2003 World Archery Championships – Men's individual recurve

The men's individual recurve competition at the 2003 World Archery Championships took place in July 2003 in New York City, United States. 174 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 20 July.

Despite Korean archers dominating the qualification tournament, Italian Michele Frangilli was victorious, becoming the first non-Korean winner of the men's individual recurve tournament since 1991.

Qualifying
The following archers were the leading 8 qualifiers:

• # 🇰🇷 Jang Yong-ho (3rd round)

• # 🇰🇷 Choi Young-kwang (3rd round)

• # 🇰🇷 Im Dong-hyun (2nd place)

• # 🇰🇷 Park Kyung-mo (3rd round)

• # 🇮🇹 Marco Galiazzo (1st round)

• # 🇷🇺 Baljinima Tsyrempilov (2nd round)

• # 🇦🇺 David Barnes (3rd place)

• # 🇮🇹 Michele Frangilli (Champion)