2005 World Archery Championships – Men's individual recurve

The men's individual recurve competition at the 2005 World Archery Championships took place in June 2005 in Madrid, Spain. 143 archers entered the competition. Following a qualifying 144 arrow FITA round on 22 June, 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 27 June.

Qualifying
The following archers were the leading 8 qualifiers:

• # 🇰🇷 Park Kyung-mo (1st round)

• # 🇰🇷 Chung Jae-hun (Champion)

• # 🇷🇺 Baljinima Tsyrempilov (2nd round)

• # 🇮🇳 Tarundeep Rai (4th place)

• # Kuo Cheng-wei (1st round)

• # 🇰🇷 Choi Won-Jong (3rd place)

• # 🇰🇷 Han Seung-hoon (Quarterfinal)

• # 🇬🇧 Larry Godfrey (1st round)