2001 World Archery Championships – Women's individual recurve

The women's individual recurve competition at the 2001 World Archery Championships took place in September 2001 in Beijing, China. 95 archers entered the competition. Following a qualifying 144 arrow FITA round, the top 64 archers qualified for the 6-round knockout tournament, drawn according to their qualification round scores. The semi-finals and finals then took place on 23 September.

Qualifying
The following archers were the leading 8 qualifiers:

• # 🇰🇷 Choi Nam-ok (Quarterfinal)

• # 🇮🇹 Natalia Valeeva (3rd round)

• # 🇰🇷 Park Sung-hyun (Champion)

• # 🇰🇷 Kim Kyung-wook (2nd place)

• # 🇰🇷 Choi Jin (Quarterfinal)

• # 🇨🇳 Zhang Juanjuan (Quarterfinal)

• # 🇺🇦 Kateryna Palekha (3rd place)

• # 🇨🇳 He Ying (2nd round)