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1.Iceland
2.Austria
3.Ireland
4.Turkey
5.Malta
6.Bosnia-Herzegovina
7.Portugal
8.Croatia
9.Cyprus
10.Germany
11.Russia
12.Spain
13.Israel
14.Netherlands
15.United Kingdom
16.Ukraine
17.Greece
18.Norway
19.France
20.Poland
21.Latvia
22.Belgium
23.Estonia
24.Romania
25.Sweden
26.Slovenia

The winner of this years Dora is Claudia with "Vise Nisam Tvoja". It is very similar in parts to last years entry "Sasvim Sigurna" sung by Vesna Posarovic. Check below for full results.

Title Artist Points Place
Robot Luka Nizeti 20 10
Lakse Je Kad se Kraj Ne Vidi Alen Vitasovic 11 11
Antonija Kawasaki 3P 28 8
Na Krilima Ljubavi Jacques Houdek 35 5
Sanjem Gina Kuljanic 39 4
Za Sva Vremena Tina & Niksa 27 9
Moje Ime Je Ljubav Maja Blagdan 9 12
Moja Lipa Giuliano 30 7
Carobno jutro Nina Badric 51 2
Vise nisam tvoja Claudia 60 1
Cista petica Maja Suput & Enjoy 34 6
Nocas te ne dam nikome Karma 46 3

As you may already know this years Dora will be taking place in Opatija on March 7th, 8th and 9th. The semi-finals will be held on the 7th and 8th March with the final itself being held on March 9th. The presenters of each show are known. Ljiljana Vinkovic and Mirko Fodor will host the first semi-final on March 7th, with Vanna, last years Croatian eurovision entrant performing.

The second semi-final will be hosted by Karmela Vukov-Colic and Davor Mestrovic. Goran Karan who represeted Croatia in 2000 will also perform. The big final on March 9th will be hosted by Dusko Curlic and Danijela Trbovic-Vlajki. There will be many special guests for the live final including Gabi Novak, Meri Cetinik and Radojka Sverko. Once again the big orchestra of Dora will make an appearance in the evening.

Croatian RadioTelevision, HRT, have opened the preselection for Eurovision 2003. More rules have been introduced for the upcoming Dora event. Already known was that the songs can ONLY be sent by Croatian citizens and in the Croatian language but the change is that surprisingly each song must be sent with the authors full name, surname, address and phone number.

The selection process will be made by and 12 member-jury who will pick 24 songs and upto 4 reserve songs. 12 songs will compete in each semi-final with 6 going through to the final from each semi. The final will be held March 9th. The deadline for HRT to recieve songs is January 20th 2003.

HRT have finally announced that the Croatian National Final 'DORA' WILL take place in 2003 after uncertainty about the contest taking place.

There will be two semi-finals which will take place on March 7th and March 8th with the final being held on March 9th. From each of the semi-final 6 of the 12 songs will go through to the grand final on March 9th

The venue for 'Dora 2003' has not been decided upon yet but it is a strong possibility that Zagreb will once again be the host city.