2012 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 51 kg
# 2012 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 51 kg

The women's freestyle 51 kg is a competition featured at the 2012 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Millennium Place in Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada on 27 September 2012.

This freestyle wrestling competition consisted of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winners of two bronze medals. The two finalists faced off for gold and silver medals. Each wrestler who lost to one of the two finalists moved into the repechage, culminating in a pair of bronze medal matches featuring the semifinal losers each facing the remaining repechage opponent from their half of the bracket.

Each bout consisted of up to three rounds, lasting two minutes apiece. The wrestler who scored more points in each round was the winner of that rounds; the bout finished when one wrestler had won two rounds (and thus the match).

Jessica MacDonald from the host nation won the gold medal.

## Results

### Legend

* F — Won by fall

### Main bracket

| Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | | | | Zamira Rakhmanova (RUS) | 1 | 0 | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | Jessica MacDonald (CAN) | 2 | 7 | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | Jessica MacDonald (CAN) | 6 | 4 | | | | | |
| Chiu Hsin-ju (TPE) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | Babita Kumari (IND) | 0 | 2 | | | | | |
| Babita Kumari (IND) | 6 | $5^F$ | | Babita Kumari (IND) | 0 | 1 | $4^F$ | | | | | | | | |
| Risako Kawai (JPN) | 2 | 3 | | Risako Kawai (JPN) | 7 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | |
| Yuliya Blahinya (UKR) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | Jessica MacDonald (CAN) | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Davaasükhiin Otgontsetseg (MGL) | 0 | 3 | 0 | | | | | | | | | Sun Yanan (CHN) | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Roksana Zasina (POL) | 1 | 0 | 1 | Roksana Zasina (POL) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | |
| Anzhela Dorogan (AZE) | 0 | | | Alyssa Lampe (USA) | 1 | 2 | | | | | | | | | |
| Alyssa Lampe (USA) | $5^F$ | | | | | | | Alyssa Lampe (USA) | 1 | 4 | 2 | | | | |
| Burcu Kebiç (TUR) | 2 | | | | | | | Sun Yanan (CHN) | 2 | 4 | 2 | | | | |
| Sun Yanan (CHN) | $3^F$ | | | Sun Yanan (CHN) | 7 | 7 | | | | | | | | | |
| Elenora Abdutalipova (KAZ) | 1 | 3 | | Elenora Abdutalipova (KAZ) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | |
| Alina Ryzhova (BLR) | 0 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

### Repechage

| Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | | | Zamira Rakhmanova (RUS) | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| | | | Babita Kumari (IND) | 0 | 6 | $6^F$ |
| Burcu Kebiç (TUR) | 4 | 0 | Elenora Abdutalipova (KAZ) | 1 | 0 | |
| Elenora Abdutalipova (KAZ) | 0 | $4^F$ | Alyssa Lampe (USA) | 2 | 1 | |
