Miss Grand Ukraine
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| Formation | 2013 |
|---|---|
| Type | Beauty pageant |
| Headquarters | Kyiv (Temporarily in Wiesbaden, Germany, since 2022) |
| Location | |
| Members | Miss Grand International |
Official language | Ukrainian |
National director | Natalia Kovaleva |
Parent organization | Queen of Ukraine (2016 – 2019, 2022 – Present) |
Miss Grand Ukraine is a national beauty pageant title awarded to Ukrainian representatives competing at the Miss Grand International pageant.[1][2][3] The titleholders from 2013 to 2015 were all appointed by the different franchise holders; no respective national pageant was held.[4] Since 2016, the Miss Grand Ukraine titleholders have been elected through a national contest, Queen of Ukraine (Королева України), headquartered in Kyiv.[1][5][6]
Since first partaking in 2013, Ukrainian representatives secured placements in Miss Grand International five times in total,[7][8][9][10] the highest position is the final 10, which was reached in 2016 and 2017.[9][10]
Ukraine has always sent its representatives to compete at the Miss Grand International since 2013.[11] Nonetheless, its first three representatives were all appointed to the title; no respective national pageant was held. In 2016, the license was transferred to Diva Fashion Group, the Queen of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Королева Украины) pageant organizer chaired by Natalia Kovaleva;[1][5][6] the Ukrainian representatives have been selected through the mentioned national contest since then.[2][3][12][13]
In 2022, due to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War, the national contest of the Queen of Ukraine, which was usually held in Kyiv, was temporarily moved to Wiesbaden, Germany, where the pageant was organized on a smaller scale and aimed to raise funds to support displaced Ukrainian people in Germany.[13][14] Since 2023, the titleholders were determined through virtual procedures instead of the actual pageant.[15]
International competition
The following is a list of Ukrainian representatives at the Miss Grand International contest.
| Year | Representative | Original national title | Competition performance | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Placement | Other awards | |||||
| 2013 | Liudmyla Alexandrovna[11] | Appointed | Withdrew during the competition | |||
| 2014 | Nadiya Karplyuk[16] | Top 20[7] | — | |||
| 2015 | Anastasiia Lenna[17] | Top 20[8] | — | |||
| 2016 | Marina Kushnir[5][6] | Queen of Ukraine — Grand International 2016[18] | Resigned | |||
Veronika Mykhailyshyn[1] | Top 10[9] | — | ||||
| 2017 | Snizhana Tanchuk[2] | Queen of Ukraine 2017[19] | Top 10[10] | |||
| 2018 | Yana Laurinaichute[3] | Queen of Ukraine 2018[3] | Unplaced[20] | — | ||
| 2019 | Viktoriya Myronova[12][21] | Queen of Ukraine 2019[12][21] | Unplaced[22] | — | ||
| 2020–2021: No representatives | ||||||
| 2022 | Olga Vasyliv[13] | Queen of Ukraine 2022[13] | Unplaced[23] | — | ||
| 2023 | Julia Klimenko[24] | Queen of Ukraine 2023[24] | Top 20[25] | — | ||
| 2024 | Kateryna Bilyk[26] | Queen of Ukraine 2024[26] | Withdrew during the competition[27] | |||
| 2025 | No representative | |||||
| 2026 | Maria Kolotilo[28] | Queen of Ukraine 2025[28] | TBA | _ | ||
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