| Event: | Archery |
| Games: | 2018 Summer Youth |
| Venue: | Parque Sarmiento |
| Dates: | 12–17 October 2018 |
| Competitors: | 64 |
| Nations: | 45 |
| Num Events: | 3 (1 boys, 1 girls, 1 mixed) |
| Prev: | 2014 |
| Next: | 2026 |
Archery at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics was held 12–17 October 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The total of 64 athletes participated in the tournament. The archery competition took place at Parque Sarmiento (previously planned at Parque Polideportivo Roca in Villa Soldati).
Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 2 competitors, 1 per each gender. As hosts, Argentina was given the maximum quota. The spots were reallocated to the next best nations at the 2017 World Youth Championships. The remaining 54 places was decided by qualification events, namely the 2017 World Archery Youth Championships and five continental qualification tournaments.[1] A further 8, 4 in each gender was to be decided by the Universality Places.[2]
To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2003. Furthermore, all archers must have achieved the following Minimum Qualification Score (MQS).
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| Total: 45 NOCs | 32 | 32 | 64 |
| width=36% | Mean of qualification | width=21% | Date! | width=19% | Host! | width=5% | Vacancies! | width=19% | Qualified |
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| Host nation | – | – | |||||||
| World YOG Qualifier[3] | 2–8 October 2017 |  Rosario | 16 | ||||||
| Asian Qualifier | 24 November – 1 December 2017 | Dhaka | 3 | ||||||
| Americas Qualifier | 7–12 May 2018 | Guatemala City | |||||||
| European Qualifier | 29 June | Patras | 3 | ||||||
| Oceanian Qualifier | 9–13 July 2018 |  Païta | 1 | ||||||
| African Qualifier | 18–28 July 2018 | Algiers | 2 | ||||||
| Universality Places | 31 March 2017 | – | 4 | ||||||
| Total | 32 | ||||||||
| width=36% | Mean of qualification | width=21% | Date! | width=19% | Host! | width=5% | Vacancies! | width=19% | Qualified |
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| Host nation | – | – | 1 | ||||||
| World YOG Qualifier[4] | 2–8 October 2017 | ||||||||
| Asian Qualifier | 24 November – 1 December 2017 | Dhaka | 3 | ||||||
| Americas Qualifier | 7–12 May 2018 | Guatemala City | 2 | ||||||
| European Qualifier | 29 2018 | Patras | 3 | ||||||
| Oceanian Qualifier | 9–13 July 2018 | Païta | 1 | ||||||
| African Qualifier | 18–28 July 2018 | Algiers | 2 | ||||||
| Universality Places | 31 March 2017 | – | |||||||
| Total | 32 | ||||||||
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