The Tokyo 2020 gold medallist crossed the line in 1 min, 47.41 sec.

"Tokyo was a really big event, so I took a bit of a break, a couple of months, before beginning that build to Paris," Carrington said.

"It’s nice to finally be back in Europe, three years since I raced a World Cup, but the nerves still seem the same."

As expected, other Olympic medallists also had it easy in Czech Republic on Saturday.

China’s Shixiao Xu and Mengya Sun, also gold medal winners in Tokyo, dominated a quality C2 500 women’s field to finish first in 1:53.64.

Poland’s Tokyo 2020 bronze medallists with two new crew members comfortably won against Span and China in the women’s K4 500 crew in 1:32.11.

"It was a great race for us, our first final as a team, and now we know what we need to do to be better," said Anna Pulawska.

"We were a little bit surprised, because this is a new team, so we didn’t know what we could do, but now we know."

Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Liudmyla Luzan bagged an emotional gold medal in the women’s C1 1000 in 4:25.31.

Among men, Portugal’s Fernando Pimenta, the Spanish men’s K4 and C2 500 crew of Cayetano Garcia and Pablo Martinez also secured wins in Olympic class races.

Pimenta, who bagged a bronze in Tokyo in the men’s K1 1000, was battling with Australian Tom Green before crossed the finish line to claim gold in 3:24.44.

With their win in 1:37.87, Garcia and Martinez also booked their tickets to the ICF World Championships this year.   

"It was such a hard race, we have such a high level in Spain, it makes us much stronger here at the world cup," Martinez said.

"The Olympics are our main objective, and we won’t step until we get it," teammate Garcia said.

The last day of the competition is set to be held tomorrow.