – Clara Navas	Extremadura – Jeannette García	[7]
2022	Las Palmas – Hirisley Jiménez	Euskadi – Oihana Torres	Zaragoza – Anakristina Rivero	Madrid – Kristina Caci	Granada – Natalia Quirós	[34][43]
2023	Toledo - Celia Sevilla	La Rioja - Alejandra León	Tenerife - Carolina Pérez	Almería - Denisse Andor	Cantabria - Marina Edilla	[44][45]
2024	Las Palmas – Susana Medina	Tenerife – Idayra Tena	Tarragona – Adriana Corpas	Albacete – Luana Gheban	Euskadi – Esther Escudero	[46]
Note ^α Successor. ^β Resigned. ^γ Dethroned ^δ Nicole Menayo was later designated Miss Grand Costa Rica 2018 by Gerson Jimenez, the Miss Grand International franchise holder for Costa Rica.[47]

Winner gallery

• 
  Miss Grand Spain 2024
  Susana Medina
  (Las Palmas)
• 
  Miss Grand Spain 2023
  Celia Sevilla
  (Toledo)
• 
  Miss Grand Spain 2022
  Hirisley Jimenez
  (Las Palmas)
• 
  Miss Grand Spain 2021
  Alba Dunkerbeck
  (Costa Canaria)
• 
  Miss Grand Spain 2020
  Iris Miguélez Méndez
  (Costa Gallega)
• 
  Miss Grand Spain 2015
  Andrea de Cozar
  (Málaga)
• 
  Miss Grand Spain 2014
  Nazaret Hurtado
  (Las Palmas)

International placements

The following is a list of Spanish representatives a Miss Grand International.

Color keys

•   : Declared as Winner
•   : Ended as runner-up or top 5/6 qualification
•   : Ended as one of the Finalists
•   : Ended as one of the Semi-finalists
•   : Ended as special awards winner

Year	Representative	Province	Title	Placement	Special Awards
2024	Susana Medina	Las Palmas	Miss Grand Spain 2024	5th runner-up
2023	Celia Sevilla	Toledo	Miss Grand Spain 2023	Top 20
2022	Hirisley Jiménez	Las Palmas	Miss Grand Spain 2022	5th runner-up
2021	Alba Dunkerbeck	Costa Canaria	Miss Grand Spain 2021	Top 10
2020	Iris Miguélez	Pontevedra	4th runner-up Miss Grand Spain 2019	Unplaced
2019	Ainara de Santamaría	Cantabria	Miss Grand Spain 2019	Top 20
2018	Patricia López Verdes	Murcia	1st Runner-up of Miss Grand Spain 2018	Top 10
2017	Mariana Rico	Balearic Islands	Miss Grand Spain 2017	Unplaced
2016	Adriana Sánchez Rivas	Málaga	Miss Grand Spain 2016	Top 20
2015	Andrea de Cozar	Málaga	Appointed	Top 10
2014	Nazaret Hurtado	Almería	Appointed	Unplaced
2013	Jenifer Guedes León	Las Palmas	Appointed	Unplaced

Participating regional and territories

Regional/territories	2016	2017	2018	2019	2021	2022	2023	2024
Albacete
Alicante	Y	11					Y	Y
Almería		Y	Y		Y	15
Andalucía			Y	14	9	15	10	10
Asturias		11	Y	14	Y			Y
Atlántico			Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	15
Badajoz	Y		15	Y
Baleares					Y
Barcelona	Y	11	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Burgos				Y
Cáceres	Y			Y
Cádiz	Y	Y	10			10	Y	Y
Canarias			Y
Cantabria						10		Y
Castellón	10						Y	15
Castilla-La Mancha		Y
Cataluña			Y
Ceuta	Y	Y	Y
Ciudad Real	Y	Y	10	Y	Y	Y		Y
Córdoba	Y	Y	Y	Y	9	Y	15	10
Costa Canaria						10	10	15
Costa Cantábrica						Y
Costa de la Luz			15		9	15		Y
Costa del Sol			Y	10	13	Y	10	Y
Costa Gallega					Y	Y	Y	Y
Euskadi							Y
Extremadura		11	10	Y		Y	10	Y
Galicia		Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Girona						Y	15	Y
Granada	10	5	Y	14			Y	Y
Guadalajara	Y	Y
Huelva	10	11	15	10	13	Y	Y	Y
Islas Afortunadas						Y	Y
Islas Baleares	10		10	10			Y	Y
Jaén	Y	5	15		Y	Y	Y	Y
La Rioja						Y		15
Las Palmas			15	Y	Y		Y
León				10
Lleida						Y	Y	Y
Madrid	Y	Y			Y		15	Y
Madrid City								Y
Málaga		Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	15	Y
Mediterranean				Y				10
Melilla			Y
Murcia		Y	[a]			10	15	15
Navarra			Y	Y	13	Y	Y
País Vasco			Y	Y	Y
Palencia	10				13
Pontevedra		Y	Y
Segovia		Y
Salamanca
Sevilla			[b]	14	Y	15	10	10
Tarragona				Y	9	Y	Y
Tenerife	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y
Toledo	Y	Y	Y			15		10
Valencia		Y		Y		10	Y	Y
Valladolid	Y	Y
Zaragoza		11	10	10			Y	Y
Total	24	28	34	31	27	34	34	35
Color keys    : Declared as the winner    : Ended as 1st runner-up    : Ended as 2nd runner-up    : Ended as 3rd runner-up    : Ended as 4th runner-up  A  : Finalist, semifinalist, or unplaced  ×  : Representative determined but not competed  ×  : No representative

Notes

1. Assumed
2. Dethroned

See also

• Spain portal

• Miss Spain
• Míster España
• Miss Earth Spain
• Miss World Málaga