Gregor Schlierenzauer produced a monster 146.5m leap to give Austria gold in the men's team ski jumping competition in Whistler.
Schierenzauer saved the best for last with his giant jump and almost lost his footing on the landing.
The 20-year-old, a double bronze medallist in individual events, went into a sitting position and almost touched down with one hand but somehow avoided any contact with the ground to ensure the jump stood.
The loss of style points for the awkward landing was not enough to prevent the Austria team, which also included Wolfgang Loitzl, Andreas Kofler and Thomas Morgenstern, from taking the gold from Germany with a record points total of 1107.9.
The Germans had to settle for silver with a total of 1035.8 while Norway claimed the bronze, posting 1030.3.
In the men's curling round robin competition Canada march on unbeaten, chalking up an eighth straight win by beating the USA 7-2 at the Vancouver Olympic Centre.
There were also wins for Norway, which thrashed France 9-2, Switzerland which beat Sweden 7-3 and Germany which edged past China 7-6.
Germany struck cross country skiing gold in the ladies team sprint.
Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle and Claudia Nystad posted a winning team of 18 minutes, 3.7 seconds.
Silver went to Swedish pair Charlotte Kalla and Anna Haag, 0.6 seconds back with Irina Khazova and Natalia Korosteleva claiming the bronze 4.0 seconds adrift.
Norwegian pair Petter Northug and Oeystein Pettersen won the men's cross country skiing team sprint.
Northug overhauled Germany's Axel Teichman, who surged into the lead early on the final lap, just before the finish as the Norwegians completed in 19 minutes and one second.
Teichman and Tim Tscharnke won the silver for Germany with Russian pair Nikolay Morilov and Alexey Petukhov taking the bronze.
Australian pair Paul Murray and Ben Sim bowed out at the semi-final stage.
For Murray, a 10-time Australian cross country champion, this was his last international race with the 32-year-old describing it as an 'awesome' way to finish his career.
"To finish today being able to race at the Olympics with Simbo, after being on the team with him for so long, and with both our families here, and we've had such an awesome support crew in the lead-up to the Olympics ... to finish on that note is pretty cool," Murray said.
There was a hat-trick for Monique Lamoureux as the USA thrashed Sweden 9-1 in a women's play-off semi-finals ice hockey meeting at Canada Hockey Place.