Archery at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's individual
The women's individual archery event at the 2012 Olympic Games was held from 27 July to 2 August 2012 at Lord's Cricket Ground in London in the United Kingdom. The event was one of four which comprised the 2012 Olympic archery programme of sports and was the eleventh time the women's individual competition was contested as an Olympic event. Forty different nations qualified for the competition, sending a total of sixty-four archers to compete. The defending Olympic champion from 2008 was Zhang Juanjuan of China, who did not compete following her retirement in 2010.
Gold medallist Ki Bo-bae during the event
The Lord's Pavilion at Lord's Cricket Ground provided the backdrop for the London 2012 archery competitions.
World number one Deepika Kumari (pictured in 2011) was eliminated in the opening knockout round.
Ki Bo-bae (centre), Aída Román (left), and Mariana Avitia (right) during the medal presentation ceremony.
Ki Bo-bae is a South Korean recurve archer and three-time Olympic gold medalist. She was the winner of the women's team and women's individual events at the 2012 Summer Olympics and of the women's team event again at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she also took bronze in the individual competition. Her tally of four Olympic medals places her among the most decorated archers in Olympic history.
Ki at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Ki (left) celebrates her 2012 gold medal win in the women's team event with Lee Sung-jin (centre) and Choi Hyeon-ju (right)