Since these are parallel bouts in all ways, each of them is for a bronze medal! Now, why judo does this is another story. For one thing, judo in reality is not a mere sport or game. I regard it as a principle of life, art and science. In fact, it is a means for personal cultural attainment. Skip to content. Thanks, Meredith Dear Meredith, Whoa! This is usually the case, since there are only four rounds in combat sports at the Olympics Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Finals.
However, things are quite different in Boxing. There are no repechage matches in Boxing. However, 2 Bronze medals are still awarded. The reason for the same began at the Helsinki Olympics when only Gold and Silver medals were awarded in Boxing, and the losers in the semi-finals were only awarded the Olympic Diploma.
This tradition was changed at the Melbourne Olympics And, since then two bronze medals are being awarded. Boxers have a jam-packed schedule and usually, semi-final bouts tend to be draining with the loser usually sapped off his energy.
Since, the down and out boxers, cannot turn up in quick succession for the Bronze medal match. Hence, they decided to guarantee a medal each for the top 4. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Privacy Policy. Create an account. Sports Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for participants in team and individual sport activities.
It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. From Wikipedia,. In a few tournament sports, such as boxing, judo, taekwondo and wrestling, two bronze medals are awarded in each event — one for each eliminated semi-finalist or for the winners of the repechage brackets.
From Indian Express,. Normally in single elimination tournaments, you only have a winner and runner-up. In a format with a required third place award, there was a decision not to change the regular format, possibly because neither losing semi-finalist wants to potentially get injured in a bronze medal match or no fans want to watch it either.
So the governing body decided to simply award two bronze medals instead. Rules have changed in the Olympics quite a bit over the years, for example in wrestling in Olympics there was only one Bronze medalist, while in later years like there would be two. Some tournaments will have the semifinals losers play for the bronze medal spot, while other tournaments do not and end up with two bronze medalists. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
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