0 a practice in some sports in which players or teams who come very close but fail to get through to the next round of a competition are allowed to continue to the next round, often after winning an additional race or game; one additional race or game in such a system:
It will be interesting to see how the team do in repechage.
the repechage system
The women's eight were eliminated, finishing fifth in a repechage from which four boats qualified for the final.
This freestyle wrestling competition consisted of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals.
There was also a repechage to determine the winners of the two bronze medals.
Each judoka who had lost to a semifinalist competed in the repechage.
Those fighters eliminated in earlier rounds by the two finalists of the main bracket advanced to the repechage.
The two judokas who lost in the semifinals faced the winner of the opposite half of the bracket's repechage in bronze medal bouts.
Each semifinal loser faced the last remaining repechage competitor from the opposite half of the bracket in a bronze medal match.
The top four finishers in each repechage and the fastest fifth-place finisher advanced to the semifinals.
This freestyle wrestling competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals.
