Women's freestyle 63 kilograms competition at the
2012 Summer Olympics in
London
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,
United Kingdom
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, took place on 8 August at
ExCeL London.
This
freestyle wrestling
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competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, with a
repechage
Repechage (; french: repêchage, "fishing out, rescuing") is a practice in series competitions that allows participants who failed to meet qualifying standards by a small margin to continue to the next round. A well known example is the wild car ...
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 up to three rounds, lasting two minutes apiece. The wrestler who scores more points in each round is the winner of that rounds; the bout ends when one wrestler has won two rounds (and thus the match).
Schedule
All times are British Summer Time ( UTC+01:00)
Results
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*F — Won by
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Final
Top half
Bottom half
Repechage
Final standing
References
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