Lucy Spoors and Brooke Francis made a golden start yesterday.
And two other boats finished off the full complement of medals in what was a sparkling night for New Zealand rowing at the Paris Olympics.
New Zealand won a gold, silver and bronze in the doubles and fours on day eight of the Games yesterday.
Sitting third at the 1000m mark, Spoors and Francis - who became the first crew of mothers to win an Olympic rowing medal - showed their strength in the final half to push ahead.
Through the tears as they stood on the podium, pride beamed from Spoors and Francis, who had not won a race since becoming mothers until the Olympics.
"I can’t believe it — honestly I’m in shock," Spoors told Sky Sport.
"I think from the start we were just so brave. We wanted to be brave and just put it all out there and I felt so brave with Brooke through the middle."
Tom Murray, Matt Macdonald - who were part of the men’s eight that won gold in Tokyo - Ollie Maclean and Logan Ullrich secured silver in the men’s coxless four.
They finished in 5min 49.88sec behind the US, who won gold in 5min 49.03sec.
The Netherlands won gold, finishing just 00.28sec ahead of Great Britain.
Robbie Manson and Jordan Parry finished sixth in the men’s double sculls, clocking in at 6min 21.44sec.
Earlier in the semifinals, Emma Twigg and Tom Mackintosh qualified for the women’s and men’s single sculls finals.
