The women's individual recurve competition at the 2005 World Archery Championships took place in June 2005 in Madrid, Spain.
109 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.
[1] The following archers were the leading 8 qualifiers: