Breaks trophy!
Fingers crossed for our Kaleen today!
Switzerland is the winner of the 68th ESC in Malmö. Nemo became the first non-binary person to win the title of the world's biggest music contest with the bombastic number "The Code" in the Malmö Arena. He thus made history as the first non-binary song contest winner. Austria's candidate Kaleen, on the other hand, ended up in a disappointing penultimate place with just 24 points.
It was a final like no other before: pro-Palestinian demonstrators caused chaos outside the Song Contest arena. In the afternoon, Dutch singer Joost Klein was disqualified. Sadly, Israeli participant Eden Golan had to be brought into the arena by 100 police officers and was booed during her performance.
First non-binary song contest winner
And then our hopeful Kaleen ended up in penultimate place. Only the Norwegians were worse than us.
Nemo was the first non-binary person to win the Eurovision Song Contest. And that was probably not the only first at the ESC: after Nemo had performed his winning song again, he broke his trophy in his exuberance!
A Twitter video shows the mishap:
The video also shows how Nemo only held the upper part of the microphone in his hand, while the base remained on the stage. Oops!
Luckily for the beaming winner, the broken trophy was quickly replaced. At the press conference following the celebrations, a complete glass trophy was once again on the table in front of Nemo.
Switzerland ahead of Croatia and Ukraine
Now 24 years old, Nemo no longer lives in his home country of Switzerland, but in Berlin. In his winning song "The Code", Nemo deals with his personal career and gender roles.
With the victory, Switzerland relegated the Croatian Baby Lasagna, who had recently been the higher favorite, to second place. While Switzerland received 591 points, Croatia scored 547. Ukraine followed at a distance in third place with 453 points.
Austrian jury rating
Singers Anna-Sophie and Pia Maria, music manager Annemarie Treiber, radio presenter Philipp Emberger and musician Simon Lewis were on the Austrian jury.
Their scores: 12 points Switzerland, 10 points Italy, 8 points Croatia, 7 points Armenia, 6 points Ukraine, 5 points France, 4 points Spain, 3 points Ireland, 2 points Estonia and 1 point Norway.
You can read all the events of the 68th Song Contest in Malmö here:
Biggest music contest in the world
The ESC, the world's biggest music competition, is broadcast in dozens of countries around the world - from Australia to the North Cape. Every year, around 150 million people watch the final round of the show alone.
This year's competition was overshadowed by discussions about Israel's participation in the middle of the Gaza war and the exclusion of the Netherlands due to an incident involving the singer.
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