Miss Grand Uruguay is a national beauty pageant title awarded to Uruguay representatives competing at the Miss Grand International contest. The title was first awarded on the national stage of the pageant, in which Mellina Carballo was named the first Miss Grand Uruguay titleholder. The contest was organized by Nadia Cerri, who was also the director of the Miss Uruguay pageant. Another titleholder, Jimena Martino, was determined through an audition held by the Certamen Nacional de Belleza Uruguay pageant (CNB Uruguay) in 2020.
Since the establishment of Miss Grand International, Uruguay took part only twice; in 2016 and 2020, but its both representatives were unplaced. History Uruguay participated in Miss Grand International for the first time in 2016 when Nadia Cerri, the organizer of Miss Uruguay, obtained the Miss Grand Uruguay license and sent Melina Carballo to compete at Miss Grand International 2016 in Las Vegas. Melina was the vice-miss of a newly established national pageant, . Normally, Nadia Cerri holds another contest, Miss Uruguay, to select the country's representatives for the Miss Universe and Miss World pageants. However, after losing the Miss Universe license in 2016, Nadia instead organized Nuestra Belleza Uruguay as the replacement contest; its main winner was sent to Miss World 2016. The Miss Grand contract was not extended in the following years, causing the country to be absent from 2017 to 2019.[Note: No Uruguayan representatives in the contestant lists in 2017, 2018, and 2019.]
After three consecutive years of hiatus, Uruguay returned to the tournament after Jimena Martino was assigned to represent the country at the Miss Grand International 2020 pageant held in Thailand in early 2021. Originally, Jimena was set for Miss Tourism World 2020 to be held in China; however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the host country, the pageant was canceled and caused Jimena to instead apply for Miss Grand Uruguay 2020 casting organized by Yeisson Coronado's Certamen Nacional de Belleza Uruguay (CNB Uruguay) and was elected the winner. Jimena Martino was the first runner-up of the Bendice la Corona Uruguay 2020 pageant, in which the pageant's main winner was sent to Miss World 2021.
Due to lacking national licensees, no Uruguay candidates at Miss Grand International since 2021.[Note: No Uruguayan representatives in the contestant lists in 2021 and 2022.]
International competition The following is a list of Uruguayan representatives at the Miss Grand International contest.
Year Representative National qualification Competition PerformanceNational director(s)Placement Other awards2016Mellina Carballo – Vice ReinaUnplacedNadia Cerricolspan=6 2020Jimena Martino1st runner-up Bendice la Corona Uruguay 2020Unplaced Yeisson Coronadocolspan=6 2026Francie Millan2nd runner-up Miss Grand United States 2026 Candace Thomas & Sthephanie Miranda
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