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Flyweight, Freestyle (≤48 kilograms), Women

Date16 August 2008
StatusOlympic
LocationZhongguo Nongye Daxue Tiyuguan, Beijing
Participants17 from 17 countries
FormatSingle elimination tournament. Competitors losing to the finalists entered repechage tournament for bronze medals.

The 2004 silver medalist, Japan’s Chiharu Icho, was favored after winning the last two World Championships. She made the final against Canada’s Carol Huynh, an ethnic Chinese whose parents had emigrated from Vietnam to Canada, where Huynh was born. Huynh was the 2007 Pan American Champion and had won three medals at the World Championships, silver in 2001, and bronzes in 2000 and 2005. Icho’s biggest win came in the quarter-finals when she pinned the defending Olympic Champion, Iryna Merleni-Mykulchyn, defeating her as she had in the final of the 2007 Worlds. In the final Huynh won the first period, 4-0, and then scored two points in the second period to take that period 2-1, and win the match and the gold medal. She would return in 2012 and add an Olympic bronze medal in this class. She would also add gold medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2011 Pan American Games.

PosWrestlerNOC
1Carol HuynhCANGold
2Chiharu IchoJPNSilver
=3Mariya StadnikAZEBronze
=3Iryna Merleni-MykulchynUKRBronze
=5Tatyana BakatyukKAZ
=5Clarissa ChunUSA
7Vanessa BoubryemmFRA
8Kim Hyeong-JuKOR
9Ingrid MedranoESA
10Estera DobreROU
11Zamira RakhmanovaRUS
12Sofia MattssonSWE
13Li XiaomeiCHN
=14Alexandra EngelhardtGER
=14Mayelis CaripáVEN
16Tsogtbazaryn EnkhjargalMGL
17Kyla BremnerAUS

Round One (16 August 2008)

Winner of each match advanced to round two. Losers to eventual finalists advanced to repêchage round one.

Match #1 Tatyana BakatyukKAZ
Match #2 Alexandra EngelhardtGER
Match #3 Ingrid MedranoESA
Match #4 Estera DobreROU
Match #5 Carol HuynhCAN
Match #6 Mariya StadnikAZE
Match #7 Kim Hyeong-JuKOR
Match #8 Kyla BremnerAUS
Match #9 Chiharu IchoJPN
Match #10 Li XiaomeiCHN
Match #11 Iryna Merleni-MykulchynUKR
Match #12 Tsogtbazaryn EnkhjargalMGL
Match #13 Sofia MattssonSWE
Match #14 Clarissa ChunUSA
Match #15 Zamira RakhmanovaRUS
Match #16 Vanessa BoubryemmFRA Mayelis CaripáVEN

Round Two (16 August 2008)

Winner of each match advanced to quarter-finals. Losers to eventual finalists advanced to repêchage round one.

Match #1 Tatyana BakatyukKAZ Alexandra EngelhardtGER
Match #2 1 Ingrid MedranoESA 2Estera DobreROU
Match #3 Carol HuynhCAN Mariya StadnikAZE
Match #4 Kim Hyeong-JuKOR Kyla BremnerAUS
Match #5 Chiharu IchoJPN Li XiaomeiCHN
Match #6 Iryna Merleni-MykulchynUKR Tsogtbazaryn EnkhjargalMGL
Match #7 Clarissa ChunUSA Sofia MattssonSWE
Match #8 Vanessa BoubryemmFRA Zamira RakhmanovaRUS

Quarter-finals (16 August 2008)

Winner of each match advanced to semi-finals. Losers to eventual finalists advanced to repêchage round two.

Match #1 Tatyana BakatyukKAZ Ingrid MedranoESA
Match #2 Carol HuynhCAN Kim Hyeong-JuKOR
Match #3 Chiharu IchoJPN Iryna Merleni-MykulchynUKR
Match #4 Clarissa ChunUSA Vanessa BoubryemmFRA

Semi-finals (16 August 2008)

Winner of each match advanced to final. Losers advanced to repêchage final.

Match #1 Carol HuynhCAN Tatyana BakatyukKAZ
Match #2 Chiharu IchoJPN Clarissa ChunUSA

Repêchage Round One (16 August 2008)

Winner of each match advanced to repêchage round two.

Match #1 Mariya StadnikAZE
Match #2 Li XiaomeiCHN

Repêchage Round Two (16 August 2008)

Winner of each match advanced to repêchage final.

Match #1 Mariya StadnikAZE Kim Hyeong-JuKOR
Match #2 Iryna Merleni-MykulchynUKR Li XiaomeiCHN

Repêchage Final (16 August 2008)

Match #1 Mariya StadnikAZE Tatyana BakatyukKAZ
Match #2 Iryna Merleni-MykulchynUKR Clarissa ChunUSA

Final (16 August 2008)

Match 1/2 Carol HuynhCAN Chiharu IchoJPN