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What is a repechage?

What is a repechage? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (sports) A heat (as in rowing or fencing) in which the best competitors who have lost in a previous round compete for a place or places yet left in the next round.
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With his energy zapped and facing a quicker opponent, Breton-Leduc then lost in the repechage.
In the case two repechages, the top two crews in each repechage will proceed to the finals.
The repechage is built by selecting all of the athletes who were knocked out by the finalists and building brackets to determine third place.
The winner of each repechage then faces the runner-up in the other, with the two victors awarded bronze medals.
Profiting from the change were the second set of repechage crews, including the men's coxless fours.
For Feunekes, there was then an opportunity to compete in the repechage for a bronze medal.

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