Star archer Deepika Kumari led the show with supreme authority to grab three gold medals at the World Cup Stage 3 in Paris on Sunday.

In the absence of world No. 1 Korea, the Indians faced little challenge in winning the women’s individual, team and mixed pair events with Deepika a constant in each of them, playing back-to-back four matches in less than five hours.

India topped the medals tally with four gold medals as Abhishek Verma had clinched the solitary top medal in the compound section on Saturday.

India’s gold rush began with the women’s recurve team of Deepika, Ankita Bhakat and Komalika Bari notching up a comfortable win over Mexico, shrugging off the disappointment of missing Olympic qualification last week.

In a repeat of the World Cup first stage final where they struggled to clinch the gold, the trio this time did not even drop a set to win their second world title in two months.

Eyeing their first-ever gold medal together Deepika and husband Atanu Das bounced back from a 0-2 deficit to down The Netherland’s Sjef van den Berg and Gabriela Schloesser 5-3. Deepika then blanked 17th ranked Russian Elena Osipova 6-0 to cap a perfect three out of three.

Deepika numero uno

Deepika on Monday regained the number one position in global rankings following her hat-trick of gold medals at the World Cup Stage 3.

The 27-year-old from Ranchi, who had achieved the top spot for the first time in 2012, claimed gold medals in three recurve events on Sunday. "This is going to take Deepika to the number one spot in the world rankings on Monday," World Archery had tweeted on its official handle.

Overall, Deepika has nine gold, 12 silver and seven bronze medals in the World Cup.

"This is the first time I've won all three medals in a World Cup. I'm really happy but at the same time, I've to continue improving as we have some very, very important competitions lined up," Deepika had told PTI after her triumphs. Deepika had become only the second Indian woman after Dola Banerjee to grab the numero uno status in June, 2012 after claiming her first individual recurve World Cup gold medal at Antalya, Turkey.

She will be the only Indian woman archer to represent the country at the Tokyo Olympics next month.