Ohope paddler Lisa Carrington continues to build momentum towards defending her title at the 2016 Olympic Games after winning two golds at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup in Milan, Italy.

In comprehensive fashion the Bay of Plenty canoeist added the women's K1 200m title to her K1 500m triumph earlier in competition.

Ohope paddler Lisa Carrington.

In her specialist 200m distance, Carrington paddled a close race in the first 100m before opening the gap in what is becoming her trademark burst of speed, to finish in 40.42 – just under a second ahead of Poland's Marta Walczykiewicz and Karolina Naja.

She earlier qualified fastest for the final by winning her heat in 40.506sec, and her semifinal in style in 40.775sec, ahead of Naja and Slovakia's Martina Kohlova.

In the K1 500m final, earlier in the meet, Carrington also led from start to finish, blazing out at the start to open a gap on the other paddlers, which she never relinquished.

She led by half a length at the halfway stage in 55.47sec and while that gap closed briefly, the 24-year-old pulled away again near the finish.

Her winning time in ideal conditions was 1min 51.849sec, almost a second quicker than silver medallist Franziska Weber of Germany, with Austria's Yvonne Schuring claiming bronze.

Carrington added the longer distance event to her programme last year after winning gold in the K1 200m at the 2012 London Olympics.

She won gold in two World Cup 500m races before finishing third in the K1 500m final at last year's world champs, which also saw her win gold in the K1 200m.

In other results, Bay of Plenty teammates Scott Bicknell and Andrew Roy finished fifth in the B final of the men's K2 200m event, after failing to progress to the A final.

The women's K4 500m team of Jamie Lovett, Teneale Hatton, Aimee Fisher and Caitlin Ryan crossed in fifth after a strong start had them in sixth.

Teneale Hatton then finished off the first World Cup in fine style taking silver in the K1 5000m.

Hatton, the world champion in the K1 5000m, was second in a time of 23min 34.967sec. She finished just 6.732sec behind winner Stefania Cicalia from Italy and had a similar buffer over bronze medallist Flora Nagy of Hungary.

The Kiwi team heads to World Cup 2 in Racice, Czech to do it all again in two weeks' time.