The women's individual archery event at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held from 5 to 13 August at the Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaí in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. One of four archery events as part of the
The Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro's Cidade Nova neighbourhood hosted the event.
Ki Bo-bae (pictured at the 2012 Summer Olympics) was the defending Olympic champion.
Deepika Kumari (pictured in 2011) entered her second Olympic Games for India.
Tan Ya-Ting (pictured at the 2019 Archery World Cup) entered as one of the favourites to compete for an Olympic medal.
Ki Bo-bae
Videos
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 tea
Archery at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's individual
…Olympic Games. Forty different nations qualified for the event, sending a total of sixty-four archers to compete. The defending Olympic champion was Ki Bo-bae of South Korea. South Korea's three archers were tipped for success, the nation having won all but one of the event's gold medals since the 1984 Summer…
Ki (left) celebrates her 2012 gold medal win in the women's team event with Lee Sung-jin (centre) and Choi Hyeon-ju (right)