The women's freestyle 68 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, Norway on 6 and 7 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.
Meerim Zhumanazarova
Meerim Zhumanazarova (Мээрим Жуманазарова; born 9 November 1999) is a Kyrgyzstani freestyle wrestler. She holds the title of Master of Sport of International Class in Kyrgyzstan. She won a bronze medal in the women's 68 kg eve ...
from Kyrgyzstan won the gold medal after pinning
Rin Miyaji of Japan in the final, Zhumanazarova scored four points before beating her opponent by
fall in the 3rd minute of the final. World and Olympic Champion
Tamyra Mensah-Stock
Tamyra Mariama Mensah-Stock (born October 11, 1992, Mensah) is an American wrestler who competes in women's freestyle wrestling. She won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics on August 3, 2021, and became the first black woman to win gold in wo ...
won the bronze medal after a surprise defeat by fall in the semifinal, the other bronze medal went to
Khanum Velieva
Khanum Elshad-Kysy Velieva (russian: Ханум Эльшад-Кызы Велиева; born 10 April 1999) is a Russian Freestyle wrestling, freestyle wrestler. She is a bronze medalist at the World Wrestling Championships and a two-time medalist, ...
from the Russian Wrestling Federation.
Results
;Legend
*F — Won by
fall
Main bracket
Repechage
Final standing
References
External links
Official website
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Women's freestyle 68 kg
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