title: 2018 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 53 kg
text: # 2018 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 53 kg
  
  The women's freestyle 53 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2018 World Wrestling Championships. It was held in Budapest, Hungary on 24 and 25 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 |
  | - | - |
  | Sarah Hildebrandt (USA) | 0 |
  | Haruna Okuno (JPN) | 11 |
  
  ### Top half
  
  | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | | Sarah Hildebrandt (USA) | 5 | | | | |
  | | | Zhuldyz Eshimova (KAZ) | 1 | | | | |
  | | | | | Sarah Hildebrandt (USA) | 15 | | |
  | | | | | Anzhela Dorogan (AZE) | 9 | | |
  | | | Chiu Hsin-ju (TPE) | 0 | | | | |
  | | | Anzhela Dorogan (AZE) | 10 | | | | |
  | | | | | | | Sarah Hildebrandt (USA) | 10 |
  | | | | | | | Diana Weicker (CAN) | 0 |
  | | | Estera Tămăduianu-Dobre (ROU) | 3 | | | | |
  | | | Diana Weicker (CAN) | 8 | | | | |
  | | | | | Diana Weicker (CAN) | 10 | | |
  | | | | | Nina Hemmer (GER) | 7 | | |
  | | | Nina Hemmer (GER) | $4^F$ | | | | |
  | Zeynep Yetgil (TUR) | 2 | Vanesa Kaladzinskaya (BLR) | 1 | | | | |
  | Vanesa Kaladzinskaya (BLR) | 3 | | | | | | |
  
  ### Bottom half
  
  | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | | Maria Prevolaraki (GRE) | 3 | | | | |
  | Mercédesz Dénes (HUN) | 0 | Betzabeth Argüello (VEN) | 1 | | | | |
  | Betzabeth Argüello (VEN) | 11 | | | Maria Prevolaraki (GRE) | 1 | | |
  | Pang Qianyu (CHN) | 11 | | | Haruna Okuno (JPN) | 9 | | |
  | Stalvira Orshush (RUS) | 0 | Pang Qianyu (CHN) | 1 | | | | |
  | Haruna Okuno (JPN) | 6 | Haruna Okuno (JPN) | 4 | | | | |
  | Hilary Honorine (FRA) | 3 | | | | | Haruna Okuno (JPN) | 8 |
  | Erdenechimegiin Sumiyaa (MGL) | $4^F$ | | | | | Katarzyna Krawczyk (POL) | 1 |
  | Lee Shin-hye (KOR) | 0 | Erdenechimegiin Sumiyaa (MGL) | 2 | | | | |
  | Khrystyna Bereza (UKR) | 1 | Luisa Valverde (ECU) | $4^F$ | | | | |
  | Luisa Valverde (ECU) | 6 | | | Luisa Valverde (ECU) | 5 | | |
  | Iulia Leorda (MDA) | 0 | | | Katarzyna Krawczyk (POL) | 11 | | |
  | Pinki (IND) | 11 | Pinki (IND) | 2 | | | | |
  | | | Katarzyna Krawczyk (POL) | 7 | | | | |
  
  ### Repechage
  
  | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | | Zhuldyz Eshimova (KAZ) | 5 | Zhuldyz Eshimova (KAZ) | 2 |
  | | | Anzhela Dorogan (AZE) | 3 | Diana Weicker (CAN) | 3 |
  | Hilary Honorine (FRA) | 1 | Pang Qianyu (CHN) | 3 | Pang Qianyu (CHN) | 2 |
  | Pang Qianyu (CHN) | 12 | Maria Prevolaraki (GRE) | 2 | Katarzyna Krawczyk (POL) | 1 |
  