The winner of an event gets a gold medal, the second place finisher gets a silver medal, and the third place finisher gets a bronze medal.
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The first-place finisher can be any one of the 9 skiers. For each of these choices, the second-place finisher can be any one of the remaining 8 skiers. For each of these choices, the third-place finisher can be any one of the remaining 7 skiers. So there are (9 x 8 x 7) = 504 ways in which the first, second, and third places can be comprised of members of the group of nine skiers.
The top three finishers in the 137th Derby were: WINNER: Animal Kingdom Place (second): Nehro Show (third): Mucho Macho Man
the burger derby
Its usually depends who the second place finisher is in big meets. But yes, they usually do get paid but much less.
Eight Belles came in 2nd after running the race of her life, which sadly was the last race of her life. Time was 2 minutes, 3 1/2 seconds. Just after crossing the wire second after Big Brown, Eight Belles collapsed after breaking her front ankles and had to be euthanized on the racetrack.
Season 5 11th place finisher Kevin Covais
Aptitude was the second place winner in the 2000 Kentucky Derby. He finished 1-1/2 lengths behind the winner, Fusaichi Pegasus. He finished 4 lengths ahead of third place winner Impeachment.
At the 2008 Games in Beijing, second place finisher Churandy Martina of Netherlands Antilles and third place finisher Wallace Spearmon of the United States were both disqualified in the men's 200 meter final for stepping out of their lanes.
Amanda came in first with $17000 so that is how much cash she earned for the day. The second place finisher received $2000 and the third place finisher received $1000 as consolation prizes.
The silver medal goes to the second place finisher. Unless there has been a tie for second place, in which case there is no silver medal awarded, only two bronze (third place) medals, one each, to the tied contestants.