Miss Grand International 2018 | |
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Date | October 25, 2018 |
Presenters | Xian Lim |
Venue | The One Entertainment Park Yangon, Myanmar |
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Entrants | 75 |
Placements | 21 |
Debuts |
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Withdrawals |
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Returns |
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Winner | Clara Sosa Paraguay |
Best National Costume | Andrea Moberg, Peru |
Miss Grand International 2018 was the sixth Miss Grand International pageant, held at the One Entertainment Park in Yangon, Myanmar, on October 25, 2018. [1] [2] [3]
María José Lora of Peru crowned Clara Sosa of Paraguay as her successor at the end of the event. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
Two months after Miss Grand International 2017, the pageant organization announced that the next edition of the contest would be held in Yangoon, Myanmar on October 25, 2018. [4]
Contestants from 75 countries and territories were selected to compete in the competition. [5] Thirty-one of these delegates were determined through the national pageant. Fourteen were appointed to their positions after being runner-ups in their national pageant or being selected through a casting process. Thirty delegates were appointed to the title without participating in any respective national pageants in this particular year. [10] [11] [12]
The original representatives of Albania, [13] Canada, [14] Colombia, [15] Kosovo, [16] and Spain, [17] who were elected through the national pageant, resigned from the titles, which caused the national directors to promote the runner-up to take over the title or appoint other delegates as replacements. [15] [17] [18] Meanwhile, the representatives of Bahamas, Namibia, and Singapore, who were also elected through the national pageants, did not enter the pageant, and no replacements were assigned. [19]
The representatives of Miss Grand Guatemala and Miss Grand Honduras were also appointed to participate but did not compete for undisclosed reasons, while the representative of Miss Grand Lithuania, Jurate Stasiunaite, withdrew during the international pageant for personal reasons. [20]
Placement | Contestant [21] |
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Miss Grand International 2018 | |
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2nd runner-up |
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3rd runner-up |
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4th runner-up |
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Top 10 |
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Top 20 |
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§ – Voted into the Top 10 by viewers.
Award | Contestant [1] [5] |
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Best National Costume |
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Best Evening Gown |
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Best in Swimsuit |
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Best in Social Media |
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Miss Popular Vote |
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In the grand final round on October 25, after an introduction section, twenty-one contestants, who were selected through the preliminary round held on October 23 as well as all pre-pageant scorings, qualified for the quarterfinal round, [22] in which each of the qualified candidates competed in the swimsuit. [1] The score from the quarterfinals, as well as all previous accumulation scores, determined the nine semifinal finalists, together with the winner of the Miss Popular vote, which was elected through public voting, completed the top ten. [1] [5]
The ten finalists competed against each other in the evening gown and speech session, then the final five were selected to continue in the question and answer portion, in which the winner and all four runners-up were determined. [1] [5]
The panel of judges in the preliminary round, including: [22]
75 contestants competed for the title
Country/Territory | Delegate | Age | Hometown |
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Albania | Klaudia Kalia [23] | 18 | Tirana |
Argentina | Julieta Riveros [10] | 21 | Cordoba |
Australia | Kimberly Gundani [24] | 26 | Melbourne |
Belgium | Elisabeth Moszkowicz [25] | 26 | Brussels |
Bolivia | Elena Romero [26] | 19 | Chuquisaca |
Brazil | Gabrielle Vilela [27] | 26 | Rio de Janeiro |
Bulgaria | Beloslava Yordanova [28] | 22 | Sofia |
Cambodia | Lika Dy [29] | 20 | Kampong Chhnang |
Canada | Grace Diamani [18] | 25 | Ontario |
Cape Verde | Prissy Gomes [30] | 25 | Tarrafal |
Chile | Maria Catalina [31] | 23 | Santiago |
China | Wan Xin Xing [32] | 24 | Beijing |
Colombia | Sheyla Quizena [33] | 21 | Barranquilla |
Cook Islands | Teau McKenzie [34] | 23 | Avarua |
Costa Rica | Nicole Menayo [35] | 24 | Heredia |
Cuba | Gladys Carredeguas [36] | 25 | Havana |
Czech Republic | Cristyna Langovaá [37] | 19 | Prague |
Denmark | Natasja Kunde [38] | 17 | Copenhagen |
Dominican Republic | Mayte Brito [39] | 27 | San Cristobal |
Ecuador | Blanca Arambulo [40] | 28 | Guayaquil |
El Salvador | Genesis Fuentes [11] | 24 | San Salvador |
England | Christina Baker [41] | 23 | London |
Estonia | Karolin Kippasto [42] | 22 | Tartu |
Ethiopia | Samrawit Azmeraw [43] | 23 | Addis Ababa |
Finland | Erika Helin [44] | 24 | Helsinki |
Germany | Mona Schafnitzl [45] | 24 | Bavaria |
Ghana | Helen Matey [46] | 24 | Accra |
Guadeloupe | Meghan Monrose [47] | 24 | Saint-Claude |
Haiti | Valierie Alcide [12] | 23 | Port-au-Prince |
Hong Kong | Eleanor Lam [48] | 24 | Hong Kong |
India | Meenakshi Chaudhary [49] | 21 | Haryana |
Indonesia | Nadia Purwoko [50] | 26 | Bengkulu |
Jamaica | Kadejah Anderson [51] | 22 | Kingston |
Japan | Haruka Oda [52] | 24 | Saitama |
Kazakhstan | Aim Isengalieva [53] | 23 | Astrakhan |
Korea | Min Choi [54] [55] | 26 | Seoul |
Kosovo | Songyl Meniqi [56] | 22 | Pristina |
Laos | Nobphalat Sikaiphak [57] | 21 | Vientiane |
Lebanon | Anastasia Abou Mitri [58] | 27 | Beirut |
Macau | Débora Oliveira [59] | 22 | Macau |
Malaysia | Debra Jeanne Poh [60] | 22 | Penang |
Mexico | Lezly Diaz [61] | 23 | Jalisco |
Moldova | Alexandra Predus [41] | 27 | Bucharest |
Mongolia | Burte Ujin [62] | 20 | Ulaanbaatar |
Myanmar | Sumyat Phoo [63] | 23 | Naypyidaw |
Nepal | Urussa Joshi [64] | 26 | Kathmandu |
Netherlands | Kimberley Xhofleer [65] | 24 | Limburg |
New Zealand | Hayley Robinson [66] | 26 | Auckland |
Norway | Maria Barbantonis [41] | 27 | Oslo |
Panama | Gabriela Mornhinweg [67] | 22 | Panama City |
Paraguay | Clara Sosa [68] | 24 | Asuncion |
Peru | Andrea Moberg [69] | 25 | Loreto |
Philippines | Eva Patalinjug [70] | 24 | Cebu |
Poland | Malwina Ratajczak [71] | 19 | Szczecin |
Portugal | Priscila Alves [72] | 23 | Setubal |
Puerto Rico | Nicole Colon [73] | 25 | San Juan |
Russia | Talia Aibedullina [74] | 22 | Ulyanovsk |
Scotland | Olivia Mcpike [75] | 20 | Edinburgh |
Sierra Leone | Fanta Kabia [76] | 21 | Freetown |
South Africa | Misha Christie [41] | 26 | Pretoria |
Spain | Patricia Lopez [77] | 19 | Murcia |
Sri Lanka | Pawani Vithanage [78] | 23 | Colombo |
Suriname | Safina Barsatie [79] | 25 | Paramaribo |
Sweden | Hanna Louise Haag [80] | 22 | Gefle |
Taiwan | Tania Tan Yi Rong [81] | 26 | Taipei |
Tanzania | Queen Mugesi Ainory Gesase [35] | 18 | Dodoma |
Tatarstan | Zulfiya Sharafeeva [72] | 24 | Kazan |
Thailand | Namoey Chanaphan [82] | 25 | Chaiyaphum |
Ukraine | Yana Laurinaichute [83] | 26 | Kyiv |
US Virgin Islands | Morgan Evans [84] | 27 | Saint Croix |
United States | Paola Cossyleon [85] | 24 | Chicago |
Venezuela | Annis Alvarez [86] | 20 | Falcon |
Vietnam | Nga Phuong Bui [87] | 20 | Ha Tinh |
Wales | Lauren Parkinson [75] | 23 | Cardiff |
Zambia | Isabel Chikoti [88] | 27 | Chingola |
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