# 2010 World Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle 72 kg

The women's freestyle 72 kilograms is a competition featured at the 2010 World Wrestling Championships, and was held at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Russia on 10 September.
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 |
| Stanka Zlateva (BUL) | 1 | 1 | |
| Ohenewa Akuffo (CAN) | 0 | 0 | |

### Top half

| Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| Ekaterina Bukina (RUS) | 0 | 2 | 1 | | | | | | |
| Annabelle Ali (CMR) | 3 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | |
| | | | | Ekaterina Bukina (RUS) | 0 | 0 | | | |
| | | | | Stanka Zlateva (BUL) | 1 | 3 | | | |
| Shéhérazade Bentorki (FRA) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | |
| Stanka Zlateva (BUL) | 1 | 2 | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | Stanka Zlateva (BUL) | 3 | 1 |
| | | | | | | | Jenny Fransson (SWE) | 0 | 1 |
| Roxana Iancolovici (ROU) | 3 | | | | | | | | |
| Stephany Lee (USA) | 4$^F$ | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | Stephany Lee (USA) | 0 | | | | |
| | | | | Jenny Fransson (SWE) | 2$^F$ | | | | |
| Vasilisa Marzaliuk (BLR) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | |
| Jenny Fransson (SWE) | 3 | 3 | | | | | | | |

### Bottom half

| Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals |
| | | | | Ochirbatyn Burmaa (MGL) | 2 | 1 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | Olga Zhanibekova (KAZ) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | Ochirbatyn Burmaa (MGL) | 3 | 0 | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | Kyoko Hamaguchi (JPN) | 4 | 1 | | | | |
| | | | | Kateryna Burmistrova (UKR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | |
| | | | | Kyoko Hamaguchi (JPN) | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | Kyoko Hamaguchi (JPN) | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Aline Ferreira (BRA) | 3 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | Ohenewa Akuffo (CAN) | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Li Dan (CHN) | 1 | 3 | 4$^F$ | Li Dan (CHN) | 1 | 3 | | | | | | | | |
| Kang Han-bit (KOR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | Maria Müller (GER) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | |
| Maria Müller (GER) | 0 | 3 | 2 | | | | | Li Dan (CHN) | 0 | 0 | | | | |
| Dayanara Rivera (PUR) | 2 | 1 | | | | | | Ohenewa Akuffo (CAN) | 4 | 1 | | | | |
| Maider Unda (ESP) | 0 | 8$^F$ | | Maider Unda (ESP) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | |
| Ohenewa Akuffo (CAN) | 3 | 1 | | Ohenewa Akuffo (CAN) | 1 | 3$^F$ | | | | | | | | |
| Zumrud Gurbanhajiyeva (AZE) | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | | | |

### Repechage

| Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 1 | Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Repechage round 2 | Bronze medals | Bronze medals | Bronze medals | Bronze medals |
| | | | Shéhérazade Bentorki (FRA) | 0 | 0 | | Ekaterina Bukina (RUS) | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| | | | Ekaterina Bukina (RUS) | 1 | 4 | | Jenny Fransson (SWE) | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Zumrud Gurbanhajiyeva (AZE) | 0 | 0 | Maider Unda (ESP) | 1 | 1 | 1 | Maider Unda (ESP) | 1 | 0 | |
| Maider Unda (ESP) | 1 | 3 | Li Dan (CHN) | 0 | 2 | 0 | Kyoko Hamaguchi (JPN) | 1 | 2 | |