The jury members announced the awaited outcome after 15-day long competition.  

　Cho Seong-Jing(Korea: age 15) won the 1st prize to become the youngest 1st prize winner ever in the history of the competition.
　Before the announcement, the main hall was packed with audiences who waited for the announcement. Nothing was seen on the stage but the 3 pianos which had fought out the competition along with contestants. As time passed, the tension grew in the hall.  It was 20 minutes after the scheduled time when the finalists and the jury members finally appeared on the stage.
  The comment by Hamamatsu Mayor Yasutomo Suzuki was followed by the comment by Chairperson of Management Committee Bin Ebisawa, and then Chairperson of Jury　Professor Hiroko Nakamura stepped forward to comment the following. "This competition was impressive as we welcomed the contestants from the regions such as Sudan and Bolivia from where no one ever had participated so far. We could listen to the performance with a great diversity from matured and grown ones to such fresh ones which were all just outstanding. "  Her comment referred  to the various performances of contestants in a broad age range, pinpointing the unique feature of the Hamamatsu Competition. Then, at last the proceeding moved to the announcement of the outcome.
　The first contestant whose name was called was Yuhi Ozaki ( Japan: age 20) who won the Diploma of Outstanding Merit, followed by Cho Seong-Jin (South Korea: age 15) and Alessandro Taverna (Italy: age 26) as a winner of the Best Performance of the Japanese Work, and then followed by Elmer Gasanov (Russia: age 26) for the newly introduced Audience Award.
　Then, the prize winners' announcement began with the 6th prize. The 6th prize went to Ann Soo-Jung (Korea: age 22), the 5th prize to Kim Hyun-Jung (Korea: age 18), the 4th prize to Francois Dumont (France: age 24), the 3rd prize to Huh Jae-Weon (Korea: age 22), the 2nd prize to Elmer Gasanov, and then the prestigious 1st prize went to Cho Seong-Jin. This was the moment when 15-year-old winner, the youngest ever winner was born. 
　All contestants looked relaxed on the stage after completing the performance. It left an impression that the awarding ceremony was finished in a happy atmosphere. 
　The final outcome was based not only on the Final Stage performance but also on the 3rd Stage performance in a recital style. It means judgment was made by both impressions from Concerto performance and Solo performance.
　During the 2-day-Final Stage, 6 contestants demonstrated performances in their own rendering. As 3 contestants had chosen to play Beethoven's Emperor, it gave us another joy to compare 3 performances of the same piece but with a different rendering.  In a performance with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra conducted by Naoto Otomo, each contestant created his/her own music within a limited time with utmost energy, which was cheered with an enthusiastic applause by the packed audiences for each day.