Eurovision: Winners list in full from Abba to Bucks Fizz and Loreen
Take a look back at some of the triumphant (and less well deserved) winners
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The time of the year for Eurovision trivia is upon us again.
Although we Brits like to bemoan the UK’s recent performance at the song contest, we have in fact won five times, making us joint second for the most number of wins since the contest began.
Ireland leads the winner-board with seven wins, and is the only country to have won the contest three years running in 1992, 1993 and 1994.
Norwegian entry Alexander Rybak holds the record for the highest score, winning 387 points in 2009 for “Fairytale”, while Sweden’s 2012 entry Loreen became the first winner to gain the full 12 points from a record 18 countries.
Eurovision winners in full
2014 - Austria
Conchita Wurst, "Like A Phoenix"
2013 – Denmark
Emmelie de Forest, “Only Teardrops”
2012 - Sweden
Loreen, “Euphoria”
2011 – Azerbaijan
Ell/Nikki, “Running Scared”
2010 – Germany
Lena, “Satellite”
2009 – Norway
Alexander Rybak, “Fairytale”
2008 – Russia
Dima Bilan, “Believe”
2007 – Serbia
Marija Šerifović, “Molitva”
2006- Finland
Lordi, “Hard Rock Hallelujah”
2005 – Greece
Helena Paparizou, “My Number One”
2004 – Ukraine
Ruslana, “Wild Dances”
2003 – Turkey
Sertab Erener, “Everyway That I Can”
2002 – Latvia
Marie N, “I Wanna”
2001 – Estonia
Tanel Pardar, Dave Benton and 2XL, “Everybody”
2000 – Denmark
Olsen Brothers, “Fly on the Wings of Love”
1999 – Sweden
Charlotte Nisson, “Take Me to Your Heaven”
1998 – Israel
Dana International, “Diva”
1997 – United Kingdom
Katrina and the Waves, “Love Shine a Light”
1996 – Ireland
Eimear Quinn, “The Voice”
1995 – Norway
Secret Garden, “Nocturne”
1994 – Ireland
Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan, “Rock n Roll Kids”
1993 – Ireland
Niamh Kavanagh, “In Your Eyes”
1992 – Ireland
Linda Martin, “Why Me”
1991 – Sweden
Carola, “Fångad av en stormvind”
1990 – Italy
Toto Cutugno, “Insieme: 1992”
1989 – Yugoslavia
Riva, “Rock Me”
1988 – Switzerland
Celine Dion, “Ne partez pas sans moi”
1987 – Ireland
Johnny Logan, “Hold Me Now”
1986 – Belgium
Sandra Kim, “J’aime la vie”
1985 – Norway
Bobbysocks! “La det swinge”
1984 – Sweden
Herreys, “Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley”
1983 – Luxembourg
Corinne Hermès, “Si la vie est cadeau”
1982 – Germany
Nicole, “Ein bißchen Frieden”
1981 – United Kingdom
Bucks Fizz, “Making Up Your Mind”
1980 – Ireland
Johnny Logan, “What’s Another Year”
1979 – Israel
Gali Atari and Milk and Honey, “Hallelujah”
1978 – Israel
Izhar Cohen and the Alphabeta, “A-Ba-Ni-Bi”
1977 – France
Marie Myriam, “L’oiseau et l’enfant”
1976 – United Kingdom
Brotherhood of Man, “Save Your Kisses for Me”
1975 – Netherlands
Teach-In, “Ding-a-dong”
1974 – Sweden
ABBA, “Waterloo”
1973 – Luxembourg
Anne-Marie David, “Tu te reconnaîtras”
1972 – Luxembourg
Vicky Leandros, “Après toi
1971 – Monaco
Séverine, “All Kinds of Everything”
1969 – No winner
Four runner-ups: Spain, Salomé, “Vivo Cantando”
United Kingdom, Lulu, “Boom Bang-a-Bang”
Netherlands, Lenny Kuhr, “De troubadour”
France, Frida Boccara, “Un jour, un enfant”
1968 – Spain
Massiel, “La, la, la”
1967 – United Kingdom
Sandie Shaw, “Puppet on a String”
1966 – Austria
Udo Jürgens, “Merci, Chérie”
1965 – Luxembourg
France Gall, “Poupée de circe, poupée de son”
1964 – Italy
Gigliola Cinquettie, “Non ho l’età”
1963 – Denmark
Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann, “Dansevise”
1962 – France
Isabelle Aubret, “Un premier amour”
1961 – Luxembourg
Jean-Claude Pascal, “Nous les amoureux”
1960 – France
Jacqueline Boyer, “Tom Pillibi”
1959 – Netherlands
Teddy Scholten, “Een beetje”
1958 – France
André Claveau, “Dors, mon amour”
1957 – Netherlands
Corry Brokken, “Net als toen”
1956 – Switzerland
Lys Assia, “Refrain”
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