silver medalist
Podium's middle occupant
A silver medalist is someone who finishes second in a competition, receiving the silver medal awarded for that placement.
The term appears most often in Olympic and athletic contexts: The silver medalist was just two-tenths of a second behind the winner.
Sometimes carries a faint sense of falling short of gold rather than achieving second place.
- runner-upCompetition's silver finisher
- second bestRanked just below top
- second placeRanking below first
- podiumRaised platform for speakers
- near missNarrowly averted incident
so close · Olympian · finalist · world championships · Pan American Games · honoree · competition · athlete · perseverance · second · Asian Games · achievement · Commonwealth Games · dedication · standing · defeat · pride · neck
- Olympic athletesdecathlete, gymnast, swimmer, sprinter, marathoner
- medalistsOlympic champion, podium finisher
- athletesathlete, Olympian, champion, swimmers, runner
- honoreeshonoree, honorees, award winner, awardee, awardees
- Olympic resultspodium, Olympic medals, first place, second place, third place
- standingsrankings, leaderboard, league table, ladder, seeding
silver medalistgold medalist
Competition's top performer
champion · winner · dead last · victor · titleholder
silver, medal, silvery, silverware, medallion, medalist, silvered, silvering, silversmith