bonanova Posted January 3, 2016 Report Share Posted January 3, 2016 In one Summer Olympic Games a single participant won both the silver and bronze medals for a single event. How could that be possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 DejMar Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 Possibilities: Spoiler **(2) The disqualified winner could have been the gold medalist, and not necessarily the silver medalist. (3) The "single event" could have been for two separate games, where the awardee may have been unavailable to have participated in the award ceremony due to injury or illness (or some justifiable reason), and was awarded the earlier games medal during the award ceremony in which he was also awarded one for the "current" game. (Not a likely scenario). (4) The Olympic event may have been non-sports related, such as for Graphic Works in 1948 in which Alex Digglemann won both the Silver and Bronze (for his design of two separate posters). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 DejMar Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 Possiblities: Spoiler (1) Though a single event, the individual won medals for two separate categories in the event. (2) The contestant placed third and was awarded the bronze. The silver medalist was eventually disqualified after the initial awarding and the bronze-winner was then awarded the silver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 JJLeDJ Posted January 17, 2016 Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 The person was a gymnast (or an equestrian) where their individual score is also used in the team scor meaning they could win an individual bronze and a team silver or vice versa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 CaptainEd Posted January 4, 2016 Report Share Posted January 4, 2016 This certainly qualifies as a question "... especially where intuition might suggest wrong answer. " So my intuitions suggest : Spoiler ( 1 ) the person performed for two different countries ( 2 ) there was a tie between the bronze and silver? Naah, then there would be more than one person satisfying the condition... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Thalia Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 Spoiler Are they unmarried? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Raphael lane Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 There are only two contestants? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bonanova Posted January 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 All good ideas. What happened is a little more out of the box, tho. I suggest reading the OP carefully and don't constrain your answer unnecessarily. But by that I don't mean the wording is tricky. @CaptainEd, You're correct one one point: Spoiler The person named in the OP won the medals outright (not tied with someone else) but s/he competed for only one country, (which happened to be Switzerland.) @Raphael lane, Spoiler I don't know whether there were other contestants; no gold medal was awarded. @Thalia, that's an interesting slant. To clarify, Spoiler what I mean to imply by both instances of "single" is "unique or particular." In the first instance It does not mean "not married." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bonanova Posted January 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 DejMar has it. His answer (4) is the solution, and his answer (1) hinted at it. And 1948 is the last games this could have been possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bonanova Posted January 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2016 3 hours ago, JJLeDJ said: The person was a gymnast (or an equestrian) where their individual score is also used in the team scor meaning they could win an individual bronze and a team silver or vice versa @JJLeDJ, nice approach. In those cases, an individual could receive both a silver and a bronze medal. But it doesn't quite fit the terms of the OP for the reason that it would be the team that won one of the medals, and it technically would not have been a single event. Welcome to the Den! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 JJLeDJ Posted January 18, 2016 Report Share Posted January 18, 2016 I was wondering if it is possible to enter the tennis doubles with two different partners as countries are allowed more than one entry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bonanova Posted January 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 On 1/18/2016 at 6:40 PM, JJLeDJ said: I was wondering if it is possible to enter the tennis doubles with two different partners as countries are allowed more than one entry I think the fact that they might eventually meet and have to play each other would make that not possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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In one Summer Olympic Games a single participant won both the silver and bronze medals for a single event.
How could that be possible?
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