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Charlotte Bankes and Huw Nightingale have won gold for Team GB in the snowboard cross mixed team final to secure Britain's first ever Winter Olympic title on snow.
The duo made amends for their disappointing efforts in their individual events with an astonishing performance to add Olympic gold to the World Championship title they won in 2023.
It marks the first time Britain has won more than one gold medal at a single Winter Olympics.
Before today's win, GB had only won three bronze medals on the snow, with snowboarder Jenny Jones in 2014, and freestyle skier Izzy Atkin and snowboarder Billy Morgan four years later.
Following their victory, Bankes said she was "lost for words".
"Huw put me in an amazing position, he's been riding extremely well and rode today to his full potential," she said.
"I was in that start gate, knowing I was going for gold."
Nightingale had set up Bankes perfectly to secure the gold after crossing the line in second place behind France's Loan Bozzolo.
Bankes then used her speed on the board to take the lead and beat Italy's Michela Moioli to the line by 0.43 seconds.
It marked a second successive silver in this event for Moioli and Lorenzo Sommariva, while Bozzolo and Lea Casta took bronze.
Bankes, a former individual world champion and two-time overall World Cup winner, was heartbroken when she exited the women's event in the quarter-finals on Friday, having been tipped to win a medal.
Nightingale was also below-par during the men's competition, where he exited in the round of 16.
But the 24-year-old found form to produce his best and most attacking racing alongside Bankes.
"It's immense. I think we push each other well and for me, I know that Charlotte Bankes is behind me and she's such an incredible rider that it kind of loosens me up," Nightingale said.
"I know that when I'm loose, I can ride really well and I think we've shown that today. The singles were tough but now there are tears of joy."
After winning their quarter-final and semi-final races earlier today, the duo, who had been seeded in 13th place for the event, were confident of a podium finish, as there was only four teams in the medal race.
But nothing was guaranteed and Bankes looked stunned as she crossed the finish line, coming to a stop at the barriers and hugging an ecstatic Nightingale.
This marks Britain's second medal – and gold – of the Milan-Cortina Olympics after Matt Weston's victory in the men's skeleton.