| Event: | Women's individual |
| Games: | 1972 Summer |
| Venue: | Englischer Garten |
| Dates: | 7–10 September |
| Competitors: | 40 |
| Nations: | 21 |
| Win Value: | 2424 |
| Win Label: | Winning score |
| Gold: | Doreen Wilber |
| Goldnoc: | USA |
| Silver: | Irena Szydłowska |
| Silvernoc: | POL |
| Bronze: | Emma Gapchenko |
| Bronzenoc: | URS |
| Next: | 1976 |
The women's individual archery event at the 1972 Summer Olympics was part of the archery programme. The event consisted of a double FITA round. For each round, the archer shot 36 arrows at each of four distances—70, 60, 50, and 30 metres. The highest score for each arrow was 10 points, giving a possible maximum of 2880 points.[1]
The following new Olympic records were set during this competition.
| Record | Round | Name | Nationality | Score | OR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single FITA round | First | align=left | 1224 | OR | |||
| Single FITA round | Second | align=left | 1226 | OR | |||
| Double FITA round | Combined | Doreen Wilber | align=left | 2424 | OR |
| Rank | Archer | Nation | Round 1 Score | Round 1 Rank | Round 2 Score | Round 2 Rank | Total Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1198 | 4 | 1226 (OR) | 1 | 2424 (OR) | ||||
| 1224 (OR) | 1 | 1183 | 9 | 2407 | ||||
| 1201 | 2 | 1202 | 3 | 2403 | ||||
| 1195 | 6 | 1207 | 2 | 2402 | ||||
| 1200 | 3 | 1185 | 6 | 2385 | ||||
| 1173 | 12 | 1198 | 5 | 2371 | ||||
| 1195 | 6 | 1174 | 11 | 2369 | ||||
| 1180 | 10 | 1184 | 7 | 2364 | ||||
| 1189 | 8 | 1167 | 13 | 2356 | ||||
| 10 | 1198 | 4 | 1155 | 16 | 2353 | |||
| 11 | 1148 | 21 | 1202 | 3 | 2350 | |||
| 12 | 1179 | 11 | 1170 | 12 | 2349 | |||
| 13 | 1169 | 13 | 1178 | 10 | 2347 | |||
| 14 | 1189 | 8 | 1152 | 17 | 2341 | |||
| 15 | 1151 | 19 | 1184 | 7 | 2335 | |||
| 16 | 1156 | 18 | 1157 | 15 | 2313 | |||
| 17 | 1162 | 15 | 1139 | 20 | 2301 | |||
| 18 | 1165 | 14 | 1132 | 22 | 2297 | |||
| 19 | 1157 | 16 | 1126 | 23 | 2283 | |||
| 20 | 1157 | 16 | 1118 | 25 | 2275 | |||
| 21 | 1115 | 26 | 1158 | 14 | 2273 | |||
| 22 | 1151 | 19 | 1114 | 27 | 2265 | |||
| 23 | 1145 | 22 | 1113 | 28 | 2258 | |||
| 24 | 1144 | 23 | 1108 | 33 | 2252 | |||
| 25 | 1106 | 29 | 1143 | 18 | 2249 | |||
| 26 | 1111 | 27 | 1133 | 21 | 2244 | |||
| 27 | 1121 | 24 | 1109 | 30 | 2230 | |||
| 28 | 1106 | 29 | 1112 | 29 | 2218 | |||
| 29 | 1109 | 28 | 1109 | 30 | 2218 | |||
| 30 | 1078 | 32 | 1122 | 24 | 2200 | |||
| 31 | 1056 | 35 | 1140 | 19 | 2196 | |||
| 32 | 1083 | 31 | 1109 | 30 | 2192 | |||
| 33 | 1119 | 25 | 1072 | 37 | 2191 | |||
| 34 | 1070 | 34 | 1115 | 26 | 2185 | |||
| 35 | 1074 | 33 | 1091 | 35 | 2165 | |||
| 36 | 1040 | 36 | 1102 | 34 | 2152 | |||
| 37 | 1012 | 38 | 1088 | 36 | 2100 | |||
| 38 | 1038 | 37 | 988 | 38 | 2026 | |||
| 39 | 981 | 40 | 974 | 39 | 1955 | |||
| 40 | 1003 | 39 | 926 | 40 | 1929 |