Miss Grand International 2024

Miss Grand International 2024 was the 12th Miss Grand International pageant, held at the MGI Hall in Bangkok, Thailand, on 25 October 2024.

At the conclusion of the event, Luciana Fuster of Peru crowned Rachel Gupta of India as Miss Grand International 2024. This is the first victory of India in the pageant's history. However, Gupta's reign ended on 28 May 2025 due to several issues between her and the organization, and the 1st runner-up, CJ Opiaza of the Philippines, took over the title.

Contestants from sixty-eight countries and territories competed in this edition. The competition was presented by Matthew Deane and was transmitted via the pageant's YouTube channel, GrandTV.

Background

Location and date

In June 2022, the president of the contest, Nawat Itsaragrisil, president of the Miss Grand International Organization, revealed that the host country for the 2024 edition was in the process of negotiation.

Myanmar and Miss Grand International PCL reached a mutual agreement in July 2022. Early in 2023, the local organizer, Glamorous International, signed a memorandum of understanding with MGI PCL at the MGI Hall in Bangkok, Thailand. The agreement was officially announced on the finale of Miss Grand International 2023 on 25 October 2023. However, the organization later announced on 22 May 2024 that Myanmar will no longer serve as the host country for this edition due to a domestic political crisis, and that Cambodia and Thailand were elected as replacements.

Initially, the pageant was scheduled for Cambodia from 3 – 15 October 2024, including the best-in-swimsuit contest on 9 October, while the remaining pre-pageant events was set for Thailand. On 6 October, it was announced that all remaining pre-pageant events will move to Thailand. This decision comes after the Cambodian organizer failed to meet their contract and had conflicts with the Miss Grand International organization. The licence of Miss Grand Cambodia organizer, HK7 Co., Ltd., was removed by organization. On October 8, Nawat Itsaragrisil held a press conference with the Thai media regarding host country issues and announced that, in addition to Bangkok, the pageant's activities were scheduled in Pattaya from 11 – 16 October.

Selection of participants

Three delegates won their titles as a supplemental title in a multiple-award national pageant.Thirty-two delegates were appointed to their titles without competing in a 2024 national pageant.

Debuts, returns and withdrawals

In addition to the debut of Greenland, this edition has the returns of Cameroon and Côte d'Ivoire which last competed in 2014; New Zealand and Tanzania in 2018; Macau in 2019; Armenia in 2021; and Bangladesh, China, Curaçao and Pakistan in 2022.

Eight countries that competed at Miss Grand International 2023 did not select nor appoint a representative for this edition. Sabina Saharova of Latvia and Inês Perestrello of Portugal appointed a representative, but both of them did not compete for undisclosed reasons.

Five delegates withdrew during the pageant camp: Sotheary Bee of Cambodia, who withdrew from the competition due to the conflict between her director and the Miss Grand International organization, while Macarena Chamberlain of Costa Rica, Kaylie Cheung of Hong Kong and Kateryna Bilyk of Ukraine withdrew due to health issues. Madeleine Malmberg of Norway did not attend the final night for undisclosed reasons.

Results

Placements

§ – Voted into the Top 10 by viewers and awarded as Miss Popular Vote
‡ – Voted into the Top 20 by viewers and awarded as Country's Power of the Year

Original Placements

Special awards

Major awards

Sponsor awards

Ancillary events

Fan vote

On 30 September 2024, the pre-arrival voting challenge was launched on the pageant's official Facebook page and Instagram account where the portrait of each contestant was posted. The ten contestants with the most scores, calculated from the number of likes and shares on their portrait photos, acquired the right to attend the special dinner with the pageant president, Nawat Itsaragrisil, and the vice president, Teresa Chaivisut, on 4 October.

The second voting challenge is for the Country's Power of the Year award, in which the winner automatically qualifies for the top 20 finalists in the grand final round. It was launched from 20 – 25 October 2024 with sixty-nine contestants participating in the qualification round. Only sixteen with the highest points, calculated based on the number of likes and specific reactions to their portrait posted on the pageant's Instagram and Facebook page, qualify for the second round. The qualified candidates were divided into four groups. The same voting procedure was then used to determine the group winner to compete in the knockout round, where the top rank of each fixture progressed to the final round. Malin Chara-anan of Thailand was named the challenge winner, while Thae Su Nyein of Myanmar was the runner-up.

Another fan vote, Miss Popular Vote, in which the winner earns the automatic spot in the pageant's top 10 finalists, was open from 6 to 25 October via the pageant's official website. At the end of the voting period, Nova Liana of Indonesia, was announced as the winner.

The challenging results are shown below.

Grand Voice award

The qualifying rounds of the singing challenge for the Grand Voice Award was held on 9 October at the Proud Fha Italian Restaurant in Bangkok. All 71 contestants participated in the event, and 30 qualified for the second round where the number of qualifiers was then reduced to 15. The third round of the challenge was held at the Golden Tulip Sovereign Hotel to determine the final 3. These three contestants competed against each other in the final round on the preliminary night on 22 October in Bangkok, and Kristina James of Trinidad and Tobago was announced the challenge winner at the grand final competition held on 25 October.

Best in Swimsuit

The best-in-swimsuit round was scheduled for 13 October 2024 on the OceanSky Cruise in Pattaya Bay. Seventy contestants participated; Kaylie Cheung of Hong Kong was absent due to health issues. Only twenty contestants, 10 elected via the public vote and the others 10 by the panel of judges, were nominated for the award. Three winners of this sub-contest were later announced in the grand final round on 25 October 2024 in Bangkok.

The panel of judges for this section, including Nawat Itsaragrisil – the pageant's president, Teresa Chaivisut – the pageant's vice president, and Luciana Fuster – Miss Grand International 2023.

National Costume contest

The competition for the Best in National Costume Award took place on 20 October 2024 at the MGI Hall, Bravo BKK Mall, Bangkok, with 69 contestants participating. Only 22 costumes; 10 via public vote, and the other 12 selected by the judges, qualify for the second scoring round, in which the number was reduced to 10 costumes; 5 selected by vote and the remaining half to be picked by the judges.

The event, which was hosted by Miss Grand International 2023 – Luciana Fuster and an MGI's MC – Sakul Limpapanon, was transmitted to audiences worldwide via the pageant's YouTube channel and Facebook page.

Main pageant

Format

As done since 2013, twenty semi-finalists will be selected to continue in the competition. All accumulated scores, together with the preliminary round held on 22 October, which consisted of the swimsuit and the evening gown round, determined the 19 semifinalists. The winner of the Country of the Year award, determined through public voting, completed the twenty semi-finalists, who then paraded in the swimsuit competition. Afterward, the final 10 were named: 9 from the custom selection and another one was the Miss Popular Vote winner. These 10 finalists competed in the evening gown and speech segments to determine the top 5 candidates who later entered the question-and-answer round. Based on all accumulated scores, the runners-up and winner were named at the end of the event.

Contestants

68 contestants competed for the title:

Notes

References

External links

• Miss Grand International official website
• Media related to Miss Grand International 2024 at Wikimedia Commons