Christine Nesbitt skates a cool-down lap after winning the 1,500 metres in Berlin on Sunday. (Markus Schreiber/Associated Press)

Christine Nesbitt has hit the ice running.

The Canadian long-track speedskater wrapped up an outstanding opening weekend of the World Cup season by taking gold in the women's 1,500 metres on Sunday in Berlin.

That victory comes a day after the world champion won the 1,000 metres, and it bodes well for the Olympic year to come.

Nesbitt won the 1,500 in a time of 1:55.54, ahead of Martina Sablikova of the Czech Republic, who was a big 1.45 seconds back.

Canada's Brittany Schussler, of Winnipeg, fifth the day before, took the bronze, and Kristina Groves of Ottawa was fourth as part of a national tour de force.

Winnipeg's Cindy Klassen was ninth.

Blasting out of the season starting gate hasn't left Nesbitt concerned about peaking too early.

"You can totally overthink these things, and I've totally done that in the past," she said on a Sunday conference call from Berlin. "A couple of weeks ago at the [Canadian] trials, I skated really well, but I spoke to a lot of people and they said I'm just stronger and skating better [this year]."

In other words, nothing to worry about.

With the weekend victories, Nesbitt has officially qualified for the Olympics in the 1,000 and 1,500 metres. She's now looking toward adding the 500 metres and the team pursuit — that latter event produced a silver medal for her at the Turin Olympics in 2006.

On the men's side, Denny Morrison of Fort St. John, B.C., came up with the bronze in the 1,500 metres, 1.22 seconds behind Shani Davis of the United States. Havard Bokko of Norway was second.

Lucas Makowsky of Regina was 13th, while Mathieu Giroux of Montreal came 15th.