repechage
- n a race (especially in rowing) in which runners-up in the eliminating heats compete for a place in the final race
- They had lost a preliminary heat to Ratzeburg, had to survive a repechage to get into the finals at all.
- Those who did were the ones who came to Seoul, who tried in vain to make sense of the repechage and gave up the sprints for the lusty cheers around the Korean women's hockey team.