Judo repechage bracket
In a judo bracket the four quarter-final losers get a second chance. They fight a repechage, and the winners meet the semi-final losers for the two bronze medals. That is why a judo category ends with two third places.
Updated
- Repechage bouts
- 2
- quarter-final losers, by half
- Bronze bouts
- 2
- against the other half's semi-final loser
- Bouts with 8 competitors
- 11
- 7 in the main bracket, 4 after
- Medals
- 4
- gold, silver, two bronzes
Free. No account needed to start.
Who gets into the repechage
Only the quarter-final losers. They lost to somebody who is still fighting for a medal, so they have a claim to one. Somebody who lost earlier lost to somebody who is already out, and does not come back.
The two quarter-final losers from the top half of the bracket fight each other, and so do the two from the bottom half.
The bronze bouts cross the bracket
The winner of the top half's repechage meets the loser of the bottom half's semi-final, and the winner of the bottom half's repechage meets the loser of the top half's semi-final. Crossing over means the bronze bout is never a rematch of a bout one of them has already won or lost.
Both winners take a bronze medal. The losers of the bronze bouts are fifth.
What a smaller category gets instead
A repechage needs quarter-finals, so it needs a bracket of eight. A category with fewer competitors is better served by a format where everybody fights more than once: a round robin for three to five, two pools and crossed semi-finals for six or seven, and a best of three for two. Whistle.day picks the format when the weigh-in closes, from the number who made weight.
Common questions
Does a semi-final loser have to fight again?
Yes. They meet the winner of the repechage from the other half, and the winner of that bout takes the bronze.
Is there a third-place match as well?
No. The two bronze bouts replace it; a bracket with repechage has no single third-place match.
What if a category has nine competitors?
It is drawn as a bracket of sixteen with byes, and the repechage is taken from the quarter-finals, which are then the second round.