| Event: | Women's freestyle 53 kg |
| Games: | 2016 Summer |
| Venue: | Carioca Arena 2 |
| Date: | 18 August 2016 |
| Competitors: | 19 |
| Nations: | 19 |
| Gold: | Helen Maroulis |
| Goldnoc: | USA |
| Silver: | Saori Yoshida |
| Silvernoc: | JPN |
| Bronze: | Nataliya Synyshyn |
| Bronzenoc: | AZE |
| Bronze2: | Sofia Mattsson |
| Bronzenoc2: | SWE |
| Next: | 2020 |
See main article: Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Women's freestyle 53 kilograms competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, took place on August 18 at the Carioca Arena 2 in Barra da Tijuca. Nineteen competitors from as many nations participated in the competition.[1]
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.
All times are Brasília Standard Time
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| 17:00 | Finals |
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