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The Eurovision Song Contest 2002 was the 47th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Tallinn, Estonia, following the country's victory at the 2001 contest with the song "Everybody" by Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Eesti Televisioon (ETV), the contest was held at the Saku Suurhall on 25 May 2002. The contest was presented by Estonian opera singer Annely Peebo and actor Marko Matvere.[1] It was the first Eurovision Song Contest held in one of the former Soviet republics.

Eurovision Song Contest 2002
A Modern Fairytale
Dates
Final	25 May 2002 (2002-05-25)
Host
Venue	Saku Suurhall Tallinn, Estonia
Presenter(s)	Annely Peebo Marko Matvere
Directed by	Marius Bratten
Executive supervisor	Christine Marchal-Ortiz
Executive producer	Juhan Paadam
Host broadcaster	Eesti Televisioon (ETV)
Opening act	"Everybody" performed by Tanel Padar and Dave Benton
Interval act	(During the song presentation): "A Little Story in the Music" performed by Annely Peebo and Marko Matvere, with music composed by Raimond Valgre (During the voting procedure): Dance performance directed and choreographed by Teet Kask.
Website	eurovision.tv/event/tallinn-2002
Participants
Number of entries	24
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	Austria  Belgium  Cyprus  Finland  Macedonia  Romania  Switzerland
Non-returning countries	Iceland  Ireland  Netherlands  Norway  Poland  Portugal
Participation map      Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 2002
Vote
Voting system	Each country awards 1-8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite countries
Nul points in final	None
Winning song	Latvia "I Wanna"
2001 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 2003

Twenty-four countries participated in the contest. Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, Macedonia, Romania and Switzerland returned after their relegation from the previous edition. Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway and Poland were relegated due to their poor results in 2001. It was the first (and only) time Ireland and Norway were relegated from the contest. Latvia was also set to sit out this year, but when Portugal announced their non-participation, due to internal problems at its broadcaster, it left a spot open for Latvia to take, as the country had finished higher the year before than any of the other relegated countries. This would go on to be very fortunate for the country as Latvia ended up winning the contest with the song "I Wanna", performed by Marie N who wrote it with Marats Samauskis. Malta, United Kingdom, Estonia and France rounded out the top five. Malta achieved their best result in their Eurovision history, coming second. Further down the table, Denmark finished twenty-fourth and last, their worst result up until that point, despite having been declared one of the favourites to win the competition beforehand.

Location

Tallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, 80 km (50 mi) south of Helsinki in Finland, east of Stockholm in Sweden, and west of Saint Petersburg in Russia. Founded in 1248 but the earliest human settlements date back to 3000 years BC, making it one of the oldest capital cities of Northern Europe. Due to its important strategic location the city soon became a major trade hub, especially between the 14th to 16th century when it grew to be a key centre of commerce within the Hanseatic League. Tallinn's Old Town is one of the best preserved and intact medieval cities in Europe and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[2]

Venue

Early in the proceedings, media outlets had begun speculating whether Estonian broadcaster ETV would be able to host the contest, citing a lack of a suitable venue and budgetary concerns. Due to this, Maltese broadcaster PBS and Dutch broadcaster NOS both expressed interest in hosting in the event in respective countries instead of Estonia.[3][4] However, worries were put to rest when a combination of fundraising activities and the Estonian Government enabled them to host the event.[1]

On 19 June 2001, it was announced that Estonia would still host the 2002 contest.[5] The Saku Suurhall was ultimately chosen as the venue for the contest. It is the largest indoor arena in Estonia, built in 2001 and holds up to 10,000 people. It is named after the Estonian brewery and soft drink company Saku.

Format

Slogan

For the first time, a slogan (or theme) was implemented. This year's theme was called 'A Modern Fairytale', which was evident in the postcards shown between the songs, which showed classic fairytales ending in modern Estonian situations.[6]

Postcards

The postcards continued with the opening theme of "A Modern Fairytale" taking well known fairy tales and translating them into Estonian life through short films, with a moral at the end of each one of them. The various fairy tales were as following, listed in appearance order:

Participating countries

A total of 24 countries competed in the 2002 contest, which included the top 17 countries from the previous year's contest, alongside the seven returning countries which had been relegated from competing in the 2001 contest. These countries replaced the bottom 6 countries from the 2001 contest, which were relegated from taking part in this year's contest.

The total participants had originally been 22, but when the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) increased their participation number for the contest to 24 this granted Israel and Portugal the opportunity to enter. Portugal declined to enter the contest due to internal problems in the Portuguese broadcaster RTP. This allowed Latvia (who went on to win the contest) to enter.[1][7]

Draw for the running order took place on 9 November 2001.[8]

Returning artists

Lead artists

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Constantinos Christoforou (member of One)	Cyprus	1996
Philippos Constantinos (member of One)		1995 (as backing singer for Alexandros Panayi)
Monica Anghel	Romania	1996 (qualifying round)
Sahlene	Estonia	1999 (for  Sweden, as backing singer for Charlotte Nilsson) and 2000 (for  Malta, as backing singer for Claudette Pace)

Backing performers[9]

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Christina Argyri	Cyprus	2000 (as member of Voice)
Kenny Lübcke	Denmark	1992 (with Lotte Nilsson)

Participants and results

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Language[10]	Points	Place[11]
1	Cyprus	One	"Gimme"	English	85	6
2	United Kingdom	Jessica Garlick	"Come Back"	English	111	3
3	Austria	Manuel Ortega	"Say a Word"	English	26	18
4	Greece	Michalis Rakintzis	"S.A.G.A.P.O."	English[lower-alpha 1]	27	17
5	Spain	Rosa	"Europe's Living a Celebration"	Spanish[lower-alpha 2]	81	7
6	Croatia	Vesna Pisarović	"Everything I Want"	English	44	11
7	Russia	Prime Minister	"Northern Girl"	English	55	10
8	Estonia	Sahlene	"Runaway"	English	111	3
9	Macedonia	Karolina	"Od nas zavisi" (Од нас зависи)	Macedonian	25	19
10	Israel	Sarit Hadad	"Light a Candle"	Hebrew, English	37	12
11	Switzerland	Francine Jordi	"Dans le jardin de mon âme"	French	15	22
12	Sweden	Afro-dite	"Never Let It Go"	English	72	8
13	Finland	Laura	"Addicted to You"	English	24	20
14	Denmark	Malene	"Tell Me Who You Are"	English	7	24
15	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Maja	"Na jastuku za dvoje" (На јастуку за двоје)	Serbian, English	33	13
16	Belgium	Sergio and the Ladies	"Sister"	English	33	13
17	France	Sandrine François	"Il faut du temps"	French	104	5
18	Germany	Corinna May	"I Can't Live Without Music"	English	17	21
19	Turkey	Buket Bengisu and Group Safir	"Leylaklar Soldu Kalbinde"	Turkish, English	29	16
20	Malta	Ira Losco	"7th Wonder"	English	164	2
21	Romania	Monica Anghel and Marcel Pavel	"Tell Me Why"	English	71	9
22	Slovenia	Sestre	"Samo ljubezen"	Slovene	33	13
23	Latvia	Marie N	"I Wanna"	English	176	1
24	Lithuania	Aivaras	"Happy You"	English	12	23

Detailed voting results

Half of the participating countries organized a televote where the top 10 songs received the points, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12, but Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina used juries, while Cyprus, Greece, Spain, Croatia, Finland, Malta, Slovenia and Lithuania used a 50-50 mix of both televoting and jury votes.

In the EBU's rules for the 2002 contest, it was stated; In the televoting, households shall not be permitted to vote more than three times.[8] This was used as it had become apparent that the public vote favoured songs in the later part of the running order in comparison to the songs nearer to the start - particularly in the preceding 2001 contest. At this contest (and the following one) the broadcaster decided to reverse the song recaps - starting instead with the last performed song (24) and finishing with the first performed song (1).

Detailed voting results[12][13]

Voting procedure used:   100% televoting   100% jury vote   50% jury and televote		Total score	Cyprus	United Kingdom	Austria	Greece	Spain	Croatia	Russia	Estonia	Macedonia	Israel	Switzerland	Sweden	Finland	Denmark	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Belgium	France	Germany	Turkey	Malta	Romania	Slovenia	Latvia	Lithuania
Contestants	Cyprus	85		3		12	6	10	6	4				1	4			3				12	8	4	8	4
	United Kingdom	111			12	7				6	4	5	6	2	8	6	7	6	1	8	2	10		8	5	8
	Austria	26	1						1				7					5			12
	Greece	27	12					1	8														6
	Spain	81	7	2		4		6				6	12	7			6	12	12	7
	Croatia	44	6		6	5					5		5				2			3				12
	Russia	55	5			2				10		1			3							8	10		10	6
	Estonia	111		7	3			5	3		6	2		12	10	8	10	4		4	8	2	2	6	12	7
	Macedonia	25	3					4							1							5	12
	Israel	37		5									1		5	1		2	10	5			5		3
	Switzerland	15			5														3	2			3	1	1
	Sweden	72		1	4	1				8		3			7	10	12	1			4			7	4	10
	Finland	24	2							5	1			10		3	3
	Denmark	7										4									1	1				1
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	33			7		3	7			3			6		2						3		2
	Belgium	33		4			1		7					3		4			2		10					2
	France	104		10		3	8			3		7	10	8	12	5	8	10		6			4	3	2	5
	Germany	17			1		2		2	1			3								3	4	1
	Turkey	29					4	3			8								7				7
	Malta	164	10	12	8	6	10	12	5	7	10	10	4	4	2	12	4	7	6	10	5			10	7	3
	Romania	71	8			8	5		12		12	8							4	1	7	6
	Slovenia	33		6	2		7	8			2		2				1		5
	Latvia	176	4	8	10	10	12	2	10	12	7	12	8	5	6	7	5	8	8	12	6	7		5		12
	Lithuania	12							4	2															6

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
5	Latvia	Estonia,  Germany,  Israel,  Lithuania,  Spain
3	Malta	Croatia,  Denmark,  United Kingdom
	Spain	Belgium,  France,  Switzerland
2	Cyprus	Greece,  Malta
	Estonia	Latvia,  Sweden
	Romania	Macedonia,  Russia
1	Austria	Turkey
	Croatia	Slovenia
	France	Finland
	Macedonia	Romania
	Greece	Cyprus
	Sweden	Bosnia and Herzegovina
	United Kingdom	Austria

Spokespersons

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Broadcasts

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Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Austria	ORF 1	Andi Knoll
	FM4	Stermann & Grissemann	[16]
Belgium	VRT TV1	Dutch: André Vermeulen and Bart Peeters	[14]
	RTBF La Une	French: Jean-Pierre Hautier
	VRT Radio 2	Dutch: Julien Put [nl] and Michel Follet
	RTBF La Première	French: Laurent Daube and Éric Russon
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BHTV1	Ismeta Dervoz-Krvavac [bs]
Croatia	HRT 1	Oliver Mlakar
	HR2	Draginja Balaš
Cyprus	RIK 1	Evi Papamichail
	RIK Deftero	Pavlos Pavlou
Denmark	DR1	Keld Heick
Estonia	ETV	Marko Reikop	[17]
	Raadio 2	Vello Rand
Finland	YLE TV2	Maria Guzenina and Asko Murtomäki [fi]	[18]
	YLE FST	Unknown	[19]
	YLE Radio Suomi	Iris Mattila and Tarja Närhi [fi]	[20]
	YLE Radio Vega	Unknown	[21]
France	France 3	Marc-Olivier Fogiel and Dave
	France Bleu	Sébastien Cauet
Germany	Das Erste	Peter Urban	[22]
	Deutschlandfunk/NDR 2	Thomas Mohr
Greece	ET1	Dafni Bokota
	ERA 1	Giorgos Mitropoulos
Israel	Channel 1	No commentator
	Reshet Gimel	Daniel Pe'er
Latvia	LTV1	Kārlis Streips [lv]
Lithuania	LRT	Darius Užkuraitis
Macedonia	MTV 1	Milanka Rašić
Malta	TVM	John Bundy
Romania	TVR1	Andreea Demirgian
Russia	ORT 1	Yuriy Aksyuta [ru] and Yelena Batinova [ru]
	Voice of Russia	Vadim Dolgachev
Slovenia	SLO1	Andrea F
Spain	La Primera	José Luis Uribarri
	Radio 1	Nieves Herrero
Sweden	SVT1	Claes Åkeson [sv] and Christer Björkman
	SR P3	Carolina Norén and Björn Kjellman	[23]
Switzerland	SF 2	German: Sandra Studer
	TSR 1	French: Phil Mundwiller
	TSI 1	Italian: Jonathan Tedesco and Claudio Lazzarino
Turkey	TRT 1	Bülend Özveren
	TRT Radyo 3	Ümit Tunçağ
United Kingdom	BBC One	Terry Wogan	[24][25]
	BBC Choice	Jenny Eclair
	BBC Radio 2	Ken Bruce

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Australia	SBS TV	Terry Wogan
Belarus	BTRC	Unknown	[26]
Iceland	Sjónvarpið	Logi Bergmann Eiðsson	[27]
	Rás 2	Unknown	[28]
Ireland	RTÉ Two	Marty Whelan	[29]
Netherlands	Nederland 2	Willem van Beusekom	[30]
	Radio 3FM	Hijlco Span
Norway	NRK1	Jostein Pedersen	[31]
Poland	TVP1	Artur Orzech
Portugal	RTP1	Eládio Clímaco
Ukraine	First National[lower-alpha 3]	Pavlo Shylko and Mariya Orlova	[32]
Yugoslavia	RTS2	Mladen Popović

Incidents

Commentator remarks

Controversy erupted during the competition over remarks by commentators on Swedish and Belgian TV, both of whom told the audience not to vote for the Israeli entry "Light a candle" by Sarit Hadad. The song received zero points from the Swedish audience but earned two from the Belgians, finishing 12th overall.[33]

Allegation of vote swapping

This year saw allegations that the juries in certain countries were guilty of swapping votes among each other. According to the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, The French Head of Delegation allegedly said that members of the Cypriot delegation had approached him to swap votes. In addition to Cyprus, allegations were also made toward Greece, Russia, Macedonia, Malta and Romania.[34]

Other awards

Marcel Bezençon Awards

For the first time, the Marcel Bezençon Awards, organised by Sweden's then-Head of Delegation and 1992 representative Christer Björkman, and 1984 winner Richard Herrey, honoured songs in the contest.[35] The awards are divided into three categories: the Artistic Award, the Fan Award, and the Press Award. The Fan Award was decided by the combined votes from members of OGAE, an organisation consisting of a network of over 40 Eurovision Song Contest fan clubs across Europe and beyond.[36]

Category	Country	Song	Performer(s)	Final result	Points
Artistic Award	Sweden	"Never Let It Go"	Afro-dite	8th	72
Fan Award	Finland	"Addicted to You"	Laura Voutilainen	20th	24
Press Award	France	"Il faut du temps"	Sandrine François	5th	104

Official album

Eurovision Song Contest: Tallinn 2002 (also known as Eurovision Song Contest: Estonia 2002) was the official compilation album of the 2002 contest, put together by the European Broadcasting Union and released by Ariola Records on 18 May 2002. The album featured all 24 songs that entered in the 2002 contest.[37]

Charts

Chart (2002)	Peak position
German Compilation Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[38]	6

Notes

References

External links

• Official website

На других языках

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- [en] Eurovision Song Contest 2002

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[ru] Евровидение-2002

Конкурс песни Евровидение 2002 (англ. Eurovision Song Contest 2002; фр. Concours Eurovision de la chanson 2002; эст. 2002. aasta Eurovisiooni lauluvõistlus) стал 47-м конкурсом песни Евровидение. Он прошёл 25 мая 2002 года в концертно-спортивном холле «Саку Суурхалль» в Таллине (Эстония). Первоначально предполагалось участие в конкурсе 22 стран, но Европейский вещательный союз увеличил эту квоту до 24. Дополнительные места были предоставлены Израилю и Португалии, но последняя отказалась из-за внутренних проблем телеканала RTP, и её место заняла Латвия.

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