Tatiana Borodulina has become the first Australian to win a World Cup short track race, claiming gold in the 500m in Dresden.

A day later, the AIS skater repeated the victory in a second 500m event in the German city.

Borodulina trailed her two main opponents from the start of the four and a half lap first event, but produced a blistering burst of speed on the final circuit to pass them both.

Silver went to Chinese skater Fu Tian Yu, the world number three, and bronze to Arianna Fontana of Italy.

On sunday, the 24-year-old Brisbane skater was again in top form, adding another gold to her expanding medal collection.

This time she relegated Fontana and Bulgaria's Evgenia Rodanova to the minor medals.

The second result lifted Borodulina to the world number three ranking for the 500m distance.

"Tatiana had awesome racing today from the quarterfinal through to the final," OWI/AIS Short Track Head Coach Ann Zhang said, speaking after the first gold medal result.

"In the final she followed Fu and Fontana until the last half lap to go, put the power on to accelerate before she entered into the last corner, then took off from outside to pass them."
 
"She was smart and did everything we had planned,"

"We are very happy, all the team is happy too, but we know the world number one Meng Wang was missing today, and that we still have lots of things to do if Tatiana wants to race with her and the rest of the Chinese team."

With her first victory behind her, Borodulina was even more impressive the following day.

"In the second 500m, Tatiana controlled all her races from the heat through to the final," Zhang said.

"If she was second or third after the start, she was able make the pass after two laps, or else she went to the front at the beginning, then controlled it from the start to the end."

Jeremy Beck produced the best of the men's results in Dresden, skating to 14th place in the 1000m.

AIS team-mate Elliot Shriane finished in 27th place in the 500m and 23rd in the second sprint over the same distance, while Lachlan Hay placed 26th in the 1500m.