The women's individual recurve competition at the 2001 World Archery Championships took place in September 2001 in Beijing, China.
95 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 23 September.
[1] The following archers were the leading 8 qualifiers: