2018 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 72 kg
# 2018 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 72 kg

The women's freestyle 72 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2018 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Budapest, Hungary on 23 and 24 October.

This freestyle wrestling competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals. The two finalists face off for gold and silver medals. Each wrestler who loses to one of the two finalists moves 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.

## Results

### Legend

* F — Won by fall

### Final

| Final | Final |
| - | - |
| Justina Di Stasio (CAN) | 4 |
| Ochirbatyn Nasanburmaa (MGL) | 2 |

### Top half

| Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Alexandra Anghel (ROU) | 0 | | | | |
| Justina Di Stasio (CAN) | 10 | | | | |
| | | Justina Di Stasio (CAN) | 6 | | |
| | | Martina Kuenz (AUT) | 3 | | |
| Martina Kuenz (AUT) | $2^F$ | | | | |
| Rajni Bisht (IND) | 0 | | | | |
| | | | | Justina Di Stasio (CAN) | 6 |
| | | | | Samar Amer (EGY) | 0 |
| Naruha Matsuyuki (JPN) | 4 | | | | |
| Maria Selmaier (GER) | 1 | | | | |
| | | Naruha Matsuyuki (JPN) | 1 | | |
| | | Samar Amer (EGY) | 12 | | |
| Samar Amer (EGY) | 6 | | | | |
| Zhamila Bakbergenova (KAZ) | 4 | | | | |

### Bottom half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | | Agnieszka Wieszczek (POL) | 1 | | | | |
| | | Buse Tosun (TUR) | $8^F$ | | | | |
| | | | | Buse Tosun (TUR) | 6 | | |
| | | | | Ochirbatyn Nasanburmaa (MGL) | 7 | | |
| | | Nikoletta Szmolka (HUN) | 0 | | | | |
| | | Ochirbatyn Nasanburmaa (MGL) | 10 | | | | |
| | | | | | | Ochirbatyn Nasanburmaa (MGL) | $6^F$ |
| | | | | | | Wang Juan (CHN) | 0 |
| | | Wang Juan (CHN) | 12 | | | | |
| | | Alla Belinska (UKR) | 1 | | | | |
| | | | | Wang Juan (CHN) | 11 | | |
| Anastasiya Zimiankova (BLR) | 2 | | | Tatiana Kolesnikova (RUS) | 0 | | |
| Erin Clodgo (USA) | 5 | Erin Clodgo (USA) | 4 | | | | |
| | | Tatiana Kolesnikova (RUS) | 6 | | | | |

### Repechage

| Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
| - | - | - | - |
| Alexandra Anghel (ROU) | 0 | Martina Kuenz (AUT) | 2 |
| Martina Kuenz (AUT) | $4^F$ | Samar Amer (EGY) | 1 |
| Nikoletta Szmolka (HUN) | 0 | Buse Tosun (TUR) | 5 |
| Buse Tosun (TUR) | 10 | Wang Juan (CHN) | 2 |
