The women's individual archery event was one of five archery events held at the 2020 Summer Olympics. It was held at Yumenoshima Park. There were 64 competitors from 40 nations, with each nation having either 1 or 3 archers.

Background This was the 13th consecutive Olympic appearance of the event, which has been held every Games since archery returned to the Olympic program in 1972.

Five of the 8 quarterfinalists from the 2016 Games returned: silver medalist Lisa Unruh of Germany, fourth-place finisher Alejandra Valencia of Mexico, and quarterfinalists Tan Ya-ting of Chinese Taipei, Wu Jiaxin of China, and Naomi Folkard of Great Britain. Ranking round world record holder Kang Chae-young of South Korea competed. The 2019 World Champion Lei Chien-ying joined Tan on the Chinese Taipei team (Kang was the bronze medalist).

Qualification

64 archers qualify for the women's archery events. The 12 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) that qualify for the women's team event (including the host, Japan) enter the 3 team members in the individual event as well. Otherwise, NOCs may qualify a maximum of 1 archer in women's individual. There are quota spots available at various tournaments, including the World Championships, multiple continental events, and a final qualification tournament. There are also two Tripartite Commission invitational spots.

Competition format

As with the other archery events, the women's individual is a recurve archery event, held under the World Archery-approved 70-meter distance and rules. Competition begins with a ranking round, in which each archer shoots 72 arrows. The scores from the ranking round are used to seed the archers into a single-elimination bracket. The knockout matches use the set system introduced in 2012. Each match consists of up to 5 sets of 3 arrows per archer. The archer with the best score in each set wins the set, earning 2 points. If the score is tied, each archer receives 1 point. The first archer to score 6 points wins the match. If the match is tied 5-5 after 5 sets, a single tie-breaker arrow is to be used with the closest to center winning.

Records Prior to the competition, the world and Olympic records were as follows.

72 arrow ranking round

The following record was established during the competition:

Date Event Name Nation Score Record 23 July Ranking round An San 680

Schedule

The schedule for the women's individual event covers five separate days of competition.

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Date Time Round Friday, 23 July 2021 9:00 Ranking round Tuesday, 27 July 2021Wednesday, 28 July 2021Thursday, 29 July 2021 9:3016:00 1/32 finals1/16 finals Friday, 30 July 2021 9:3014:4515:4516:3016:44 1/8 finalsQuarter-finalsSemi-finalsBronze medal matchGold medal match

Results

Ranking round

The ranking round was held on 23 July 2021. RankArcherNation10sXsScore 1 An San 36 16680 (OR) 2 Jang Min-hee 32 11 677 3 Kang Chae-young 36 12 675 4 Alejandra Valencia 35 10 674 5 Mackenzie Brown 28 10 668 6 Aída Román 31 10 665 7 Azusa Yamauchi 30 7 665 8 Ksenia Perova 29 8 664 9 Deepika Kumari 30 13 663 10 Chiara Rebagliati 24 5 658 11 Michelle Kroppen 26 6 655 12 Denisa Baránková 25 6 655 13 Lisa Barbelin 32 9 654 14 Yang Xiaolei 22 5 654 15 Sarah Bettles 27 11 653 16 Ren Hayakawa 27 11 653 17 Casey Kaufhold 21 8 653 18 Wu Jiaxin 25 9 652 19 Yasemin Anagöz 25 9 652 20 Gabriela Schloesser 23 6 652 21 Lin Chia-en 28 5 651 22 Elena Osipova 27 11 651 23 Lucilla Boari 26 9 651 24 Jennifer Mucino-Fernandez 24 6 649 25 Maja Jager 20 5 649 26 Lisa Unruh 26 11 647 27 Tan Ya-ting 22 8 646 28 Long Xiaoqing 20 2 646 29 Karyna Dziominskaya 18 3 642 30 Lei Chien-ying 21 10 640 31 Miki Nakamura 17 7 639 32 Ana Paula Vázquez 15 9 637 33 Ane Marcelle dos Santos 18 5 636 34 Marie Horáčková 18 2 636 35 Veronika Marchenko 30 10 635 36 Diya Siddique 19 6 635 37 Mădălina Amaistroaie 23 6 634 38 Bryony Pitman 21 4 634 39 Hanna Marusava 14 2 633 40 Diananda Choirunisa 23 7 631 41 Anastasia Pavlova 16 3 631 42 Sylwia Zyzańska 24 10 630 43 Syaqiera Mashayikh 18 3 630 44 Evangelia Psarra 16 3 630 45 Svetlana Gomboeva 14 4 630 46 Stephanie Barrett 11 3 630 47 Naomi Folkard 17 7 629 48 Inés de Velasco 18 5 628 49 Đỗ Thị Ánh Nguyệt 18 3 628 50 Valentina Acosta 16 4 627 51 Alexandra Mîrca 15 5 627 52 Tatiana Andreoli 10 2 627 53 Reena Pärnat 17 2 626 54 Lidiia Sichenikova 14 1 623 55 Christine Bjerendal 21 6 622 56 Karma 19 7 616 57 Alice Ingley 13 3 616 58 Bishindeegiin Urantungalag 14 2 614 59 Rihab Elwalid 12 4 609 60 Charline Schwarz 13 2 607 61 Karyna Kazlouskaya 10 0 607 62 Adriana Espinosa de los Monteros 7 2 606 63 Amal Adam 7 4 570 64 Marlyse Hourtou 7 5 553

Competition bracket

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Finals

References