repechage

See also: repêchage

WOTD – 15 May 2009

English

WOTD – 12 August 2012

Alternative forms

repêchage

Etymology

From French repêchage, from repêcher (“to fish out, rescue”), from re- (“again”) + pêcher (“to fish”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛp.ə.ʃɑːʒ/, /ˈɹɛp.ɪ.ʃɑːʒ/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌɹɛp.əˈʃɑʒ/, /ɹəˌpɛʃˈɑʒ/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

repechage (plural repechages)

(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.

Translations

heat for competitors who have lost in a previous round

Czech: opravná jízda f (in rowing)
Danish: opsamlingsheat
Dutch: herkansing (nl)
Finnish: keräilyerä (fi)
French: repêchage (fr) m
German: (esp. in rowing) Hoffnungslauf m, (in fencing) Trostrunde f
Greek: ρεπεσάζ (el) n (repesáz)
Hungarian: vigaszág

Italian: ripescaggio m
Norwegian: oppsamlingsheat
Persian: شانس مجدد‎ (šâns-e mojaddad), ریشاژ‎ (repešâž)
Polish: repasaż m
Portuguese: repescagem
Russian: репеша́ж m (repešáž)
Spanish: repesca (es) f
Swedish: uppsamlingsheat n

See also

A final / A-final
B final / B-final
relegation

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