2025 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 53 kg

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Women's freestyle 53 kg
at the 2025 World Championships
Venue Arena Zagreb
Dates17–18 September 2025
Competitors23 from 21 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of India.svg  India
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of North Korea.svg  North Korea
  2023
2026  

The women's freestyle 53 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2025 World Wrestling Championships, and will be held in Zagreb, Croatia on 17 and 18 September. [1]

Contents

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

Final

Final
Flag of Ecuador.svg  Lucía Yépez  (ECU)0
Flag of Japan.svg  Haruna Murayama  (JPN)5

Top half

Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals
Flag of Ecuador.svg  Lucía Yépez  (ECU)5F
Flag of Cuba.svg  Laura Herin  (CUB)4
Flag of Ecuador.svg  Lucía Yépez  (ECU)4
Flag of Poland.svg  Roksana Zasina  (POL)6Flag of Sweden.svg  Jonna Malmgren  (SWE)2
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Liliia Malanchuk  (UKR)4 Flag of Poland.svg  Roksana Zasina  (POL)1
Flag of Sweden.svg  Jonna Malmgren  (SWE)5
Flag of Ecuador.svg  Lucía Yépez  (ECU)5
Flag of India.svg  Antim Panghal  (IND)3
UWW Flag icon.png Natalia Malysheva (UWW)1
Flag of the United States.svg  Felicity Taylor  (USA)0 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Zhang Jin  (CHN)10
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Zhang Jin  (CHN)10Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Zhang Jin  (CHN)8
Flag of Lithuania.svg  Laura Stanelytė  (LTU)0 Flag of India.svg  Antim Panghal  (IND)9
Flag of Spain.svg  Carla Jaume Soler  (ESP)10Flag of Spain.svg  Carla Jaume Soler  (ESP)0
Flag of India.svg  Antim Panghal  (IND)10

Bottom half

Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals
Flag of Turkey.svg  Zeynep Yetgil  (TUR)6
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Zeinep Bayanova  (KAZ)2 Flag of South Korea.svg  Park Seo-young  (KOR)0
Flag of South Korea.svg  Park Seo-young  (KOR)3Flag of Turkey.svg  Zeynep Yetgil  (TUR)0
Flag of Japan.svg  Haruna Murayama  (JPN)11Flag of Japan.svg  Haruna Murayama  (JPN)7
Flag of Uzbekistan.svg  Shokhida Akhmedova  (UZB)0 Flag of Japan.svg  Haruna Murayama  (JPN)11
Flag of Germany.svg  Annika Wendle  (GER)0
Flag of Japan.svg  Haruna Murayama  (JPN)2
Flag of North Korea.svg  Choe Hyo-gyong  (PRK)1
Flag of Greece.svg  Maria Prevolaraki  (GRE)2F
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Serena Di Benedetto  (CAN)1 UWW Flag icon.png Kseniya Stankevich (UWW)0
UWW Flag icon.png Kseniya Stankevich (UWW)2Flag of Greece.svg  Maria Prevolaraki  (GRE)0
Flag of Mongolia.svg  Tsogt-Ochiryn Namuuntsetseg  (MGL)12Flag of North Korea.svg  Choe Hyo-gyong  (PRK)11
Flag of Romania.svg  Beatrice Ferenț  (ROU)5 Flag of Mongolia.svg  Tsogt-Ochiryn Namuuntsetseg  (MGL)0
Flag of North Korea.svg  Choe Hyo-gyong  (PRK)10

Repechage

Repechage round 1Repechage round 2Bronze medals
Flag of Cuba.svg  Laura Herin  (CUB)1Flag of Sweden.svg  Jonna Malmgren  (SWE)1
Flag of Sweden.svg  Jonna Malmgren  (SWE)9Flag of India.svg  Antim Panghal  (IND)9
Flag of Uzbekistan.svg  Shokhida Akhmedova  (UZB)8Flag of Uzbekistan.svg  Shokhida Akhmedova  (UZB)8FFlag of Uzbekistan.svg  Shokhida Akhmedova  (UZB)0
Flag of Germany.svg  Annika Wendle  (GER)4Flag of Turkey.svg  Zeynep Yetgil  (TUR)1Flag of North Korea.svg  Choe Hyo-gyong  (PRK)8F

Final standing

RankAthlete
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of Japan.svg  Haruna Murayama  (JPN)
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of Ecuador.svg  Lucía Yépez  (ECU)
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of India.svg  Antim Panghal  (IND)
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of North Korea.svg  Choe Hyo-gyong  (PRK)
5Flag of Sweden.svg  Jonna Malmgren  (SWE)
5Flag of Uzbekistan.svg  Shokhida Akhmedova  (UZB)
7Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Zhang Jin  (CHN)
8Flag of Greece.svg  Maria Prevolaraki  (GRE)
9Flag of Spain.svg  Carla Jaume Soler  (ESP)
10Flag of Poland.svg  Roksana Zasina  (POL)
11Flag of Mongolia.svg  Tsogt-Ochiryn Namuuntsetseg  (MGL)
12Flag of Turkey.svg  Zeynep Yetgil  (TUR)
13Flag of South Korea.svg  Park Seo-young  (KOR)
14UWW Flag icon.png Kseniya Stankevich (UWW)
15Flag of Romania.svg  Beatrice Ferenț  (ROU)
16Flag of Cuba.svg  Laura Herin  (CUB)
17Flag of Ukraine.svg  Liliia Malanchuk  (UKR)
18Flag of Germany.svg  Annika Wendle  (GER)
19Flag of Kazakhstan.svg  Zeinep Bayanova  (KAZ)
20Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Serena Di Benedetto  (CAN)
21UWW Flag icon.png Natalia Malysheva (UWW)
22Flag of the United States.svg  Felicity Taylor  (USA)
23Flag of Lithuania.svg  Laura Stanelytė  (LTU)

References

  1. "Freestyle – Women – 53 kg – Results". United World Wrestling . Retrieved 14 September 2025.