Jessica Fox has claimed the Oceania K1 title in her first international competition since the glory days of Paris, where she won two Olympic gold medals.
After six months away from global racing, Fox didn't skip a beat as she powered to another title on her home course in Penrith, which will also host the 2025 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in October.
But later in the day she was forced to settle for second place in the C1 event, in which she is a two-time Olympic champion.
In the K1, Fox crossed the line after a penalty-free run in a time of 104.41 to take the win.
She finished more than four seconds ahead of Poland's Klaudia Zwolinska, with France's Camille Prigent third.
Noemie Fox, who claimed a memorable kayak cross gold in Paris, was just outside the medals in fourth.
Zwolinksa also won silver behind Fox at last year's Games, where the Australian great increased her Olympic haul to six medals, including three gold.
"It was good to be out there, to be out on the start line," said 30-year-old Fox.
"I wasn't really sure how I was going to feel, but I felt good and I attacked it, so I'm proud of myself.
"With the world championships here in October we're seeing more international athletes come this summer, so it's awesome to be sharing the start line with so many of them."
In the C1 Fox was the fastest qualifier into the final and was again the quickest down the course in the medal race, but a two-second penalty for clipping the 12th gate meant she was relegated to the silver-medal position.
Young American Evy Leibfarth, who won bronze in the event in Paris, was 0.25 seconds ahead of Fox, with Zwolinksa third. Noemie Fox was again fourth.
Kiwi Finn Butcher, who became the first man to win gold in the newly minted kayak cross in Paris, finished second in the men's K1 in Penrith.
Frenchman Mathieu Biazizzo posted the quickest time but was ineligible to win, leaving Butcher as the Oceania champion.
Australia's two-time Olympian Lucien Delfour rounded out the podium in third.
In the C1, Great Britain's Olympic silver medallist Adam Burgess took top honours ahead of Russian Dmitrii Khramtsov, with Australia's Paris Olympian Tristan Carter taking bronze.
