She had earlier qualified fastest for the K1 200m final by winning her heat in 40.506 seconds to advance to the semifinals. She then won her semifinal in 40.775 seconds, ahead of Karolina Naja and Slovakia's Martina Kohlova.
On Saturday night (NZ time), Carrington led from the outset to win gold in the K1 500m final, never relinquishing her hold on the lead.
Her winning time in the ideal conditions was 1min 51.849sec, almost a second quicker than silver medallist Franziska Weber of Germany, with Austria's Yvonne Schuring claiming bronze a tenth of a second behind Weber.
The brand new women's K4 500m combo finished an impressive fifth in their final, with Teneale Hatton, Jamie Lovett, Aimee Fisher and Caitlin Ryan only 1.972 seconds behind the Chinese winners.
They were well pleased to do so well in their first international outing and hope to use the experience to improve on this result.
Teneale Hatton was hoping to follow up on last years' gold in the K1 5000m, the longer distances being her speciality.
Last year she collected multiple titles, winning world championship gold in the K1 5000m and again in the under-23 K1 at the World Marathon Champs in Copenhagen and Ocean Surf Ski Champs in Portugal.
However, she was "a little disappointed" to settle for silver in this world cup after leading the race the whole way.
"It just means I'll have to work a bit harder in the second world cup," she says and we remind her that silver is no mean achievement in itself.
The team now heads to Racice, Czech Republic, to do it all again at the second world cup in two weeks' time.
