Paris Olympic Games double track medallist Ally Wollaston notched up the first victory for her new UCI World Tour team, FDJ-Suez in the Surf Coast Classic near Melbourne.
The UCI 1.1 level race over 119km from Lorne to Torquay is the shakedown before the UCI WorldTour Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race at the weekend.
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Wollaston outsprinted Paris gold medallist Chloe Dygert and hometown favourite Georgia Baker to claim the win for her French-based team.
"I felt really, really strong today. In the last few races maybe I've struggled mentally, to really stay present in the race and stay attentive and be confident enough that I'm good enough to be there in the final.
"Today, as soon as I started climbing, I knew I had a good shot at the win."
Wollaston returns to New Zealand after the weekend race, along with fellow WorldTour riders Kim Cadzow, Henrietta Christie, Niamh Fisher-Black and defending winner Ella Wyllie to chase the coveted jersey in the Cycling Zealand National Elite Road Championship in Timaru..