RUNNERUP
Runner-up
A runner-up is a participant who 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.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Runner-up
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