2003 World Archery Championships – Women's individual recurve

The women's individual recurve competition at the 2003 World Archery Championships took place in July 2003 in New York City, United States. 138 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.

Qualifying
The following archers were the leading 8 qualifiers:

• # 🇰🇷 Park Sung-hyun (2nd place)

• # 🇰🇷 Yun Mi-jin (Champion)

• # 🇮🇹 Natalia Valeeva (Quarterfinal)

• # 🇨🇳 Zhang Juanjuan (Quarterfinal)

• # 🇬🇧 Alison Williamson (2nd round)

• # 🇰🇷 Lee Hyun-jeong (3rd place)

• # 🇨🇳 Lin Sang (2nd round)

• # 🇨🇳 Xu Linlin (Quarterfinal)