Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 A medal made of, or having the colour of, bronze, used as a prize for finishing in third place 2 (context by extension English) Finishing in third position.
WordNet
n. a medal made of bronze (or having the appearance of bronze) that is usually awarded for winning third place in a competition
Wikipedia
A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The outright winner receives a gold medal and the second place a silver medal. More generally, bronze is traditionally the most common metal used for all types of high-quality medals, including artistic ones. The practice of awarding bronze third place medals began at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis, Missouri, prior to which only first and second places were awarded.
Usage examples of "bronze medal".
When the team took home a bronze medal, she thought, How appropriate, how doggone appropriate.
And Mongo also snapped to attention and introduced himself: Sergeant Major Rebaudengo, Royal Carabineers, commander of the Badoglian brigade Bettino Ricasoli, bronze medal.
There were other thrills ahead, namely Tim Forsyth's bronze medal in the high jump.
But once again the Olympic Committee, or rather Colonel Roxborough, who had once won a bronze medal, wanted a duel to the death.
She was still shrieking, and hopping up and down on the spot, tears of wild joy running unheeded down her cheeks and dripping off her chin, while on the green field below a thin gangling figure in shorts and running vest climbed up onto the inferior step of the victors pyramid and bowed his head as the ribbon with the bronze medal dangling from it was draped around his neck.
He presented a pathetic figure, a withered little old man in a tattered army uniform, with a big bronze medal about his neck and on his head a silly high-crowned hat, a turkey feather sticking up from the band.
When a Haitian sprinter won a bronze medal, Jake Featherston looked as if he'd swallowed a big swig of lemon juice.
Barry Hume isn't here to receive his bronze medal for reaching the semifinals.
He had exhibited the latter at the annual exhibition of the Baling and District Model Engineering Society which had been judged by no less an authority than Keith Stewart, and he had received a bronze medal from the hands of the great man himself.
The bronze medal for mathematics was considered as good as won by a fat, funny little up-country boy with a bumpy forehead and a patched coat.
Alas, he hadn't been able to pursue his military studies at any length, since his time had been taken up with selling wool in London, where he'd won a bronze medal for his wares - and here he pulled it from his pocket, chuckling that it had been some set-down for the smart Londoners, a poor rustic Yankee winning their prize.
I even got a lovely big bronze medal from the Egyptian Photographic Society in Cairo, and I still have the photograph that won it.
He is also a bronze medal recipient in the North American Poetry Open.