# Miss Grand Malaysia 2021

Miss Grand Malaysia 2021 was the sixth edition of the Miss Grand Malaysia pageant, held virtually via Facebook Live on August 2, 2021. Twenty-three candidates, who qualified for the national pageant either through state pageants or national auditions, competed for the title, and a 24-year-old architecture student from Selangor, Lishallinny Kanaran, was named the winner, while Malveen Kaur of Johor Bahru and Poorani Rajoo of Kuala Lumpur won the supplementary titles of The Miss Globe Malaysia 2021 and Miss Intercontinental Malaysia 2021, respectively. Lishallinny later represented Malaysia in its parent international pageant, Miss Grand International 2021, in Thailand, where she was placed among the top 10 finalists and also won the Best National Costume award.
Initially, the pageant was scheduled to be held physically at the Bangi Avenue Convention Centre in Selangor but was switched to an online contest due to the domestic COVID-19 pandemic and the restriction of movement order announced by the Malaysian government.

## Background

In 2020, the Miss Grand Malaysia 2020 pageant was expected to be held physically at the Bangi Avenue Convention Centre in late June, but it was postponed twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic, first to mid-October, and then to January 30, 2021. However, in early 2021, the situation of the outbreak had not improved, causing the organizer to canceled all pageant-related activities and instead arranged an ad hoc online challenge to elect the 2020 titleholder, and Jasebel Robert of Selangor was elected the challenge winner and gain the right to participate at the Miss Grand International 2020 in Thailand, while the remaining candidates were qualified to compete at the 2021 national contest automatically.
In 2021, the organizer planned to hold the actual annual contest to select the country representative for the 2021 Miss Grand International pageant; the pageant boot camps were performed for several days, and it was almost reached the grand final competition, which was scheduled to be held at the Bangi Avenue Convention Centre in Selangor, but due to the increase of COVID-19-infected cases in the country, the organizer canceled all physical pageant activities, and held the pageant virtually instead.

## Regional pageants

In addition to the former Miss Grand Malaysia 2020 finalists who automatically qualified for the 2021 national stage, the regional preliminary pageants in Sabah and Sarawak were also held. In both such states, division-level pageants were also held to determine the local representatives for the state-level contest. To complete the 24 finalists, the central organizer also organized an audion in Kuala Lumpur as well as ran the wild card system to additionally select the contestants.
The state preliminary pageants of Miss Grand Malaysia 2021 are detailed in the table below.
State preliminary contests of Miss Grand Malaysia 2021 :
| State pageant | Final date and venue | Entrants | National qualifier(s) | National qualifier(s) | National qualifier(s) | Ref. |
| State pageant | Final date and venue | Entrants | Winner | Runner-up | Wild card | Ref. |
| Miss Grand Kuala Lumpur | March 15, 2020, at the Swiss-Garden Hotel Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur | 14 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
| Miss Grand Selangor | July 25, 2020, at the Malaysia Tourism Centre (MaTiC), Kuala Lumpur | 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Miss Grand Sabah | April 9, 2021, at the Klagen Regency Hotel, Kota Kinabalu | 25 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |
| Miss Grand Sarawak | Virtual pageant, on March 7, 2021 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |

## Results

| Position | Delegate |
| Miss Grand Malaysia 2021 | Selangor – Lishallinny Kanaran |
| The Miss Globe Malaysia 2021 | Johor Bahru – Malveen Kaur |
| Miss Intercontinental Malaysia 2021 | Kuala Lumpur – Poorani Rajoo |
| Top 5 finalists | Sabah – Anya Kimberly  Sarawak – Kelly Raywyn Cahill |
| Top 10 finalists | Kuala Lumpur – Lindsey Yap Li See  Kuala Lumpur – Vinthiya Vasu  Malacca – Pretty Tey Pei Ling  Sabah – Dewi Natasha  Sarawak – Elvieka Chrissy |

## Candidates

Twenty-three candidates from six states and federal territory competed for the title of Miss Grand Malaysia 2021.
| Team Selangor (6) | Team Selangor (6) | Team Kuala Lumpur (5) | Team Kuala Lumpur (5) |
| Former 2020 finalists | Lishallinny Kanaran Mellanie Yew Hoe Yan Meagala Kanesh Giselle Tay Kimberly Soh Jing Hui Sarah Cynthia | Former 2020 finalists | Gurpreet Reeta Kaur Lindsey Yap Li See Poorani Rajoo Vinthiya Vasu Melissa Aurellia (withdrew) |
| Former 2020 finalists | Lishallinny Kanaran Mellanie Yew Hoe Yan Meagala Kanesh Giselle Tay Kimberly Soh Jing Hui Sarah Cynthia | Central wild card | Teo Hui Xing |
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| Team Sabah (4) | Team Sabah (4) | Team Sarawak (4) | Team Sarawak (4) |
| State winner | Chellyana Tensu | State winner | Elvieka Chrissy |
| State runner-up | Dewi Natasha | State runner-up | Hannah Musa |
| State wild card | Anya Kimberly | Central wild card | Angela Kon Kelly Raywyn Cahill |
| Central wild card | Marvena Jitol | Central wild card | Angela Kon Kelly Raywyn Cahill |
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| Team Johor (3) | Team Johor (3) | Team Malacca (1) | Team Malacca (1) |
| Former 2020 finalists | Malveen Kaur Venus Xabelle Iyn Esther Tan Yu Xing |
| Former 2020 finalists | Malveen Kaur Venus Xabelle Iyn Esther Tan Yu Xing | Former 2020 finalists | Pretty Tey Pei Ling |
| Former 2020 finalists | Malveen Kaur Venus Xabelle Iyn Esther Tan Yu Xing | blank |
| Former 2020 finalists | Malveen Kaur Venus Xabelle Iyn Esther Tan Yu Xing | blank |
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