2008 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 51 kg
# 2008 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 51 kg

The women's freestyle 51 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2008 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan on 11 October.

This freestyle wrestling competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals.

## Results

### Legend

* F — Won by fall

### Final

| Final | Final | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - |
| Hitomi Sakamoto (JPN) | $5^F$ | | |
| Maryna Markevich (BLR) | 0 | | |

### Top half

| Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Neha Rathi (IND) | 0 | 3 | 2 | | | | | |
| Isabelle Sambou (SEN) | 1 | 2 | 1 | | | | | |
| | | | | Neha Rathi (IND) | 2 | 0 | | |
| | | | | Vanessa Boubryemm (FRA) | 3 | 3 | | |
| Vanessa Boubryemm (FRA) | 7 | 0 | 4 | | | | | |
| Huang Wenjuan (CHN) | 0 | 4 | 3 | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Vanessa Boubryemm (FRA) | 0 |
| | | | | | | | Hitomi Sakamoto (JPN) | $7^F$ |
| Helen Maroulis (USA) | $4^F$ | | | | | | | |
| Roksana Zasina (POL) | 1 | | | | | | | |
| | | | | Helen Maroulis (USA) | 0 | 0 | | |
| | | | | Hitomi Sakamoto (JPN) | 7 | 6 | | |
| Jessica Bondy (CAN) | 0 | | | | | | | |
| Hitomi Sakamoto (JPN) | $5^F$ | | | | | | | |

### Bottom half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | | | Yuliya Blahinya (UKR) | 6 | $3^F$ | | | | | | | | |
| | | | Park Hye-jung (KOR) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Yuliya Blahinya (UKR) | 0 | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Maryna Markevich (BLR) | $4^F$ | | | | | |
| | | | Maryna Markevich (BLR) | 1 | 6 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | Davaasükhiin Otgontsetseg (MGL) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | Maryna Markevich (BLR) | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| Tseng Pei-tzu (TPE) | 0 | | | | | | | | | Marina Vilmova (RUS) | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Natalia Budu (MDA) | $7^F$ | | Natalia Budu (MDA) | 2 | 1 | | | | | | | | |
| Marina Vilmova (RUS) | 2 | 4 | Marina Vilmova (RUS) | 3 | 4 | | | | | | | | |
| Kyla Bremner (AUS) | 0 | 1 | | | | | Marina Vilmova (RUS) | 1 | 6 | | | | |
| Aguis Rivas (VEN) | 3 | 4 | | | | | Aguis Rivas (VEN) | 0 | 0 | | | | |
| Tatyana Bakatyuk (KAZ) | 1 | 0 | Aguis Rivas (VEN) | 6 | 0 | 3 | | | | | | | |
| Dilek Atakol (TUR) | 1 | 2 | Dilek Atakol (TUR) | 2 | 2 | 0 | | | | | | | |
| Dinara Mirzaeva (UZB) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | | |

### Repechage

| Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jessica Bondy (CAN) | 3 | 1 | 1 | Jessica Bondy (CAN) | 1 | 7 | 3 |
| Helen Maroulis (USA) | 1 | 1 | 0 | Vanessa Boubryemm (FRA) | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| Davaasükhiin Otgontsetseg (MGL) | 1 | 0 | | Yuliya Blahinya (UKR) | 3 | 6 | |
| Yuliya Blahinya (UKR) | 2 | $4^F$ | | Marina Vilmova (RUS) | 0 | 3 | |
