Thanks to gold medal victories from Zoi Sadowski-Synnott and Nico Porteous, the Beijing Games will - for now - rank as New Zealand's best Winter Olympics effort.
Since New Zealand's first foray into the Winter Olympics in 1952, Aotearoa had only ever claimed three medals of any colour, a stark contrast to the gold medal-laden history of Kiwi performance at the summer Games.
For 30 years, Annelise Coberger's women's slalom silver medal had stood tall as New Zealand's greatest result at a Winter Olympics, and was only joined as a medallist by Sadowski-Synnott and Porteous, both of whom took home bronze medals at Pyeongchang in 2016.
But off the back of the two Wānaka 20-year-olds, New Zealand has finally stood on top of the elusive top step of the podium - twice.
Both Sadowski-Synnott and Porteous had spent the four years between Pyeongchang and Beijing cementing themselves as true heavyweights of global snowsports, with respective X Games gold medals earmarking them as contenders to break New Zealand's duck in 2022.
And on the second day of the Beijing Games, Sadowski-Synnott made New Zealand history by winning the women's snowboard slopestyle event to become the first Kiwi to earn Winter Olympic gold, after a dramatic final that saw the victory achieved on the final run.
"I've been dreaming about it for so long but it doesn't feel real at the moment," Sadowski-Synnott told Newshub. "It will take a while to process, I think.
"Even making the Olympics, it means so much to be back here, and to come away with gold after my performance in Pyeongchang just means so much to me.
"I'm so stoked."
For good measure, Sadowski-Synnott then added silver in the women's big air, giving her a complete set of Olympic medals for her collection.
At that point, New Zealand's collective Winter Olympics medal haul had risen from three to five in less than a week, with Sadowski-Synnott responsible for three of them - at the time sixty percent of all medals ever won by Aotearoa.
And then, to put the icing on the cake, Porteous capped New Zealand's campaign with a gold of his own, as the men's freeski halfpipe field couldn't replicate the 20-year-old's display.
That second gold medal sees New Zealand finish the Winter Olympics sitting 17th on the medal table. Admittedly, the two gold medals pale in comparison to the 16 won by first-placed Norway, or the 12 from Germany in second.
But two golds are double that of 18th placed Australia, and Great Britain in 19th, and only two behind the four won by Canada - a powerhouse of winter sport.
And with both of New Zealand's newest Olympic champions still only 20 years old, don't be surprised if that gold medal count extends beyond two come the next Winter Olympics at Milan in 2026.
