Nikola Meeuwsen, 23, from the Netherlands won the Queen Elisabeth Competition, the first Dutch pianist to do so.
Second place was the Japanese Wataru Hisasue. Crowd favourite Valère Burnon from Belgium came third.
No controversies, nothing more to report.
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