The men's individual recurve competition at the

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took place on 29 September – 6 October 2013 in

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. 146 archers from 62 countries entered the competition, with a maximum of three entries per country. The top 104 archers qualified for the knockout tournament, with the top 8 scores in qualifying receiving a bye to the third round. Reigning champion

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was not selected as part of the

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n representation. Nevertheless, for the fifth Championships in succession the title was won by a Korean, in this case 18-year-old

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, who in his first season representing Korea defeated teammate,

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, World Cup champion, and world number one archer

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in the final in 5 sets.

Schedule

All times are local ( UTC+02:00).

Qualification round

Pre-tournament world rankings ('WR') are taken from the 28 August 2013

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. Qualification consisted of 4 rounds of 36 arrows, at 90m, 70m, 50m, and 30m. This was the last

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in which a 30m round was used in qualification. A three-way shootoff was required to determine 7–9th places.Official brackets
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Qualified for eliminations

Elimination rounds

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

Finals

References

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