Miss Grand Slam 2016 has started! Meet the Contestants

There's a saying that goes "better late than never", but we made it on time to celebrate the launch of our new website, and Global Beauties is finally electing its 19th Miss Grand Slam!

2016 saw many beauties competing in the world's most important beauty pageants. A very competitive year with amazing winners and finalists. It was hard work and 94 ladies automatically qualified to take part in the competition.

Why 94? 20 semi-finalists from Miss World; 13 from Miss Universe; 25 from Miss Supranational; 21 from Miss Grand International; and 15 from Miss International, totalling this magic number.

The Top 50 will be announced shortly, so stay tuned!

Here are the 94 contestants competing for the title of Miss Grand Slam 2016:

MISS WORLD

· Puerto Rico (Stephanie del Valle)

· Dominican Republic (Yaritza Reyes)

· Indonesia (Natasha Mannuela)

· Kenya (Evelyn Njambi)

· Philippines (Catriona Gray)

· Belgium (Lenty Frans)

· Korea (Miriam Wang)

· Brazil (Beatrice Fontoura)

· China (Jing Kong)

· USA (Audra Mari)

· Mongolia (Bayartsetseg Altangerel)

· Australia (Madeline Cowe)

· Slovakia (Kristina Cincurova)

· France (Morgane Edvige)

· Ghana (Antoinette Delali)

· Hungary (Timea Gelencser)

· India (Priyadarshini Chatterjee)

· Japan (Priyanka Yoshikawa)

· Cook Islands (Natalia Short)

· Thailand (Jinnita Buddee)

MISS UNIVERSE

· France (Iris Mittenaere)

· Haiti (Raquel Pelissier)

· Colombia (Andrea Tovar)

· Thailand (Chalita Suangsane)

· Philippines (Maxine Medina)

· Kenya (Scarlett Were)

· USA (Deshauna Barber)

· Canada (Siera Bearchell)

· Mexico (Kristal Silva)

· Panama (Keity Drennan)

· Peru (Valeria Mazza)

· Indonesia (Keszia Warouw)

· Brazil (Raissa Santana)

MISS INTERNATIONAL

· Philippines (Kylie Verzosa)

· Australia (Alexandra Britton)

· Indonesia (Felicia Hwang)

· Nicaragua (Brianny Chamorro)

· USA (Kaitryana Leinbach)

· Argentina (Yoana Don)

· Canada (Amber Bernachi)

· Dominican Rep. (Cynthia Nunez)

· El Salvador (Elizabeth Cader)

· Finland (Emilie Seppanen)

· Japan (Junna Yamagata)

· Mexico (Geraldine Ponce)

· Poland (Magda Bienkowska)

· Russia (Alisa Manenok)

· Thailand (Pattiya Pongthai)

MISS GRAND INTERNATIONAL

· Indonesia (Ariska Putri Pertiwii)

· Philippines (Nicole Cordoves)

· Thailand (Malisorn Sukhorn)

· Puerto Rico (Madison Berrios)

· USA (Michelle Leon)

· Bahamas (Selvinique Wright)

· Korea (Yeseul Cho)

· Macau (Hio Man Chan)

· Peru (Priscila Howard)

· Ukraine (Veronika Mikhailnyshyna)

· Australia (Dani Fitch)

· Jamaica (Dianne O. Brown)

· Cuba (Merys Navarro)

· Malaysia (Ranmeet Jassal)

· Mexico (Paulina Flores Cantú)

· Portugal (Ana Bomfim)

· Spain (Adriana Sanchez Rivas)

· Tahiti (Vaiata Buisson)

· Venezuela (Debora Medina)

· Vietnam (Nguyen Thi Loan)

· Wales (Rachael Tate)

MISS SUPRANATIONAL

· India (Srinidhi Shetty)

· Venezuela (Valeria Vespoli)

· Suriname (Jaleesa Piggot)

· Sri Lanka (Ornella Gunasekere)

· Hungary (Korinna Kocsis)

· Belarus (Polina Pimahina)

· Indonesia (Intan Aletrino)

· Poland (Ewa Mielnicka)

· Myanmar (Swe Zin Htet)

· Slovak Republic (Lenka Tekeljakova)

· Australia (Silka Kurzak)

· Panama (Leidys Gonzalez)

· Mexico (Cynthia de la Vega)

· Philippines (Joanna Eden)

· Paraguay (Viviana Fiorentin)

· Mauritius (Angie Callychurn)

· Rwanda (Colombe Awanku)

· Romania (Sinziana Sirghi)

· Brazil (Cloris Junges)

· Russia (Vlada Gritsenko)

· Vietnam (Kha Trang)

· Ukraine (Lenna Anastasiia)

· Argentina (Wanessa de Almeida)

· Netherlands (Milenka Janssen)

· Japan (Risa Nagashima)