# 2008 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 48 kg

The women's freestyle 48 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2008 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan on 12 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 |
| Clarissa Chun (USA) | 1 | 1 | |
| Zhuldyz Eshimova (KAZ) | 0 | 0 | |

### Top half

| Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| Makiko Sakamoto (JPN) | 3 | 2 | | | | | | |
| Estera Dobre (ROU) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | |
| | | | Makiko Sakamoto (JPN) | 4$^F$ | | | | |
| | | | Priyanka Singh (IND) | 0 | | | | |
| Mikhrniso Nurmatova (KGZ) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | |
| Priyanka Singh (IND) | 1 | 1 | | | | | | |
| | | | | | Makiko Sakamoto (JPN) | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| | | | | | Clarissa Chun (USA) | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Dina Tsilavina Mioranirina (MAD) | 1 | 1 | | | | | | |
| Tsai Pei-ching (TPE) | 2 | 4 | | | | | | |
| | | | Tsai Pei-ching (TPE) | 0 | | | | |
| | | | Clarissa Chun (USA) | 3$^F$ | | | | |
| Clarissa Chun (USA) | 5$^F$ | | | | | | | |
| Demet Kaya (TUR) | 0 | | | | | | | |

### Bottom half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| | | | Maribel Jambora (PHI) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | Oleksandra Kohut (UKR) | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Oleksandra Kohut (UKR) | 1 | 1 | 0 | | | |
| Lindsay Rushton (CAN) | 7 | 1 | | | | | Su Guibei (CHN) | 0 | 4 | 4 | | | |
| Silvia Felice (ITA) | 1 | 0 | Lindsay Rushton (CAN) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | |
| Su Guibei (CHN) | 4 | 3 | Su Guibei (CHN) | 7 | 1 | | | | | | | | |
| Elza Tazetdinova (RUS) | 0 | 2 | | | | | | | | | Su Guibei (CHN) | 0 | 0 |
| Iwona Sadowska (POL) | 1 | 1 | | | | | | | | | Zhuldyz Eshimova (KAZ) | 3 | 3 |
| Guadalupe Pérez (MEX) | 0 | 0 | Iwona Sadowska (POL) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | |
| Tsogtbazaryn Enkhjargal (MGL) | 3 | 4 | Tsogtbazaryn Enkhjargal (MGL) | 4 | 7 | | | | | | | | |
| Lenka Matejová (SVK) | 0 | 0 | | | | | Tsogtbazaryn Enkhjargal (MGL) | 0 | 0 | | | | |
| Fani Psatha (GRE) | 5 | 1 | | | | | Zhuldyz Eshimova (KAZ) | 1 | 3 | | | | |
| Nguyễn Thị Lụa (VIE) | 0 | 0 | Fani Psatha (GRE) | 4 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | |
| Zhuldyz Eshimova (KAZ) | 1 | 4 | Zhuldyz Eshimova (KAZ) | 4 | 1 | 3 | | | | | | | |
| Tatsiana Hurnovich (BLR) | 0 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | |

### Repechage

| Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
| | | | | Demet Kaya (TUR) | 1 | 2 | Demet Kaya (TUR) | 0 | |
| | | | | Tsai Pei-ching (TPE) | 0 | 0 | Makiko Sakamoto (JPN) | 2$^F$ | |
| Tatsiana Hurnovich (BLR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | Fani Psatha (GRE) | 0 | 0 | Tsogtbazaryn Enkhjargal (MGL) | 1 | 1 |
| Fani Psatha (GRE) | 0 | 1 | 4$^F$ | Tsogtbazaryn Enkhjargal (MGL) | 1 | 4$^F$ | Su Guibei (CHN) | 1 | 2 |