Why are two bronze medals given in Olympic judo competitions?

Two bronze medals are awarded due to the repechage brackets in Judo ladder tournaments. From Wikipedia [1]: In karate, judo, taekwondo, and wrestling tournaments, single-elimination brackets are used to determine the two athletes who will compete in the final for first and second place. read more

2 Bronze medals are awarded in combat sports because of two very different reasons. In sports like wrestling and judo, as their is no provision of rank based system like tennis in which first rank plays with last in first round and so on. read more