The women's individual compound competition at the 2001 World Archery Championships took place in September 2001 in Beijing, China.
57 archers entered the competition.
Following a qualifying 144 arrow FITA round, the archers were drawn for the 6-round knockout tournament according to their qualification round scores, with the top 7 archers receiving byes to the second round.
The semi-finals and finals then took place on 23 September.
[1] The following archers were the leading 8 qualifiers: