The women's individual recurve archery event at the 2014 Asian Games was held from 23 to 28 September at the Gyeyang Asiad Archery Field in Incheon, South Korea. It was the tenth time the event was held as part of the Asian Games sports programme since the debut of archery in 1978. A total of 56 archers from 18 nations qualified for the event. Yun Ok-hee of South Korea was the defending champion.

The women's individual recurve event was an outdoor recurve target archery event held to the World Archery-approved rules. The competition consisted of three stages spread over one week: an initial ranking round, a four-round single-elimination tournament, and two finals matches, the last of which deciding the winners of the gold, silver, and bronze medals. The ranking round determined the seeds for the subsequent elimination rounds and followed the 1440 format, in which archers each shot a total of 144 arrows at 122 cm-wide targets over four different distances, firing 36 arrows from 70 metres, 60 metres, 50 metres, and 30 metres respectively. The archer scoring highest total from her 144 arrows received the number one seed, the archer with the second highest total receiving second seed, and so on. In the event of a tie between two or more archers, the number of arrows shot in the central 10-ring of the target was taken into account, with the number of arrows shot within the inner-10 (or X) ring used as a second tiebreaker if necessary. A maximum of two archers from each nation were allowed progress to the elimination rounds.

The format of the elimination and medal-deciding rounds followed the Archery Olympic Round set system used in international competitions since 2010. Each match consisted of a maximum of five sets, with archers each shooting three arrows per set at the same 122-cm wide targets from a fixed distance of 70 metres. The archer with the greater score from their three arrows won the set, earning two set points. The archer with the lower score in each set received zero points. If the score was tied, each archer received one point. The first archer to reach six set points was declared the winner. If the match was tied at five set points each after the maximum five sets were played, a single tie-breaker arrow was used with the closest to centre of the target winning.

After securing every gold medal available in the archery competition at the 2006 and 2010 Asian Games, the Korean national team aimed to defend each of their five recurve titles for the second time in succession. Chang Hye-jin, Jung Dasomi, Joo Hyun-jung, and Lee Tuk-young were chosen to compete in the women's events after finishing in the top four positions in the Korean national team selection held earlier in 2014, beating both the reigning Olympic champion Ki Bo-bae and the defending Asian Games champion Yun Ok-hee to represent their nation.

The semi-finals commenced on the afternoon of 28 September following the conclusion of the team recurve events, in which Chang, Jung, and Lee emerged victorious over the Chinese trio of Cheng, Xu, and Zhu to take the gold medal.

The medal matches took place after the semi-finals. As the two losing archers from the semi-finals, Xu faced Hayakawa in the bronze medal match. Xu emerged the winner, posting three successive set victories to come from two set points down to defeat the Japanese archer. The all-Korean gold medal match followed afterwards and saw Jung comprehensively defeat Chang with a consistency that Chang struggled to match. Although Chang was able to tie the second set, Jung missed the central 10 ring just twice in her twelve shots, earning a standing ovation from the home crowd with a perfect score of 30 in the fourth and final set to claim her second Asian Games gold medal of the day.

Schedule All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00) DateTimeEvent Tuesday, 23 September 2014 10:00 Ranking round Wednesday, 24 September 2014 10:00 Ranking round Friday, 26 September 2014 11:10 1/16 eliminations 11:40 1/8 eliminations 15:50 Quarterfinals Sunday, 28 September 2014 14:30 Semifinals 15:30 Bronze medal match 15:44 Gold medal match

Results Ranking round

RankSeedAthleteDistanceTotal10sXs90m70m50m30m 1 1 3423413273541364 7642 2 2 3333413343511359 7531 3 — 3313433283561358 8134 4 3 3373373323461352 8029 5 4 3313443233501348 7826 6 — 3273413263501344 6726 7 5 3203383293521339 6822 8 6 3243393263481337 6226 9 7 3273373223461332 6524 10 8 3343333283371332 5718 11 9 3323383203381328 6023 12 — 3233363213471327 5825 13 — 3103413213521324 6927 14 — 3273313183481324 6220 15 10 3203323163511319 5819 16 11 3243323133491318 6322 17 12 3213303163411308 5516 18 13 3083273253451305 5721 19 — 3233333063401302 5924 20 — 3183253143441301 5112 21 14 3123273163421297 5221 22 15 3093313193381297 4516 23 16 3173263133381294 4315 24 — 3093283153401292 4418 25 — 3203273003381285 4418 26 17 3133273023401282 4614 27 18 2993313023421274 4413 28 19 3073183053431273 4921 29 — 2993223123401273 4016 30 — 3033163073451271 4414 31 — 3093243013371271 4212 32 20 3043243013401269 4510 33 — 3043263083301268 4114 34 21 3003342953371266 3910 35 — 2983203033431264 4013 36 22 2983192983371252 3810 37 — 2993222953341250 3711 38 — 3013143073241246 407 39 — 2903172953431245 419 40 23 3003112953301236 3810 41 24 3083112853241228 4010 42 25 2703112973201198 277 43 — 3123152872831197 338 44 26 2912992603351185 3010 45 27 2833132623251183 2410 46 — 2842932853121174 2910 47 28 2563022783251161 166 48 — 2792832613241147 215 49 29 2803022503051137 227 50 — 2472922723231134 292 51 30 2482922643221126 153 52 — 2542552733041086 165 53 — 2782772472811083 185 54 — 2903021902911073 246 55 31 2292892493031070 217 56 — 2432582233021026 136

Knockout round Finals

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Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

References

External links Official website of the 2014 Asian Games