Canada's Perianne Jones (24), Shayla Swanson (27) and Brittany Webster (22) won gold, silver and bronze respectively in the women's sprint freestyle final, while compatriots Drew Goldsack (27) and Julien Nury (20) won gold and silver in the men's final.
Only Gaudenz Flury (29), of Switzerland, was able to break through the red-hot pace, winning the bronze medal in the men's race.
The Canadian team is stacked with elite skiers who have not peaked for the Winter Games because they are building up a solid base of training for their winter racing season back home.
The team has used the Snow Farm as its summer base for more than six years and the skiers have been there for several weeks already.
Five New Zealand men and four New Zealand women lined up for the crowd-pleasing sprints yesterday but only three women made it through to the heats and finals.
Katie Calder (28), who has been battling a bad cold this week, won the women's B final but squandered a good chance for a place in the A final when she crashed in the semifinal. She had been leading eventual bronze medallist Webster at the time.
Sarah Murphy (21), who has joint Canadian and New Zealand citizenship and prefers to compete in biathlon - which is not a Winter Games sport - was second in the B final in her second FIS race and first on New Zealand soil.
Chisa Obayashi (25), of Japan was third and New Zealander Andrea Fancy (28) was fourth.
The men's field comprised 31 athletes who all completed an individual prologue (or time trial) to determine the top 16 who would race in the heats.
Nat Anglem (36) was the fastest New Zealand man in the prologue, speeding around the 850m course in 1min 47.29sec. But it was not fast enough to get into the top 16, of which 10 were Canadians.
The top 16 returned times of between 1min 35.71sec and 1min 42.79sec and went on to race in the four heats of four athletes. The first two across the line in each heat progressed to the semifinals and then the A and B finals.
The women's field had 10 athletes completing the prologue, with eight progressing to heats and then the A and B finals.
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