2012 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 72 kg
# 2012 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 72 kg

The women's freestyle 72 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2012 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Millennium Place in Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada on 28 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).

## Results

### Legend

* F — Won by fall
* WO — Won by walkover

### 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 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Guzel Manyurova (KAZ) | 5 | 7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Nataliya Palamarchuk (AZE) | 0 | 0 | | Guzel Manyurova (KAZ) | 1 | 4 | | | | | | | | | |
| Epp Mäe (EST) | 1 | 0 | 0 | Aline Ferreira (BRA) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | |
| Aline Ferreira (BRA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | | | | | Guzel Manyurova (KAZ) | 0 | 1 | 1 | | | | |
| Vasilisa Marzaliuk (BLR) | 3 | 2 | | | | | | Vasilisa Marzaliuk (BLR) | 2 | 0 | 0 | | | | |
| Gursharan Preet Kaur (IND) | 1 | 0 | | Vasilisa Marzaliuk (BLR) | $4^F$ | | | | | | | | | | |
| Maria Selmaier (GER) | 1 | 3 | | Maria Selmaier (GER) | 0 | | | | | | | | | | |
| Stacie Anaka (CAN) | 0 | 2 | | | | | | | | | | Guzel Manyurova (KAZ) | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Badrakhyn Odonchimeg (MGL) | 0 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | Jenny Fransson (SWE) | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Ekaterina Bukina (RUS) | 2 | 3 | | Ekaterina Bukina (RUS) | 1 | 0 | 1 | | | | | | | | |
| Hiroe Suzuki (JPN) | 3 | 1 | 0 | Xu Qing (CHN) | 0 | 2 | 2 | | | | | | | | |
| Xu Qing (CHN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | | | | | Xu Qing (CHN) | 0 | 0 | | | | | |
| Yasemin Adar (TUR) | 2 | 0 | | | | | | Jenny Fransson (SWE) | 1 | 1 | | | | | |
| Jenny Fransson (SWE) | 3 | 1 | | Jenny Fransson (SWE) | 5 | $3^F$ | | | | | | | | | |
| Iris Smith (USA) | 0 | 0 | | Oksana Vashchuk (UKR) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | |
| Oksana Vashchuk (UKR) | 3 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

### Repechage

| Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Nataliya Palamarchuk (AZE) | 1 | 2 | Nataliya Palamarchuk (AZE) | 0 | 1 |
| Aline Ferreira (BRA) | 0 | 0 | Vasilisa Marzaliuk (BLR) | 1 | $4^F$ |
| Yasemin Adar (TUR) | W | O | Yasemin Adar (TUR) | 0 | 0 |
| Oksana Vashchuk (UKR) | | | Xu Qing (CHN) | 1 | 3 |
