2009 World Archery Championships – Women's individual recurve

The women's individual recurve competition at the 2009 World Archery Championships took place on 3–9 September 2009 in Ulsan, South Korea. 97 archers took part in the qualification round on 3 September. As there were fewer than 128 entrants, all archers qualified for the 7-round knockout round on 6 September which was drawn according to their qualification round scores. The semi-finals and finals then took place on 9 September.

Like the men's competition, the final was an all-Korean affair, with third seed Joo Hyun-jung defeating first seeds Kwak Ye-ji by just one point. It marked the last World Archery Championships in which 12 arrow shoot-offs were used for the individual recurve competition elimination rounds; from 2011 the Olympic Round scoring system was adopted.

Seeds
The top 31 qualifiers received byes to the second round.

• # 🇰🇷 Kwak Ye-ji (2nd place)

• # 🇰🇷 Yun Ok-hee (Quarterfinal)

• # 🇰🇷 Joo Hyun-jung (Champion)

• # 🇵🇱 Justyna Mospinek (3rd round)

• # 🇨🇳 Zhao Ling (2nd round)

• # Lin Hsiao-ying (4th round)

• # 🇺🇸 Jennifer Nichols (2nd round)

• # 🇺🇦 Victoriya Koval (3rd round)

• # 🇺🇦 Yulia Lobzhenidze (4th round)

• # 🇩🇪 Karina Winter (3rd round)

• # 🇫🇷 Bérengère Schuh (3rd round)

• # Kristine Esebua (2nd round)

• # 🇲🇽 Aída Román (2nd round)

• # Khatuna Narimanidze (2nd round)

• # 🇨🇦 Marie-Pier Beaudet (2nd round)

• # 🇨🇳 Zhu Jiani (4th round)

• # Maja Jager (2nd round)

• # Wu Hui-ju (2nd round)

• # 🇮🇹 Natalia Valeeva (4th round)

• # 🇵🇱 Karina Lipiarska (4th place)

• # Yuan Shu-chi (4th round)

• # Carina Christiansen (Quarterfinal)

• # 🇨🇴 Natalia Sánchez (3rd place)

• # 🇺🇸 Khatuna Lorig (3rd round)

• # 🇮🇳 Rimil Buriuly (2nd round)

• # 🇨🇳 Ouyang Ruyu (4th round)

• # 🇪🇸 Magali Foulon (3rd round)

• # 🇬🇧 Naomi Folkard (2nd round)

• # 🇨🇴 Sigrid Romero (4th round)

• # 🇰🇿 Anastassiya Bannova (3rd round)

• # Celine Schobinger (2nd round)