The South Dakotan city is scheduled to host competition until February 19, with elite and junior events set to take place.

Action will take place at the NFAA Easton Yankton Archery Complex, which has doubled in size in order to host the Championships.

The facility has previously hosted the World Archery Youth Championships in 2015 and will be the venue for the World Archery Field Championships in 2020.

Several archers will be making their way to the event from Las Vegas, which hosted the concluding event of this season's Indoor Archery World Cup circuit last week.

Competition will begin tomorrow with qualification for the compound and recurve events.

Matchplay will take place until Monday (February 19).

Ukraine's Heorhiy Ivanytskyy and Germany's Lisa Unruh won the elite individual men's and women's recurve events two years ago in Ankara, Turkey.

Germany triumphed in the men's team event, while Japan secured the women's honours.

Compound individual gold medals were earned by France's Sebastien Peineau and Italy's Irene Franchini.

Italy also earned the men's team title, while Denmark triumphed in the women's event.

A further eight golds were claimed in the junior competitions in Turkey.

More than 30 nations are set to participate in Yankton, with hosts United States boasting the most archers with 28 set to represent them over the five days.