# Miss Grand Spain

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. 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. The pageant has been owned by Vicente Gonzalez since the establishment.
The reigning Miss Grand Spain is Alba Dunkerbeck of Costa Canaria who was crowned on 16 May 2021 at Hotel Orquídea, in Bahía Feliz. 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.

## 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. 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. However, the number of its preliminary contest was significantly increased to 24 in the 2021 edition. In some provinces, for instance, Seville, Huelva, and Cádiz, local pageants are also held to determine delegates for the province competition, in which winners hold the title "Miss Grand (Province)" for the year of their reign. Some runners-up of the provincial pageants might be appointed to represent the neighboring provinces in case the directors of such provinces were lacking.
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. Nonetheless, all such candidates instead gained the right to participate in Las Palmas for the succeeding edition, Miss Grand Spain 2021. The event also featured the presence of Dori Rodríguez from Navarre, the first openly transgender contestant to compete for the Miss Grand Spain title.
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, such as; the Pequeño Valiente Foundation, which is dedicated to providing the necessary support to children and families affected by childhood cancers, as well as the Mechones Solidarios, the Málaga-based NGO that produce and donate natural hair wigs to chemotherapy-induced and universal alopecia patients.

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

## 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. 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. 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. Moreover, the scores from all pre-pageant portions, also determine the quarterfinalists during the grand final telecast of the pageant.

### Competition results

| Year | Miss Grand Spain | Runners-Up | Runners-Up | Runners-Up | Runners-Up | Ref. |
| Year | Miss Grand Spain | First runner-up | Second runner-up | Third runner-up | Fourth runner-up | Ref. |
| 2013 | Las Palmas – Jenifer Guedes León | No runners-up, the titleholders were appointed to the position. | No runners-up, the titleholders were appointed to the position. | No runners-up, the titleholders were appointed to the position. | No runners-up, the titleholders were appointed to the position. | |
| 2014 | Almería – Nazaret Hurtado | No runners-up, the titleholders were appointed to the position. | No runners-up, the titleholders were appointed to the position. | No runners-up, the titleholders were appointed to the position. | No runners-up, the titleholders were appointed to the position. | |
| 2015 | Málaga – Andrea de Cozar | No runners-up, the titleholders were appointed to the position. | No runners-up, the titleholders were appointed to the position. | No runners-up, the titleholders were appointed to the position. | No runners-up, the titleholders were appointed to the position. | |
| 2016 | Málaga – Adriana Sánchez Rivas | Salamanca – Susana Sanchez | Cantabria – Leticia Burgos | Seville – Cynthia Ruz | Valencia – Lidia Regolf | |
| 2017 | Balearic Islands – Mariana Rico | Seville – Susana Sanchez | Andalusia – Carolina Santos | Granada – Paola Morales | Jaén – Alba Maria Lara | |
| 2018 | Seville – Mariola Partida Angulo | Murcia – Patricia López Verdes | Madrid – Nicole Menayo | Valencia – Djabu Balde | Salamanca – Triana Almenara | |
| 2019 | Cantabria – Ainara de Santamaría | Madrid – Andrea Ávila | Jaén – Miriam Herrera | Cádiz – Guadalupe Álvarez | Costa Gallega – Iris Miguélez | |
| 2020 | Costa Gallega – Iris Miguélez | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | |
| 2020 | Madrid – Andrea De las Heras | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | |
| 2020 | Cáceres – Sara González | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | |
| 2021 | Costa Canaria – Alba Dunkerbeck | Tenerife – Corina Mrazek | Granada – Luisa Victoria | Cádiz – Clara Navas | Extremadura – Jeannette García | |
| 2022 | Las Palmas – Hirisley Jiménez | Euskadi – Oihana Torres | Zaragoza – Anakristina Rivero | Madrid – Kristina Caci | Granada – Natalia Quirós | |
| 2023 | Toledo - Celia Sevilla | La Rioja - Alejandra León | Tenerife - Carolina Pérez | Almería - Denisse Andor | Cantabria - Marina Edilla | |
| 2024 | Las Palmas – Susana Medina | Tenerife – Idayra Tena | Tarragona – Adriana Corpas | Albacete – Luana Gheban | Euskadi – Esther Escudero | |
| 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. |||||||

### 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 |
| 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 | | | | 10 | 15 | 15 |
| Navarra | | | Y | Y | 13 | Y | Y | |
| País Vasco | | | Y | Y | Y | | | |
| Palencia | 10 | | | | 13 | | | |
| Pontevedra | | Y | Y | | | | | |
| Segovia | | Y | | | | | | |
| Salamanca | | | | | | | | |
| Sevilla | | | | 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 |||||||||