Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's freestyle 48 kg

Women's freestyle 48 kilograms competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, took place on August 17 at the Carioca Arena 2 in Barra da Tijuca.[1]

Women's freestyle 48 kg at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Medalists
Venue	Carioca Arena 2
Date	17 August
Competitors	18 from 18 nations
Medalists
Eri Tosaka  Japan Mariya Stadnik  Azerbaijan Sun Yanan  China Elitsa Yankova  Bulgaria

Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Qualification
	Freestyle	Greco-Roman	Women
	57 kg	59 kg	48 kg
	65 kg	66 kg	53 kg
	74 kg	75 kg	58 kg
	86 kg	85 kg	63 kg
	97 kg	98 kg	69 kg
	125 kg	130 kg	75 kg

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.

Each bout consists of a single round within a six-minute limit. The wrestler who scores more points in each round is the winner of that rounds; the bout ends when one wrestler has won two rounds (and thus the match).

The medals for the competition were presented by Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen, IOC member, Denmark, and the gifts were presented by Natalia Yariguina, United World Wrestling vice president.