# Miss Grand Venezuela

Miss Grand Venezuela is a Venezuelan female beauty pageant that has been held for the first time in 2022 to select the country's representatives to compete in its parent stage Miss Grand International, in which Venezuela acquired the main title once in 2019, won by a 19-year-old model from Anzoátegui, Valentina Figuera. Another highlight achievement is the first runner-up, obtained in 2017 by Tulia Alemán of Falcón.
Venezuela's representatives always got placement at Miss Grand International, except for 2020, however, during 2013 - 2021, all such representatives were appointed instead of organizing the Miss Grand national contest. The first edition of Miss Grand Venezuela was held in August 2022 in Caracas.
The current Miss Grand Venezuela is Anna Blanco of Distrito Capital who was crowned on 28 June, 2024, at the Caracas Military Circle in Caracas, Venezuela.

## Background
### History

Venezuela has been participating in the Miss Grand International since its establishment in 2013. Throughout 2013 – 2016, under the leadership of a Venezuelan marketing publicist Bruno Caldieron, either winners or runners-up of the "Señorita Deporte Venezuela" pageant were designated as Miss Grand Venezuela. Thenceforward, the license of Miss Grand Venezuela was respectively transferred to Miguel Segovia, Osmel Sousa, and George Wittles in 2017, 2019, and 2020. However, the country representatives during such periods were all appointed; no respective national pageant was held to elect the titleholders. Until 2021, the inaugural edition of Miss Grand Venezuela was expected to be held under the leadership of George Wittles but postponed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the country's representative was instead appointed.
After the aforementioned urgent postponement, the inaugural edition of the national contest "Miss Grand Venezuela" finally took place in Caracas in July 2022, the winner of such becomes the first Miss Grand Venezuela titleholder to be elected through the Miss Grand national pageant.

### Selection of contestants

In the first edition of Miss Grand Venezuela, the national aspirants were determined either by the state licensee or the national organizer through their regional contests or casting events, in which some state pageants were permitted to select more than one qualified winner, such as Miss Grand Los Andes held in San Cristóbal, where the representatives of Táchira, Barinas, Mérida, and Trujillo, were determined.

## Editions
### Date and location

| Year | Edition | Date | Final venue | Host state | Entrants |
| 2022 | 1st | 13 August | Teatro Municipal of Caracas | Capital District | 22 |
| 2024 | 2nd | 28 June | Salón Venezuela, Círculo Militar, Caracas | Capital District | 18 |
| 2025 | 3rd | | | | |

### Competition results

| Year | Miss Grand Venezuela | 1st Runner Up | 2nd Runner Up | 3rd Runner Up | 4th Runner Up | 5th Runner Up | Ref. |
| 2024 | Tina Batson (Miranda) | Andrea Del Val (Nueva Esparta) | Camila Soto (La Guaira) | Shania Sleiman (Dependencias Federales) | Paola Marín (Yaracuy) | Helen Chacón (Táchira) | |
| 2022 | Valentina Martínez (Anzoátegui) | Delia Santander (Barinas) | Iraima Castillo (Táchira) | Valeria Camacho (La Guaira) | Valeria Cárdenas (Mérida) | Not Awarded | |

## Venezuelan representatives
### Miss Grand Venezuela
#### Color key

* Declared as winner
* Ended as runner-up (top 5)
* Ended as one of the finalists (top 10)
* Ended as one of the semifinalists (top 20/21)
* Ended as special awards winner
| Year | State | Miss Grand Venezuela | Placement at Miss Grand International | Original national title | National licensee |
| 2025 | | TBA | | | Jacqueline Aguilera |
| 2025 | Miranda | Tina Batson | Resigned | Miss Grand Venezuela 2024 | George Wittles |
| 2024 | Caracas | Anna Blanco | Unplaced | Winner of El Concurso by Osmel Sousa 2023 | George Wittles |
| 2023 | Anzoátegui | Valentina Martínez | Unplaced | Miss Grand Venezuela 2022 | George Wittles |
| 2022 | Miranda | Luiseth Materán | 3rd Runner-Up | Top 5 Miss Venezuela 2020 | George Wittles |
| 2022 | Mérida | Sabrina Deraneck | Not able to compete | 1st runner-up of El Concurso by Osmel Sousa 2022 | George Wittles |
| 2021 | Monagas | Vanessa Coello | Top 10 | 2nd runner-up of Miss Venezuela 2019 | George Wittles |
| 2020 | Táchira | Eliana Roa | Unplaced | Miss Grand Distrito Capital 2020 | George Wittles |
| 2019 | Anzoátegui | Valentina Figuera | Miss Grand International 2019 | Winner of El Concurso by Osmel Sousa 2018 | Osmel Sousa |
| 2018 | Zulia | Biliannis Álvarez | Top 10 | 1st runner-up of Miss Venezuela 2017 | Miguel Segovia |
| 2017 | Falcón | Tulia Alemán | 1st Runner-Up | Contestant of Miss Venezuela 2016 | Miguel Segovia |
| 2017 | Táchira | Maritza Contreras | Not able to compete | Winner of Señorita Deporte Venezuela 2016 | Bruno Caldieron |
| 2016 | Táchira | Débora Medina | Top 21 | Top 10 Miss Venezuela 2014 | Bruno Caldieron |
| 2015 | Capital District | Reina Rojas | Top 20 | Winner of Señorita Deporte Venezuela 2014 | Bruno Caldieron |
| 2014 | Capital District | Alix Sosa | Top 20 | 6th finalist Miss Mundo Venezuela 2013 | Bruno Caldieron |
| 2013 | Vargas | Mariana Jiménez | Top 10 | Winner of Señorita Deporte Venezuela 2013 | Bruno Caldieron |

#### Notes

* ^α Successor.
* ^β Resigned.
* ^γ Dethroned

#### Miss Grand International Venezuela gallery

* Miss Grand Venezuela 2024 Anna Blanco
* Miss Grand Venezuela 2023 Valentina Martínez
* Miss Grand Venezuela 2022 Luiseth Materán
* Miss Grand Venezuela 2021 Vanessa Coello
* Miss Grand Venezuela 2019 Valentina Figuera
* Miss Grand Venezuela 2018 Biliannis Álvarez
* Miss Grand Venezuela 2015 Reina Rojas
* Miss Grand Venezuela 2014 Alix Sosa

#### Winners by state

States by number of titleholders :
| States | Number | Year(s) |
| Táchira | 3 | 2016, 2017, 2020 |
| Anzoátegui | 2 | 2019, 2023 |
| Distrito Capital | 2 | 2014, 2015 |
| Miranda | 1 | 2022 |
| Mérida | 1 | 2022 |
| Monagas | 1 | 2021 |
| Zulia | 1 | 2018 |
| Falcón | 1 | 2017 |
| Vargas | 1 | 2013 |

### Miss Venezuela Intercontinental
#### Color key

* Declared as winner
* Ended as runner-up
* Ended as top 5/8 qualification
* Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
* Ended as special awards winner
       In 2023, George Wittles owned the rights to send the Venezuelan representative to Miss Intercontinental.

#### Notes

* Alexa Fernanda Paredes Terán was replaced by Migleth Cuevas in 2023; Isabel Andreína Mogollón by María Alejandra Sanllorente in 2014 and Hilda Fleitas by María Eugenia Hernández in 2004.
* Margarita Island competed in Miss Intercontinental twice. Inés Mercedes Mujica Díaz placed as Top 12 in 2002 and Emily Fernández ended as 2nd Runner-Up in 2007.
* Natascha Börger, Miss Yaracuy in Miss Venezuela 2000 competed as the German representative in Miss Intercontinental 2002 placing as 2nd Runner-Up.

#### Miss Intercontinental Venezuela gallery

* 1st Runner-Up in Miss Venezuela 2000 and Miss Intercontinental 2001 Ligia Petit
* Miss World Venezuela 2007 and Miss Intercontinental 2009 Hannelly Quintero
* Miss Intercontinental Venezuela 2021 Emmy Carrero