The 12 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) that qualify for the men's team event (including the host, France) enter the 3 team members in the individual event as well.

Otherwise, NOCs may qualify a maximum of 1 archer in men's individual.

Competition begins with a ranking round, in which each archer shoots 72 arrows.

The scores from the ranking round are used to seed the archers into a single-elimination bracket.

If the match is tied 5–5 after 5 sets, a single tie-breaker arrow is to be used with the closest to center winning.