2012 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 59 kg
# 2012 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 59 kg

The women's freestyle 59 kilograms 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).

Zhang Lan of China 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 | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | | | | Shilpi Sheoran (IND) | 1 | 0 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | Zalina Sidakova (BLR) | 0 | $7^F$ | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | Zalina Sidakova (BLR) | 2 | 1 | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | Tungalagiin Mönkhtuyaa (MGL) | 0 | 0 | | | | |
| | | | | Leigh Jaynes (USA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | | | | | | | |
| Michelle Fazzari (CAN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | Tungalagiin Mönkhtuyaa (MGL) | 3 | 0 | 3 | | | | | | | |
| Tungalagiin Mönkhtuyaa (MGL) | 1 | 0 | 3 | | | | | | | | Zalina Sidakova (BLR) | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Olga Butkevych (GBR) | 0 | 2 | 2 | | | | | | | | Zhang Lan (CHN) | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Ekaterina Melnikova (RUS) | 1 | 2 | 1 | Olga Butkevych (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 5 | | | | | | | |
| Yuliya Ratkevich (AZE) | 3 | 3 | | Yuliya Ratkevich (AZE) | 1 | 0 | 1 | | | | | | | |
| Elif Jale Yeşilırmak (TUR) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | Olga Butkevych (GBR) | 0 | 1 | | | | |
| Iryna Khariv (UKR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | | | | | Zhang Lan (CHN) | 1 | 5 | | | | |
| Kayoko Shimada (JPN) | 0 | 2 | 6 | Kayoko Shimada (JPN) | 0 | 4 | | | | | | | | |
| Lyudmila Mironova (KAZ) | 0 | | | Zhang Lan (CHN) | 2 | 6 | | | | | | | | |
| Zhang Lan (CHN) | $5^F$ | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

### Repechage

| Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | | | Shilpi Sheoran (IND) | 3 | 2 |
| | | | Tungalagiin Mönkhtuyaa (MGL) | 3 | 4 |
| Lyudmila Mironova (KAZ) | 0 | 0 | Kayako Shimada (JPN) | 2 | |
| Kayako Shimada (JPN) | 3 | 6 | Olga Butkevych (GBR) | $5^F$ | |
