Ukraine wins Eurovision 2022 with Kalush Orchestra singing 'Stefania'

• The 2022 Eurovision Grand Final show has passed into the book of history writing down Ukraine as the winning country with Kalush Orchestra and their song 'Stefania'. 

  Turin brought to the world the sound of beauty delivering the biggest TV song contest with million viewers across the world!After months of national selections and preparations,  two weeks of rehearsals, two semi final shows the night for the Grand Final show of the 66th Eurovision Song Contest took place this evening live from Pala Olimpico in Turin, Italy.

  A total of 25 countries competed in this evening's show. The 20 qualifiers from the 1st and 2nd  semi final shows along with the Big-5 countries among which this year the host nation, that have pre-qualified, took the stage for their final performance. Hosts of the Grand Final were the trio that also guided the audience through the semifinals live shows, Laura Pausini, Alessandro Cattelan and Mika.

  

   

   

  The Opening acts

  The grand final show opened with a Rockin’ 1000 performance in Turin’s historic Piazza San Carlo, which consisted over 500 musicians – vocalists, bassists, drummers and guitarists – performing John Lennon’s Give Peace A Chance. The same time  the audience at the PalaOlimpico joined in and shouted out a strong message of unity for peace accross the continent and the world. 

  In addition one of the presenter, Laura Pausini, gave a great performance of a medley of some of her own biggest hits with the flag parade and the presentation of this year's comepting countries in the finals taking place on stage.

   

  Laura Pausini's Medley

   

  Flag Parade

   

  The  competing performances

  25 countries competed in this evening's final show with the delegates performing in the following running order: 

   

  1. Czech Republic: We Are Domi – Lights Off

   

  2. Romania: WRS – Llámame

   

  3. Portugal: MARO – Saudade, Saudade

   

  4. Finland: The Rasmus – Jezebel

   

   

  5. Switzerland: Marius Bear – Boys Do Cry

   

   

  6. France: Alvan & Ahez – Fulenn

   

  7. Norway: Subwoolfer – Give That Wolf A Banana

   

  8. Armenia: Rosa Linn – Snap

   

  9. Italy: Mahmood & Blanco – Brividi

   

   

  10. Spain: Chanel – SloMo

   

   

  11. Netherlands: S10 – De Diepte

   

   

  12. Ukraine: Kalush Orchestra – Stefania

   

  13. Germany: Malik Harris – Rockstars

   

   

  14. Lithuania: Monika Liu – Sentimentai

   

   

  15. Azerbaijan: Nadir Rustamli – Fade To Black

   

   

  16. Belgium: Jérémie Makiese – Miss You

   

   

  17. Greece: Amanda Georgiadi Tenfjord – Die Together

   

   

  18. Iceland: Systur – Með Hækkandi Sól

   

  19. Moldova: Zdob şi Zdub & Advahov Brothers – Trenulețul

   

   

  20. Sweden: Cornelia Jakobs – Hold Me Closer

   

  21. Australia: Sheldon Riley – Not The Same

   

  22. United Kingdom: Sam Ryder – SPACE MAN

   

   

  23. Poland: Ochman – River

   

  24. Serbia: Konstrakta – In Corpore Sano

   

  25. Estonia: Stefan – Hope

   

   

  Interval Acts

  Once the competing acts completed their performances the lines opened for the public to vote. Meanwhile we saw take the stage last year's winners, Maneskin who presented their new song “Supermodel”.

   

   

  Further on one of Italy's legendary Eurovision icons, Gigliola Cinquetti ,the first Italian winner in the contest took the stage to performed her 1964 entry Non ho l'età" .

   

  Just before the announcement of the voting results MIKA, left aside his hosting responsibility and got on stage and performed a medley of his greatest hits. 

   

   

   

  The results

  The outcome of the final was determined 50% by the votes from the national juries that were cast last evening during the Jury show and 50% by the televoting that took place in the Grand final live show. 

   

  Jury Voting

  First the spokesperson of each one of this year's competing countries in the contest, revealed the national final jury votes. With all 40 national juries' votes in this how the jury voting turned out: 

   

  United Kingdom came first leaving behind Sweden second and Spain in 3rd place. 

   

  Televoting Results added in

  Following the jury results the hosts started revealing public voting and how many point each country received from televoting starting  from the country with the lowest score in the jury vote. Once all points were attributed the overall score declared winners of this year's contest Ukraine's Kalush Orchestra with their song 'Stefania' as they topped the televoting. 

  

   

  Congratulations to Ukraine and Kalush Orchestra! We all hope that this victory brings a little smile on the Ukrainian people's faces, who are facing the tragic consequences of war in their country!

   

   

  News Source: Eurovision.tv

  Images: EBU/Corinne Cumming

  Cover photo: Corinned Cumming

   

   

   

AUTHORS

Angelos D.
Loyal follower of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1987, I've made the competition one of the stories of my life. After attending as accredited press the event for 13 consecutive years along with the 2017-2024 JESC editions, I also enjoy the last three years sharing more Eurovision music through the Eurofans radio's project.