Runner-up is a term used to denote a participant which finishes in second place in any of a variety of competitive endeavors, most notably sporting events and beauty pageants; in the latter instance, the term is applied to more than one of the highest-ranked non-winning contestants, the second-place finisher being designated "first runner-up," the third-place finisher "second runner-up," and so on. A beauty contest or beauty pageant is a competition based mainly though not always entirely on the physical beauty of its contestants and often incorporating Personality
While loosely acceptable for describing any second-place finisher in a sporting event, the "runner-up" label is more properly appended to one that finishes in that position as the result of having lost in the final round of an elimination tournament; specifically, its most frequent use is encountered in tennis, and refers to the player (or doubles team) that loses the final match; in most tennis tournaments, a testimonial award, often in the form of a plate, is given to the runner(s)-up following the final match, with the winner(s) receiving a trophy instead. Tennis is a sport played between two players ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles) ----A trophy is a reward for a specific achievement and usually afterwards serves as proof of merit
In American team sports, the term is usually avoided in official circles, because the team losing in the final round of the postseason playoffs will have had to have won the championship of a lesser entity as a condition for reaching the finals; in basketball, football and hockey this would have been a conference championship, and in baseball a league championship, or colloquially, the league "pennant. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive Team sport known for mixing strategy with Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team Sport played on Ice. Baseball is a Bat-and-ball Sport played between two teams of nine players each A pennant is a commemorative flag typically used to show support for a particular athletic Team. " Consequently, the losing finalist will typically be referred to as the champion of its conference (or league in the case of baseball) rather than as a runner-up.
In the Olympic Games, runners-up receive silver medals, and in competitions held at county and state fairs in the United States, a red ribbon traditionally identifies the runner-up (with a blue ribbon signifying the winner, and white, yellow, green, orange, purple and brown being the colors associated with third through eighth places, in that order). The Olympic Games is an international Multi-sport event established for both summer and winter games The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The red ribbon, a Ribbon colored Red, has several different meanings in different contexts In Symbolism, blue ribbon is a term used to describe something of high quality The white ribbon, a white-colored ribbon or representation of a white-colored ribbon has several different meanings depending on the context A yellow ribbon is a symbol with various meanings mostly associated with those waiting for the return of a loved one or of military troops who are temporarily unable to come home The green ribbon has been used as a symbol for many campaigns including environmental justice, Cannabis -liberation and agriculture The orange ribbon is a symbol adopted for a wide variety of uses A purple ribbon is worn to raise awareness for Alzheimer's Disease, Cystic fibrosis, Epilepsy, Huntington's disease, Lupus, Fibromyalgia A brown ribbon is a type of award given to winners of various contests
In politics, runners-up only applies to single member electorates or parties using a first past-the-post voting systems, such as Great Britain, the United States of America, Canada or Australia's House of Representatives. Politics Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions It does not apply to multi-member proportional representation electorates such as exists in Ireland, Ukraine and many European countries or Australia's Senate elections.
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