It was a double gold weekend for Christine Nesbitt. And she was also part of a silver-medal winning Canadian pursuit team.

A day after she skated to the 1500-metre title at a world cup in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Canadian long track speed skater captured 1000-metre gold.

Nesbitt, of London, Ont., finished in a time of 1:13.36 on Sunday, 0.65 seconds ahead of silver medallist, Wang Beixing of China.

Japan's Nao Kodaira won bronze at 1:14.17.

"I was really surprised about my 1,000 today,'' said Nesbitt, who has pre-qualified for the Olympics at the distance. "That was way faster than my (personal best) was before.

"I saw that a lot of the girls were skating fast, but I didn't expect it to be that (fast). So I'm really happy with that.''

Nesbitt said there may have been a few different factors at work Sunday.

"A lot of it to do with first 200 metres,'' she said. "I was faster than I've ever gone - don't know how I managed to do that. Maybe it was because of the ice, but it's also something I've been working on.

Ottawa's Kristina Groves, who on Saturday won silver behind Nesbitt in the 1500m event, placed seventh in the 1000m in a time of 1:14.54.

Winnipeg's six-time Olympic medallist Cindy Klassen, who is making her return after missing all of last season due to double knee surgery, finished 19th with a time of 1:15.60.

Fellow Winnipegger Shannon Rempel was 20th, clocking a time of 1:15.63.

Nesbitt leads all skaters at the 1000m distance in World Cup standings.

Canada's women also won a silver medal in the team pursuit event. The team of Klassen, Nesbitt and Groves finished second in 2:57.35 behind the Russians (2:57.18). The team from the Netherlands earned bronze (2:57.36).  The Canadians hold first place in the World Cup standings for this event.

Canada's Steven Elm (Red Deer, AB), Mathieu Giroux (Montreal, QC), Lucas Makowsky (Regina, SK) won the bronze medal in the team pursuit competition

Jeremy Wotherspoon of Calgary was Canada's top finisher in the men's 1000-metre event, placing sixth.

The 500-metre world record holder, Wotherspoon clocked a time of 1:07.77, 1.10 seconds back of reigning Olympic champion, American Shani Davis.

Davis beat out Korea's Kyou-Hyuk Lee by 0.40 seconds to take gold. Finland's Mika Poutala won bronze in 1:07.24.

Edmonton native Jamie Gregg finished ninth in 1:08.05, Kyle Parrott of Richmond, B.C. was 11th, and 2006 Olympic silver medallist Denny Morrison, also of Richmond, was 12th in a time of 1:08.24.