title: 2008 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 59 kg
text: # 2008 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 59 kg
  
  The women's freestyle 59 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2008 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan on 11 October.
  
  This freestyle wrestling competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals.
  
  ## Results
  
  ### Legend
  
  * F — Won by fall
  
  ### Final
  
  | Final | Final | Final | Final |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Ayako Shoda (JPN) | $3^F$ | | |
  | Natalia Golts (RUS) | 0 | | |
  
  ### Top half
  
  | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Ludmila Cristea (MDA) | 0 | 3 | | | | | |
  | Alla Cherkasova (UKR) | 3 | 4 | | | | | |
  | | | | Alla Cherkasova (UKR) | 0 | 0 | | |
  | | | | Elvira Mursalova (AZE) | 1 | 1 | | |
  | Elvira Mursalova (AZE) | 3 | 6 | | | | | |
  | Joice Silva (BRA) | 0 | 0 | | | | | |
  | | | | | | | Elvira Mursalova (AZE) | 0 |
  | | | | | | | Ayako Shoda (JPN) | $4^F$ |
  | Ayako Shoda (JPN) | $6^F$ | | | | | | |
  | Nestan Kiiazova (KGZ) | 0 | | | | | | |
  | | | | Ayako Shoda (JPN) | 1 | 4 | | |
  | | | | Deanna Rix (USA) | 0 | 0 | | |
  | Alena Filipava (BLR) | 0 | 0 | | | | | |
  | Deanna Rix (USA) | 1 | 2 | | | | | |
  
  ### Bottom half
  
  | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | | | Leyla Metin (TUR) | $7^F$ | | | | | | |
  | | | | Gemma Silverio (PHI) | 2 | | | | | | |
  | | | | | | | Leyla Metin (TUR) | 0 | | | |
  | Salomat Kuchimova (UZB) | 0 | 0 | | | | Natalia Golts (RUS) | $5^F$ | | | |
  | Natalia Golts (RUS) | 7 | $3^F$ | Natalia Golts (RUS) | 3 | 3 | | | | | |
  | Agata Pietrzyk (POL) | 6 | 2 | Agata Pietrzyk (POL) | 0 | 0 | | | | | |
  | Anita Sheoran (IND) | 0 | 1 | | | | | | | Natalia Golts (RUS) | $3^F$ |
  | Fabienne Wittenwiler (SUI) | 0 | 1 | | | | | | | Sabrina Esposito (ITA) | 0 |
  | Katie Patroch (CAN) | 2 | 2 | Katie Patroch (CAN) | 1 | 1 | | | | | |
  | Birgit Stern (AUT) | 0 | 1 | Marianna Sastin (HUN) | 1 | 0 | | | | | |
  | Marianna Sastin (HUN) | 2 | 2 | | | | Katie Patroch (CAN) | 2 | 0 | | |
  | Hou Min-wen (TPE) | 0 | 0 | | | | Sabrina Esposito (ITA) | 3 | 1 | | |
  | Mirna Henríquez (VEN) | 1 | 2 | Mirna Henríquez (VEN) | 0 | 0 | | | | | |
  | Enkhbayaryn Tsevegmid (MGL) | 1 | 4 | Sabrina Esposito (ITA) | 1 | 1 | | | | | |
  | Sabrina Esposito (ITA) | 0 | $7^F$ | | | | | | | | |
  
  ### Repechage
  
  | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | | Nestan Kiiazova (KGZ) | 0 | 0 | Deanna Rix (USA) | 0 | 0 |
  | | | Deanna Rix (USA) | 1 | 2 | Elvira Mursalova (AZE) | 1 | 1 |
  | Salomat Kuchimova (UZB) | 0 | Agata Pietrzyk (POL) | $6^F$ | | Agata Pietrzyk (POL) | $2^F$ | |
  | Agata Pietrzyk (POL) | $4^F$ | Leyla Metin (TUR) | 0 | | Sabrina Esposito (ITA) | 0 | |
  