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Xtra Time Web Desk: India’s ace archer Deepika Kumari on Sunday made a hat trick of winning gold at the Archery World Cup Stage 3. India made an unprecedented clean sweep at the World Cup Stage 3 in the absence of world number one Korea. The Indians won 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.

Having secured Olympic qualifications, Korea, along with other Asian heavyweights like China and Chinese Taipei, skipped all the World Cups in the build up to the Tokyo Games.

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.

Eyeing their first-ever gold medal together, Deepika and husband Atanu Das, who are India''s best medal hope in archery in the Olympics, bounced back from a 0-2 deficit to down the Netherland''s Sjef van den Berg and Gabriela Schloesser 5-3.

Deepika 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.