The women's individual archery event was one of five archery events held at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

. It was held at

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. There were 64 competitors from 40 nations, with each nation having either 1 or 3 archers.

Background

This was the 13th consecutive 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 Lisa Unruh (born 12 April 1988) is a German athlete who competes in recurve archery. Unruh represented Germany at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro winning the silver medal. Her Silver medal was the first individu ...

of Germany, fourth-place finisher

Alejandra Valencia Alejandra Valencia Trujillo (born 17 October 1994) is a Mexican archer. Career She won two gold medals the 2011 Pan American Games — women's team and women's individual. She won bronze at 2011 World Archery Youth Championships recurve cadet ...

of Mexico, and quarterfinalists

Tan Ya-ting Tan Ya-ting (; born 7 November 1993) is an archer who represents Chinese Taipei. She is a three-time Olympian, having participated at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. She has additionally competed in the Worl ...

of Chinese Taipei, Wu Jiaxin of China, and

Naomi Folkard Naomi Anne Folkard (born 18 September 1983) is a British archer who has represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games five times between 2004 and 2020. She has also represented Great Britain at the World Archery Championships and the Archery Wo ...

of Great Britain. Ranking round world record holder Kang Chae-young of Korea competed. The 2019 World Champion

Lei Chien-ying Lei Chien-ying (, born 17 April 1990) is a Taiwanese archer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed for her country in the women's team event and women's individual event. She also represented Chinese Taipei at the 2016 Summer Olympics i ...

joined Tan on the Chinese Taipei team (Kang was the bronze medalist).

Qualification

64 archers qualify for the women's archery events. The 12

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s (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 The World Archery Federation (WA, also and formerly known as FITA from the French ''Fédération Internationale de Tir à l'Arc'') is the governing body of the sport of archery. It is based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is composed of 156 nation ...

-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''

Schedule

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

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)

Results

Ranking round

The ranking round was held on 23 July 2021.

Competition bracket

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Finals

References

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