2018 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 65 kg
# 2018 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 65 kg

The women's freestyle 65 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 |
| - | - |
| Petra Olli (FIN) | 6 |
| Danielle Lappage (CAN) | 5 |

### Top half

| Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Petra Olli (FIN) | 4 | | | | |
| Sofiya Georgieva (BUL) | 4 | | | | |
| | | Petra Olli (FIN) | 6 | | |
| | | Ritu Malik (IND) | 2 | | |
| Ilona Prokopevniuk (UKR) | 4 | | | | |
| Ritu Malik (IND) | 5 | | | | |
| | | | | Petra Olli (FIN) | 6 |
| | | | | Ayana Gempei (JPN) | 6 |
| Ayana Gempei (JPN) | 8 | | | | |
| Gabriella Sleisz (HUN) | 0 | | | | |
| | | Ayana Gempei (JPN) | 6 | | |
| | | Adéla Hanzlíčková (CZE) | 1 | | |
| Nguyễn Thị Vinh (VIE) | 0 | | | | |
| Adéla Hanzlíčková (CZE) | $2^F$ | | | | |

### Bottom half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | | Henna Johansson (SWE) | 1 | | | | |
| Irina Netreba (AZE) | 6 | Irina Netreba (AZE) | 3 | | | | |
| Yanet Sovero (PER) | 2 | | | Irina Netreba (AZE) | 3 | | |
| Laura Skujiņa (LAT) | 7 | | | Tang Chuying (CHN) | 0 | | |
| Tayla Ford (NZL) | 2 | Laura Skujiņa (LAT) | 8 | | | | |
| Tang Chuying (CHN) | $6^F$ | Tang Chuying (CHN) | 11 | | | | |
| Aslı Demir (TUR) | 1 | | | | | Irina Netreba (AZE) | 0 |
| Maria Kuznetsova (RUS) | 1 | | | | | Danielle Lappage (CAN) | 11 |
| Danielle Lappage (CAN) | 14 | Danielle Lappage (CAN) | 10 | | | | |
| Khürelkhüügiin Bolortuyaa (MGL) | $6^F$ | Khürelkhüügiin Bolortuyaa (MGL) | 0 | | | | |
| Lee Han-bit (KOR) | 2 | | | Danielle Lappage (CAN) | 6 | | |
| Leidy Izquierdo (COL) | 4 | | | Forrest Molinari (USA) | 2 | | |
| Krystsina Fedarashka (BLR) | 1 | Leidy Izquierdo (COL) | 0 | | | | |
| | | Forrest Molinari (USA) | 4 | | | | |

### Repechage

| Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | | Sofiya Georgieva (BUL) | 8 | Ritu Malik (IND) | 3 |
| | | Ritu Malik (IND) | 9 | Ayana Gempei (JPN) | 7 |
| Maria Kuznetsova (RUS) | 13 | Maria Kuznetsova (RUS) | 8 | Forrest Molinari (USA) | 1 |
| Khürelkhüügiin Bolortuyaa (MGL) | 2 | Forrest Molinari (USA) | $8^F$ | Irina Netreba (AZE) | 1 |
