MISS GRAND INTERNATIONAL 2016

2016 October 25

WestGate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, U.S.A.

74 participants

NOTE 73 were at the press presentation October 10; Bahamas arrived October 12, Latvia arrived October 13, Nigeria arrived October 19.  Iceland went home on October 22 & Sweden broke her leg on the same day.

NOTE  Belgium (backstage female "accident") and Mauritius (Muslim) did not participate in the preliminary swimsuit segment.

Results

1  INDONESIA  Ariska Putri Pertiwi

2  PHILIPPINES  Nicole Ignacio Cordoves

3  THAILAND  Faiic Supaporn Malisorn

4  PUERTO RICO  Madison Sara Anderson Berríos (TMOFTW ’15, 1st RU Universe '19)

5  USA  Michelle Gabriela de Leon López

Top 10

BAHAMAS  Selvinique Wright

KOREA   Ye-seul Cho (Intercontinental '15) *POPULARITY VOTE, automatic inclusion in Top 10

MACAU  Hoi-Man Chan (Asia Pacific World ’14, International ’14)

PERU  Priscila Stephany Howard  (Universe '17)

UKRAINE  Veronika Mykhailyshyn

Top 20

AUSTRALIA   Dani Nicole Fitch

CUBA  Merys Leydis Navarro

JAMAICA  Dianne Octavia Brown

MALAYSIA  Ranmeet Jassal

MEXICO  Paulina Flores Cantú (Intercontinental ’15)

PORTUGAL  Ana Cláudia Ornelas Bomfim (MTQI ’13, International ’13, Supranational ’14)

SPAIN  Adriana Sànchez Rivas

TAHITI  Vaiata Buisson

VENEZUELA  Débora Paola Medina Pineda

VIETNAM  Loan Nguyen Thi (World '14, Universe '17)

WALES  Rachael Tate

Awards

Best National Costume - Indonesia

Best National Costume Top 10 - Bahamas, Ecuador, India, Malaysia, Peru, Paraguay, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam

Best in Swimsuit - Bahamas

Best in Evening Gown - England

Best in Social Media - Jamaica

Remainder

ARUBA  Chimay Damiany Ramos

BELGIUM  Kawtar Riahi Idrissi

BOLIVIA  Mory Joselyn Toro Leigue (Global Teen ’12, International ’14, Tourism Planet ’15)

BRAZIL  Renata Ribeiro de Sena Trinca

CANADA  Monika Horvat

CHINA  Siru He 

COLOMBIA  Juliana Margarita Florez Herrera

COSTA RICA  Monique Rodríguez Salas

CZECH REPUBLIC  Monika Vaculiková (Princess of the World '14)

DENMARK  Ida Gøral Sjøstrøm

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC  Lucero Obed Arias García

ECUADOR  Carmen Verónica Iglesias López

EGYPT  Mirielle Azer

ENGLAND  Cherelle Rose Patterson

ESTONIA  Merylin Nau

ETHIOPIA  Genet Tsegay Tesfay (World '13)

FRANCE  Océane Pernodet (MTQI ’13, Globe ’15)

GUATEMALA  Susan Larios Cruz

HONG KONG  Rebecca Lau Hoi -Yee (Tourism International '14)

HUNGARY  Anna Váradi

INDIA  Pankhuri Gidwani

IRAQ  Klaodia Jamal Khalaf

ITALY  Martina Corrias

JAPAN  Ayaka Sato

LATVIA  Meldra Rozenberga

LITHUANIA  Aista Maciulyte

LUXEMBOURG  Natascha Bintz (MTQYI ’10, Earth ’11, MTQI ’11, Globe Int’l, ’12, International ’15, among others)

MALTA  Christine Mifsud (Earth ’10, Princess of the World ’14, among others)

MAURITIUS  Bibi Kasar Sehba Ramjaun

MOLDOVA  Alina Mihaela Stinca

MYANMAR  Nandar Lwin

NETHERLANDS  Floor Masselink

NEW ZEALAND  Margaret Cosmiana Brown

NICARAGUA  Michelle María Lacayo Knoepffler

NIGERIA  Rachel Onuwa Ikekhuame

NORWAY  Yasmin Osee Aakre

PANAMA  Selena del Carmen Gòmez Santamarìa

PARAGUAY  Cindy Macarena Nordmann Arias (Teen Universe '13)

POLAND  Marta Redo

ROMANIA  Ioana Mihalache (Earth '13, Universe '17)

RUSSIA  Daria Olegovna Zatsepina

RWANDA  Sonia Gisa (Best Model ’12 & 14, Supranational ’15)

SCOTLAND  Gemma Susan Palmer (Eurovision '13, Face of Beauty '14)

SINGAPORE  Sabrina Ng

SLOVAKIA  Viktoria Nagy

SOUTH AFRICA  Caitlin Harty

SOUTH SUDAN  Anyier "Teresa" Deng Yuol

SRI LANKA  Harshani Ruman (Tourism Universe '15)

SURINAME  Daryola Shaista Brandon

SWITZERLAND  Amber Chavaillaz (World '16)

TAIWAN  Ri-Xing Zhu (Tourism International '10)

TURKEY  Diana Osypenko

URUGUAY  Melina Carballo Fagundez

WITHDREW:

ICELAND  Arna Ýr Jónsdóttir (World '15) (withdrew 3 days before the final)

NO SHOWS:

ALBANIA  Paula Preçi

CAMBODIA  Heng Chantha (visa rejected)

CAMEROON - Marianne Olivia Ngalle

GHANA  Margaret Baa Koomson (MMOTW ’13)

HAITI  Rose Cathelyne Paul (West Indies '15) (visa rejected)

IRAN - Atefeh Eskandari

KOSOVO - Anxhela Dashi

NAMIBIA  Namibia - Esperance Hope Luvindao

NEPAL   Zeenus Lama (visa rejected)

PAKISTAN  Anzhelika Rublevska Tahir

SWEDEN  Victoria Ericsson (broke leg 3 days before the final)

ZIMBABWE - Dion Cooper

REPLACED:

BOLIVIA - Estefanía Senzano Terán 

CHINA - Wenqi Zhang 

COLOMBIA - Francy Yurany Castaño Suárez 

MAURITIUS - Angie Callychurn 

MOLDOVA - Crina Verikna Stîncă 

UKRAINE - Viktoriia Trubchaninova 

VIETNAM - Yến Nhi Thị Huỳnh