bronze medal

noun

: a medal made of bronze that is awarded as the prize for third place in a sports competition
The team won the bronze medal in basketball.

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The couple quickly rose up the ranks, winning the bronze medal at the 1991 European Figure Skating Championships. Lawrence Yee, People.com, 30 Jan. 2025 Walton County, nestled along Florida's Emerald Coast, took the bronze medal in Pacaso's ranking. Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2025 Chiles went on to accept the bronze medal and join her U.S. teammate Simone Biles and the gold-medal winner Brazilian Rebeca Andrade on the podium. Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 8 Jan. 2025 The 28-year-old Maher, who helped lead the U.S. to the bronze medal in rugby sevens at the Paris Games, has signed a three-month contract with Bristol in southwestern England. Associated Press, TIME, 5 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for bronze medal 

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