The 19-year-old teamed up with brother Oleg to win the men’s C2 1000 metres race ahead of Germany's individual London 2012 gold medallist Sebastien Brendel and partner Jan Vandrey by recording a time of 3min 41.854.

Dmytro Ianchuk and Taras Mishchuk of Ukraine did enough to earn bronze.

Sergei Tarnovsky wasn’t finished there, however, as he clocked 1:50.003 to top the podium in the C1 500m event in front of home favourite Martin Fuksa, with Oleg rounding off the top three with bronze.

Germany enjoyed another successful outing in Racice as they bagged another two titles to add to their hat-trick of gold medals on the opening day.

Marcus Gross, Max Hoff, Tom Liebscher and Max Rendschmidt laid down a marker with the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on the horizon, clocking 2:54.065 to seal the K4 1,000m crown ahead of Australia and Slovakia.

Compatriots Tina Dietze, Franziska Weber, Steffi Kriegerstein and Sabrian Hering were involved in a much closer contest in the K4 500m as a photo finish was required to decide who had crossed the line in first place.

They finished in 1:34.066 to narrowly oust Ukraine, with New Zealand coming through to take bronze.

Elsewhere, the Ukrainian contingent managed to end the event in style by clinching victory in two races.

Denys Kamerylov, Vitaliy Vergeles, Eduard Shemetylo and Denys Kovalenko reigned supreme in the C4 men’s 200m with a time of 34.978sec to finish in front of Canada and the Czech Republic.

Their other triumph came thanks to the women’s K4 200m quartet of Inna Hryshchun, Mariia Kichasova, Svitlana Akhadova and Anastasiia Todorova, who claimed gold in a time of 34.947 to beat Germany and France.

Elsewhere, Britain’s Liam Heath continued his good run of form by winning the K1 200m in 34.634, crossing the line in front of 34-year-old veteran Ronaldo Rauhe of Germany and France’s Maxime Beaumont.

Multiple world champion René Holten Poulsen of Denmark earned gold in the K1 500m by clocking 1:37.629, with Vladimir Torubarov of Serbia and Adam Van Koeverden of Canada joining him on the podium.

Katie Vincent and Nadya Crossman-Serb did deliver a gold medal for the Canadians, powering home in 2:03.210 to take the C2 500m honours ahead of Angela Aparecida Elias Da Silva and Andrea Santos De Oliveira of Brazil.

Jana Jezova and Lenka Souckova of the Czech Republic were the recipients of the bronze medal.

Inna Osypenko Radomska of Azerbaijan won the women’s K1 500m in 1:52.388, with Zhou Yu of China and Emma Jorgensen of Denmark claiming silver and bronze respectively.

Timur Khaidirov earned gold for Kazakhstan in the men’s C1 200m race in 39.844, while Li Qiang took silver and Stefan Kiraj the bronze.

Manfredi Rizza, Maura Crenna, Riccardo Cecchini and Michele Bertolini bagged Italy’s sole title with victory in the K4 men’s 200m event, clocking 30.265 to take the tape.

Serbia and Canada secured silver and bronze respectively.