In boxing at the Olympic Games reaching semi-finals guarantees a medal but wrestling works differently with repechage coming in to make a decision the bronze winners Repechage roughly means a second chance for all wrestlers who lose against both finalists.
India within the past have made the foremost of repechage in wrestling, with three medals coming through it. the foremost recent was Sakshi Malik at Rio 2016 while in 2008 and 2012 also , Sushil Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt won bronze from the repechage rounds.
Repechage in wrestling, a fast explainer:
If you lose against someone who goes on to be a finalist in your category, you become active again and can have repechage matches.
There are two separated groups of repechage: one group of wrestlers who lost against the primary finalist, and another group of wrestlers who lost against the second finalist. The repechage matches begin with wrestlers who lost within the first round against one among the 2 finalists up until two to the losers within the semi-finals by direct elimination.
So within the case of an occasion starting with round of 16, the loser therein round against a finalist will fight against the loser within the quarterfinal against the finalist. The winner of that bout will fight against the loser of the semifinal for bronze. (Basically losing within the semifinal takes the wrestler to the trophy bout directly) The winners of the 2 repechage groups will receive each the trophy .
Taking the case of Sakshi in Rio 2016 as an example, she won within the first round and therefore the round of 16 but lost within the quarterfinal against Valeria Koblova of Russia. Koblova then reached the ultimate , which meant everyone who lost against her became active again. Sakshi then entered repechage, first facing the winner of the bout between the sooner losers versus Koblova. Aisuluu Tynybekova (KGZ), by virtue of losing within the semi-final against Koblova, was directly into the trophy bout, which Sakshi reached through her win in repechage round 2 and defeated her to win bronze.
