Miss Grand Barcelona is a Spanish provincial female beauty pageant,[1][2][3] founded by Tamara Llorente in 2018.[2] The pageant's winners represent the province of Barcelona either in Miss Grand Spain or Miss Grand Catalonia pageants.[4][5]

Miss Grand Barcelona
Formation21 April 2018; 6 years ago (2018-04-21)
FounderTamara Llorente
TypeBeauty pageant
HeadquartersBarcelona
Location
Membership
Miss Grand Spain
Official language
Spanish
Director
David Sequeiros Aguilar

Since the first competition in the Miss Grand Spain pageant, Barcelona representatives have not won the main title yet. The highest obtained placement was the top 11, won by an appointed Jennifer Hueso in 2017.[6] Meanwhile, at the autonomy-level competition, Miss Grand Barcelona's representative, Carla Domènech, won the title of Miss Grand Lleida in 2023.

History

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After Vicente Gonzalez acquired the license for Miss Grand Spain in 2015, he began franchising the provincial competitions to individual organizers, who would name the provincial representatives to compete in the national pageant the following year.[7][8][9] In the province of Barcelona, the license was granted to an event organizer, Tamara Llorente, who organized the first Miss Grand Barcelona in 2018 when Marta Bellido was named the first Miss Grand Barcelona elected via the provincial pageant directly.[2] From 2016 to 2017, Barcelona joined the Miss Grand Spain pageant with the representation of appointed representatives.[10][11]

From 2018 to 2022, the winner of the Miss Grand Barcelona pageant directly qualified for the national contest.[2] Later in 2023, after the establishment of an autonomy-level pageant, Miss Grand Catalonia, the representatives of the province of Barcelona for Miss Grand Spain were determined through such a contest,[12] and the winners of the Miss Grand Barcelona pageants would be assigned to represent one of the municipalities in the said autonomy-level pageant instead.[13][14][15]

In 2021, in addition to the main provincial stage, local pageants were also held in Anoia, Baix Llobregat, and Osona, to determine delegates for the province competition.[4][16][17][18]

Editions

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The following table details Miss Grand Barcelona's annual editions since 2018.

Edition Date Final venue Entrants Winner(s) Ref.
Delegate Qualified for Represented
1st 21 April 2018 No data available 17 Marta Bellido Miss Grand Spain 2018 Province of Barcelona [2][19]
2nd 15 April 2019 No data available
Andrada Morar
3rd[a] December 2020 No data available
29
Kethely Gomes
4th[b] 27 November 2021 Sarau 08911 Club, Badalona 25 Marta Bernal Miss Grand Spain 2022 [21]
5th 9 June 2023 Teatro Aquarella, L'Eixample 11 Carla Domènech Miss Grand Catalonia 2023 Sabadell
Yaina Vicente
Susana Sevillano
6th 24 November 2024
8
Vera Fluixá Arques Province of Barcelona
Notes
  1. ^ The pageant's 1st runners-up, Mar Pallini, was later appointed Miss Grand Lleida to compete in the Miss Grand Spain 2022 pageant.
  2. ^ The pageant's 1st runners-up, Lorena Sospedra, was later appointed Miss Grand Tarragona to compete in the Miss Grand Spain 2022 pageant.

Autonomy-level competition

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Beginning in 2023, the Miss Grand Barcelona pageant winner would compete in the Miss Grand Catalonia pageant, where representatives of the four Catalan provinces—Barcelona, Tarragona, Lleida, and Girona—would be elected for the Miss Grand Spain national competition.[22][23][24]

Year Represented Representative Original title Placement at Miss Grand Catalonia Ref.
2023 Sabadell Carla Domènech Miss Grand Barcelona 2023 winners Miss Grand Lleida 2023
Yaina Vicente No data available
Susana Sevillano No data available

National competition

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The following is a list of representatives of the province of Barcelona in the Miss Grand Spain national pageant. Since 2023, the representatives were determined through the Miss Grand Catalonia pageant.

Year Representative Original provincial title Placement at Miss Grand Spain Ref.
2016 Sandra Barreiro Appointed Unplaced [25]
2017 Jennifer Hueso Appointed Top 11 [6][11]
2018 Marta Bellido Miss Grand Barcelona 2018 Unplaced [2]
2019 Andrada Morar Miss Grand Barcelona 2019 Unplaced [26][27]
No national pageant in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Kethely Gomes Miss Grand Barcelona 2020 Unplaced [28]
2022 Marta Bernal Miss Grand Barcelona 2021 Unplaced [29]
2023 Marta Rovira Mañé Miss Grand Barcelona 2022 Unplaced [30]
2024 Susana Garcés Miss Grand Barcelona 2023 Unplaced
2025 Vera Fluixá Arques Miss Grand Barcelona 2024

References

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