The British men took team sprint silver as pre-race favourites the Netherlands broke the world record twice on their way to gold.
In a repeat of the result from the Tokyo Games, the Dutch trio of Harrie Lavreysen, Jeffrey Hoogland and Roy van den Berg retained their title, breaking their own world record in the first round and then again in the final, winning in a time of 40.949 seconds, almost a second up on Team GB.
Carlin, 27, was part of the squad that took silver three years ago alongside Sir Jason Kenny - now the coach - and the retired Ryan Owens, but this was by far the biggest result in the careers of Turnbull, 25, and Lowe, just 20.
British skateboarding star Sky Brown secured a bronze medal, despite dislocating her shoulder before the Games.
Brown matched her bronze medal in Tokyo with a score of 92.31 in her third of three runs to cap a remarkable comeback, having dislocated her shoulder last month, at the women's skateboard park competition at La Concorde.
The 16-year-old had also been close to tears after appearing to aggravate the injury during the qualifying competition, in which she placed fourth with a score of 84.75 but fell heavily during the last of her three runs.
A tearful Brown had vowed to "fight through" the pain, and her big final run proved enough to return to the Olympic podium.
A huge run from Australia's Arisa Trew lifted the Australian into first place with Brown sitting second until the last skater, Cocona Hiraki, who also pipped her to silver in Tokyo at the age of 12, edged in front.
Nevertheless, it completed a remarkable comeback for Brown, who sustained a serious knee injury last year, and had also suffered a fractured skull in an accident just over a year prior to the Tokyo Games.
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