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Established | 20 July 2014 |
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Founder | Sherif Pacolli |
Type | Beauty pageant |
Headquarters | Tirana |
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Membership | Miss Grand International |
Official language | Albanian |
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Miss Grand Albania was an Albanian female beauty pageant founded in 2014 by a Pristina-based event organizer chaired by Sherif Pacolli, Lens Production. [1] In 2018, the competition license was transferred to the modeling agency managed by Aleks Tanushi, Aleks Fashion Events (A.F.E.), and its headquarters was also relocated to Tirana. [2] The pageant winner represents the country at its international parent contest, Miss Grand International. [3]
Since its first participation at the Miss Grand International pageant in 2014, Albanian representatives never placed in the competition.
Albania participated in the Miss Grand International pageant for the first time in 2014, represented by Vivian Canaj, who won the Miss Grand Albania 2014 title after competing at the Miss Grand Albania & Kosovo 2014 pageant held by Sherif Pacolli, a chairperson of the Kosovan event organizer in Pristina, Lens Production. [1]
The first edition of Albania's Miss Grand National was held on July 20, 2014, at the California Resort in Pristina; the event was broadcast live nationwide on a Kosovan satellite television channel, RTK Live, [4] and featured twenty national finalists, of whom a model from Tirana, Vivian Canaj, was elected the winner. [5] [6]
From 2014 to 2018, the pageant was held in parallel with Miss Grand Kosovo as Miss Grand Albania & Kosovo. The Miss Grand Albania pageant was held as a stand-alone pageant for the first time in 2019 when Aleks Tanushi of Aleks Fashion Events (A.F.E.) took over the Albanian franchise from Lens Production. [7] [8] [9]
The following list is the edition detail of the Miss Grand Albania contest, held annually from 2014 to 2021.
Year | Edition | Date | Final venue | Entrants | Winner | Ref. |
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2014 | 1st | July 20 | California Resort, Lipljan, Pristina | 20 | Vivian Canaj | [5] [6] |
2015 | 2nd | May 31 | Objekti i First Channel Studio, Pristina | 13 | Enkelejda Lajci | [10] |
2016 | 3rd | July 1 | California Resort, Lipljan, Pristina | 17 | Esterina Xhaurri | [3] [11] |
2017 | 4th | February 28 | 10 | Klaudia Kalia | [12] | |
2018 | 5th | May 26 | 14 | Dashuria Bilaj | [13] [14] | |
2019 | 6th | June 23 | Teater Tirana Kinostudio, Tirana | 14 | Xhensila Shaba | [7] [8] |
2020 | 7th | September 16 | 12 | Fjorela Lezo | [9] | |
2021 | 8th | June 26 | 10 | Hygerta Hidri | [15] [16] |
Year | Miss Grand Albania | National Title | International Performance | National Director | Ref. | |
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Placement | Other awards | |||||
2013 | Dajana Luga | Appointed | Unable to compete | Sherif Pacolli | [17] | |
2014 | Vivian Canaj | Miss Grand Albania 2014 | Unplaced | — | [5] [6] | |
2015 | Enkelejda Lajci | Miss Grand Albania 2015 | Unplaced | — | [10] [18] | |
2016 | Esterina Xhaurri | Miss Grand Albania 2016 | Unable to compete | [3] [11] | ||
Paula Preci | Appointed | [19] | ||||
2017 | Klaudia Kalia | Miss Grand Albania 2017 | [12] [20] | |||
2018 | Dashuria Bilaj | Miss Grand Albania 2018 | [13] [14] | |||
Klaudia Kalia | Miss Grand Albania 2017 | Unplaced | — | Aleks Tanushi | [20] | |
2019 | Xhensila Shaba | Miss Grand Albania 2019 | Unplaced | — | [7] [8] | |
2020 | Fjorela Lezo | Miss Grand Albania 2020 | Unplaced | — | [9] | |
2021 | Hygerta Hidri | Miss Grand Albania 2021 | Unable to compete | [21] | ||
2022 | No representative | |||||
2023 | Angela Tanuzi | Miss World Albania 2022 | Unplaced | — |
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2024 | Elsa Alijaj | Top 6 Miss Universe Albania & Kosovo 2020 [24] | TBA | TBA | [25] | |
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