esctoday.com awards 2007: the remaining results

The last set of results in the 2007 esctoday.com awards is announced: Let's see who won in the categories Previous participant of the year, Best Eurovision Dance Contest performers, Best costumes in the Eurovision Dance Contest, Best article, Best editor, Best newcomer and Best regional partner website.

Previous participant of the year

• Celine Dion for returning to recording and her world tour

Best Eurovision Dance Contest performers

1. Katja Koukkula & Jussi Väänänenof Finland
2. Camilla Dallerup & Brendan Cole of the United Kingdom
3. Sónia Arújo & Ricardo Silva of Portugal
4. Yulia Okropiridze & Illya Sydorenko of Ukraine
5. Wolke Hegenbarth & Oliver Seefeldt of Germany

The Finnish dancers were the clear winners in the Eurovision Dance Contest and also in the esctoday.com awards with34.9% of the votes ahead of Camilla Dallerup and Brendan Cole from the United Kingdom, who finished only 14th in the contest but were obviously very popular with the readers reaching 19.9%. Portugal, Ukraine and Germany follow with close distance getting 15.8%, 15.3% and 14.1% respectively.

Best costumes in the Eurovision Dance Contest

1. Ourania Kolliou & Spiros Pavlidis of Greece
2. Yulia Okropiridze & Illya Sydorenko of Ukraine
3. Kelly Kainz & Andy Kainz of Austria
4. Katarzyna Cichopek & Marcin Hakiel of Poland
5. Gabrielë Valiukaitë & Gintaras Svistunavicius of Lithuania

Ourania & Spiros of Greece won in the close voting with their colourful interpretation of Everybody needs somebody to love and the dramatic outifits for their freestyle sirtaki; they got 29.5%. Yulia Okropiridze & Illya Sydorenko scored 27.4% for their classy Quickstep outifts during their first performance and the traditional costumes in the second one. Kelly & Andy Kainz (19.7%), Katarzyna Cichopek & Marcin Hakiel (11.9%) and Gabrielë Valiukaitë & Gintaras Svistunavicius (11.4%) were left behind but all got more than ten per cent of the votes.

Best article

• Eurovision 2007: voting analysis

Best editor

• Stella Floras

Best newcomer

• Dominique Dufaut

Best regional partner website

• 12points.tv (Belgium)

esctoday.com would like to make a special thank you to all of our partner websites, websites that contribute news and information and share their knowledge with us. This allows us to provide pan-European coverage despite our limited resources. Each and every partner website is part of the fantastic Eurovision Song Contest community and we thank all of them for their contributions.