• Star Indian archer Deepika Kumari regained the number one position in global rankings following her hat-trick of gold medals at the World Cup Stage 3 in Paris.

• The 27-year-old from Ranchi, who had achieved the top spot for the first time in 2012, claimed gold medals on June 27 in three recurve events — women’s individual, team and mixed pair.

• Deepika first combined with Ankita Bhakat and Komalika Bari to notch up the women’s recurve team gold with a comfortable win over Mexico.

• She then paired up with husband Atanu Das and the couple from a 0-2 deficit to down the Netherland’s Sjef van den Berg and Gabriela Schloesser 5-3 for the gold medal.

• She then blanked 17th ranked Russian Elena Osipova 6-0 to cap a perfect three out of three in the recurve women's section, her fourth individual World Cup gold medal.

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

• 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.

• Deepika was honoured with Padma Shri in 2016 and Arjuna Award in 2012.

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