Why are there two bronze medals in judo?

Answer 1

In boxing, if one of the semi-final losers is knocked out, he can't box

again for a certain time period as a safety precaution, and it

wouldn't be fair to take away his chance at a bronzemedal just

because his semi-final opponent was so much better than the others,in all other

cases the losing semifinalists both get a bronze in Olympics and other games because ,

there are no qualifying events before the main events .

Answer 2

For the first time, Wrestling saw a knock-out system, which had a random draw for the first round. But in order to eliminate any anomaly resulting from two top contenders being pitted against each other in the very first round, a Repechage system was also introduced.

The knock-out system built up to the final.

The two bronze medalists come from the Repechage contests. All wrestlers who have been eliminated by the eventual finalists get a second chance to reach the bronze medal round by a series of Repechage matches.

The losing semi-finalists automatically go into the bronze medal matches and wrestle against the last two survivors of the Repechage.

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Answer 3

Because the IOC decides not to have a bronze medal match in that sport.

It is usual for people in combative sports to not have to fight again after losing therefore after losing a semi-final there is no fight-off for the bronze medal.

Answer 4

The likely reason that it appears as if there are more Bronze medals being awarded is that there was a tie for 3rd which would have 4 athletes on the podium; 1 Gold, 1 Silver, and 2 Bronze.

Answer 5

It is usual for people in combative sports to not have to fight again after losing therefore after losing a semi-final there is no fight-off for the bronze medal.