The women's freestyle 55 kilograms is a competition featured at the

2021 World Wrestling Championships The 2021 World Wrestling Championships was the 17th edition of the World Wrestling Championships of combined events and was held from 2 to 10 October 2021 in Oslo, Norway. The event was subsequent to the 2019 World Championships due to the canc ...

, and was held in

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...

, Norway on 4 and 5 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. Each bout consists of a single round within a six-minute limit including two halves of three minutes. The wrestler who scores more points is the winner. Tsugumi Sakurai from Japan won the gold medal after dominating

Nina Hemmer Nina Hemmer (born 16 February 1993) is a German Freestyle wrestling, freestyle wrestler. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's freestyle 53 kg, women's freestyle 53 kg ...

from Germany in the final, Sakurai won the match by technical superiority 10–0.

Oleksandra Khomenets Oleksandra Khomenets is a Ukrainian freestyle wrestler. She is a two-time medalist in the women's 55kg event at the World Wrestling Championships. She is also a silver medalist at the European Wrestling Championships. Career Khomenets won on ...

of Ukraine and

Jenna Burkert Jenna Rose Burkert (born May 9, 1993) is a retired American Freestyle wrestling, freestyle wrestler and currently an amateur wrestling coach. She won one of the bronze medals in the 2021 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 55 kg, ...

from the United States shared the bronze medals. Khomenets beat

Olga Khoroshavtseva Olga Nikolayevna Khoroshavtseva (russian: Ольга Николаевна Хорошавцева; born 24 August 1994) is a Russian freestyle wrestler. She is a two-time gold medalist at the European Wrestling Championships. She also won a bronze ...

from the Russian Wrestling Federation and

beat Pinki from India in their bronze medal matches.

Results

;Legend *F — Won by fall

Main bracket

Repechage

Final standing

References

External links

Official website
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