[1] The event was among the first to follow the new competition format adopted by the Federation Internationale Tir de l'Arc (FITA) for international tournaments earlier in 2010.

[7] The withdrawal of a competitor from Brazil before the start of the event led to only thirty-one archers taking part instead of the expected thirty-two.

Kwak was in dominant form, clinching the top seed by a comfortable margin of 22 points over Tan Ya-ting of Chinese Taipei and setting a new junior world record in the process.

[9] Choi Seung Sil, the South Korean coach, however reflected that Kwak's achievement was no cause for excitement, commenting that "[i]n practice she will score up to 680, so we don't really care about breaking the record.

The top eight seeds each advanced to the 1/8 eliminations with ninth-seed Gloria Filippi of Italy the highest ranked archer failing to progress.

The weather intervened with a short rain shower during the fifth match of the morning between Miranda Leek of the United States and Isabel Viehmeier of Germany.

The wet conditions appeared to affect Leek's form in particular, the American exiting the competition after failing to score higher than an eight until her eighth arrow of the match, by which time Viehmeier held a four set point lead.

[6] The quarter-finals kicked off the final day's afternoon session at 2:30pm, Kwak, Tan, Segina, and Avitia again successfully advancing to reach the semi-finals.

[6] Following the match Avitia said she was satisfied and not disappointed with a fourth-place finish, feeling she had put in a strong performance against Kwak in the semi-finals.

She however stated that the quick turnaround between competing at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games and the Youth Olympics may have influenced her overall form, having not had sufficient time for rest before arriving in Singapore.

[12] The gold medal final saw Kwak defeat Tan in four sets, posting a total score of 117 in her 12 arrows that would have been a new junior world record under the previous FITA competition format.

[6][9] Afterwards Kwak admitted she had felt nervous in the final after her tough semi-final victory over Avitia, but immediately set her sights on replicating her success at the 2012 Summer Olympics, stating her aim was to win two gold medals in London.