2026 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 72 kg

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The women's freestyle 72 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2026 World Wrestling Championships, and was held in Barys Arena, Astana, Kazakhstan on 28 and 29 October 2026. It is the second World Wrestling Championships hosted by Kazakhstan after the 2019 World Wrestling Championships were held in Astana. The qualification rounds were held on 28 October while medal matches were held on the 2nd day of the competition. A total of 15 wrestlers competed in this event, limited to athletes weighing less than 72 kilograms. 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. Alla Belinska from Ukraine was the...

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