2008 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 59 kg

Women's freestyle 59 kg at the 2008 World Championships
Venue	Yoyogi National Gymnasium
Dates	11 October 2008
Competitors	22 from 22 nations
Medalists
Ayako Shoda    Japan   Natalia Golts    Russia   Elvira Mursalova    Azerbaijan   Agata Pietrzyk    Poland

2008 World Wrestling Championships
	48 kg	63 kg
	51 kg	67 kg
	55 kg	72 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.^[1]

This freestyle wrestling competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used to determine the winner of two bronze medals.

Legend

• F — Won by fall

	Final
	Ayako Shoda (JPN)	3F
	Natalia Golts (RUS)	0

	Round of 32						Round of 16						Quarterfinals						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)	4F
							Ayako Shoda (JPN)	6F
							Nestan Kiiazova (KGZ)	0
													Ayako Shoda (JPN)	1	4
													Deanna Rix (USA)	0	0
							Alena Filipava (BLR)	0	0
							Deanna Rix (USA)	1	2

	Round of 32						Round of 16						Quarterfinals						Semifinals
							Leyla Metin (TUR)	7F
							Gemma Silverio (PHI)	2
													Leyla Metin (TUR)	0
	Salomat Kuchimova (UZB)	0	0										Natalia Golts (RUS)	5F
	Natalia Golts (RUS)	7	3F				Natalia Golts (RUS)	3	3
	Agata Pietrzyk (POL)	6	2				Agata Pietrzyk (POL)	0	0
	Anita Sheoran (IND)	0	1																Natalia Golts (RUS)	3F
	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	7F

	Repechage round 1						Repechage round 2						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)	6F					Agata Pietrzyk (POL)	2F
	Agata Pietrzyk (POL)	4F					Leyla Metin (TUR)	0					Sabrina Esposito (ITA)	0